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  • Underlying most arguments against the free market is a lack of belief in freedom itself. -- Milton Friedman
  • Indeed, a major source of objection to a free economy is precisely that it... gives people what they want instead of what a particular group thinks they ought to want. Underlying most arguments against the free market is a lack of belief in freedom itself. -- Milton Friedman
  • Underlying great doubt there is great satori, where there is thorough questioning there will be thoroughgoing experience of awakening. -- Hakuin Ekaku
  • Underlying the whole scheme of civilization is the confidence men have in each other, confidence in their integrity, confidence in their honesty, confidence in their future. -- William Bourke Cockran
  • Life is endless reality. There is reality after reality, spinning on endlessly into the cosmos, billions and billions of manifest universes. Underlying all of this is the unmanifest, the absolute reality. -- Frederick Lenz
  • The notion of a separate organism is clearly an abstraction, as is also its boundary. Underlying all this is unbroken wholeness even though our civilization has developed in such a way as to strongly emphasize the separation into parts. -- David Bohm
  • Underlying the preaching of the Puritans are three basic axioms: 1. The unique place of preaching is to convert, feed and sustain, 2. The life of the preacher must radiate the reality of what he preaches, 3. Prayer and solid Bible study are basic to effective preaching. -- J. I. Packer
  • Underlying all your choices, particularly subject matter and the way you represent it, should be your own personal scruples, the standards and rules that you voluntarily set for yourself, and which you may change or abandon whenever you choose - without explanation to anyone. -- Richard Schmid
  • The underlying principles of strategy are enduring, regardless of technology or the pace of change. -- Michael Porter
  • There is something bigger than fact: the underlying spirit, all it stands for, the mood, the vastness, the wildness. -- Emily Carr
  • The universal order and the personal order are nothing but different expressions and manifestations of a common underlying principle. -- Marcus Aurelius
  • If you look at the history of big obstacles in understanding our world, there's usually an intuitive assumption underlying them that's wrong. -- Jeff Hawkins
  • Here in Australia we do get impacted by global economic events. But we should have some confidence that our economy has got strong underlying fundamentals. -- Julia Gillard
  • For people who know McQueen, there is always an underlying message. It's usually only the intellectual ones who understand what's going on in what I do. -- Alexander McQueen
  • The underlying sense of form in my work has been the system of the universe, or part thereof. For that is a rather large model to work from. -- Alexander Calder
  • The world economy today is recovering slowly, and there are still some destabilising factors and uncertainties. The underlying impact of the international financial crisis is far from over. -- Hu Jintao
  • There is no problem that doesn't have some underlying need for more optimism, stamina, resilience and collaboration. And games are, I believe, the best platform we have for providing that. -- Jane McGonigal
  • Patriarchy is a fundamental imbalance underlying society And it's one we rarely address because it's so universal. But as I get older, I see that peace is a product of balance. -- Ani DiFranco
  • Every market has some rules and boundaries that restrict freedom of choice. A market looks free only because we so unconditionally accept its underlying restrictions that we fail to see them. -- Ha-Joon Chang
  • The myths underlying our culture and underlying our common sense have not taught us to feel identical with the universe, but only parts of it, only in it, only confronting it - aliens. -- Alan Watts
  • I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth. -- Umberto Eco
  • The whole history of science has been the gradual realization that events do not happen in an arbitrary manner, but that they reflect a certain underlying order, which may or may not be divinely inspired. -- Stephen Hawking
  • Democracy may have arisen in the West as the way of striving for the universal aspiration to dignity and freedom, but it isn't alien to the underlying concepts that infuse religion and moral philosophy everywhere. -- Flora Lewis
  • Being a physician, you can either treat the symptoms or cure the disease. This Congress has been treating the symptoms. It's time we cure the disease and take care of the problems that are underlying our poor economy. -- Joe Heck
