Basis Quotes

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True friendship develops not as a result of money or power but on the basis of genuine human affection. — Dalai Lama
I can't speak for all women, but I do think that... I mean, me and my girlfriends, we definitely... we're in crisis on a continuous… — Helen Slater
Time is our most precious currency. So it's significant that we are being encouraged, wherever possible, to think of our attention not as expenditure but… — Mohsin Hamid
Certainly it does make the greatest possible difference what we think about God; the knowledge of God is the very basis of religion. — John Gresham Machen
Most of my stories have some basis in fact. — Ken Follett
There has to be a social commitment, a social consciousness that joins men together. On the basis of their coming together, they do not transgress… — H. Rap Brown
Happiness has this essential difference from what is commonly called pleasure, that virtue forms its basis, and virtue being the offspring of reason, may be… — Ann Radcliffe
The term 'charisma' will be applied to a certain quality of an individual personality by virtue of which he is considered extraordinary and treated as… — Max Weber
I think I was about 30 before I realized that not every family talks about the presentment clause on a regular basis. — Mike Lee
Selfishness so often is the basis of money problems, which are a very serious and real factor affecting the stability of family life. Selfishness is… — Gordon B. Hinckley
The question of the origin of life is essentially speculative. We have to construct, by straightforward thinking on the basis of very few factual observations,… — John Desmond Bernal
If you are forced to confront your fears on a daily basis, they disintegrate, like illusions when viewed up close. Maybe being always protected made… — Deborah Feldman
All of my cats are adopted and all show their gratitude on a daily basis. I don't know where I would be without them. — Bill Goldberg
It is wonderful how soon a piano gets into a log-hut on the frontier. You would think they found it under a pine-stump. With it… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
When we have found how the nucleus of atoms is built up we shall have found the greatest secret of all â€” except life. We… — Ernest Rutherford
The thing that reinforces my belief about that is having worked the last four years with the Safe Kids Campaign on a national basis. I… — C. Everett Koop
What is worrisome about that is the U.S. standard of living. I think it is very difficult to envision our standard of living being preserved… — Wilbur Ross
I'm shy, but not on a one-to-one basis. Over the years, I have become acclimatised to a bit of publicity. — Raf Simons
The little individualist, recognizing his individual impotence, realizing that he did not possess within himself even the basis of a moral judgement against his big… — Walter Weyl
It seems to me that the American popular song, growing out of American folk music, is the basis of the American musical theaterâ€¦ it is… — Kurt Weill

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