Basis Quotes
1694 quotes by 1287 authors
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The basis of effective government is public confidence, and that confidence is endangered when ethical standards falter or appear to falter.
— John F. Kennedy
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The selection process has been powerful enough to produce one indisputable outcome: the family is a universal human institution. . . . In virtually every…
— James Q. Wilson
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I decide on the basis of conscience. A genuine leader doesn't reflect consensus, he molds consensus.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
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With function, flow, and form as basis, design is evaluated as a process culminating in an entity which intensifies comprehension.
— Unknown Author
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I was a stock broker once. I think there is an absolute place for market investments. But they should never be the basis of one's…
— Barbara Boxer
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You are the owner of all that you perceive. But you can't perceive apart from your vibration. Feel your way, little-by-little, into a greater sense…
— Esther Hicks
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Sales managers should track the number of first meetings with "right fit" prospects a sales person is engaged in on a monthly basis...This metric alone…
— Unknown Author
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It has been said that he who was the first to abuse his fellow-man instead of knocking out his brains without a word, laid thereby…
— John Hughlings Jackson
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To my three sons, Peter, Scott, and Alexander who pulled me from the 18th Century and back into the present on a regular basis and…
— Joseph J. Ellis
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Chocolate is the greatest gift to women ever created, next to the likes of Paul Newman and Gene Kelly. It's something that should be had…
— Sandra Bullock
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Our industry expertise (at KKR) enables the firm not only to make better investment choices but also to win the confidence of senior management and…
— Henry Kravis
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I speak of honor-your honor to God-your honor to country-your honor to self. I sincerely believe it to be the cure to most of our…
— Ezra Taft Benson
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If the universal is the essential, then it is the basis of all life and art. Recognizing and uniting with universal therefore gives us the…
— Piet Mondrian
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I actually use a computer a lot. I have three computers that I use on a regular basis - one is on my desk top…
— Rick Boucher
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Africa is one continent, one people, and one nation. The notion that in order to have a nation it is necessary for there to be…
— Kwame Nkrumah
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And I argued with that intelligence estimate and I think it is a responsibility of policymakers to use their best judgment on the basis of…
— Frank Carlucci
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The lack of insight to reality, life and history as well as into God's ways, or sunan in His creation, some people will continue to…
— Yusuf al-Qaradawi
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You simply have to eventually fall under suspicion from somebody even by a wrong call. And then they can use this system to go back…
— Edward Snowden
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We ought to approach this challenge [of global warming] with a sense of profound joy and gratitude: that we are the generation about which, a…
— Al Gore
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The war of ideas is a Greek invention. It is one of the most important inventions ever made. Indeed, the possibility of fighting with with…
— Karl Popper
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