Based Upon Quotes
206 quotes by 175 authors
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What we seek is the reign of law, based upon the consent of the governed and sustained by the organized opinion of mankind.
— Woodrow Wilson
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Testimony is personal knowledge, based upon the witness of the Holy Ghost, that certain facts of eternal significance are true.
— David A. Bednar
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I knelt and prayed, and the strongest truth came over me. Didn't matter if God in his heaven was a Catholic or a Protestant God,…
— Anne Rice
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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
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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
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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
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The word phobic has its place when properly used, but lately it's been declawed by the pompous insistence that most animosity is based upon fear…
— David Sedaris
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When all is said, a man's final judgment of his fellows must be based upon his knowledge of himself
— Rafael Sabatini
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So we see that even when Fortuna spins us downward, the wheel sometimes halts for a moment and we find ourselves in a good, small…
— John Kennedy Toole
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Drizzt Do'Urden had followed a line of precepts based upon discipline and ultimate optimism. He fought for a better world because he believed that a…
— R A Salvatore
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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
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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
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A loving relationship is one in which the loved one is free to be himself -- to laugh with me, but never at me; to…
— Leo Buscaglia
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The guarantee of safety in a battering relationship can never be based upon a promise from the perpetrator, no matter how heartfelt. Rather, it must…
— Judith Lewis Herman
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The theory of objectivism claims that there are certain things that most people in society can agree upon. A model is pretty. A lawyer is…
— Portia de Rossi
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We live" writes Pursewarden somewhere, "lives based upon selected fictions. Our view of reality is conditioned by our position in space and time - not…
— Lawrence Durrell
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The union of the mind and intuition which brings about illumination, and the development which the Sufis seek, is based upon love.
— Idries Shah
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Fear of the unknown. They are afraid of new ideas. They are loaded with prejudices, not based upon anything in reality, but based on… if…
— Wayne Dyer
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You have to start with the truth. The truth is the only way that we can get anywhere. Because any decision-making that is based upon…
— Julian Assange
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Holiness, as taught in the Scriptures, is not based upon knowledge on our part. Rather, it is based upon the resurrected Christ in-dwelling us and…
— Aiden Wilson Tozer
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