Basic Quotes

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Only a crisis - actual or perceived - produces real change. When that crisis occurs, the actions that are taken depend on the ideas that… — Milton Friedman
The basic difference between an ordinary man and a warrior is that a warrior takes everything as a challenge while an ordinary man takes everything… — Carlos Castaneda
The moment you become miserly you are closed to the basic phenomenon of life: expansion, sharing. The moment you start clinging to things, you have… — Rajneesh
Illness reduces man to his basic state: a cloaca in which the chemical processes continue. The meaningless hegemony of the involuntary. — Paul Bowles
When it comes to paying contractors, the sky is the limit; when it comes to financing the basic functions of the state, the coffers are… — Naomi Klein
Degrees of ability vary, but the basic principle remains the same: the degree of a man's independence, initiative and personal love for his work determines… — Ayn Rand
Storytelling awakens us to that which is real. Honest. . . . it transcends the individual. . . . Those things that are most personal… — Terry Tempest Williams
Experience shows that Being is the essential, basic nature of the mind; but, since It commonly remains in tune with the senses projecting outwards toward… — Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
One of the basic points is kindness. With kindness, with love and compassion, with his feeling that is the essence of brotherhood, sisterhood, one will… — Dalai Lama
Many Indians have told me that the most basic difference between Western and indigenous ways of being is that Westerners view the world as dead,… — Derrick Jensen
It makes utter sense to stay healthy and strong, to be as nourishing to the body as possible. Yet I would have to agree, there… — Clarissa Pinkola Estes
The seat received him in a loose and distant kind of way, like an aunt who disapproves of the last fifteen years of your life… — Douglas Adams
Anyone who thinks that the Communist regimes of Central Europe are exclusively the work of criminals is overlooking a basic truth: The criminal regimes were… — Milan Kundera
Man's mind is his basic tool of survival. Life is given to him, survival is not. His body is given to him, its sustenance is… — Ayn Rand
There's a scientific hypothesis that every person's name is a primary suggestive command that contains the entire script of their life in highly concentrated form.… — Victor Pelevin
The most basic and powerful way to connect to another person is to listen. Just listen. Perhaps the most important thing we ever give each… — Rachel Naomi Remen
â€¦Itâ€™s like a spiral: They keep making everything more basic so it will appeal to everyone. And gradually, everyone gets used to everything being basic,… — Matthew Tobin Anderson
Safety is the most basic task of all. Without sense of safety, no growth can take place. Without safety, all energy goes to defense — Torey L. Hayden
The practice of thrift is not outdated. We must discipline ourselves to live within our incomes even if it means going without or making do.… — Marvin J. Ashton
For half of the world's population, roughly three billion people around the world living on less than two dollars a day, an election is at… — Barack Obama

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