#cornerstone

What is sacred among one people may be ridiculous in another; and what is despised or rejected by one cultural group, may in a different environment become the cornerstone for a great edifice of strange grandeur and beauty. ↗

— Hu Shih

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Government itself is founded upon the great doctrine of the consent of the governed, and has its cornerstone in the memorable principle that men are endowed with inalienable rights. ↗

— Leland Stanford

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Self-respect is the cornerstone of all virtue. ↗

— John Herschel

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Protecting Afghan civilians is the cornerstone of our mission. ↗

— John R. Allen

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Those who first oppose a good work, seize it and make it their own, when the cornerstone is laid and memorial tablets are erected. ↗

— Edgar Lee Masters

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If we have built on the fragile cornerstones of human wisdom, pride, and conditional love, things may look good for a while, but a weak foundation causes collapse when storms hit. ↗

— Charles Stanley

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Free speech is the cornerstone to every right we have. ↗

— Mark Thomas

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The events between 1968 and 1980 were the kind of cornerstone for everything I've been able to do, they gave me the springboard. ↗

— Robert Plant

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I grew up with a heavy diet of gospel, folk, and blues because those are kind of the cornerstones of traditional American music. ↗

— Ben Harper

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Doing what you love is the cornerstone of having abundance in your life. ↗

— Wayne Dyer

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