#foundation

Your primary presumption that The Bridge was proffered as an epic has no substantial foundation. You know quite well that I doubt that our present stage of cultural development is so ordered yet as to provide the means or method for such an organic manifestation as that. ↗

— Hart Crane

#cultural #development #doubt #epic #foundation

If the code does indeed have some logical foundation then it is legitimate to consider all the evidence, both good and bad, in any attempt to deduce it. ↗

— Francis Crick

#attempt #bad #both #code #consider

However well organized the foundations of life may be, life must always be full of risks. ↗

— Havelock Ellis

#foundations #full #however #life #may

Pornography causes release of adrenaline from an area in the brain called the locus coeruleus, and this makes the heart race in those who view, or even anticipate, viewing pornography. The sexual pleasure of pornography may be partially caused by release of dopamine from the ventral tegmental area, and this stimulates the nucleus accumbens, one of the key pleasure centers of the brain. ↗

— Donald L. Hilton Jr.

#he-restoreth-my-sould #lds #mormon-men #pornography-addiction #sa-lifeline-foundation

In some cases, I am able to respect what so many call bigots. Such people have a more solid foundation for drawing their lines when it comes to the security of their ways and quite possibly the security of mankind. They rely on something that has worked to get man this far without placing ideals blindly driven by emotion first; they have a sure line and they say, 'No.' That, in a sense, is something I find to be highly respectable. ↗

— Criss Jami

#bigotry #certainty #conviction #culture #emotions

Do you wish to be great? Then begin by being. Do you desire to construct a vast and lofty fabric? Think first about the foundations of humility. The higher your structure is to be, the deeper must be its foundation. ↗

— Saint Augustine

#about #begin #being #construct #deeper

If you ask me to summarise our mission, I would put it this way: We were a military regime that sought to lay the foundations for freedom and liberty in a complex society. ↗

— Ibrahim Babangida

#complex #foundations #freedom #his way #i

Informed by our sad experience of history, we require nothing short of a foundation for lasting democracy. ↗

— Ibrahim Babangida

#experience #foundation #history #informed #lasting

The history of our country is not the history of any other country in the world which is either practicing advanced democracy or struggling to lay the foundation for democracy. ↗

— Ibrahim Babangida

#any #country #democracy #either #foundation

We cannot build foundations of a state without rule of law. ↗

— Mahmoud Abbas

#cannot #foundations #law #rule #rule of law