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My basic belief and effort, firstly to try and promote some of the useful emotions such as compassion or forgiveness and through the that way… — Dalai Lama
Love is the basic need of human nature, for without it, life is disrupted emotionally, mentally, spiritually and physically — Karl Menninger Dr
The desire to know and to understand are themselves connotative, i.e. have a striving character, and are as much personality needs as the 'basic needs'… — Abraham Maslow
My list of ingredients for success is divided into four basic groups: Inward, Outward, Upward and Onward — David Thomas
Moral courage and character go hand in hand .... a man of real character is consistently courageous, being imbued with a basic integrity and a… — Martha Boaz
Some scientists claim that hydrogen, because it is so plentiful, is the basic building block of the universe. I dispute that. I say that there… — Frank Zappa
Consideration for others is the basic of a good life, a good society. — Confucius
Realism, whether it be socialist or not, falls short of reality. It shrinks it, attenuates it, falsifies it; it does not take into account our… — Eugene Ionesco
My basic principle is that you don't make decisions because they are easy; you don't make them because they are cheap; you don't make them… — Theodore Hesburgh
Many of life's circumstances are created by three basic choices: the disciplines you choose to keep, the people you choose to be with; and, the… — Charles Millhuff
Until the philosophy which holds one race superior and another inferior is finally and permanently discredited and abandoned, everywhere is war and until there are… — Haile Selassie I Of Ethiopia
As unrefined and basic as an animal's emotional equipment may be, it is not insensitive to freedom. Somewhere in the archives of crudest instinct is… — Tom Robbins
It seemed to me that the desire to get married - which, I regret to say, I believe is basic and primal in women -… — Nora Ephron
The fundamentalist mind, running in a single rut for fifty years, is now quite unable to comprehend dissent from its basic superstitions, or to grant… — Henry Louis Mencken
I consider nature a vast chemical laboratory in which all kinds of composition and decompositions are formed. Vegetation is the basic instrument the creator uses… — Antoine Lavoisier
There's a basic kind of tension here. It's between those who say, I'd like to clear cut this forest and reduce it to saw timber… — Bruce Babbitt
There's a basic human weakness inherent in all people which tempts them to want what they can't have and not want what is readily available… — M Kathleen Casey
Our most basic instinct is not for survival but for family. Most of us would give our own life for the survival of a family… — Paul Pearshall
So I can't show you how, exactly, health care is a basic human right. But what I can argue is that no one should have… — Paul Farmer
And here where the fact that we've given over half a billion dollars to New York really plays a role, because New York has already… — Michael Chertoff

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