Basic Quotes
2162 quotes by 1594 authors
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No one’s forcing you to do this. You willingly tie yourself to these leashes. And you willingly become utterly socially autistic. You no longer pick…
— Dave Eggers
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Jobs for every American is doomed to failure because of modern automation and production. We ought to recognize it and create an income-maintenance system so…
— Jerry Brown
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I like to dress pretty basic during the day, but with a sophisticated bohemian spin, and sometimes a little rock chic. At night I like…
— Alessandra Ambrosio
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That until the philosophy which holds one race superior and another inferior is finally and permanently discredited and abandoned: That until there are no longer…
— Haile Selassie
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Somebody told me ... that he overheard a banker's wife saying her husband was working for free this year-this was 2009. What she meant was,…
— John Lanchester
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At the heart of every frustration lies a basic structure: the collision of a wish with an unyielding reality.
— Alain de Botton
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Personnel and their capacity for work on their exact jobs is the basic key to income and success.
— L. Ron Hubbard
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If a person finds the negative people in his network, then he needs to mind or mend his own nature than others for his basic…
— Anuj
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A basic language-literacy of Nature is falling from us. And what is being lost along with this literacy is something perhaps even more valuable: a…
— Robert Macfarlane
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The basic success of the conga came from ...that basic principle of African music and dance: everybody participates. The conga eradicated the distinction between performer…
— Ned Sublette
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A strip club is one of the few places where two groups voluntarily come together who have such precipitous contrasts in net worth and familiarity…
— Tim Dorsey
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There are three basic approaches to AI: Case-based, rule-based, and connectionist reasoning.
— Marvin Minsky
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I fear we might be losing the basic human facility to be alone - and with that you throw out independent decision-making, what to trust,…
— Dylan Moran
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Putting forward your positive energy connects you back to basic human values which we all share. Good Deeds Day shows that no matter the size…
— Shari Arison
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With many countries on the verge of redefining a basic social institution, What Is Marriage? issues an urgent call for full deliberation of what is at stake.…
— Mary Ann Glendon
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It's basic research: shoot an arrow in the air. Where it lands, paint a bullseye.
— Elizabeth Streb
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The basic purpose of prayer is not to bend God's will to mine, but to mold my will into His.
— Timothy Keller
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This very individualistic form of Protestant Christianity that became so basic in English and then American life is to a large degree responsible for the…
— Walter Russell Mead
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Meditation requires courage. It requires the basic integrity, sincerity, respect towards your own being. At least don't deceive yourself.
— Rajneesh
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The basic trouble with the church today is her unworthy concept of God... Our religion is weak because our God is weak... Christianity at any…
— Aiden Wilson Tozer
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