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People unfit for freedom - who cannot do much with it - are hungry for power. The desire for freedom is an attribute of a… — Eric Hoffer
Sometimes the public says, 'What's in it for Numero Uno? Am I going to get better television reception? Am I going to get better Internet… — Michio Kaku
We're past the age of heroes and hero kings. ... Most of our lives are basically mundane and dull, and it's up to the writer… — John Updike
I have said I have met Satan, and this is true. But it is not tangible. It no more has horns, hooves and a forked… — M. Scott Peck
Meditation is basically the process of witnessing: looking from your centre all that is happening. Many things are happening on the outside - the noise… — Rajneesh
There are may of us who cannot but feel dismal about the future of various cultures. Often it is hard not to agree that we… — M.F.K. Fisher
Basically we get confused a bit about what retail is. It is really just buying things, putting them on a floor and selling them. — Gerry Harvey
Our strategy is very horizontal. We're trying to build a social layer for everything. Basically we're trying to make it so that every app everywhere… — Mark Zuckerberg
I work, and then whenever I have any other time, I'm with my daughter, and then I go to sleep. I think you basically have… — Tina Fey
Buddha says: Life should be simple, not complex. Life should be based on needs, not on desires. Needs are perfectly okay: you need food, you… — Rajneesh
Basically we are all the same human beings with the same potential to be a good human being or a bad human being. The important… — Dalai Lama
The realization that we are all basically the same human beings who seek happiness and try to avoid suffering is very helpful in developing a… — Dalai Lama
Poetry has an indirect way of hinting at things. Poetry is feminine. Prose is masculine. Prose, the very structure of it, is logical; poetry is… — Rajneesh
The man and the woman are not really two separate entities, but the personality of the man needs the supporting qualities of the woman. If… — Rajneesh
Basically there are two types of animals: animals, and animals that have no brains; they are called plants. They don't need a nervous system because… — Rodolfo Llinas
I've done a lot of basketball drills, not a whole lot of competitive stuff. I have basically been in the gym everyday working on my… — Grant Hill
I'm painting an idea not an ideal. Basically I'm trying to paint a structured painting full of controlled, and therefore potent, emotion. — Euan Uglow
As security or firewall administrators, we've got basically the same concerns [as plumbers]: the size of the pipe, the contents of the pipe, making sure… — Marcus J. Ranum
The theory of probabilities is basically only common sense reduced to a calculus. It makes one estimate accurately what right-minded people feel by a sort… — Pierre-Simon Laplace
We are basically in the nicotine business. . . . Effective control of nicotine in our products should equate to a significant product performance and… — R. J. Reynolds

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