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When men have realized that time has upset many fighting faiths, they may come to believe... that the ultimate good desired is better reached by… — Oliver Wendell Holmes
To the Muslim world, we seek a new way forward, based on mutual interest and mutual respect. To those leaders around the globe who seek… — Barack Obama
If you identify with a mental position, then if you are wrong, your mind-based sense of self is seriously threatened with annihilation. So you as… — Eckhart Tolle
At the moment our human world is based on the suffering and destruction of millions of non-humans. To perceive this and to do something to… — Arthur Conan Doyle
The Christian idea of marriage is based on Christ's words that a man and wife are to be regarded as a single organism - for… — C.S. Lewis
Many people think excitement is happiness.... But when you are excited you are not peaceful. True happiness is based on peace. — Nhat Hanh
Somehow, like so many people who get depressed, we felt our depressions were more complicated and existentially based than they actually were. — Kay Redfield Jamison
Postulates are based on assumption and adhered to by faith. Nothing in the Universe can shake them. — Isaac Asimov
Reality is what we take to be true. What we take to be true is what we believe. What we believe is based upon our… — Gary Zukav
Perhaps there is supranatural: reason beyond the normal definitions of fact or data-based logic; something that only makes sense if you can see a bigger… — William P. Young
Our success has really been based on partnerships from the very beginning. — Bill Gates
Investors should be skeptical of history-based models. Constructed by a nerdy-sounding priesthood using esoteric terms such as beta, gamma, sigma and the like, these models… — Warren Buffett
Some people believe the alternative to bad religion is secularism, but that's wrong . . . . The answer to bad religion is better religion--prophetic… — Jim Wallis
To put it another way, every love relationship is based upon unwritten conventions rashly agreed upon by the lovers during the first weeks of their… — Milan Kundera
A critique does not consist in saying that things aren't good the way they are. It consists in seeing on just what type of assumptions,… — Michel Foucault
When I hear of people who weary of each other, I believe it is because they have sought virtues in themselves alone, attractions of physical… — Anais Nin
And make no mistake: irony tyrannizes us. The reason why our pervasive cultural irony is at once so powerful and so unsatisfying is that an… — David Foster Wallace
It is not what the man of science believes that distinguishes him, but how and why he believes it. His beliefs are tentative, not dogmatic;… — Bertrand Russell
An environment-based education movement--at all levels of education--will help students realize that school isn't supposed to be a polite form of incarceration, but a portal… — Richard Louv
You can't make decisions based on fear and the possibility of what might happen. — Michelle Obama
I was exhilarated by the new realization that I could change the character of my life by changing my beliefs. I was instantly energized because… — Bruce H. Lipton
The America I know and love is not one in which my parents or my baby with Down syndrome will have to stand in front… — Sarah Palin
Memories are like a still life painted by ten different student artists: some will be blue-based; others red; some will be as stark as Picasso… — Jodi Picoult
I believe that anyone can be successful in life, regardless of natural talent or the environment within which we live. This is not based on… — Jimmy Carter
Every persisting marriage is based on fear', said Peregrine. 'Fear is fundamental, you dig down in human nature and what's at the bottom? Mean spiteful… — Iris Murdoch

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