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Child labour is an issue of grave importance. It must become a top priority for all governments of the world. How can the world move… — Craig Kielburger
One of the basic tenets of radical feminism is that any woman in the world has more in common with any other woman regardless of… — Sonia Johnson
The continued existence of wildlife and wilderness is important to the quality of life of humans. Our challenge for the future is that we realize… — Jim Fowler
Hinduism's basic tenet is that many roads exist by which men have pursued and still pursue their quest for the truth and that none has… — Kenneth Scott Latourette
A buoyant, positive approach to the game is as basic as a sound swing. — Tony Lema
How could so many intelligent people be so grievously wrong for such an extended period of time? How could they ignore so much overwhelming evidence… — Steven Johnson
Many abused children cling to the hope that growing up will bring escape and freedom. But the personality formed in an environment of coercive control… — Judith Lewis Herman
We are all mediums for our own basic truths. All we really have in life is the primal force that moves us through our days--our… — A.S.A. Harrison
Democratic societies can no longer give religious fanatics a free hand to abuse and murder non believers. Such action betrays contempt for the basic human… — Armstrong Williams
The basic idea of Zen is to come in touch with the inner workings of our being, and to do this in the most direct… — Daisetz Teitaro Suzuki
More consequences for thought and action follow the affirmation or denial of God than from answering any other basic question. — Mortimer Adler
If the state, with all of the emotional resources at its command, cannot finance its most basic and vital activities without resort to compulsion, it… — Mancur Olson
I learned about HeLa cells in my first basic biology class, and I just became completely obsessed with them from that point on. — Rebecca Skloot
If we're going to solve the problems in North Korea, the first thing we're going to have to do is start helping them get basic… — Zach Braff
Mankind is divided into two basic sorts: those who find the unknown future threatening ... and those who find it thrilling. The rupture between those… — Spider Robinson
But in reality nothing is more damaging to the adventurous spirit within a man than a secure future. The very basic core of a man's… — Christopher McCandless
I think even the poorest people in the great country that is the United States should be entitled to basic health care, — Michael D. Higgins
So I decided that if the architecture is fundamentally sane enough, say it follows some basic rules like it supported paging , then I would… — Linus Torvalds
Childhood is not merely basic training for utilitarian adulthood. It should have some claims upon our mercy, not for its future value to the economic… — Jonathan Kozol
Because his basic idea that he got from the study of gall wasps is that everyone's sexuality is unique. — Bill Condon

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