Based Quotes
3458 quotes by 2598 authors
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Religion is based on the idea that God is an imbecile.
— Noam Chomsky
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Well, my books - I think one of the hallmarks of my thrillers is that they're based in reality.
— Brad Thor
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Personal computing today is a rich ecosystem encompassing massive PC-based data centers, notebook and Tablet PCs, handheld devices, and smart cell phones. It has expanded…
— Bill Gates
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The ends do not justify the means. If our actions will bring harm to others, even in the service of some 'good,' they are almost…
— Jack Kornfield
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My outlines are always very goal-based. What do I want to have happen by the ending and how can I earn that.
— Brandon Sanderson
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For peace is not simply the absence of warfare, based on a precarious balance of power; it is fashioned by efforts directed day after day…
— Pope Paul VI
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Ethnography literally means 'a portrait of a people.' An ethnography is a written description of a particular culture - the customs, beliefs, and behavior -…
— Marvin Harris
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Trust and respect are two-way streets. We want the horse to accept us as leaders of the herd, to guide them safely and to provide…
— Walter Zettl
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If the wolf is to survive, the wolf haters must be outnumbered. They must be outshouted, out financed, and out voted. Their narrow and biased…
— L. David Mech
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In this era of non-judgmental mush, too many Americans have become incapable of facing the brutal reality of unprovoked hatred, based on envy, resentment and…
— Thomas Sowell
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To change, it takes a decision based on faith, faith takes forgetting everything you thought you knew.
— Shannon Leto
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There has been talk in Europe about American hegemony being somehow based upon the use of the dollar in the world. I just don't see…
— Robert C. Solomon
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Based on all criteria - military power, economic influence, cultural dominance - America remains number one, even though other, new players are increasingly challenging it…
— Robert Kagan
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Dictatorship is rule based directly upon force and unrestricted by any laws. The revolutionary dictatorship of the proletariat is rule won and maintained by the…
— Vladimir Lenin
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What is considered sinful in one of the great religions to which citizens belong isn't necessarily sinful in the others. Criminal law therefore cannot be…
— Pierre Trudeau
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All of my policy is not based on a label. It's based on what I lived and what I know.
— Nikki Haley
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Intelligent people make decisions based on opportunity costs.
— Charlie Munger
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We call upon all communities to be tolerant, to reject prejudice based on caste, creed, sect, color, religion or agenda to ensure freedom and equality…
— Malala Yousafzai
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The way I choose projects is based on what I think is most real and most interesting, not on what's paying the most money or…
— Evan Ross
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Mastery requires endurance. Mastery, a word we don’t use often, is not the equivalent of what we might consider its cognate—perfectionism—an inhuman aim motivated by…
— Sarah Lewis
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