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Teaching people skills without giving them a vision for a better future - a vision based on common values - is only training. — Nido R Qubein
Architecture is not based on concrete and steel, and the elements of the soil. It's based on wonder. — Daniel Libeskind
The surviving intelligent life form on Earth is not going to be carbon-based; it's going to be silicon-based. — Paul MacCready
Soldiers are members of a profession of arms which has existed virtually unchanged for thousands of years- far longer than most other human institutions have… — William A. Connelly
The defense policy of the United States is based on a simple premise: The United States does not start fights. We will never be an… — Ronald Reagan
My actions to promote peace, the mediation missions which I carried out during many conflicts, which very often occurred between brothers of the same country,… — Omar Bongo
The Professor took the old practices and studied them, worked out their mechanical principles and then devised a graded scientific set of tricks, but is… — John Dewey
True love is spelled G-I-V-E. It is not based on what you can get, but rooted in what you can give to the other person.... — Josh McDowell
Joy does not simply happen to us. We have to choose joy and keep choosing it every day. It is a choice based on the… — Henri Nouwen
The Scots say that Nature itself dictated that golf should be played by the seashore. Rather, the Scots saw in the eroded sea coasts a… — Alistair Cooke
Golf camaraderie, like that of astronauts and Antarctic explorers, is based on a common experience of transcendence; fat or thin, scratch or duffer, we have… — John Updike
Golf is based on honesty, where else would you admit to a seven on a par three? — Jimmy Demaret
Try handling problems in the office as dispassionately as you can and I guarantee you will have a better time of it; not least because… — Suze Orman
New Rule: If an Evangelical tries to use Halloween to pimp Jesus to kids, they get to egg his house. On Halloween, the president of… — Bill Maher
Hatred, jealousy and excessive attachment cause suffering and agitation. I feel compassion can help us overcome these disturbances and let us return to a calm… — Dalai Lama
To be hopeful in bad times is not just foolishly romantic. It is based on the fact that human history is a history not only… — Howard Zinn
Public education is the key civil rights issue of the 21st century. Our nation's knowledge-based economy demands that we provide young people from all backgrounds… — Eli Broad
I am convinced that we will never build a democratic state based on rule of law if we do not at the same time build… — Vaclav Havel
The fact that this chain of life existed [at volcanic vents on the seafloor] in the black cold of the deep sea and was utterly… — Robert Ballard
All systems of morality are based on the idea that an action has consequences that legitimize or cancel it. A mind imbued with the absurd… — Albert Camus

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