Basic Quotes

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The body maintains balance in only a handful of ways. At the end of the day, disease occurs when these basic systems are out of… — Mark Hyman, M.D.
At MIT, I had the good fortune for seven years to teach network theory, which is basic to many disciplines, to one-third of the undergraduate… — Amar Bose
Bipartisan democracy presupposes the individual, whose welfare is identical with that of the community in which he lives, the absence of coherent social classes, a… — Learned Hand
I do not believe we can repair the basic fabric of society until people who are willing to work have work. Work organizes life. It… — William J. Clinton
The only product that's worth investing in is a fully functional musculoskeletal system. It's no luxury but rather a basic necessity that's within everyone's reach. — Pete Egoscue
The chief contribution of such a radically new and more powerful instrument would be, not to supplement our present ideas of the universe we live… — Lyman Spitzer
The two basic stories of all times are Cinderella and Jack the Giant Killer-the charm of women and the courage of men. — F. Scott Fitzgerald
A religion which has lost its basic conviction about the interconnection of men with men in their common struggles for the human, will never command… — Max Lerner
Snobbery is not merely a silly human weakness but something basic in the mentality of modern man-a symptom which reflects the general sickness, the dislocation… — Arthur Koestler
...America didn't have to fight scarcity and we all felt guilty before people who still had to struggle for bread and freedom in the old… — Saul Bellow
I'm trying to encourage my children's generation and the other ones coming to return to basic American principles. — Stewart Udall
A basic rule of life for reporters is that you should spend your time talking with and learning about people who are not sending you… — James Fallows
When a company is charging money for a product - as Evernote does for all above its most basic service, and same for Dropbox and… — James Fallows
To accept on faith is the basic requirement for getting on with life. — Robert Breault
Hand washing is the first basic step towards achieving any millennium goals for development. It saves lives. — Kajol
A basic ingredient in the manufacture of perfume, the attar-a heavy, pale-yellow oil stored in small metal drums-had been put up as collateral by Bulgaria,… — S. J. Perelman
Nature is pretty good at networks, self-organizing systems. By contrast, social systems are top-down and hierarchical, from which we draw the basic assumption that organization… — Nicholas Negroponte
When it comes to educating all of us about the most basic things in life, it seems to me we need more kindergartens and fewer… — Andy Rooney
The basic guarantees of our Constitution are warrants for the here and now, and unless there is an overwhelmingly compelling reason, they are to be… — Arthur Goldberg
Reagan's approach will achieve one of the basic goals of the conservative: Things remain basically the same. The rich stay rich and the poor stay… — Mike Royko

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