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We are altering the most basic forces of the planet's surface - the content of the sunlight, the temperature and aridity - and that brings… — Bill McKibben
Life isn't complicated. The reason it appears complicated to you is because you are in a very distorted state of mind. That's the basic premise… — Frederick Lenz
I like to use really basic or classic colors, things that people have seen over and over and over again. Primary colors, at least in… — Alex Prager
Progress consists only in the greater clarification of answers to the basic questions of life. — Leo Tolstoy
The fear that the universe is not what you assume it to be is very basic, especially when you know damn well it isn't what… — John C. Lilly
You don't have to be Michelangelo to teach basic art, just as you don't have to be Shakespeare to be able to teach the correct… — Charles de Lint
Any creed whose basic doctrines do not include respect for the creeds of others, is simply power politics masquerading as philosophy. — Sydney J. Harris
The revolutions of thought which shape the basic outlook of an age are not disseminated through text-books- they spread like epidemics, through contamination by invisible… — Arthur Koestler
In the end, science as we know it has two basic types of practitioners. One is the educated man who still has a controlled sense… — Loren Eiseley
Very beautiful situations have developed using chaos as part of the enlightened approach. There is chaos of all kinds developing all the time... If you… — Chogyam Trungpa
The most basic inherent constraint is that neither time nor wisdom are free goods available in unlimited quantity. This means that in social processes, as… — Thomas Sowell
Knowledge can be enormously costly, and is often scattered in widely uneven fragments, too small to be individually usable in decision making. The communication and… — Thomas Sowell
The courage to work with ourselves comes as basic trust in ourselves, as a sort of fundamental optimism. — Chogyam Trungpa
While you're meditating, all kinds of thoughts arise... You don't find your thoughts threatening or particularly helpful. They just become the general gossip of your… — Chogyam Trungpa
Great physicians and nurses, skilled, caring and unparalleled in their training, intervened in my life and probably saved it. I was lucky but other Americans… — John F. Kerry
All religions teach one basic discipline - the removal from the mind of the blemish of egoism, of running after little joys. — Sathya Sai Baba
I started with straight, basic, symbolic structures. My problem now is the opposite; as I get older, I try to make my paintings more contrapuntal,… — Robert Motherwell
Surrealism is not a school of poetry but a movement of liberation... A way of rediscovering the language of innocence, a renewal of the primordial… — Octavio Paz
Art lost its basic creative drive the moment it was separated from worship. It severed an umbilical cord and now lives its own sterile life,… — Ingmar Bergman
I suspect that the most basic and powerful way to connect to another person is to listen. Just listen. Perhaps the most important thing we… — Rachel Naomi Remen

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