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Politics is when people choose their words and actions based on how they want others to react rather than based on what they really think. — Patrick Lencioni
The word phobic has its place when properly used, but lately it's been declawed by the pompous insistence that most animosity is based upon fear… — David Sedaris
Hope was based on the unknown, and I liked knowing things. Like that I was going to fail. Failure had better odds. — Nami Mun
Our moment had passed somehow. I was different. He was, too. Without our â€œmadnessâ€ to unite us, there wasnâ€™t anything much there. Or maybe too… — Gabrielle Zevin
When all is said, a man's final judgment of his fellows must be based upon his knowledge of himself — Rafael Sabatini
This is a war universe. War all the time. That is its nature. There may be other universes based on all sorts of other principles,… — William S. Burroughs
If we hope to stem the mass destruction that inevitably attends our economic system (and to alter the sense of entitlement - the sense of… — Derrick Jensen
So we see that even when Fortuna spins us downward, the wheel sometimes halts for a moment and we find ourselves in a good, small… — John Kennedy Toole
Mr L Prosser was, as they say, only human. In other words he was a carbon-based life form descended from an ape. More specifically he… — Douglas Adams
Let's just say that if these scientist had been using their brilliance for good instead of evil, cars would run off water vapor and leave… — James Patterson
We are alive. We are human, with good and bad in us. That's all we know for sure. We can't create a new species or… — Carol Matas
We all have a sense of level. It may not be based on class exactly anymore, but we still have a sense of what we're… — Karen Joy Fowler
Peace, if it ever exists, will not be based on the fear of war, but on the love of peace. It will not be the… — Herman Wouk
We don't have an address," I said, "but we do know where he works." "Are you thinking what I'm thinking?" Vee asked, eyes brightening briefly… — Becca Fitzpatrick
I sometimes react to making a mistake as if I have betrayed myself. My fear of making a mistake seems to be based on the… — Hugh Prather
The dictionary is based on the hypothesis -- obviously an unproven one -- that languages are made up of equivalent synonyms. — Jorge Luis Borges
A story is based on what people think is important, so when we live a story, we are telling people around us what we think… — Donald Miller
We know of no spectacle more ridiculousâ€”or more contemptibleâ€”than that of the religious reactionaries who dare to re-write the history of our republic. Or who… — Christopher Hitchens
If there is some corner of the world which has remained peaceful, but with a peace based on injustices the peace of a swamp with… — HÃ©lder CÃ¢mara
Begin each day with the blueprint of my deepest values FIRMLY in mind then when challenges come, make decisions BASED on those values. — Stephen Covey

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