Quotes 101 till 120 of 179.
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Nothing is more despicable than respect based on fear.
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Now people want what the movie was about, which is violent comedy. And that's really what The Aristocrats is based on - what will a family do out of desperation.
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Now, we put out a lot of carbon dioxide every year, over 26 billion tons. For each American, it's about 20 tons. For people in poor countries, it's less than one ton. It's an average of about five tons for everyone on the planet. And, somehow, we have to make changes that will bring that down to zero.
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Our ideals, laws and customs should be based on the proposition that each generation in turn becomes the custodian rather than the absolute owner of our resources - and each generation has the obligation to pass this inheritance on in the future.
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Our limitations and success will be based, most often, on your own expectations for ourselves. What the mind dwells upon, the body acts upon.
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Our relationship to reality and to our experience is all based upon the ideas in our mind that we're always trying to live up to.
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Peace is not the absence of war, but a virtue based on strength of character.
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People have freaked out when I tell them that my dragons are scientifically based... what else can you call a genetically engineered life form?
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Persistence is to the character of man as carbon is to steel.
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Psychologically, you have to have confidence in yourself and this confidence should be based on fact.
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Public policy in the twentieth century was about protecting and expanding the social compact, based on recognition that effective government at the federal level provides rules and services and safety measures that contribute to a better society.
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Quantum physics is a bit of a passion of mine. It's extraordinary. There's a branch of mathematics that is based on lunacy, and that's wonderful.
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Real nobility is based on scorn, courage, and profound indifference.
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Relationships based on obligation lack dignity.
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Religious fanatics want people to switch off their own minds, ignore the evidence, and blindly follow a holy book based upon private 'revelation'.
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Research shows that women at that mid level tend to get promoted based on performance, and men tend to get promoted based on potential.
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Roads get wider and busier and less friendly to pedestrians. And all of the development based around cars, like big sprawling shopping malls. Everything seems to be designed for the benefit of the automobile and not the benefit of the human being.
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Small businesses no longer need to feel like a deer in the headlights when considering constructing or updating their Web sites. With ClickThings what you see is what you get, unlike some other competitive Web-based Website building tools.
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Some fans get genuinely upset if I admit that a song that they held close to their heart was not based on actual events in my life. Like What Sarah Said : I was never in a waiting room in a hospital waiting for news that somebody was going to die.
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Symmetry is what we see at a glance; based on the fact that there is no reason for any difference...
Pensees (1669)
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