Quotes with basis

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  • Ben Goldacre In an ideal world, you might imagine that scientific papers were only cited by academics on the basis of their content. This might be true. But lots of other stuff can have an influence.
    Ben Goldacre
    British physician, academic (1974 - )
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  • Alexis de Tocqueville In politics... shared hatreds are almost always the basis of friendships.
    Alexis de Tocqueville
    French aristocrat, political philosopher and sociologist (1805 - 1859)
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  • Mary Wollstonecraft Independence I have long considered as the grand blessing of life, the basis of every virtue; and independence I will ever secure by contracting my wants, though I were to live on a barren heath.
    Mary Wollstonecraft
    British feministisch writer (1759 - 1797)
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  • Alfred Marshall Individual and national rights to wealth rest on the basis of civil and international law, or at least of custom that has the force of law.
    Alfred Marshall
    British economist (1842 - 1924)
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  • Alfred Marshall Individual and national rights to wealth rest on the basis of civil and international law, or at least of custom that has the force of law.
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  • Boutros Boutros-Ghali It was a mistake. I was wrong, but I discovered this many years later. I was acting on the basis of this mandate given me by the most important leaders of the world: President Bush's father, prime minister of France, President Mitterand, the Chinese, everybody.
    Boutros Boutros-Ghali
    Egyptian politician and diplomat (1922 - 2016)
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  • Joseph Brodsky It would be enough for me to have the system of a jury of twelve versus the system of one judge as a basis for preferring the U.S. to the Soviet Union. I would prefer the country you can leave to the country you cannot.
    Joseph Brodsky
    Russian-born American Poet, Critic (1940 - 1996)
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  • Alfred P. Sloan It's easy to write a good column if you've got good information. It's hard if you have to depend on style alone. I suppose there are people who can get away with styling on a regular basis. I'm not one of them. You're probably not, either.
    Alfred P. Sloan
    American businessman (1875 - 1966)
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  • Birch Bayh It's unfortunate. Title IX is rather simple: don't discriminate on the basis of sex.
    Birch Bayh
    American politician (1928 - 2019)
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  • Barney Frank Let us not say that we will decide on a political basis at the national level that no State is competent to regulate the practice of medicine in that State if they decide to allow a doctor to prescribe marijuana, because that is what we are talking about.
    Barney Frank
    American politician (1940 - )
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  • John Dewey Man is not logical and his intellectual history is a record of mental reserves and compromises. He hangs on to what he can in his old beliefs even when he is compelled to surrender their logical basis.
    John Dewey
    American philosopher (1859 - 1952)
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  • George Bernard Shaw Money is indeed the most important thing in the world; and all sound and successful personal and national morality should have this fact for its basis.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Mahatma Gandhi Morality is the basis of things and truth is the substance of all morality.
    Mahatma Gandhi
    Indian politician (1869 - 1948)
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  • Caroline Wozniacki On a normal day-to-day basis, I'm makeup free, hair in a bun, and I just go.
    Caroline Wozniacki
    Danish tennis player (1990 - )
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  • Carroll Quigley On this basis, which was originally financial and goes back to George Peabody, there grew up in the twentieth century a power structure between London and New York which penetrated deeply into university life, the press, and the practice of foreign policy.
    Carroll Quigley
    American historian and theorist (1910 - 1977)
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  • Baz Luhrmann One of the great things about Sydney is that it has a great acceptance of everyone and everything. It's an incredibly tolerant city, a city with a huge multicultural basis.
    Baz Luhrmann
    Australian director, writer, and producer (1962 - )
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  • Blaise Pascal People almost invariably arrive at their beliefs not on the basis of proof but on the basis of what they find attractive.
    The Art of Persuasion
    Blaise Pascal
    French mathematician, physicist and philosopher (1623 - 1662)
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  • John F. Kennedy Physical fitness is not only one of the most important keys to a healthy body; it is the basis of dynamic and creative intellectual activity.
    Sports Illustrated Vol 13, Is. 13 (26-12-1960)
    John F. Kennedy
    American politician (1917 - 1963)
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  • Billy Eckstine Piano should be the one. Yeah, because that's your basis. Everything is right there in front of you.
    Billy Eckstine
    American jazz and pop singer and a bandleader (1914 - 1993)
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  • Arthur Erickson Rationalism is the enemy of art, though necessary as a basis for architecture.
    Arthur Erickson
    Canadian architect and urban (1924 - 2009)
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