Basis Quotes

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The basis of action is lack of imagination. It is the last resource of those who know not how to dream. — Oscar Wilde
The pleasure of living and the pleasure of the orgasm are identical. Extreme orgasm anxiety forms the basis of the general fear of life. — Wilhelm Reich
All of us have failed to match our dream of perfection. I rate us on the basis of our splendid failure to do the impossible.… — William Faulkner
Consideration for others is the basis of a good life, a good society. — Confucius
To have Christian hope means to know about evil and yet to go to meet the future with confidence. The core of faith rests upon… — Pope Benedict XVI
One of the great tragedies of mankind is that morality has been hijacked by religion. So now people assume that religion and morality have a… — Arthur C. Clarke
I am not interested to know whether vivisection produces results that are profitable to the human race or doesn't...The pain which it inflicts upon unconsenting… — Mark Twain
Indifference to fate which, though it often makes a villain of a man, is the basis of his sublimity when it does not. — Thomas Hardy
The need of black conservatives to gain the respect of their white peers deeply shapes certain elements of their conservatism. In this regard, they simply… — Cornel West
Ultimately the bond of all companionship, whether in marriage or in friendship, is conversation, and conversation must have a common basis, and between two people… — Oscar Wilde
It was like discovering that your innermost fires and terrors, the things you believed no one else could fathom, were in fact the basis of… — Poppy Z. Brite
The proper basis for marriage is a mutual misunderstanding. — Oscar Wilde
The consensus seemed to be that if really large numbers of men were sent to storm the mountain, then enough might survive the rocks to… — Terry Pratchett
Everybody in this life has their challenges and difficulties. That is part of our mortal test. The reason for some of these trials cannot be… — James E. Faust
Gandhi is the other person. I believe Gandhi is the only person who knew about real democracy â€” not democracy as the right to go… — Vandana Shiva
Since each story presents its own technical problems, obviously one can't generalize about them on a two-times-two-equals-four basis. Finding the right form for your story… — Truman Capote
I became, in other words, more like Holmes than the man himself: brilliant, driven to a point of obsession, careless of myself, mindless of others,… — Laurie R. King
There is no means of testing which decision is better, because there is no basis for comparison. We live everything as it comes, without warning,… — Milan Kundera
If you analyze it I believe the very heart and soul of conservatism is libertarianism. I think conservatism is really a misnomer just as liberalism… — Ronald Reagan
What sense would it make to classify a man as handicapped because he is in a wheelchair today, if he is expected to be walking… — Thomas Sowell

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