  • We must move in our recovery from one addiction to another for two major reasons: first, we have not recognized and treated the underlying addictive process, and second, we have not accurately isolated and focused upon the specific addictions. -- Anne Wilson Schaef
  • Men are fair, and they have learned not to personalize anger - they can disagree with you and argue to the bone, but afterward they still consider you a nice person with whom the underlying human relationship need not be altered. -- Warren Farrell
  • Never underestimate the ability of political leaders to misread history on a monumental scale. The invasions of Iraq and Afghanistan have both served to hasten western decline: they have both failed to achieve their objectives and in the process demonstrated an underlying western impotence. -- Martin Jacques
  • But human beings fall easily into despair, and from the very beginning we invented stories that enabled us to place our lives in a larger setting, that revealed an underlying pattern, and gave us a sense that, against all the depressing and chaotic evidence to the contrary, life had meaning and value. -- Karen Armstrong
  • The Fed should make a clear commitment to stable money to reduce the swings in interest rates and inflation. Instead, it champions and flaunts unstable money. This encourages momentum trading and the growth of derivatives. Meanwhile, layers of financial regulation make Washington bigger and more powerful but don't fix the underlying problems. -- David Malpass
  • The more you look into health and health inequalities, you realize that a lot of it is not due to a particular disease - it's really linked to underlying societal issues such as poverty, inequity, lack of access to safe drinking water and housing. And these are all the things we focus on at CARE. -- Helene D. Gayle
  • The true treasure lies within. It is the underlying theme of the songs we sing, the shows we watch and the books we read. It is woven into the Psalms of the Bible, the ballads of the Beatles and practically every Bollywood film ever made. What is that treasure? Love. Love is the nature of the Divine. -- Radhanath Swami
  • In every conversation I've had - with housewives in Mumbai, with middle-class people, upper-class, in the slums - everyone says there is an underlying consciousness of karma. That people believe in karma - that what you're putting out is going to come back. If I do something to you, the energy of it is going to come back to me in the future. -- Deepak Chopra
  • ... challege the underlying concepts of corporate personhood ... -- Dennis Kucinich
  • Everything I do has an underlying political question. -- Mark Bradford
  • Imagination is a powerful force underlying all knowing -- Jim Fowler
  • I see the underlying economy as being very healthy, -- Henry Paulson
  • Most savings rates are based on underlying interest rates. -- Martin Lewis
  • The underlying principles of manners- respect, fairness, and congeniality. -- Judith Martin
  • China needs a currency that reflects underlying economic fundamentals. -- Henry Paulson
  • Hopefully, underlying all my jokes is an element of surprise. -- David Spade
  • The Net is the new underlying infrastructure for civilization itself. -- David "Doc" Searls
  • The underlying part of any comprehensive immigration bill is family unit. -- Luis Gutierrez
  • Support for alternate languages will largely depend on the underlying OS. -- Bill Hayden
  • Debate is angular, conversation circular and radiant of the underlying unity. -- Amos Bronson Alcott
  • There must be some great truth underlying the instinct for worship. -- Bill Vaughan
  • There is an underlying timelessness in the basic conversation that is mathematics. -- Barry Mazur
  • Accept and express your underlying certitude, and it shall be worldwide sagacity. -- Ogwo David Emenike
  • God is not a person, God is the underlying consciousness in Existence. -- Swami Dhyan Giten
  • Beneath their surface differences, there are a lot of deep, underlying differences. -- Dave Barry
  • My day-to-day local issues are rooted in an underlying fear of death. -- Alex Karpovsky
  • Don't invest in pieces of papers (stocks), invest in great businesses underlying them -- Warren Buffett
  • The underlying intellectual argument for seeking to tax economic rents retains its force. -- Mervyn King
  • Pranking is a great way to indicate the underlying absurdities of the world. -- Mac Barnett
  • You can have no influence over those for whom you have underlying contempt. -- Martin Luther King, Jr.
