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• In '57, I got a job at the Blue Angel nightclub, and a gentleman named Ken Welch wrote all my material for me. I lived at a place called the Rehearsal Club that was actually the basis for a play called Stage Door.

  Carol Burnett

  Jobs, Angel, Play

  "Carol Burnett: A Woman of Character". PBS Interview, www.pbs.org. August 24, 2008.

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• I try to have my voice be heard, but not on a regular basis on TV.

  Jeb Bush

  Voice, Trying, Tvs

  "'Hannity' Great American Forum: Jeb Bush". "The Hannity Show", www.foxnews.com. July 22, 2011.

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• Wonder is the basis of worship.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Worship, Wonder

  Thomas Carlyle (1871). “The Collected Works of Thomas Carlyle”, p.370

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• I can't really criticize the Tea Party people, because I came into the White House pretty much on the same basis that they have become popular. That is dissatisfaction with the way things are going in Washington and disillusionment and disencouragement about the government.

  Jimmy Carter

  Party, White, Government

  "Interview with Former President Jimmy Carter". "Larry King Live", www.realclearpolitics.com. September 20, 2010.

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• Conservation may be a sign of personal virtue, but it is not a sufficient basis for a sound, comprehensive energy policy.

  Dick Cheney

  Environmental, May, Energy

  "Cheney promises big US nuclear power expansion" by Martin Kettle, www.theguardian.com. May 1, 2001.

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• I was in end stage heart failure, liver and kidneys shutting down, and on an emergency basis they went in and planted a pump in my chest. It was battery operated. That kept me alive for 20 months and that got me to the transplant. And I wake up every morning now with a smile on my face, thankful for the gift of another day I never expected to see.

  Dick Cheney

  Morning, Heart, Batteries

  "Former Vice President Dick Cheney talks NSA surveillance program". "Fox News Sunday" with Chris Wallace, www.foxnews.com. June 16, 2013.

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• When you have no basis for an argument, abuse the plaintiff.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Philosophical, Law, Abuse

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• The Ten Commandments have never been replaced as the moral basis upon which society rests.

  Edwin Louis Cole

  Literature, Moral, Ten Commandments

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• I am stopping so I can be a full time father to my two young sons on a daily basis.

  Phil Collins

  Father, Son, Two

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I haven't traveled in Africa nearly as much as I'd like to. I've been there a few times, and I'd like to learn more about the various cultures in Africa. But that's the basis point of where all of the music that I love is based upon, from Africa to Cuba to Puerto Rico to South America.

  Chick Corea

  Love Is, America, Cuba

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• President Obama has earned my vote on the basis of his excellent judicial appointments, his consensus-building foreign policy and the improvements he has brought about in the disastrous economy he inherited.

  Alan Dershowitz

  Consensus Building, President, Improvement

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• 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

  Men, History, Intellectual

  John Dewey, Jo Ann Boydston (1977). “The Poems of John Dewey”, p.61, SIU Press

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• Stories are hard. I have friends who knock out stories on a weekly or monthly basis, like they're running on medicinal-strength Updike. But for me a story is as daunting a prospect as a novel.

  Junot Diaz

  Running, Stories, Novel

  "This Week in Fiction: Questions for Junot Diaz". Interview with Cressida Leyshon, www.newyorker.com. March 15, 2010.

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• The mystical poetry of William Blake's artwork also forms the basis for the album cover.

  Bruce Dickinson

  Albums, Form, Artwork

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I grew up in an abusive home and was told on a daily basis by my father that I would never amount to anything and that I looked like a boy.

  Janice Dickinson

  Father, Home, Boys

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• I turned down some movies that were quite good. mainly on the basis of taste.

  Dick Van Dyke

  Taste, Turned Down

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• San Antonio is like a military town. It's like literally - when I was growing up there, there were five Air Force bases, plus Fort Sam Houston. I was always sort of near the military.

  Steve Earle

  Growing Up, Military, Air

  "“Making Art in America is a Political Statement in Itself”: Grammy Award-winning Singer Steve Earle on Music, Writing and Acting". "Democracy Now!" with Amy Goodman, www.democracynow.org. May 13, 2011.

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• I still work out on a daily basis.

  Clint Eastwood

  Work Out, Stills

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• Science has sometimes been said to be opposed to faith, and inconsistent with it. But all science, in fact, rests on a basis of faith, for it assumes the permanence and uniformity of natural laws - a thing which can never be demonstrated.

  Tryon Edwards

  Law, Facts, Assuming

  Tryon Edwards (2015). “The New Dictionary of Thoughts”, p.434, Ravenio Books

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• I connect with people on a daily basis.

  Zac Efron

  People

  "Zac on dating & dancing". Interview, www.seventeen.com. November 22, 2006.

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• The basis of computer work is predicated on the idea that only the brain makes decisions and only the index finger does the work.

  Brian Eno

  Hands, Ideas, Decision

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• It is essential that policy instruments be developed that would firmly establish democratization on the basis of social consensus and enable transformation on stable grounds.

  Recep Tayyip Erdogan

  Essentials, Transformation, Social

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• Rationalism is the enemy of art, though necessary as a basis for architecture.

  Arthur Erickson

  Art, Enemy, Architecture

  Speech to McGill University School of Architecture, www.arthurerickson.com. October 21, 2000.

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• I have come to have the firm conviction that vanity is the basis of everything, and finally that what one calls conscience is only inner vanity.

  Gustave Flaubert

  Vanity, Literature, Conviction

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• Preaching is personal counseling on a group basis.

  Harry Emerson Fosdick

  Groups, Counseling, Preaching

  "Preaching as Counseling : The Unique Method of Harry Emerson Fosdick". Book by Edmund Holt Linn, 1966.

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