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Very few people can communicate with one another. The only language that's not subject to interpretation is mathematics, chemistry, basic science, engineering principles, and applied… — Jacque Fresco
I'm supposed to be a scientific person but I use intuition more than logic in making basic decisions. — Seymour Cray
My basic principle is that you don't make decisions because they are cheap; you make them because they're right. — Theodore Hesburgh
Congress is best viewed from a distanceâ€”the farther the betterâ€”because up close, it is truly ugly. I saw most of Congress as uncivil, incompetent at… — Robert M. Gates
The basic goal-reaching principle is to understand that you go as far as you can see, and when you get there you will always be… — Zig Ziglar
The conservative movement, to which I subscribe, has as one of its basic tenets the belief that government should stay out of peopleâ€™s private lives.… — Barry Goldwater
There's a basic principle about consumer electronics: it gets more powerful all the time and it gets cheaper all the time. — Trip Hawkins
As a kid, I sensed history going on all around me, but the basic thrust of it didn't move me. — James Ellroy
But what is more, if we have succeeded in adding to the basic understanding of our universe and ourselves, we will have made a contribution… — Haldan Keffer Hartline
The love of liberty and the sense of human dignity are the basic elements of the Anarchist creed. — Federica Montseny
There are three basic problems: how a mind can know the world of nature, how it is possible for one mind to know another, and… — Donald Davidson
The old beliefs, of course, and the rational approach, are everywhere reinforced, and so it does have a great weight. The magical approach has far… — Jane Roberts
In the freshness of the present moment, past is gone, future is not yet born, andâ€”if one remains in pure mindfulness and freedomâ€”disturbing thoughts arise… — Matthieu Ricard
We are all far less rational in our decision-making than standard economic theory assumes. Our irrational behaviors are neither random nor senseless: they are systematic… — Dan Ariely
My impression, is that prayer is one of the most basic forms of magic. That it's harnessing the powers of your mind — Boyd Rice
I think when I was two years old in the sandbox. I think I formulated my basic philosophy there, and I haven't really had to… — Boyd Rice
Brent Berlin and Paul Kay in Basic Color Terms demonstrate exhaustively and empirically, the very simple thesis that anywhere in the world, as a language… — Alexander Theroux
The earliest and most primitive known members of every order already have the basic ordinal characters, and in no case is an approximately continuous sequence… — George Gaylord Simpson
It was more fun trying to figure out I Want To Hold Your Hand than to take lessons. By this time I knew basic chords — Tommy Shaw
We just can't love without God. God wants for us want we want for ourselves. These basic things are not that hard to grasp. We… — Rich Mullins

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