Basis Quotes

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Faced with a world of "modern ideas" which would like to banish everyone into a corner and a "specialty," a philosopher, if there could be… — Friedrich Nietzsche
To no circumstance is the wide diffusion of error in the world more owing than to our habit of adopting conclusions from insufficiently established data.… — Christian Nestell Bovee
The questions most furiously discussed are those which have in them a basis of truth, and yet a large admixture of errors. We inconsiderately take… — Christian Nestell Bovee
The passions refuse to be organized on a basis of their own; hostile to personal freedom and one another, they rush precipitately into anarchy and… — Amos Bronson Alcott
The process has now run full circle: Preaching originates in personal counseling; preaching is personal counseling on a group basis; personal counseling originates in preaching.… — Harry Emerson Fosdick
Where nature makes natural allies of us all, we can demonstrate that beneficial relations are possible even with those with whom we most deeply disagree-and… — John F. Kennedy
I still feel needles in my back when I think about all the horrible disasters that would have befallen me if I had permanently moved… — Hunter S. Thompson
The basis of insincerity is the idealized image we hold of ourselves and wish to impose on others. — Anais Nin
Good leadership is hard to measure on a daily basis which is why so many default to doing what's easy to measure instead. — Simon Sinek
It is when we ask for love less and begin giving it more that the basis of human love is revealed to us. — Leo Buscaglia
Coal is our most abundant fossil fuel. (GE's) development efforts are to just end up making the plants more competitive on an economic basis by… — Bill Vaughan
The theme of Cosmology, which is the basis of all religions, is the story of the dynamic effort of the World passing into everlasting unity,… — Alfred North Whitehead
The drug culture has shaped at least one major change since the Sixties; It became the basis for overloading our prisons. — Jimmy Carter
I have nothing against a community that is made up of people who are Polish, or who are Czechoslovakians, or who are French Canadians or… — Jimmy Carter
The blooming of a flower is, in my mind, not a miracle. It's something that we can understand on the basis of molecular biology these… — Francis Collins
The whole basis of the music is that people have these emotional attachments to these songs - whether they love it or hate it. Being… — Girl Talk
I will always love psychology, and the basis of psychology is family. — Jodie Foster
Let us not say that we will decide on a political basis at the national level that no State is competent to regulate the practice… — Barney Frank
I guess darkness serves a purpose: to show us that there is redemption through chaos. I believe in that. I think that's the basis of… — Brendan Fraser
And what does reward virtue? You think the communist commissar rewards virtue? You think a Hitler rewards virtue? You think, excuse me, if you'll pardon… — Milton Friedman

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