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Fundamentally, the land was held in common and...

Fundamentally, the land was held in common and administered by a group of nobles called the alii on behalf of the common good.

Quote by Neil Abercrombie about common sense, prison, good, good luck

I guess it was but I think peoples morality has changed. It's gotten more liberal and more diverse and even in a sense much more fundamental, you take the fundamental religious right in this country, its got to go back about 50 years.

Quote by Larry Hagman about morality, common sense, sense, country, rightness, contentment

Our choice of a reform framework dictated that we looked at the fundamental assumptions that had driven Nigeria's economy, society and policy hitherto and to seek ways of either abandoning or transcending those assumptions and their supporting...

Quote by Ibrahim Babangida about economy, society

We were by no means naive as to think that these fundamental changes in the historical direction of the post-colonial Nigerian state was going to be painless or yield instant results.

Quote by Ibrahim Babangida about state

I have to see it much more as fundamentally capitalism, I...

I have to see it much more as fundamentally capitalism, I certainly don't see any Rock'n'Roll coming out of Vietnam or China or Russia.

Quote by Lester Bangs about capitalism, rocks

Native Americans are the original inhabitants of the land that now constitutes the United States. They have helped develop the fundamental principles of freedom of speech and separation of powers that form the foundation of the United States...

Quote by Joe Baca about americans

The second is the structure and source of cults. They have always haunted me, and I wanted to explore the fundamental notion of giving up responsibility to an outside power.

Quote by Katherine Dunn about power

There's something fundamentally wrong with a system where there's been 17 years of a Tory Government and the people of Scotland have voted Socialist for 17 years. That hardly seems democratic.

Quote by Sean Connery about bad, people

Whatever their defects, Christian fundamentalists have...

Whatever their defects, Christian fundamentalists have lived peacefully among us in America for several hundred years.

Quote by Maggie Gallagher about defects, christianity

Today's macroeconomic problems require attention to more...

Today's macroeconomic problems require attention to more fundamental forces of individual incentives and institutional rigidities.

Quote by Martin Feldstein about attention, force, problems

The incredible suffering of the people of Tibet works...

The incredible suffering of the people of Tibet works symbolically, but also works in a very fundamental way.

Quote by Richard Gere about suffering, people

Capital punishment is as fundamentally wrong as a cure...

Capital punishment is as fundamentally wrong as a cure for crime as charity is wrong as a cure for poverty.

Quote by Henry Ford about bad, punishment, charity, poverty, crime, criminals

The opulence of the front office decor varies inversely...

The opulence of the front office decor varies inversely with the fundamental solvency of the firm.

Quote by Edward A. Murphy about technology

What libertarians assert is simply that differences among...

What libertarians assert is simply that differences among normal adults do not imply different fundamental rights.

Quote by Tom Clancy about liberty

If children are not introduced to music at an early age, ...

If children are not introduced to music at an early age, I believe something fundamental is actually being taken from them.

Quote by Luciano Pavarotti about children, age, olderness, music, faith, being

Well, gauge theory is very fundamental to our understanding of physical forces these days. But they are also dependent on a mathematical idea, which has been around for longer than gauge theory has.

Quote by Roger Penrose about force, day, idea

Two fundamental literary qualities supernaturalism and...

Two fundamental literary qualities supernaturalism and irony.

Quote by Charles Baudelaire about literature, irony, literary critic

As things are, and as fundamentally they must always be, poetry is not a career, but a mug's game. No honest poet can ever feel quite sure of the permanent value of what he has written: He may have wasted his time and messed up his life for nothing.

Quote by Thomas Stearns Eliot about poetry, waste, value, games, career, poets, nothing, things, time, life

The removal of an electron from the surface of an atom - that is, the ionization of the atom - means a fundamental structural change in its surface layer.

Quote by Johannes Stark about physics, atoms, change

Who knows the secrets of Water - as fundamental element...

Who knows the secrets of Water - as fundamental element of Being - he is master of the universe...

Quote by Ion Pachia-Tatomirescu about aphorisms, water, being

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