Basis Quotes

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The movement of the emitters of the spectral lines may be deduced on the basis of the Doppler principle. — Johannes Stark
The only possible basis for a sound morality is mutual tolerance and respect: tolerance of one anotherâ€™s customs and opinions; respect for one anotherâ€™s rights… — A.J. Ayer
People have been saying the novel is dead for as far back as I can remember. The novel will never die, but it will keep… — Rosamond Lehmann
The ascendancy over men's minds of the ruins of the stupendous past, the past of history, legend and myth, at once factual and fantastic, stretching… — Rose Macaulay
Republican attacks are without basis, but when the Democrats attack me they're usually right. — Jerry Brown
What went wrong is we had tremendous concentration in the sense we put a lot of our money to work against U.S. real estate. We… — Vikram Pandit
The real truth of the matter is, as you and I know, that a financial element in the larger centers has owned the government ever… — Franklin D. Roosevelt
I was angry about the fact that my father would beat my mother on a daily basis, that my mother would like take it in… — Rick James
Inventive genius requires pleasurable mental activity as a condition for its vigorous exercise. "Necessity is the mother of invention" is a silly proverb. "Necessity is… — Alfred North Whitehead
Faith is the "eternal elixir" which gives life, power and action to the impulse of thought! Faith is the starting point of all accumulation of… — Napoleon Hill
Memory itself is an internal rumour; and when to this hearsay within the mind we add the falsified echoes that reach us from others, we… — George Santayana
'Believing' cannot tip the scales in making a historical judgement about whether something really happened. I can choose to believe that George Washington threw a… — Marcus Borg
The basis for poetry and scientific discovery is the ability to comprehend the unlike in the like and the like in the unlike. — Jacob Bronowski
The only useful function of a statistician is to make predictions, and thus to provide a basis for action. — W. Edwards Deming
A theory is a good theory if it satisfies two requirements: it must accurately describe a large class of observations on the basis of a… — Stephen Hawking
The psychological basis of the metropolitan type of individuality consists in the intensification of nervous stimulation which results from the swift and uninterrupted change of… — Georg Simmel
Skill in concentrating and steadying the mind is the basis for all types of meditation. — Jack Kornfield
The basis of artistic creation is not what is, but what might be; not the real, but the possible. Artists create according to the same… — Rudolf Steiner
If you create an environment where the people truly participate, you don't need control. They know what needs to be done and they do it.… — Herb Kelleher
I do not share the general view that market forces are the basis for political liberty. Every time I see a homeless person living in… — Tony Benn

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