Basic Quotes
2162 quotes by 1594 authors
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The myths underlying our culture and underlying our common sense have not taught us to feel identical with the universe, but only parts of it,…
— Alan Watts
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Do not doubt your own basic goodness. In spite of all confusion and fear, you are born with a heart that knows what is just,…
— Jack Kornfield
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The key to a successful career is realizing that it's not separate from the rest of your life, but is rather an extension of your…
— Marianne Williamson
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Peace in the world depends on peace in the hearts of individuals; this depends on each of us practising ethics by disciplining our negative thoughts…
— Dalai Lama
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For over two billion years, through the apparent fancy of her endless differentiations and metamorphosis the Cell, as regards its basic physiological mechanisms, has remained…
— Albert Claude
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The basic ingredients of psychotherapy are religion, rhetoric, and repression, which are themselves mutually overlapping categories.
— Thomas Szasz
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Programming in Basic causes brain damage.
— Edsger Dijkstra
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A rational man knows-or makes it a point to discover-the source of his emotions, the basic premises from which they come.
— Ayn Rand
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BASIC is to computer programming as QWERTY is to typing.
— Seymour Papert
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We are here to learn lessons and our birth chart tells us what our lessons are, what type of energy we possess in the first…
— Stephen Arroyo
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Your soul has a single basic function-the act of valuing.
— Ayn Rand
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And may the best of you - for it will only be the best of you, and even then only in the rarest and briefest…
— John Malkovich
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The basic Buddhist stand on the question of equality between the genders is age-old. At the highest tantric levels, at the highest esoteric level, you…
— Dalai Lama
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The seventh factor of the basic ingredients of genius, as determined from an extensive analysis of the lives of outstanding men of this nation, is…
— Napoleon Hill
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The program is a voyage chart, a series of signals, which, like the pilot's radio, provides the basic orienting information required for the trip...
— Timothy Leary
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Here's a basic difference between Morelli and me. My first thought was always of cake. His first thought was always of sex. Don't get me…
— Janet Evanovich
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Man's mind is his basic tool of survival.
— Ayn Rand
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I think a basic level of fitness can help the body cope with all manner of incidents.
— Richard Hammond
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At its most basic we are discussing a learned skill (writing), but do we not agree that sometimes the most basic skills can create things…
— Stephen King
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Despite my vast interest in other universes and new ideas and space, travel and time travel, which by the way I think is impossible, the…
— Philip Jose Farmer
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