Basis Quotes

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This is the standard procedure for corporate growth these days; one company buys up another on loans that are floated on the basis of future… — Eric Kierans
Discomfort of any kind becomes the basis for practice. We breathe in knowing our pain is shared. — Pema Chodron
Marriage is like a three-speed gearbox - affection, friendship, love. It is not advisable to crash your gears and go right through to love straightaway.… — Peter Ustinov
There is a common belief that under modern conditions peace cannot be assured except on the basis of an equal balance of armaments...[but] true and… — Pope John XXIII
The simple sense of wonder at the shapes of things, and at their exuberant independence of our intellectual standards and our trivial definitions, is the… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
With a basic understanding of all humans as brothers and sisters, we can appreciate the usefulness of different systems and ideologies that can accommodate different… — Dalai Lama
I need a dose of the natural environment on a regular basis. It balances the bitumen and high rises of Collins Street. — Simon McKeon
Today the universal common good poses problems of world-wide dimensions, which cannot be adequately tackled or solved except by the efforts of public authorities endowed… — Pope John XXIII
Both education and religion need to ground themselves within the story of the universe as we now understand this story through empirical knowledge. Within this… — Thomas Berry
Faith gives the courage to live and do. Scientists, with their disciplined thinking, like others, need a basis for the good life, for aspiration, for… — Arthur Compton
We're responsible for the fortunes of the company but this is a bone-dry situation in terms of access to credit. Nobody can operate on that… — Ratan Tata
[T]he Christian religion, in its purity, is the basis, or rather the source of all genuine freedom in government. . . . and I am… — Noah Webster
Consciousness is the basis of all life and the field of all possibilities. Its nature is to expand and unfold its full potential. The impulse… — Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
The ecclesiastical establishments of Europe, which serve to support tyrannical governments, are not the Christian religion, but abuses and corruptions of it. The religion of… — Noah Webster
The ultimate purpose of collecting the data is to provide a basis for action or a recommendation. — W. Edwards Deming
Happy, thrice happy shall they be pronounced hereafter, who have contributed any thing, who have performed the meanest office in erecting this stupendous fabrick of… — George Washington
The fabric of American empire ought to rest on the solid basis of THE CONSENT OF THE PEOPLE. The streams of national power ought to… — Alexander Hamilton
No matter what happened to you in your past, you are not your past, you are the resources and the capabilities you glean from it.… — Jordan Belfort
Language is a city, to the building of which every human being brought a stone; yet he is no more to be credited with the… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Whatever you hold in your mind on a consistent basis is exactly what you will experience in your life. — Tony Robbins

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