Base Quotes
1089 quotes by 911 authors
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The value of a yellow metal (gold), originally chosen as money because it tickled the fancy of savages, is clearly a chancy and irrelevant thing…
— Dennis Holme Robertson
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Libraries are starting places for the adventure of learning that can go on whatever one's vocation and location in life. Reading is an adventure like…
— James H. Billington
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To write the true natural history of the world, we should need to be able to follow it from within. It would thus appear no…
— Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
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The public discourse on global warming has little in common with the standards of scientific discourse. Rather, it is part of political discourse where comments…
— Richard Lindzen
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If the [Vestiges] be true, the labours of sober induction are in vain; religion is a lie; human law is a mass of folly, and…
— Adam Sedgwick
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Labour without joy is base. Labour without sorrow is base. Sorrow without labour is base. Joy without labour is base.
— John Ruskin
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Only in the steady and constant application of force lies the very first prerequisite for success. This persistence, however, can always and only arise from…
— Adolf Hitler
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All businesses need to be young forever. If your customer base ages with you, you're Woolworth's.
— Jeff Bezos
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A cynical, mercenary, demagogic press will produce in time a people as base as itself.
— Joseph Pulitzer
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[F]or avoiding the extremes of despotism or anarchy . . . the only ground of hope must be on the morals of the people. I…
— Gouverneur Morris
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Religion is the only solid Base of morals and that Morals are the only possible Support of free governments.
— Gouverneur Morris
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"It is against their own insoluble problem of being human that the dull and base in humanity are in revolt in anti-Semitism. Judaism, nevertheless, together…
— Hermann Rauschning
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The best and most evolved technologies are those that do not destroy the very base on which we live
— Vandana Shiva
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I'd trusted my fan base, I'd trusted the my gut, and I'd trusted the music. ...the real experts are out there in front of you…
— Eric Church
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The Boer War occurred 37 years ago. Boer means farmer. Many criticized a great power like Britain for trying to wipe out the Boers. Upon…
— Henry Hamilton Beamish
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Worth begets in base minds, envy; in great souls, emulation.
— Henry Fielding
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It is true that I was denied access to a facility at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base in Dayton, Ohio, because I never got in. I…
— Barry Goldwater
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While working with a camera crew supervising flight testing of advanced aircraft at Edward's Air Force Base, California, the camera crew filmed the landing of…
— Gordon Cooper
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Several days in a row we sighted groups of metallic, saucer-shaped vehicles at great altitudes over the base Germany, 1951 and we tried to get…
— Gordon Cooper
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I made an effort to find out what was in the building at Wright Patterson Air Force Base where the information is stored that has…
— Barry Goldwater
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