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If you write a story based on a real person, you're trapped by the details of the real person and his life. It gets in… — Caroline B. Cooney
Knowledge is theory. We should be thankful if action of management is based on theory. Knowledge has temporal spread. Information is not knowledge. The world… — W. Edwards Deming
Contrary to what you may have heard from Henry Rollins or/and Ian MacKaye and/or anyone else who joined a band after working in an ice… — Chuck Klosterman
Ryan Stout,Â a straight-arrow-looking kind of guy, shocks the crowd into laughter with his inventive interplay between innocence and a jarringly twisted point of view.… — Ben Fong-Torres
All my religious beliefs are based on Star Wars. — Mike Dirnt
Bureaucracies tend to grow and to brag about their growth based on how many individuals they have and how much money they spend. — Darrell Issa
The State, both in its genesis and by its primary intention, is purely anti-social. It is not based on the idea of natural rights, but… — Albert J. Nock
The human brain is like a memory system that records every thing that happens to us and makes intelligent predictions based on those experiences. — Daniel Tammet
You can do the best science in the world but unless emotion is involved it's not really very relevant. Conservation is based on emotion. It… — George Schaller
Traditional hedonism...was based on the direct experience of pleasure: wine, women and song; sex, drugs and rock 'n' roll; or whatever the local variant. The… — David Graeber
When learning is recognized in the fabric of life and encouraged, when families make their decisions based on what leads to more interesting and educational… — Sandra Dodd
For the public ever to break command science it must first understand the basis of its enormous powers.......Traditionally, the power of medical sciences has been… — Peter Duesberg
All forms of power - even based on the consensus of the democratic system - react when they are being attacked, or when those who… — Dario Fo
If you ask anyone, what is morality based on? These are the two factors that always come out: One is reciprocity, â€¦ a sense of… — Frans de Waal
All a writer's characters are imaginary, no matter whether they are based on real people or not. They are people as one imagines them to… — Allan Massie
With our technologies--ones of incalcuable power: earth-restoring, planet preserving--we can rediscover an intimacy, a mutuality with the natural world, that is not primitive (though based… — Janet Kauffman
A sound marriage is not based on complete frankness; it is based on a sensible reticence. — Morris L. Ernst
Our whole economy is based on planned obsolescence, and anyone who can read without moving his lips should know it by now. — Brooks Stevens
When the rate of return on capital exceeds the rate of growth of output and income, as it did in the nineteenth century and seems… — Thomas Piketty
I would ask that people judge us, judge me, based on our record, based on what we actually did, — Christy Clark

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