Basic Quotes
2162 quotes by 1594 authors
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This is a basic requirement the meaning of globalization is that we should admit that the economy of each country is dependent on the economy…
— Richard Grasso
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Stage acting is for me the basic form of acting. If you make films all the time, you have so few possibilities to rehearse. And…
— Erland Josephson
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Students who are interested in learning about the environment should not be dissuaded from doing so, but only if they have proved their proficiency in…
— George Nethercutt
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At issue is not only knowledge of the world but our survival as individuals and as a species. All the basic technologies ever invented by…
— Barbara Ehrenreich
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Collective freedom provides the basic conditions for people to narrate their own lives, hold power accountable, and embrace a capacious notion of human dignity.
— Henry Giroux
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The basic proposal of the new education is to be that dunces and idlers must not be made to feel inferior to intelligent and industrious…
— C.S. Lewis
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We oppose and abhor the damnable practice of wholesale abortion and every other unholy and impure act which strikes at the very foundation of the…
— Ezra Taft Benson
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There are some who apparently feel that the fight for freedom is separate from the Gospel. They express it in several ways, but it generally…
— Ezra Taft Benson
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Putting aside all the fancy words and academic doubletalk, the basic reason for having a military is to do two jobs -to kill people and…
— Thomas S. Power
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Listening is so basic that we take it for granted. Unfortunately, most of us think of ourselves as better listeners than we really are.
— Michael Nichols
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Prescription for Life-long Happiness: Purpose enough for satisfaction; Work enough for sustenance; Sanity enough to know when to play and rest; Wealth enough for basic…
— Ernie J Zelinski
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In terms of their basic biochemical design....no living system can be thought of as being primitive or ancestral with respect to any other system, nor…
— Michael Denton
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People begin running for any number of motives, but we stick to it for one basic reason-to find out who we really are.
— George A. Sheehan
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Adolescents need to be reassured that nothing-neither their growing maturity, their moods, their misbehavior, nor your anger at something they have done-can shake your basic…
— Laurence Steinberg
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Basic research is not the same as development. A crash programme for the latter may be successful; but for the former it is like trying…
— Richard Doll
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I think the most basic difference between Liberalism and Conservatism today, at its core, is that Conservatives just seem to want a better world for…
— Derek R. Audette
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It is important to recognize that behind the razzmatazz of consumerism, we all remain dependent on basic natural resources - land, air, water and biodiversity…
— Klaus Topfer
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The Bible makes clear a basic truth that we self-centered humans find difficult to accept, namely, that the natural universe was not created primarily for…
— Tony Campolo
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The earth is at the same time mother, She is mother of all that is natural, mother of all that is human. She is mother…
— Hildegard of Bingen
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The more deeply I search for the roots of the global environmental crisis, the more I am convinced that it is an outer manifestation of…
— Al Gore
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