#amen

We are a continuum. Just as we reach back to our ancestors for our fundamental values, so we, as guardians of that legacy, must reach ahead to our children and their children. And we do so with a sense of sacredness in that reaching. ↗

— Paul Tsongas

#ancestors #back #children #continuum #fundamental

Fundamental progress has to do with the reinterpretation of basic ideas. ↗

— Alfred North Whitehead

#fundamental #ideas #progress

As a West Side kid fooling around with boxing gloves, I had been, for some reason of temperament, more interested in dodging a blow than in striking one. ↗

— Gene Tunney

#been #blow #boxing #dodging #fooling

It is our job, as members of parliament, to legislate with an eye to the long term future, to look over the horizon beyond the next election and ensure that as far as we can what we do today will make Australia a better place, a safer place, for future generations to live in. ↗

— Malcolm Turnbull

#australia #better #better place #beyond #election

We are already experiencing the symptoms of climate change, especially with a hotter and drier climate in southern Australia - the rush to construct desalination plants is an expensive testament to that. ↗

— Malcolm Turnbull

#australia #change #climate #climate change #construct

I'd never just want to do what everybody else did. I'd be contributing to the sameness of everything. ↗

— Don Van Vliet

#did #else #everybody #everybody else #everything

It is lamentable, that to be a good patriot one must become the enemy of the rest of mankind. ↗

— Voltaire

#become #enemy #good #lamentable #mankind

In the case of news, we should always wait for the sacrament of confirmation. ↗

— Voltaire

#case #confirmation #news #sacrament #should

One might have thought that the most significant change in the film industry that would come about with a transition from the communist economy to capitalism would fundamentally concern the sources of funding. ↗

— Andrzej Wajda

#capitalism #change #come #communist #concern

The program of our movement stems from the fundamental moral laws and order. ↗

— Lech Walesa

#laws #moral #movement #order #our