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This is the beginning of a social movement in fact and not in pronouncements. We seek our basic, God - given rights as human beings...We… — Cesar Chavez
An era can be said to end when its basic illusions are exhausted. — Arthur Miller
Education is useless without the Bible. The Bible was America's basic text book in all fields. God's Word, contained in the Bible, has furnished all… — Noah Webster
Without God there could be no American form of government, nor an American way of life. Recognition of the Supreme Being is the first, the… — Dwight D. Eisenhower
Creativity is our birthright. It is an integral part of being human, as basic as walking, talking and thinking. — John Daido Loori
No one's going to be able to operate without a grounding in the basic sciences. Language would be helpful, although English is becoming increasingly international.… — Rupert Murdoch
Thank you for your kind invitation. However, as a gay man, I must decline. I am deeply troubled by the current attitude toward and treatment… — Wentworth Miller
One might be led to question whether the scientists acted wisely in presenting the statesmen of the world with this appalling problem. Actually there was… — Enrico Fermi
Come back to square one, just the minimum bare bones. Relaxing with the present moment, relaxing with hopelessness, relaxing with death, not resisting the fact… — Pema Chodron
The basic root of happiness lies in our minds; outer circumstances are nothing more than adverse or favourable. — Matthieu Ricard
Ours is a society of denial that conditions us to protect ourselves from any direct difficulty and discomfort. We expend enormous energy denying our insecurity,… — Jack Kornfield
The family is the most basic unit of government. As the first community to which a person is attached and the first authority under which… — Charles Caleb Colton
No-one gets an iron-clad guarantee of success. Certainly, factors like opportunity, luck and timing are important. But the backbone of success is usually found in… — Mia Hamm
The foundations of population genetics were laid chiefly by mathematical deduction from basic premises contained in the works of Mendel and Morgan and their followers.… — Theodosius Dobzhansky
We receive experience from nature in a series of messages. From these messages we extract a content of information: that is, we decode the messages… — Jacob Bronowski
I love sport because I love life, and sport is one of the basic joys of life. — Yevgeny Yevtushenko
You have to be reminded of a basic fact: intelligence belongs to the watching consciousness; memory belongs to the mind. Memory is one thing -… — Rajneesh
These are the only two situations possible, and you are in the sad situation. Everybody may know about you - who you are - but… — Rajneesh
Most of the basic truths of life sound absurd at first hearing. — Elizabeth Goudge
Freedom is the basic thing. Consciousness grows in freedom and starts dying, becomes paralyzed and crippled, when things are forced. And up to now, this… — Rajneesh

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