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Preying on the grievances of disaffected young men is the bedrock of Islamism. -- Maajid Nawaz
I believe primary and secondary education is the bedrock of any sustainable society. -- Nita Ambani
When we opened our eyes, we saw bedrock exposed in the walls of the crater. -- Steven Squyres
That bedrock faith that I could write was what blinded me to attempts to discourage me. -- Lynn Abbey
Our nation is built on the bedrock principle that governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed. -- Adrian Cronauer
I think that we need mythology. We need a bedrock of story and legend in order to live our lives coherently. -- Alan Moore
The first person to promulgate the Golden Rule, which was the bedrock of this empathic spirituality, was Confucius 500 years before Christ. -- Karen Armstrong
One of the bedrock principles of physics is the conservation of energy. In this universe, energy can be neither created nor destroyed. -- Edward M. Lerner
It is absolutely bedrock to the British Army's philosophy that a commanding officer is responsible for what goes on within his command. -- Mike Jackson
I wish I was a more religious person. I really admire Martin Sheen for his Catholicism. It's such a bedrock. I wish I had that in my life. -- Rob Lowe
Two things form the bedrock of any open society - freedom of expression and rule of law. If you don't have those things, you don't have a free country. -- Salman Rushdie
Our pain hides beneath these fluttering, random thoughts that run through our heads in an endless loop. But there's so much freedom in getting to know what's under there, the bedrock. -- Dani Shapiro
The bedrock of our democracy is the rule of law and that means we have to have an independent judiciary, judges who can make decisions independent of the political winds that are blowing. -- Caroline Kennedy
We choose forward. We choose inclusion. We choose growing together. We choose American economic might and muscle, standing strong on the bedrock of the American ideal: a strong, empowered and ever-growing middle class. -- Cory Booker
The foundation for future prosperity is built on the bedrock of good jobs and great schools. We are building a strong foundation one job at a time and one educated Texan at a time. -- Rick Perry
A western audience might not appreciate 'Chanakya's Chant' because of its dependence on history and ancient statecraft. My book is a modern-day thriller that draws on a bedrock of history. My primary object is to entertain, not educate. -- Ashwin Sanghi
Richard Nixon was an evil man - evil in a way that only those who believe in the physical reality of the Devil can understand it. He was utterly without ethics or morals or any bedrock sense of decency. -- Hunter S. Thompson
When I visited Guantanamo Bay several years ago, I met a team of psychiatrists treating the detainees. When I asked how they distinguished between, say, schizophrenia or bipolarity and a bedrock religious commitment to holy war, they couldn't answer. -- Monica Crowley
A monkey is unaware that atoms exist. Likewise, our brainpower may not stretch to the deepest aspects of reality. The bedrock nature of space and time, and the structure of our entire universe, may remain 'open frontiers' beyond human grasp. -- Martin Rees
In this film George presents issues that are important, essential and vital, whoever you are, about constitutional rights and the bedrock of a democracy. I am drawn to those kinds of stories because they inspire me - they are responsible to a populace and responsible to man. -- David Strathairn
I think I'm one of the most patriotic people that I've ever encountered in America. I consider myself a bedrock patriot. I participate very actively in local politics, because my voice might be worthwhile. I participate in a meaningful way - not by donations; I work at it. -- Hunter S. Thompson
It's not about charisma and personality, it's about results and products and those very bedrock things that are why people at Apple and outside of Apple are getting more excited about the company and what Apple stands for and what its potential is to contribute to the industry. -- Steve Jobs
The strength and power and goodness of America has always been based on the strength and power and goodness of our communities, our families, our faiths. That is the bedrock of what makes America, America. In our best days, we can feel the vibrancy of America's communities, large and small. -- Mitt Romney
There is also work to do in the evolution of a stable family life and values, and in ensuring that the Nigerian family is built on core values that will form the bedrock of the future society. We must showcase the ideals of family life and be models of family values. -- Ibrahim Babangida
The bedrock nature of space and time and the unification of cosmos and quantum are surely among science's great 'open frontiers.' These are parts of the intellectual map where we're still groping for the truth - where, in the fashion of ancient cartographers, we must still inscribe 'here be dragons.' -- Martin Rees
If you only took on roles that had the same qualities, then I suppose it might make a critic feel better, if he can see some kind of bedrock. Perhaps that's the old definition of a star, someone who's always going to come up with the same goods. But it intimates limitation to me and I don't want to think of the job like that. -- Miranda Richardson
Discipline is the bedrock of character. -- Phil Pringle
Families are the bedrock of our society. -- Hillary Clinton
Nepotism is the bedrock of social existence. -- Adam Bellow
Definitely routine is the bedrock of our relationship. -- Masiela Lusha
Relationships and trust. This is the bedrock of life. -- Mukesh Ambani
Freedom flourishes upon the bedrock of ethics and integrity. -- Mollie Marti
Secret families are really the bedrock issue of Western literature. -- Tayari Jones
So much of what you take for granted is the bedrock of happiness. -- Anna Quindlen
Science has been the absolute bedrock of technological and economic progress in the United States. -- Lewis M. Branscomb
Love was the bedrock of Jesus' life, the very reason He came to seek and save the lost. -- K.P. Yohannan
My parents are a bedrock. And I have three complex, strong, and funny sisters who inspire and sustain me. -- Christina Baker Kline
On the issues of religious liberty, the Supreme Court continues to scrape against the bedrock of the American spirit. -- Gary Bauer
What's more important that spiritual life? It seems to me it's the bedrock of everything essential about being human. -- Dani Shapiro
Setting is the bedrock of your story. If you choose a real-world backdrop, be certain you get your facts straight. -- Lynn Flewelling
