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A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship. – John D. Rockefeller Jr.	added by anonymous 13 years ago
All religions are founded on the fear of the many and the cleverness of the few. – Stendhal	added by anonymous 13 years ago
All legislation, all government, all society is founded upon the principle of mutual concession, politeness, comity, courtesy; upon these everything is based...Let him who elevates himself above humanity, above its weaknesses, its infirmities, its wants, its necessities, say, if he pleases, I will never compromise; but let no one who is not above the frailties of our common nature disdain compromises. – Henry Clay	added by anonymous 13 years ago
All religions are founded on the fear of the many and the cleverness of the few. – Marie Henri Beyle, (1783-1842)	added by anonymous 13 years ago
The fact of evolution is the backbone of biology, and biology is thus in the peculiar position of being a science founded on an improved theory, is it then a science or faith? – Charles Darwin	added by anonymous 13 years ago
Is yours an honest lament?...Most are not, you know. Most self-imposed burdens are founded on misperceptions. We - at least we of sincere character - always judge ourselves by stricter standards than we expect others to abide by. It is a curse, I suppose, or a blessing, depending on how one views it... Take it as a blessing, my friend, an inner calling that forces you to strive to unattainable heights. – R. A. Salvatore, Sojourn	added by anonymous 13 years ago
It is my belief, Watson, founded upon my experience, that the lowest and vilest alleys in London do not present a more dreadful record of sin than does the smiling and beautiful countryside. – Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Sherlock Holmes in The Copper Beeches	added by anonymous 13 years ago
Of course, it is very important to be sober when you take an exam. Many worthwhile careers in the street- cleansing, fruit-picking and subway-guitar-playing industries have been founded on a lack of understanding of this simple fact. – Terry Pratchett, Moving Pictures	added by anonymous 13 years ago
With most people unbelief in one thing is founded upon blind belief in another. – Georg Christoph Lichtenberg	added by anonymous 13 years ago
Let grace and goodness be the principal loadstone of thy affections. For love which hath ends, will have an end whereas that which is founded on true virtue, will always continue. – John Dryden	added by anonymous 14 years ago
All government -- indeed, every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue and every prudent act -- is founded on compromise and barter. – Edmund Burke	added by anonymous 14 years ago
A kingdom founded on injustice never lasts. – Lucius Annaeus Seneca	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Anarchism is founded on the observation that since few men are wise enough to rule themselves, even fewer are wise enough to rule others. – Edward Abbey	added by anonymous 14 years ago
All legislation, all government, all society is founded upon the principle of mutual concession, politeness, comity, courtesy upon these everything is based...Let him who elevates himself above humanity, above its weaknesses, its infirmities, its wants, its necessities, say, if he pleases, I will never compromise but let no one who is not above the frailties of our common nature disdain compromises. – Henry Clay	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Our country was founded on a distrust of government. Our founding fathers gave power to the people to keep an eye on government. So when politicians say, Trust me, they're actually being very un-American. – David Duchovny	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Opinions founded on prejudice are always sustained with the greatest violence. – Hebrew Proverb	added by anonymous 14 years ago
The public will believe anything, so long as it is not founded on truth. – Edith Sitwell	added by anonymous 14 years ago
The real object of those who resorted to Secession, as well as those who sustained it, was not to overthrow the Government of the United States but to perpetuate the principles upon which it was founded. The object in quitting the Union was not to destroy, but to save the principles of the Constitution. – Alexander Hamilton Stephens	added by anonymous 14 years ago
I don't believe in quotas. America was founded on a philosophy of individual rights, not group rights. – Clarence Thomas	added by anonymous 14 years ago
True gentleness is founded on a sense of what we owe to him who made us and to the common nature which we all share. It arises from reflection on our own failings and wants, and from just views of the condition and duty of man. It is native feeling heightened and improved by principle. – Hugh Blair	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Opinions founded on prejudice are always sustained with the greatest of violence. – Francis Jeffrey	added by anonymous 14 years ago

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