  • Volatility is a symptom that people have no idea of the underlying value -- Jeremy Grantham
  • Remember that underlying all our fears is a lack of trust in ourselves. -- Susan Jeffers
  • Things that seem incredibly different can really be manifestations of the same underlying phenomena. -- Nima Arkani-Hamed
  • Fear of corporal punishment obscures children's awareness of the compassion underlying the parent's demands. -- Marshall B. Rosenberg
  • The sense of all stylistic change is that the underlying view of the world changes. -- Nancy Pearcey
  • Because contemporary paganism is essentially so new, its underlying ethical structure is not particularly sophisticated. -- Liz Williams
  • The underlying aim of practice . .is to create certainty through the development of high-quality listening. -- Howard Snell
  • For me, music and sound are both the language and underlying architecture of the cosmos. -- Tom Kenyon
  • You have very little morally persuasive power with people who can feel your underlying contempt. -- Martin Luther King, Jr.
  • No matter what political reasons are given for war, the underlying reason is always economic. -- A. J. P. Taylor
  • Concepts and intellectual devices or chops can't mask or conceal an underlying lack of emotive power. -- Gerard Cox
  • The right to be let alone is the underlying principle of the Constitution's Bill of Rights. -- Erwin Griswold
  • I believe photos is one of the underlying things in every social network that becomes successful. -- Kevin Systrom
  • I must confess that I know nothing whatsoever about true underlying reality, never having met any. -- Edward Abbey
  • Ma was using her for-company voice. Sweet on the outside but with an underlying death threat. -- Eoin Colfer
  • God is not someone or something separate but is the suchness in each moment, the underlying reality. -- Stephen Levine
  • Kindness and awareness work together. Through awareness we understand the underlying beauty of everything and every being. -- Amit Ray
  • Without calling the overall national issue a bubble, it's pretty clear that it's an unsustainable underlying pattern. -- Alan Greenspan
  • The origin of agriculture involved both human intentionality and a set of underlying ecological and evolutionary principles. -- Kent V. Flannery
  • The biological factors underlying race differences in sports have consequences for educational achievement, crime and sexual behavior. -- J. Philippe Rushton
  • I guess the underlying principle might be, don't make it too easy for them to stereotype you. -- Bill McKibben
  • Comedy deflates the sense precisely so that the underlying lubricity and malice may bubble to the surface. -- Paul Goodman
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  • The non-commutativity of the underlying process produces an ontological complementarity. This must be contrasted to Bohr's epistemological complementarity. -- Basil Hiley
  • Public opinion, though often formed upon a wrong basis, yet generally has a strong underlying sense of justice. -- Abraham Lincoln
  • Gaining insight into one's underlying motives, it seems, is more like a belief conversion than a self-discovery process -- Albert Bandura
  • We should often blush at our noblest deeds if the world were to see all their underlying motives. -- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
  • Hinduism has become a conservative religion and, therefore, a mighty force because of the swadeshi spirit underlying it. -- Mahatma Gandhi
  • Every age develops its own peculiar forms of pathology, which express in exaggerated form its underlying character structure. -- Christopher Lasch
  • The underlying problem remains the Israeli occupation of Palestinian land and the continuing Israeli assaults against our people. -- Ismail Haniyeh
  • People only see in us the contemptible skirt-fever which rules our actions but completely miss the beauty-hunger underlying it. -- Lawrence Durrell
  • People tend to remember and mentally classify work according to how it looks, sometimes oblivious to the underlying intent. -- David Salle
  • Fake sympathy is the politicians demanding more cash as they ignore the underlying crisis. They prefer money over morality. -- Greg Gutfeld
  • There is in every organism, at whatever level, an underlying flow of movement toward constructive fulfillment of its inherent possibilities. -- Carl Rogers
  • If we understood the world, we would realize that there is a logic of harmony underlying its manifold apparent dissonances. -- Jean Sibelius
  • The underlying sickness of human life is an unwillingness to look with open eyes at the condition of the world. -- Hu Shih
  • It is an axiom nowadays that no bank fails for lack of capital; unprofitable lending is always the underlying cause. -- James Grant
