Basis Quotes
1694 quotes by 1332 authors
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On the basis of both values and interests, the natural relationship between Islam and the United States is one of friendship.
— Jimmy Carter
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Love and kindness are the very basis of society. If we lose these feelings, society will face tremendous difficulties; the survival of humanity will be…
— Dalai Lama
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The cement of this union is in the heart blood of every American. I do not believe there is on earth a government established on…
— Thomas Jefferson
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Let us not be unmindful that liberty is power, that the nation blessed with the largest portion of liberty must in proportion to its numbers…
— John Quincy Adams
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Consider the Koran, for example; this wretched book was sufficient to start a world-religion, to satisfy the metaphysical need of countless millions for twelve hundred…
— Arthur Schopenhauer
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I can state with complete assurance that for each of us our brains form the material basis of our experiences and memories, our imaginations, our…
— John Eccles
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In order to understand what is meant by the word 'brain' as it is used by neuroscientists, we must bear in mind the evidence that…
— John Zachary Young
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With the greatest respect, we do not make the criminal law on the basis of opinion polls. A majority of 9:1 could be in favour…
— Kenneth Clarke
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We're in a war. People who blast some pot on a casual basis are guilty of treason.
— Daryl Gates
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Whether statistics be an art or a science... or a scientific art, we concern ourselves little. It is the basis of social and political dynamics,…
— Adolphe Quetelet
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God cannot lead you on the basis of facts that you do not know.
— David Bryant
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High ethics and religious principles form the basis for success and happiness in every area of life.
— John Templeton
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The study of taxonomy in its broadest sense is probably the oldest branch of biology or natural history as well as the basis for all…
— Richard E. Blackwelder
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Happiness gives us the energy which is the basis of health.
— Henri Frederic Amiel
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During the last two centuries and a half, physical knowledge has been gradually made to rest upon a basis which it had not before. It…
— Augustus De Morgan
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Drawing is the basis of art. A bad painter cannot draw. But one who draws well can always paint.
— Arshile Gorky
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Men are noisy, narrow-band devices, but their nervous systems have very many parallel and simultaneously active channels. Relative to men, computing machines are very fast…
— J. C. R. Licklider
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Profit is a signal that valuable services are being rendered to people on a voluntary basis.
— Llewellyn Rockwell
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The advances of biology during the past 20 years have been breathtaking, particularly in cracking the mystery of heredity. Nevertheless, the greatest and most difficult…
— H. Bentley Glass
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Cell genetics led us to investigate cell mechanics. Cell mechanics now compels us to infer the structures underlying it. In seeking the mechanism of heredity…
— C. D. Darlington
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