Quotes with basic

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  • Will Durant Every form of government tends to perish by excess of its basic principles.
    Will Durant
    American writer, historian, and philosopher (1885 - 1981)
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  • Anna Freud Everything becomes so problematic because of basic faults: from a discontent with myself.
    Anna Freud
    Austrian-British psychoanalyst (1895 - 1982)
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  • Benazir Bhutto Extremism can flourish only in an environment where basic governmental social responsibility for the welfare of the people is neglected. Political dictatorship and social hopelessness create the desperation that fuels religious extremism.
    Benazir Bhutto
    Pakistani politician (1953 - 2007)
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  • Bjarne Stroustrup First, I'd like to see the basic tools such as compilers, debuggers, profilers, database interfaces, GUI builders, CAD tools, and so forth fully support the ISO standard.
    Bjarne Stroustrup
    Danish computer scientist (1950 - )
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  • Milan Kundera For a novelist, a given historic situation is an anthropologic laboratory in which he explores his basic question: What is human existence?
    Milan Kundera
    Tsjech writer and criticus (1929 - 2023)
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  • Bruce Springsteen For me, I was somebody who was a smart young guy who didn't do very well in school. The basic system of education, I didn't fit in; my intelligence was elsewhere.
    Bruce Springsteen
    American singer-songwriter (1949 - )
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  • Albert Claude For over two billion years, through the apparent fancy of her endless differentiations and metamorphosis the Cell, as regards its basic physiological mechanisms, has remained one and the same. It is life itself, and our true and distant ancestor.
    Albert Claude
    Belgian-American cell biologist and doctor (1899 - 1983)
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  • William Zinsser Four basic premises of writing: clarity, brevity, simplicity, and humanity.
    William Zinsser
    American writer, editor, literary critic, and teacher (1922 - 2005)
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  • Alfred N. Whitehead Fundamental progress has to do with the reinterpretation of basic ideas.
    Alfred N. Whitehead
    English philosopher and mathematician (1861 - 1947)
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  • Aldous Huxley Generalized intelligence and mental alertness are the most powerful enemies of dictatorship and at the same time the basic conditions of effective democracy.
    Aldous Huxley
    English writer (1894 - 1963)
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  • Alcee Hastings Given the fact that most religions share basic values, it is most unfortunate that religious people can be played off against each other so easily. One possible reason for this may be that people do not know enough about other people's beliefs.
    Alcee Hastings
    American politician (1936 - )
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  • Virginia Graham Good shot, bad luck and hell are the five basic words to be used in a game of tennis, though these, of course, can be slightly amplified.
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  • Ben Stein Greed is a basic part of animal nature. Being against it is like being against breathing or eating. It means nothing.
    Ben Stein
    American professor, writer
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  • David J. Schwartz Here is the basic rule for winning success. Let's mark it in the mind and remember it. The rule is: Success depends on the support of other people. The only hurdle between you and what you want to be in is the support of other people.
    David J. Schwartz
    American motivational writer and coach (1927 - 1987)
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  • Blake Farenthold Human trafficking robs victims of their basic human rights, and it occurs right under our noses. Many efforts have been focused in other regions of the world, but this is a major problem here at home.
    Blake Farenthold
    American politician and lobbyist (1961 - )
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  • Frantz Fanon I ascribe a basic importance to the phenomenon of language. To speak means to be in a position to use a certain syntax, to grasp the morphology of this or that language, but it means above all to assume a culture, to support the weight of a civilization.
    Frantz Fanon
    French psychiatrist, Algerian freedom fighter and writer (1925 - 1961)
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  • Buck Owens I found a sound that people really liked - I found this basic concept and all I did was change the lyrics and the melody a little bit. My songs, if you listen to them, they're quite a lot alike, like Chuck Berry.
    Buck Owens
    American musician, singer, songwriter (1929 - 2006)
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  • Bruce Sterling I like to get paid for doing basic research, so it's pleasant to write some nonfiction about it.
    Bruce Sterling
    American science fiction author (1954 - )
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  • Bruce Springsteen I think you can get to a point where nihilism, if that's the right word, is overwhelming, and the basic laws that society has set up - either religious or social laws - become meaningless.
    Bruce Springsteen
    American singer-songwriter (1949 - )
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  • Bruce Greenwood I was thinking about doing another film at the same time, which was the sequel to Basic Instinct and I just had a feeling that wasn't going to happen. You know, I just kind of read the writing on the wall.
    Bruce Greenwood
    Canadian actor and producer (1956 - )
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