Basic Quotes

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Just as the formation of the family is basic to the formation of the state, so the states themselves are the only units that can… — Leon Bourgeois
Our investments in social justice and basic needs are as vital to our future as fiscal and macroeconomic reforms. A nation deeply divided will not… — Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo
What we have is a pay structure that, on basic wages, is higher than market rate, as a general statement. When you look at other… — Steven Burd
Venture capitalists buy minority positions in young companies they think will grow quickly; buy-out investors buy most or all of companies they think can be… — Jose Ferreira
Patent monopoly creates a lot of problems. It allows the patentee to charge the maximum to consumers. This may not be a problem if the… — Ha-Joon Chang
Before I lost my voice, it was slurred, so only those close to me could understand, but with the computer voice, I found I could… — Stephen Hawking
I missed the basic curiosity of being in the lab. — Eric Betzig
It is an incontrovertible fact that if we want to make progress in basic areas of medicine and biology, we are going to have to… — John O'Keefe
I love Lauryn Hill, Tracy Chapman, Fiona Apple. People like that. People you can really connect to on the most basic human level. — Banks
There is only one basic human right, the right to do as you damn well please. And with it comes the only basic human duty,… — P.J. O'Rourke
The basic rule of free enterprise: You must give in order to get. — Scott Alexander
It is a strange fact that freedom and equality, the two basic ideas of democracy, are to some extent contradictory. Logically considered, freedom and equality… — Thomas Mann
The basic discovery about any people is the discovery of the relationship between men and women. — Pearl S. Buck
What does it mean to be an American? While each of us may have our own specific answer to that question, we likely can agree… — Ben Nelson
For many years, I have lived uncomfortably with the belief that most planning and architectural design suffers for lack of real and basic purpose. The… — James Rouse
The thinking was that so long as the British kept our basic documents in their hands and so long as they kept the formal right… — Stockwell Day
Mathematics as an expression of the human mind reflects the active will, the contemplative reason, and the desire for aesthetic perfection. Its basic elements are… — Richard Courant
If our titles recall the known myths of antiquity, we have used them again because they are the eternal symbols upon which we must fall… — Mark Rothko
The worlds I paint leave a lot to engage the imagination by hinting at what lies beyond the four edges of the painting. I think… — Thomas Kinkade
Many Nobel Prizes are awaiting good research to understand and explain the many mysteries of our bodies, such as the basic mechanism of memory or… — John Cameron

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