I think that films about faith made for faith-based communities have a certain tactic.
I have faith in the United States and our ability to make good decisions based on the facts.
An unexamined faith is not worth having for fundamentalism and uncritical certitude entail the rejection of one of the great human gifts: that of free will of the liberty to make up our own minds based on evidence and tradition and reason.
A better world shall emerge based on faith and understanding.
Feminism is doomed to failure because it is based on an attempt to repeal and restructure human nature.
Discipline is based on pride on meticulous attention to details and on mutual respect and confidence. Discipline must be a habit so ingrained that it is stronger than the excitement of the goal or the fear of failure.
I don't think any good book is based on factual experience. Bad books are about things the writer already knew before he wrote them.
I have relationships with people I'm working with based on our combined interest. It doesn't make the relationship any less sincere but it does give it a focus that may not last beyond the experience.
However it is debased or misinterpreted love is a redemptive feature. To focus on one individual so that their desires become superior to yours is a very cleansing experience.
Joy rather than happiness is the goal of life for joy is the emotion which accompanies our fulfilling our natures as human beings. It is based on the experience of one's identity as a being of worth and dignity.
A proverb is a short sentence based on long experience.
I'm afraid based on my own experience that fascism will come to America in the name of national security.
The trouble with this country is that there are too many politicians who believe with a conviction based on experience that you can fool all of the people all of the time.
I wish I could give you a lot of advice based on my experience of winning political debates. But I don't have that experience. My only experience is at losing them.
Love is an emotion that is based on an opinion of women that is impossible for those who have had any experience with them.
Most of the images of reality on which we base our actions are really based on vicarious experience.
We should restore a proper balance in environmental regulation and energy production that is based on common sense not political agendas.
Our work on light bulbs wasn't an arbitrary mandate. We didn't just pick a standard out of the air or look for a catchy sounding standard like 25 by 2025 not based in science or feasibility. Instead we worked with both industry and environmental groups to come up with a standard that made sense and was doable.
Unfortunately the real achievements of children on the ground became debased and devalued because Labor education secretaries sounded like Soviet commissars praising the tractor production figures when we know that those exams were not the rock-solid measures of achievement that children deserve.
No one should be denied the opportunity to get an education and increase their earning potential based solely on their inability to pay for a college education.
I believe that access to a university education should be based on the ability to learn not what people can afford. I think there is no more nauseating a sight than politicians pulling up the ladder of opportunity behind them.
As a proud Catholic I know the impact that faith-based education can have in our society and have witnessed it first hand in my district.
Likewise education can direct people toward good or evil ends. When education is based on a fundamentally distorted worldview the results are horrific.
Health care and education in my view are next up for fundamental software-based transformation.