Basic Quotes
2162 quotes by 1594 authors
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Everyone—all of us, every last person on God’s earth—deserves decent shelter. It speaks to the most basic of human needs—our home—the soil from which all…
— Millard Fuller
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In private many scientists admit that science has no explanation for the beginning of life.... Darwin never imagined the exquisitely profound complexity that exists even…
— Michael Behe
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I worry because there is a basic asymmetry, an imbalance, between the two parties. For the Palestinians, it is about status and sovereignty, which could…
— Abraham Foxman
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In some basic way, it is our imperfections and even our pain that draws others close to us.
— Rachel
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Modern liberalism, for most liberals is not a consciously understood set of rational beliefs, but a bundle of unexamined prejudices and conjoined sentiments. The basic…
— James Burnham
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Basic problem is that all models are wrong - not got enough middle and low level clouds.
— Phil Jones
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The digestive canal is in its task a complete chemical factory. The raw material passes through a long series of institutions in which it is…
— Ivan Pavlov
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Our basic audience begins with creaking elderly types of twenty-three and above.
— Paul Desmond
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The basic story remains simple and never-ending. Stocks aren't lottery tickets. There's a company attached to every share.
— Peter Lynch
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Kids nowadays...tend to go overboard [on] protein - something I believe to be totally unnecsssary...[I state in] my formula for basic good eating: Eat about…
— Arnold Schwarzenegger
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The Air Corps . . . does not, at this time, feel justified in obligating . . . funds for basic jet propulsion research and…
— George Brett
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Like Canada, we very much wanted the United Nations to be a relevant and effective body. But once those efforts failed, we no longer saw…
— Paul Cellucci
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The basic formula of all sin is: frustrated or neglected love.
— Franz Werfel
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Art, as I see it, is any human activity which doesn’t grow out of either of our species’ two basic instincts: survival and reproduction.
— Scott McCloud
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With four of the top ten most violent cities in America, Michigan will never fully flourish unless our governments can fulfill their basic task: protecting…
— Bill Schuette
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We have not reached the consensus that to eat is a basic human right. This is an ethical crisis. This is a crisis of faith.
— Jean-Bertrand Aristide
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You have to start with the basic premise that you need to know what your competition is doing.
— Guy Kawasaki
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As far as arrangements after the basic track is cut, if I'm writing a horn arrangement or playing strings, I might arrange that, plan that…
— Bernie Worrell
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And when we draw lines in the sand with regard to certain basic things that are vital to our interest and to the interest of…
— Fred Thompson
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Perhaps the most significant thing a person can know about himself is to understand his own system of values. Â Almost every thing we do…
— Jacque Fresco
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