Based Quotes
3458 quotes by 2598 authors
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My behavior is a product of my own conscious choices based on principles, rather than a product of my conditions, based on feelings.
— Stephen Covey
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Josh had told me a long time ago that he had this theory that an entire relationship was based on what occurred over the course…
— Laura Dave
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I believe that there will be ultimately be a clash between the oppressed and those who do the oppressing. I believe that there will be…
— Malcolm X
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Everything you see is based on fact of a event thats already happen, Even light only travels so fast.
— Chuck Palahniuk
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There is a fundamental difference between religion, which is based on authority, and science, which is based on observation and reason. Science will win because…
— Stephen Hawking
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I discovered that it is necessary, absolutely necessary, to believe in nothing. That is, we have to believe in something which has no form and…
— Shunryu Suzuki
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Another guy barked orders to a small army of brooms, mops, and buckets that were scuttling around, cleaning up the city. "Like that cartoon," Sadie…
— Rick Riordan
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A weapon based on Time . . ." mused Viktor Mulciber. "Well, why not? The one force no one knows how to defeat, resist, or…
— Thomas Pynchon
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There is always a choice." "You mean I could choose certain death?" "A choice nevertheless, or perhaps an alternative. You see I believe in freedom.…
— Terry Pratchett
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Only if the third necessary thing could be given us. Number one, as I said: quality of information. Number two: leisure to digest it. And…
— Ray Bradbury
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[T]he experience of mystery comes not from expecting it but through yielding all your programs, because your programs are based on fear and desire. Drop…
— Joseph Campbell
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I always felt sorry for humans, spending so much time in front of the mirror. Fixing their hair, makeup, and clothes, mostly to impress others.…
— Ellen Schreiber
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Real, sane, mature love—the kind that pays the mortgage year after year and picks up the kids after school—is not based on infatuation but on…
— Elizabeth Gilbert
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The idea that each of us can be directly spiritual is radical. Most religions are based not on teaching adherents to be directly spiritual, but…
— Ming-Dao Deng
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Drizzt Do'Urden had followed a line of precepts based upon discipline and ultimate optimism. He fought for a better world because he believed that a…
— R A Salvatore
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No Geologist worth anything is permanently bound to a desk or laboratory, but the charming notion that true science can only be based on unbiased…
— Stephen Jay Gould
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Anarchism is not a romantic fable but the hardheaded realization, based on five thousand years of experience, that we cannot entrust the management of our…
— Edward Abbey
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A man's ethical behaviour should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties and needs; no religious basis is necessary. Man would indeed be…
— Albert Einstein
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There are times when the end justifies the means. But when you build an argument based on a whole series of such times, you may…
— Aaron Allston
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Life doesn't just happen to you; you receive everything in your life based on what you've given.
— Rhonda Byrne
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