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• In the old days... it was a basic, cardinal fact that producers didn't have opinions. When I was producing natural… — David Attenborough
• The Good Friday Agreement and the basic rights and entitlements of citizens that are enshrined within it must be defended… — Gerry Adams
• Basic human contact - the meeting of eyes, the exchanging of words - is to the psyche what oxygen is… — Martha Beck
• It is mother's influence during the crucial formative years that forms a child's basic character. Home is the place where… — Ezra Taft Benson
• The divine life is the spirit in everything that exists, from the atom to the archangel; the grain of dust… — Annie Besant
• Extremism can flourish only in an environment where basic governmental social responsibility for the welfare of the people is neglected.… — Benazir Bhutto
• When the United States aligns with dictatorships and totalitarian regimes, it compromises the basic democratic principles of its foundation -… — Benazir Bhutto
• Work while you work, play while you play - this is a basic rule of repressive self-discipline. — Theodor Adorno
• The basic tenet of black consciousness is that the black man must reject all value systems that seek to make… — Steven Biko
• Whatever you may think of the proposed mosque and community center, lost in the heat of the debate has been… — Michael Bloomberg
• For me, riding a two-wheeler bike was very risky. Counting the pedal strokes before turning a corner and learning to… — Andrea Bocelli
• Being 'at the mercy of legislative majorities' is merely another way of describing the basic American plan: representative democracy. — Robert Bork

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