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  1. Martin King:

    It will still take a great deal of time to undermine the massive surplus in crude oil inventories, as such, it is going to take a good deal of time for crude oil prices to march steadily higher, but the foundations are now more firmly in place.

  2. Niccolo Machiavelli:

    He who has not first laid his foundations may be able with great ability to lay them afterwards, but they will be laid with trouble to the architect and danger to the building.

  3. George Bernard Shaw:

    If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them.

  4. Albert Einstein:

    The physicist cannot simply surrender to the philosopher the critical contemplation of the theoretical foundations for he himself knows best and feels most surely where the shoe pinches.... he must try to make clear in his own mind just how far the concepts which he uses are justified... The whole of science is nothing more than a refinement of everyday thinking.

  5. Barbara Underwood:

    As our investigation reveals, the Trump Foundation was little more than a checkbook for payments from Mr. Trump or his businesses to nonprofits, regardless of their purpose or legality, this is not how private foundations should function and my office intends to hold the Foundation and its directors accountable for its misuse of charitable assets.


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