Basis Quotes

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The Liberals have been pressing for the brief on the basis of which he said there was authority for war. — Clare Short
Genuine human friendship is on the basis of human affection, irrespective of your position. Therefore, the more you show concern about the welfare and rights… — Dalai Lama
As an economics undergraduate, I also worked on a part-time basis in Cambridge, Massachusetts, for a company that was advising customers about portfolio decisions, writing… — Merton Miller
Man demands truth and fulfills this demand in moral intercourse with other men; this is the basis of all social life. One anticipates the unpleasant… — Friedrich Nietzsche
The mark of an educated man is the ability to make a reasoned guess on the basis of insufficient information. — Abbott Lawrence Lowell
So there was not an "I" anymore-not a basis on which I could organize my self-respect-save my limitless capacity for toil that it seemed I… — F. Scott Fitzgerald
The central drama of our age is how the Western nations and the Asian peoples are to find a tolerable basis of co-existence. — Walter Lippmann
Children have a natural antipathy to books- handicraft should be the basis of education. Boys and girls should be taught to use their hands to… — Oscar Wilde
Like other discriminatory legislation in our country's history, immigration laws define and differentiate legal status on the basis of arbitrary attributes. Immigration laws create unequal… — Aviva Chomsky
It is disgraceful that people are being barred from neighborhoods and clubs on a basis that would have barred Jesus Himself. — James Pike
The firm basis of government is justice, not pity. — Woodrow Wilson
In love and friendship, small, steady payments on a gold basis are better than immense promissory notes. — Henry Van Dyke
What you have to do is enter the fiction of America, enter America as fiction. It is, indeed, on this fictive basis that it dominates… — Jean Baudrillard
Many agricultural counties are far more important in the life of the State than their population bears to the entire population of the State. It… — Earl Warren
God will judge people on the basis of what they did in light of what they knew. — Pat Robertson
The idea of withholding a massive secret is obviously quite exciting to some people. It is also the basis of much classic drama, of course,… — Lynne Truss
Businesses who are members of Businesses for Social Responsibility or the Social Venture Network are internalizing costs on a voluntary basis and therefore raising their… — Paul Hawken
On the basis of the familiar experience that that which is learned with difficulty is better retained, it would have been safe to prophesy such… — Hermann Ebbinghaus
The musical emotion springs precisely from the fact that at each moment the composer withholds or adds more or less than the listener anticipates on… — Claude Levi-Strauss
There is no agreement on the extent to which metabolism could develop independently of a genetic material. In my opinion, there is no basis in… — Leslie Orgel

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