Basis Quotes

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Love and kindness are the basis of my religious beliefs. The rituals and outward signs are not as important as one's actions and deeds. Religion… — Bernie Siegel
Many priests and employees at temples work for pay. No one should judge religion on the basis of the shortcomings of such workers. We should… — Mata Amritanandamayi
Now clearly this advantage is when the data on tape has been found and just needs to be transferred back. You need to add a… — George Arthur Crump
Books are the basis; purity is the force; preaching is the essence; utility is the principle. — A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
Some psychological and sociological conditioning occurs in every man's life and this affects the decisions he makes. But we must resist the modern concept that… — Francis Schaeffer
Religions which have any very strong hold over men's actions have generally some instinctive basis. — Bertrand Russell
Faith in order, which is the basis of science, cannot reasonably be separated from faith in an Ordainer, which is the basis of religion. — Asa Gray
Every nation makes decisions based on self-interest and defends them on the basis of morality. — William Sloane Coffin
It is essential to link enterprises on the basis of objective laws of a socialist economy and legal system. — Samora Machel
I'm my own doctor. I have a group of people who call me up on a weekly basis. I'm a 'doctor' without a license. — George Hamilton
We all want a United Africa, United not only in our concept of what unity connotes, but united in our common desire to move forward… — Kwame Nkrumah
The British are supposed to be particularly averse to intellectuals, a prejudice closely bound up with their dislike of foreigners. Indeed, one important source of… — Terry Eagleton
The basis of everything that I plugged into when I was younger was blues, and it always stayed with me. — Eric Burdon
It's a place where I could do something on a weekly basis and see if I like it. — Macaulay Culkin
The first line is the DNA of the poem; the rest of the poem is constructed out of that first line. A lot of it… — Billy Collins
Traditional arguments for the existence of God and contemporary attempts to use fine-tuning and cosmology to back up the case for his existence always strike… — Julian Baggini
A third ideal that has made its way in the modern world is reliance on reason, especially reason disciplined and enriched by modern science. An… — Emily Greene Balch
As to judging our own time, and thereby gaining some basis for a judgment of future possibilities, we are doubtless not only too close to… — Emily Greene Balch
Since the reduction of risk factors is the scientific basis for primary prevention, the World Health Organization promotes the development of an integrated strategy for… — Gro Harlem Brundtland
I think we Americans, of all people, understand the importance of a good, legal, constitutional framework as the basis of political life. — Paul Bremer

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