Quotes with basis

Quotes 61 till 80 of 88.

  • Nadine Gordimer The primacy of the word, basis of the human psyche, that has in our age been used for mind-bending persuasion and brain-washing pulp, disgraced by Gobbles and debased by advertising copy, remains a force for freedom that flies out between all bars.
    Nadine Gordimer
    South african writer (1923 - 2014)
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  • Boris Sidis The principle of recognition of evil under all its guises is at the basis of the true education of man.
    Philistine and Genius (1919)
    Boris Sidis
    Ukrainian-American psychologist, psychiatrist, and philosopher (1867 - 1923)
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  • Carroll Quigley The problem of meaning today is the problem of how the diverse and superficially self-contradictory experiences of men can be put into a consistent picture that will provide contemporary man with a convincing basis from which to live and to act.
    Tragedy and Hope: A History of the World in Our Time (1966)
    Carroll Quigley
    American historian and theorist (1910 - 1977)
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  • Oscar Wilde The proper basis for marriage is mutual misunderstanding.
    Lord Arthur Savile's Crime
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Audre Lorde The sharing of joy, whether physical, emotional, psychic, or intellectual, forms a bridge between the sharers which can be the basis for understanding much of what is not shared between them, and lessens the threat of their difference.
    Audre Lorde
    American writer, feminist, womanist, librarian, and civil (1934 - 1992)
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  • Barry Ritholtz The simple reality of life is that everyone is wrong on a regular basis. By confronting these inevitable errors, you allow yourself to make corrections before it is too late.
    Barry Ritholtz
    American author and newspaper columnist
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  • Abraham H. Maslow The study of crippled, stunted, immature, and unhealthy specimens can yield only a cripple psychology and a cripple philosophy. The study of self-actualizing people must be the basis for a more universal science of psychology
    Motivation and Personality (1954) p. 234
    Abraham H. Maslow
    American psychologist (1908 - 1970)
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  • C. Everett Koop The thing that reinforces my belief about that is having worked the last four years with the Safe Kids Campaign on a national basis. I am so amazed at what these little kids do in keeping their parents alerted to what they are there for.
    C. Everett Koop
    American doctor and pediatric surgeon (1916 - 2013)
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  • Adlai Stevenson II The whole basis of the United Nations is the right of all nations - great or smal - to have weight, to have a vote, to be attended to, to be a part of the twentieth century.
    Adlai Stevenson II
    American politician and governor (1900 - 1965)
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  • Preston Bradley The world basically and fundamentally is constituted on the basis of harmony. Everything works in co-operation with something else.
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  • Asa Gray There is a class, moreover, by whom all these scientific theories, and more are held as ascertained facts, and as the basis of philosophical inferences which strike at the root of theistic beliefs.
    Asa Gray
    American botanist (1810 - 1888)
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  • Biz Stone This idea that the open exchange of information can have a positive global impact is being proven over and over again around the world nearly on a daily basis - and for Secretary Clinton to recognize that, I think, is a huge step.
    Biz Stone
    American entrepreneur (1974 - )
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  • Jean Rostand To say of men that they are bad is to say they are worse than we think we are, or worse than the ideal man whose image we have built up on the basis of a certain few.
    Jean Rostand
    French writer (1894 - 1977)
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  • Robert Baden-Powell Trust should be the basis for all our moral training.
    Robert Baden-Powell
    British Army officer, writer, author and founder of the Scout Movement (1857 - 1941)
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  • Henri-Frédéric Amiel Truth is the secret of eloquence and of virtue, the basis of moral authority; it is the highest summit of art and life.
    Henri-Frédéric Amiel
    Swiss philosopher and poet (1821 - 1881)
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  • Juliene Berk We all have voices in our heads which talks to us on an almost constant basis. Our voices give us messages continually, and what they say to us affects us.
    Juliene Berk
    American author
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  • Bill Maris We can get much better outcomes from people if we understand the genetic basis of the exact cancer that they have, what interventions might be most effective against it, what's worked in the past and what hasn't.
    Bill Maris
    American entrepreneur and venture capitalist
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  • Bell Hooks We judge on the basis of what somebody looks like, skin color, whether we think they're beautiful or not. That space on the Internet allows you to converse with somebody with none of those things involved.
    Bell Hooks
    American author, professor, feminist (born G.J.Watkins) (1952 - 2021)
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  • Bhagat Singh We must make it clear that revolution does not merely mean an upheaval or a sanguinary strife. Revolution necessarily implies the programme of systematic reconstruction of society on new and better adapted basis after complete destruction of the existing state of affairs (i.e., regime).
    Bhagat Singh
    Indian socialist revolutionary (1907 - 1931)
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  • Cass Sunstein When it imposes expensive regulatory mandates on the private sector, Congress often acts on the basis of interest-group pressures, anecdotes, and the emotions of the moment. The executive branch is hardly perfect, but it is far less likely to do that.
    Cass Sunstein
    American legal scholar (1954 - )
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