#fundamental

The whole notion of journalism being an institution whose fundamental purpose is to educate and inform and even, one might say, elevate, has altered under commercial pressure, perhaps, into a different kind of purpose, which is to divert and distract and entertain. ↗

— Tom Stoppard

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Serious poetry deals with the fundamental conflicts that cannot be logically resolved: we can state the conflicts rationally, but reason does not relieve us of them. ↗

— Allen Tate

#conflicts #deals #does #fundamental #logically

I believe fundamental honesty is the keystone of business. ↗

— Harvey S. Firestone

#believe #business #fundamental #honesty #honesty is

If we can't begin to agree on fundamentals, such as the elimination of the most abusive forms of child labor, then we really are not ready to march forward into the future. ↗

— Alexis Herman

#begin #child #child labor #elimination #forms

Being gay is a fundamental part of my being - the core of who I've always been, and the thing that I had repressed and run from all my life. ↗

— James McGreevey

#been #being #core #fundamental #gay

He has the finest, fundamentally sound golf swing I've ever seen. ↗

— Jack Nicklaus

#ever #finest #fundamentally #golf #i

The fundamental law of the militia is, that it be created, directed and commanded by the laws, and ever for the support of the laws. ↗

— John Adams

#created #directed #ever #fundamental #law

The book is there for inspiration and as a foundation, the fundamentals on which to build. ↗

— Thomas Keller

#build #foundation #fundamentals #inspiration #which

The fundamental problem with vi is that it doesn't have a mouse and therefore you've got all these commands. ↗

— Bill Joy

#fundamental #fundamental problem #got #mouse #problem

Like the Hindu in Belfast who was asked whether he was a Catholic Hindu or a Protestant Hindu, those of us who follow this fresh reading of the New Testament want to say to our critics right and left, ‘Don’t imagine that because we don’t check all your fundamentalist boxes, we must be modernists, or that because we don’t check all your modernist boxes, we must be fundamentalists. ↗

— N.T. Wright

#modernists #new-testament #sbl #imagination