There's something in the Western mind that gets very nervous when you try to talk about the bedrock of ontology. -- Terence McKenna
It always comes back to the same necessity: go deep enough and there is a bedrock of truth, however hard. -- May Sarton
Free speech is the bedrock of liberty and a free society. And yes, it includes the right to blaspheme and offend. -- Ayaan Hirsi Ali
The more you read the novella, the more you should wonder, I think, which judgments are to be taken as bedrock. -- Philip Kitcher
We must restore the sacredness of the family as a bedrock of humane values everywhere, in peace as well as in war. -- Kofi Annan
Over the past four decades no reporter has critiqued the American South with such evocative sensitivity and bedrock honesty as Curtis Wilkie. -- Douglas Brinkley
Courtesy is the bedrock of social interchange. No matter what you're doing, even if you're fomenting revolution, you can still be courteous. -- Joan M. Drury
Awareness of death is the very bedrock of the entire path. Until you have developed this awareness, all other practices are obstructed. -- Dalai Lama
Selfishness is the bedrock on which all moral behavior starts and it can be immoral only when it conflicts with a higher moral imperative. -- Robert A. Heinlein
Underneath the shifting appearances of the world as perceived by our unreliable senses, is there, or is there not, a bedrock of objective reality? -- Hans Christian von Baeyer
The Moon Pie is a bedrock of the country store and rural tradition. It is more than a snack. It is a cultural artifact. -- William R. Ferris
The bedrock of doubt is the total nothingness of death. Death is a leveler, not because everybody dies, but because nobody understands what death means. -- Northrop Frye
The only society I like is rough and tough, and the tougher the better. There's where you get down to bedrock and meet human people. -- Robert W. Service
I believe that traditional religious belief and scientific knowledge depict the universe in radically different ways. At the bedrock they are incompatible and mutually exclusive. -- E. O. Wilson
The love is what's left at the end because it's the bedrock, fundamental reality that gets hidden all the time, but never really goes away. -- Marianne Williamson
Even intellectuals should have learned by now that objective rationality is not the default position of the human mind, much less the bedrock of human affairs. -- Roy Blount, Jr.
A safety net of small white lies can be the bedrock of a successful marriage. You wouldn't believe how cheaply I can do a kitchen renovation. -- Anna Quindlen
The structure of human betterment cannot be built upon foundations of materialism or business, but upon the bedrock of individual character in free men and women. -- Herbert Hoover
The Constitution is the bedrock of all our freedoms; guard and cherish it; keep honor and order in your own house; and the republic will endure. -- Gerald R. Ford
When the time comes to change a paradigm--to renounce one bedrock truth and adopt another--the artist and physicist are most likely to be in the forefront. -- Leonard Shlain
We should not underestimate the enormity of the task which lies ahead. But little can be achieved without sound money. It is the bedrock of sound government. -- Margaret Thatcher
Trust is the bedrock of intimacy; it is the ability to rely on someone because you believe that he or she has your best interest at heart. -- Chana Levitan
He thought of her often, and he missed the companionship they'd once shared and the friendship that had been the bedrock of their marriage at its best. -- Nicholas Sparks
We live in age of compromise, but if we stand on the bedrock of God's truth, we will not bend with the winds of relativism and faithlessness. -- R. C. Sproul
The one thing I always come back to as a writer, what I consider my bedrock, is a lot of charged images that appear in the text. -- Jeff Vandermeer
If I have exhausted the justifications, I have reached bedrock and my spade is turned. Then I am inclined to say: 'This is simply what I do. -- Ludwig Wittgenstein
The bedrock thing of country music is, it's about storytelling. I feel like I was able to find a niche because I connected to that in some way. -- Mary Chapin Carpenter
Nature, and the original system that created us, must always remain somehow with us, the bedrock of our movements and actions. What is our duty? To live a life. -- Rick Bass
(Home is) a place we carry inside ourselves, a place where we welcome the unfamiliar because we know that as time passes it will become the very bedrock of our being. -- Verlyn Klinkenborg
We should recognize that schools will never solve the bedrock problems of education because the problems are problems of families, of cultural pressures that the schools reflect and thus cannot really remedy. -- David Guterson
If there is a bedrock principle underlying the First Amendment, it is that the government may not prohibit the expression of an idea simply because society finds the idea itself offensive or disagreeable. -- William J. Brennan
The resurrection of Christ from the dead, next to the Crucifixion itself, is the most significant event in church history. It isn't a peripheral issue; it's foundational. It's bedrock. It's the bottom line. -- Greg Laurie
It really takes a community to raise children, no matter how much money one has. Nobody can do it well alone. And it's the bedrock security of community that we and our children need. -- Marian Wright Edelman
The inspiration and authority of the Bible is the bedrock upon which our faith is built. Without it, we are doomed to uncertainty, doubt, and a hopeless groping in the darkness of human speculation. -- Sam Storms
What must underlie successful epidemics, in the end, is a bedrock belief that change is possible, that people can radically transform their behavior or beliefs in the face of the right kind of impetus. -- Malcolm Gladwell
It is my belief that no matter how advanced man may become in science, technology, systems, and knowledge, he can never improve on the foundational precepts of marriage as the bedrock of social development. -- Myles Munroe
Accountability for the largest financial institutions on Wall Street is the bedrock for a strong economy. Hard-working families and honest businesses cannot survive in a world where the rules don't keep the marketplace honest. -- Elizabeth Warren
There are countless ways of achieving greatness, but any road to achieving one's maximum potential must be built on a bedrock of respect for the individual, a commitment to excellence, and a rejection of mediocrity. -- Buck Rodgers

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