Basic Quotes
2162 quotes by 1594 authors
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Feeling angry is a universal human phenomenon. It is as basic as feeling hungry, lonely, loving, or tired. The capacity to feel angry and to…
— Theodore Isaac Rubin
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A truly moral health care system should start out by covering all of its citizens with basic health care. It would not be seduced by…
— Richard Lamm
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We need to start training more primary health providers and fewer specialists. We will never be able to control health care costs unless we challenge…
— Richard Lamm
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All schools should teach children basic cooking skills. Every school should be able to buy sustainable, good quality food wherever possible from local sources. Every…
— Zac Goldsmith
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My father was a die maker for 39 years, so I had a basic understanding of the automobile industry and what the manufacturing world was…
— Mary Barra
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All religions try to benefit people, with the same basic message of the need for love and compassion, for justice and honesty, for contentment.
— Dalai Lama
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I feel deeply my responsibility to teach sacred things. I am so aware that the world is changing and will be vastly different from the…
— James E. Faust
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Modern conveniences grant us more free time to focus on spiritual needs and devote more time to personal service. But the basic element which should…
— James E. Faust
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The louder I sang, the more it brought out the basic quality of the voice.
— Stephen Costello
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There were a number of books about Bill Wilson, and by him, but a lot of the basic biographical tasks had not been done.
— Susan Cheever
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Most of all, I am struck by an irony central to the lot of a purebred dog: As it attains the hallmarks of its breed,…
— Jean Hanff Korelitz
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The most important thing for people to understand is that the basic rule that people have a right to send information over the Internet -…
— Julius Genachowski
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To have a basic ingredient that can be prepared a million different ways is a beautiful thing.
— Alice Waters
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At least in part, people are attracted to subjects where they can identify at a basic level with the people who do it. The extraordinary…
— Margaret Geller
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As in all of biology, comparative studies showing differences among species are often helpful for a better understanding of the basic mechanisms; with all its…
— John Tyler Bonner
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The urge to dominion is God-given and is basic to the nature of man. An aspect of this dominion is property.
— Rousas John Rushdoony
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Elected representatives are so embedded in the basic notion of what constitutes a democratic nation that it has become indistinguishable from any other form of…
— Eduardo Paes
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Faced with the collapse of Iraq into something like Lebanon - or worse, Somalia - the Bush administration opted for a new counterinsurgency strategy. Violence…
— Noah Feldman
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I know basic things about belly dancing, but not the technicalities; I want to learn it. I want to learn belly dancing.
— Malaika Arora Khan
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Fair and affordable housing is a basic right for all New Yorkers and all Americans.
— Nydia Velazquez
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