  • It is attachment to desire, not desire itself, that is the underlying cause of practically all of our pain and suffering. -- Rod Stryker
  • I no longer need to have what I see as the surface of the dance so connected to the underlying structure. -- Lucinda Childs
  • He was determined to discover the underlying logic behind the universe. Which was going to be hard, because there wasn't one. -- Terry Pratchett
  • The undue influence of money on our politics is like a cancer underlying other cancers, the issue underlying all other issues. -- Marianne Williamson
  • The war between being and nothingness is the underlying illness of the twentieth century. Boredom slays more of existence than war. -- Norman Mailer
  • All work flows from some underlying assumptions, and the content of that faith can dramatically change our expectations for our work. -- David Kim
  • Like the appearance of silver in mother of pearl, the world seems real until the Self, the underlying reality, is realized. -- Adi Shankara
  • French architecture always manages to combine the most magnificent underlying themes of architecture; like Roman design, it looks to the community. -- Stephen Gardiner
  • When you live your life with an appreciation of coincidences and their meanings, you connect with the underlying field of infinite possibilities. -- Deepak Chopra
  • American movies are often very good at mining those great underlying myths that make films robustly travel across class, age, gender, culture. -- Tom Hooper
  • Meaning comes from the correspondence between the code and its execution, and the compact underlying structure of the world and its dynamics. -- Eric Baum
  • There is no such thing as philosophy-free science, just science that has been conducted without any consideration of its underlying philosophical assumptions. -- Daniel Dennett
  • The fact that Obama is getting criticism from the left and the right might reflect his understanding of the underlying political dynamics. -- Ron Fournier
  • When our brain feels too weak to deal with our opponent's objections, our heart answers by casting suspicion on their underlying motives. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Imperialism is the underlying motor of racism. The underlying reason that racism keeps on being promoted in all of its various forms. -- Assata Shakur
  • Whatever direction your life takes, your underlying themes remain. Discover and explore your themes to open the way for rich creative development. -- Nita Leland
  • If something fails despite being carefully planned, carefully designed, and conscientiously executed, that failure often bespeaks underlying change and, with it, opportunity. -- Peter Drucker
  • Disputing the commonsense notion that all events require the prior existence of some underlying matter or substance. There is no antecedent static cabinet. -- Alfred North Whitehead
  • Not sense data or atoms or electrons or packets of energy, but purposes, interests, and meanings, constitute the underlying facts of human experience. -- Lewis Mumford
  • British physician, West African Countries and Peoples Man's place is higher than the sky. Respect for man is the underlying spirit of civilization. -- Muhammad Iqbal
  • Be present. Be meditative. Form real friendships. Stay away from business networking events or friendships where there is always an underlying business angle. -- Naval Ravikant
  • I was caught up in the hysteria during the Vietnam era, which was brought about through Marxist propaganda underlying the so-called peace movement. -- Jon Voight
  • Your life is a work of art, and in the end, the underlying theme of great art is bravery and hope and love. -- Garrison Keillor
  • There is an evil tendency underlying all our technology - the tendency to do what is reasonable even when it isn't any good. -- Robert M. Pirsig
  • We were created for a purpose and when our underlying assumptions don't reflect this deeper purpose, we begin to whither as human beings. -- David Kim
  • The business of the poet and the novelist is to show the sorriness underlying the grandest things and the grandeur underlying the sorriest things. -- Thomas Hardy
  • Poetry doesn't function by saying things straightforwardly because the language is too imprecise, too limited often, to address the underlying subject of most poems. -- Pattiann Rogers
  • We help our clients discover and correct the underlying conditions that are causing them to self-medicate, to seek relief in substances and addictive behavior. -- Chris Prentiss
  • Some of the poetic writers who insert passages of realism in their texts have no underlying philosophy to uphold them, and revert to realism. -- Marguerite Young
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