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He'd once told me that the art of getting ahead in New York was based on learning how to express dissatisfaction in an interesting way.… — Don DeLillo
Freedom is based on the anarch’s awareness that he can kill himself. He carries this awareness around; it accompanies him like a shadow that he… — Ernst Junger
Conservatism is the antidote to tyranny. It's the only one. It's based on thousands of years of human experience. There is nothing narrow about the… — Mark Levin
My world got very big, very fast, and based on a lot of sad examples from the past, a lot of people expect me to… — Justin Bieber
The application of force alone, without support based on a spiritual concept, can never bring about the destruction of an idea or arrest the propagation… — Adolf Hitler
and while faith based on theological reasoning is today universally engaged in a bitter struggle with doubt and resistance from the prevailing brand of rationalism,… — Robert Musil
Psychoanalysis was from the start, still is, and perhaps always will be a well-constituted church and a form of treatment based on a set of… — Gilles Deleuze
Human freedom involves our capacity to pause between the stimulus and response and, in that pause, to choose the one response toward which we wish… — Rollo May
…the samurai ethic is a political science of the heart, designed to control such discouragement and fatigue in order to avoid showing them to others.… — Yukio Mishima
...[D]ivision of labor, in my mind, is one of the dangers of work-based technology. Modern IT infrastructure allows us to break projects into very small,… — Dan Ariely
Marry Gentry Swallowing Darkness (Laurell K. Hamilton):Pick any fairy tale that’s based on older stories, and the heroine of the piece has a miserable, dangerous,… — Laurell K. Hamilton
Now all my tales are based on the fundemental premise that common human laws and interests and emotions have no validity or significance in the… — H P Lovecraft
Faith in the biblical sense is substantive, based on the knowledge that the One in whom that faith is placed has proven that He is… — Ravi Zacharias
In my experience, the most staunchly held views are based on ignorance or accepted dogma, not carefully considered accumulations of facts. The more you expose… — Mary Roach
As history shows us, when colonization is voluntary, people will self-select better than any testing system. It’s like those foolish attempts to control immigration to… — Orson Scott Card
Justice based purely on laws is about as accurate as a portrait created out of large low-resolution color pixels. If you stand back far enough… — Vera Nazarian
For nearly a century, the moral relativism of science has given faith-based religion--that great engine of ignorance and bigotry--a nearly uncontested claim to being the… — Sam Harris
the Female Once-Over--a process by which one woman creates a detailed profile of another woman based upon about a million subtle details of clothing, jewelry,… — Jim Butcher
Confidence that one's impressions are God-given is no guarantee that this is really so, even when they persist and grow stronger through long seasons of… — J I Packer
The religious school she went to, growing up, Ms. Wright said how all the girls had to wear a scarf tied to cover their ears… — Chuck Palahniuk
Life lived in the absence of the psychedelic experience that primordial shamanism is based on is life trivialized, life denied, life enslaved to the ego. — Terence McKenna
Our entire society is based on discontent. People wanting more and more and more. Being constantly dissatisfied with their homes, their bodies, their décor, their… — Tana French
Of course all such conclusions about appropriate actions against the rich and powerful are based on a fundamental flaw: This is us, and that is… — Noam Chomsky
What were good and evil, really, but stupid categories? Stupid categories that restricted people and punished or rewarded them based on how they responded to… — Richelle Mead
Intelligence is based on how efficient a species became at doing the things they need to survive. — Charles Darwin

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