Bedrock Quotes
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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.
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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.
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Relationships and trust. This is the bedrock of life.
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Preying on the grievances of disaffected young men is the bedrock of Islamism.
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The poems in Katherine Soniat's new collection, The Swing Girl, weave emotion's 'spray going farther than thought' with the 'bedrock things' of the trod-upon world. These poems eddy and pool in unpredictable and often surprising ways, much as the mind moves in its twilight state between waking and sleep. The fluidity of their cadence and the luminosity of their imagery carry the reader to the wellspring of poetry itself, that deep delight of which Robert Penn Warren spoke, whose source is, in Soniat's words, 'beauty on its way to being mystery.'
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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.
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The Moon Pie is a bedrock of the country store and rural tradition. It is more than a snack. It is a cultural artifact.
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Nepotism is the bedrock of social existence.
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I believe primary and secondary education is the bedrock of any sustainable society.
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Confirmation of what is for me a bedrock principle that judging is different from politics.
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It is not surprising that in talking about uncertainty we should lean heavily on facts, just as the court of law does when interrogating witnesses. Facts form a sort of bedrock on which we can build the shifting sands of uncertainty.
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It is absolutely bedrock to the British Army's philosophy that a commanding officer is responsible for what goes on within his command.
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There's something in the Western mind that gets very nervous when you try to talk about the bedrock of ontology.
