Basis Quotes
1694 quotes by 1332 authors
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The only way to learn to write is to force yourself to produce a certain number of words on a regular basis.
— William Zinsser
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I stand ready to negotiate, but I want no part of laws: I acknowledge none; I protest against every order with which some authority may…
— Pierre-Joseph Proudhon
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A law is something which must have a moral basis, so that there is an inner compelling force for every citizen to obey.
— Chaim Weizmann
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The temple is the house of the Lord. The basis for every temple ordinance and covenant…is the Atonement of Jesus Christ. Every activity, every lesson,…
— Russell M. Nelson
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Let us be mindful of the foundational precepts our Heavenly Father has given to His children that will establish the basis of a rich and…
— Dieter F. Uchtdorf
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The only definition by which Americas best days are behind it is on a purely relative basis.
— Bill Gates
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So another challenge for our generation is to create global institutions that reflect our ideas of fairness and responsibility, not the ideas that were the…
— Gordon Brown
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On the basis of the eternal will of God we have to think of EVERY HUMAN BEING, even the oddest, most villainous or miserable, as…
— Karl Barth
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I have always felt the basis of everything in life is sexual, and I will maintain that to my dying day
— Frank Langella
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This is the way I look at sex scenes: I have basically been doing them for a living for years. Trying to seduce an audience…
— Jon Bon Jovi
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The things we truly love, the things forming the basis and roots of our being, are generally things we never look at. A huge piece…
— Jean Dubuffet
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I know a girl who just looks at her face in the medicine cabinet mirror and never looks below her shoulders, and she's four or…
— Andy Warhol
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The basis for the ethics of the Sermon on the Mount is not what works but rather the way God is. Cheek-turning is not advocated…
— Stanley Hauerwas
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There is, however, a moral basis for the vegetarian diet for which the indeterminate value of an animal's life takes on irrelevance. And that moral…
— Howard Lyman
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Without the basis in written law, and without the basis in our Constitution ratified by the people, judges can't make laws. And if we accept…
— Alan Keyes
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Another novelty is the tea-party, an extraordinary meal in that, being offered to persons that have already dined well, it supposes neither appetite nor thirst,…
— Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin
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Winning peace means the triumph of our pledge to establish, on a democratic basis, a new social framework of tolerance and generosity from which no…
— Federico Mayor Zaragoza
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Music for a long time has been telling what the world is like. What music has to say now, in a manner that has both…
— Eli Siegel
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The evolutionary explanation for origins, although impossible either to prove or to test scientifically, is nevertheless defended by its proponents on the basis that it…
— Henry M. Morris
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Work at the same time on sky, water, branches, ground, keeping everything going on an equal basis... Don't be afraid of putting on colour... Paint…
— Camille Pissarro
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