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«The life history of the individual is first and foremost an accommodation to the patterns and standards traditionally handed down in his community.»
Author: Ruth Benedict
| About:
Community,
History,
Life
| Keywords:
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«No civilization would ever have been possible without a framework of stability, to provide the wherein for the flux of change. Foremost among the stabilizing factors, more enduring than customs, manners and traditions, are the legal systems that regulate our life in the world and our daily affairs with each other.»
Author: Hannah Arendt
(Philosopher, Political scientist)
| Keywords:
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«The poor dog, in life the firmest friend, The first to welcome, foremost to defend, Whose honest heart is still the master's own, Who labours, fights, lives, breathes for him alone, Unhonour'd falls, unnoticed all his worth, Denied in heaven the soul he held on earth, While man, vain insect hopes to be forgiven, And claims himself a sole exclusive heaven.»
Author: Lord Byron
| Keywords:
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«The very key to our success has been our ability, foremost among nations, to preserve our lasting values by making change work for us rather than against us.»
«Of the five vital principles, Love is the foremost. It is Love that flows as the under-current for the other four values. How does it flow this way?»
Author: Sri Sathya Sai Baba
(Spiritual leader)
| Keywords:
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«Of all the human values, three are most important. The foremost is love of God. Where there is love there is sacrifice. There arises purity of heart. There should be a fusion of love, sacrifice and purity. They are not mere human qualities. They constitute vital organs of a human being. They are as essential for a human being as the head, hands and legs for the body. Without these attributes, no one is a complete human being.»
«So I am against all big organizations as such, national ones first and foremost; against all big successes and big results; and in favor of the eternal forces of truth which always work in the individual and immediately unsuccessful way, under-dogs always, till history comes, after they are long dead, and puts them on top.»
Author: William James
(Philosopher, Psychologist)
| Keywords:
first and foremost, foremost, organizations
