Quotes with basic

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  • Barbara Boxer The Saudi government's denial of basic rights to women is not only wrong, it hurts Saudi Arabia's economic development, modernization and prosperity.
    Barbara Boxer
    American politician (1940 - )
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  • Carol P. Christ The simplest and most basic meaning of the symbol of the Goddess is the acknowledgment of the legitimacy of female power as a beneficent and independent power.
    Carol P. Christ
    American feminist historian and author (1945 - )
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  • Benjamin Graham The story of Joseph in Egypt and of the seven fat and the seven lean years has passed into the homely wisdom of the ages; but our economic thinking seems to have lost contact with so simple and basic approach to prudent management of a nations welfare.
    World Commodities and World Currencies Ch. V, Stabilization of Raw Materials, p. 56
    Benjamin Graham
    British-born American economist, professor and investor (1894 - 1976)
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  • Byron Dorgan The U.S. Constitution is the basic framework for the greatest democracy on Earth. Some of my colleagues find it easy to amend it. I don't.
    Byron Dorgan
    American author, businessman (1942 - )
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  • Pauline Kael The words ''Kiss Kiss Bang Bang,'' which I saw on an Italian movie poster, are perhaps the briefest statement imaginable of the basic appeal of movies. This appeal is what attracts us, and ultimately what makes us despair when we begin to understand how seldom movies are more than this.
    Pauline Kael
    American film critic (0 - 2001)
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  • Robert J. Ringer There's a basic human weakness inherent in all people which tempts them to want what they can't have and not want what is readily available to them.
    Robert J. Ringer
    American writer
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  • Bruce Babbitt There's a basic kind of tension here. It's between those who say, I'd like to clear cut this forest and reduce it to saw timber because that's an economically productive thing for me to do.
    Bruce Babbitt
    American attorney and politician (1938 - )
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  • Aaron Klug This field is not necessarily glamorous, nor does it often produce immediate results, but it seeks to increase our basic understanding of living processes.
    Aaron Klug
    British biophysicist (1926 - 2018)
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  • Albert Szent-Gyorgyi This oxidation of hydrogen in stages seems to be one of the basic principles of biological oxidation.
    Albert Szent-Gyorgyi
    Hungarian physician and Nobel Prize winner in Medicine (1893 - 1986)
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  • Barbara Kingsolver To be hopeful, to embrace one possibility after another that is surely the basic instinct - crying out: High tide! Time to move out into the glorious debris. Time to take this life for what it is!
    Barbara Kingsolver
    American novelist, essayist and poet (1955 - )
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  • Denis Waitley Understand that you, yourself, are no more than the composite picture of all your thoughts and actions. In your relationships with others, remember the basic and critically important rule: If you want to be loved, be lovable. If you want respect, set a respectable example!
    Denis Waitley
    American motivational speaker, writer and consultant (1933 - )
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  • Carol Bellamy UNICEF has repeatedly called on governments to ensure basic services for children and this includes providing food where the need exists.
    Carol Bellamy
    American nonprofit executive (1942 - )
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  • George Gilder Unlike femininity, relaxed masculinity is at bottom empty, a limp nullity. While the female body is full of internal potentiality, the male is internally barren. Manhood at the most basic level can be validated and expressed only in action.
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  • Antoine Lavoisier Vegetation is the basic instrument the creator uses to set all of nature in motion.
    Antoine Lavoisier
    French nobleman and chemist (1743 - 1794)
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  • Kofi Annan We shall not defeat any of the infectious diseases that plague the developing world until we have also won the battle for safe drinking water, sanitation, and basic health care.
    Faceboek (2017)
    Kofi Annan
    Ghanaian diplomat (1938 - 2018)
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  • Ben Nelson What does it mean to be an American? While each of us may have our own specific answer to that question, we likely can agree on the basic principles of America: freedom, equal opportunity, and rights accompanied by responsibilities.
    Ben Nelson
    American politician, businessman and lawyer (1941 - )
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  • Brendan Myers What matters is being a particular kind of person. At the most basic level, it matters that you are the kind of person who resolves problems with force of thought and feeling instead of with the force of arms.
    Brendan Myers
    Canadian philosopher and author (1974 - )
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  • Bee Wilson What strikes me, the more I cook, is that the best recipes are ones where the basic anatomy is so sound it will survive multiple adjustments. When a recipe has good bones, you can change the seasoning, double the garlic, swap lime for lemon, and it still turns out delicious.
    Bee Wilson
    British food writer, journalist and historian
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  • Amartya Sen When the Nobel award came my way, it also gave me an opportunity to do something immediate and practical about my old obsessions, including literacy, basic health care and gender equity, aimed specifically at India and Bangladesh.
    Amartya Sen
    Indian economist and philospher
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  • Benazir Bhutto When the United States aligns with dictatorships and totalitarian regimes, it compromises the basic democratic principles of its foundation - namely, life, liberty and justice for all.
    Benazir Bhutto
    Pakistani politician (1953 - 2007)
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