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The groundwork of all happiness is health. -- Leigh Hunt
I was raised by two women, and that laid the groundwork for the way I treat 'em: with the utmost respect and admiration. -- Jimmy Connors
Lessons of wisdom have the most power over us when they capture the heart through the groundwork of a story, which engages the passions. -- Laurence Sterne
A writer's work often reflects what he or she has been exposed to in life; experiences which are the groundwork of a poem or a story. -- Eyvind Johnson
The common erotic project of destroying women makes it possible for men to unite into a brotherhood; this project is the only firm and trustworthy groundwork for cooperation among males and all male bonding is based on it. -- Andrea Dworkin
The electronic media introduced this idea to the larger audience very, very quickly. We spent years and years and years meeting with activists all over Europe to lay the groundwork for a political response, as we did here. -- Jeremy Rifkin
Ultimately, leadership is not about glorious crowning acts. It's about keeping your team focused on a goal and motivated to do their best to achieve it, especially when the stakes are high and the consequences really matter. It is about laying the groundwork for others' success, and then standing back and letting them shine. -- Chris Hadfield
But if you want to be a songwriter-based musician, whether you play punk or rock or country or jazz, whatever, you have to work on your songwriting and you have to work on being able to play in front of people, I think. That performance is how you create the groundwork for a lasting career. -- Amy Ray
Darwinism has laid the groundwork for Hitler's and Mussolini's fascism and Stalin's communism. -- Harun Yahya
We discover in the gospels a groundwork of vulgar ignorance, of things impossible, of superstition, fanaticism and fabrication . -- Thomas Jefferson
Commitment to truth telling lays the groundwork for the openness and honesty that is the heartbeat of love. -- bell hooks
You can't be a first-world economy in the 21st century if you haven't laid the groundwork to seize the opportunities. -- Wayne Swan
It is impossible to enslave, mentally or socially, a bible-reading people. The principles of the bible are the groundwork of human freedom. -- Horace Greeley
Everybody makes money when times are good. It's when times are not so good that the groundwork is laid for the next generation. -- Stephen Harper
When I was seven years old, I was leading a quartet and trio, and that really laid the groundwork for me as a musician. -- Anne Akiko Meyers
Acceptance of the power of God in one's life lays the groundwork for personal commitment to both science and Christianity, which so often have been in conflict. -- Kenneth L. Pike
Acceptance of the power of God in one's life lays the groundwork for personal commitment to both science and Christianity, which so often have been in conflict. -- Kenneth L. Pike
Thanks to many great K-pop singers, the groundwork has been laid for more Korean songs to be readily accessible to an overseas audience via channels like YouTube. -- Psy
Laying the groundwork for smaller, smarter government, especially at the federal level, is going to be tough. But it is essential for getting us back on the path to long-term prosperity. -- Charles Koch
Reagan won the Cold War by first restoring America's economy and military and then staring down an economically weakened Soviet Union. He knew defeating Russia couldn't be accomplished without laying the groundwork. -- Kathleen Troia McFarland
It seems whenever I've had a method or what I perceived to be an intellectual groundwork of some sort - a kind of game plan - it's always been the most morbid failure. -- John Malkovich
I think that it's fun to get the script and open it like a Christmas present. That's 'Alcatraz' or anything that I'm working on. If the groundwork has been laid too much, the surprises aren't there. -- Jeffrey Pierce
A National Database on Autism Research is fostering sharing of data and collaborations. Scientists are also making great strides at the interface of biology and engineering with new technologies that are laying the groundwork for future advances. -- Thomas R. Insel
We've got to move beyond the idea that the public and private sectors are at odds. Government has to lay the groundwork for private equity to productively invest in things like education. It's a partnership, not a battle. -- Sebastian Pinera
There is to be found in every religion the manifestation of the struggle toward freedom. It is the groundwork of all morality, of unselfishness, which means getting rid of the idea that human beings are the same as this little body. -- Swami Vivekananda
This ought to be a season for cooperation in terms of pushing our economy forward, job creation, steadying the middle class, and laying the groundwork for a better future. And that's what we want to work on with Republicans and Democrats. -- David Axelrod
I'm honored to be on this list for the official beginning of the College Baseball Hall of Fame. The coaches on the list laid the groundwork for what college baseball is today. Being mentioned with those men means a lot to me. -- Skip Bertman
I have always made a point in my romances of basing my so-called inventions upon a groundwork of actual fact, and of using in their construction methods and materials which are not entirely without the pale of contemporary engineering skill and knowledge. -- Jules Verne
Before I had decided to get into politics, I was laying the groundwork to have a career in the law, but that was really to lay the foundation to teach, either at the college level or law school level after my federal clerkships. -- Stephanie Herseth
Before I had decided to get into politics, I was laying the groundwork to have a career in the law, but that was really to lay the foundation to teach, either at the college level or law school level after my federal clerkships. -- Stephanie Herseth
Two men with a camera, thoughtfully observing the visual cacophony of one major thoroughfare and the complicated interplay of its history, its present, and the certainty of change, have laid the groundwork for a dialogue and a vision that reaches farther than human eyes can see. -- Vicki Goldberg
I've learned 90 percent of what I know from watching and listening to actors. A good leading actor is the rock of the show. Their energy and their tone really sets the groundwork for how everything is going to work. I've been lucky to deal with stars who are very giving and generous. -- Finn Wittrock
Three explanations dominate speculation about what Obama is up to. The first is that he's trying to lay the groundwork for his successor, presumptive nominee Hillary Clinton. The second is that he's trying to pad his legacy. The third is that he's trying to 'troll' or bait the GOP into debating his agenda rather than pursuing its own. All are plausible, and none necessarily contradicts the others. -- Jonah Goldberg
You want to take some responsibility for you choices so that it sets the groundwork for that next generation of actresses. -- Nicole Kidman
To set the mind above the appetites is the end of abstinence, which if not a virtue, is the groundwork of a virtue. -- Samuel Johnson
The more prohibitions you have, the less virtuous people will be. Try to make people moral, and you lay the groundwork for vice. -- Laozi
The generation of women who came before us did much of our shouting. They laid the groundwork and now we can be calm and constant and steady. -- Julianna Baggott
I can honestly say that two weeks after the national championship year, I'd forgotten about it and started laying the groundwork for spring practice. And so every year, that's been the thing that's motivated me. . . . -- LaVell Edwards

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