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• I will always love psychology, and the basis of psychology is family.

  Jodie Foster

  Psychology

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• 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

  Marijuana, Doctors, Practice Of Medicine

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• I guess darkness serves a purpose: to show us that there is redemption through chaos. I believe in that. I think that's the basis of Greek mythology.

  Brendan Fraser

  Believe, Thinking, Greek

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

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• And what does reward virtue? You think the communist commissar rewards virtue? You think a Hitler rewards virtue? You think, excuse me, if you'll pardon me, American presidents reward virtue? Do they choose their appointees on the basis of the virtue of the people appointed or on the basis of their political clout?

  Milton Friedman

  Thinking, People, Political

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• The power to question is the basis of all human progress.

  Indira Gandhi

  Leadership, Inspirational Life, Progress

  Indira Gandhi (1975). “Selected Speeches of Indira Gandhi: The years of endeavour, August 1969-August 1972”

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• Morality is the basis of things and truth is the substance of all morality.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Truth, Motherhood, Substance

  Mahatma Gandhi (1994). “The Gandhi Reader: A Sourcebook of His Life and Writings”, p.17, Grove Press

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• The civil service can never be placed on a satisfactory basis until it is regulated by law.

  James A. Garfield

  Hippie, Law, Civil Service

  Garfield, James A. (1882). “The works of James Abram Garfield. (2 Volumes) Volume 2”, p.794, Best Books on

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• You can not possibly have a broader basis for government than that which includes all the people, with all their rights in their hands, and with an equal power to maintain their rights.

  William Lloyd Garrison

  Rights, Government, Hands

  William Lloyd Garrison, Bruce Rogers (1905). “The Words of Garrison: A Centennial Selection (1805-1905) of Characteristic Sentiments from the Writings of William Lloyd Garrison”

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• The historical basis for the gap between the black middle class and underclass shows that ending discrimination, by itself, would not eradicate black poverty and dysfunction. We also need intervention to promulgate a middle-class ethic of success among the poor, while expanding opportunities for economic betterment.

  Henry Louis Gates

  Opportunity, Class, Dysfunction

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• I think the idea that you know who your inner self is on a daily basis, because... you know. What's good for you 25 years ago may not be good for you now. So, to keep in touch with that, I think that's the first ingredient for success. Because if you're a successful human being, everything else is gravy, I think.

  Whoopi Goldberg

  Successful, Thinking, Self

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• I'm naturally an optimist, but my basis for hope is rooted in my understanding of human nature.

  Al Gore

  Understanding, Human Nature, Optimist

  "Al Gore, ‘Inconvenient Truth’ Author And Global-Warming Expert, Talks About Change". Interview with Leigh Haber, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 29, 2013.

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• In New York, you're forced to deal with life; it's there in front of you on a daily basis.

  Ryan Gosling

  New York, Deals, Fronts

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• The conundrum that I face on a daily basis is that I have two sons who have grown up watching 'The Simpsons,' so they know exactly what buttons to push. They know how Bart irritates Homer, and they use these lines against me to tell me that I'm not funny anymore.

  Matt Groening

  Son, Two, Buttons

  "Matt Groening, Grabbing for Laughs in the Darkness". Interview with Steve Inskeep, www-s4.npr.org. July 26, 2007.

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• Some people are naturally thin and some people are naturally heavier. It doesn't mean that bigger is healthier, or much thinner is healthier, it's on an individual basis.

  Geri Halliwell

  Mean, People, Individual

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• Education can counteract the natural tendency to do the wrong thing, but the inexorable succession of generations requires that the basis for this knowledge be constantly refreshed.

  Garrett Hardin

  Generations, Natural, Tendencies

  Garrett James Hardin (1976). “Exploring new ethics for survival: the voyage of the spaceship Beagle”

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• The Jews had, as a matter of fact, long been all along the most ingenious entrepreneurs. It was only our own future that we had never built upon a business basis.

  Theodor Herzl

  Long, Entrepreneur, Mind Your Own Business

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• Competition is not only the basis of protection to the consumer, but is the incentive to progress.

  Herbert Hoover

  Business, Presidential, Competition

  United States. President (1929-1933 : Hoover), Herbert Hoover (1974). “Herbert Hoover: Containing the Public Messages, Speeches, and Statements of the President”

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• Just carrying a ruler with you in your pocket should be forbidden, at least on a moral basis. The ruler is the symbol of the new illiteracy. The ruler is the symptom of the new disease, disintegration of our civilisation.

  Friedensreich Hundertwasser

  Pockets, Disease, Moral

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• Since ancient times, people from throughout Asia have brought to Japan their talents, knowledge and energy, helping to lay the basis for Japan's existence as a country.

  Daisaku Ikeda

  Country, Japan, People

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• Well, stealing bases adds some runs but very few, and you lose most of the runs that you gain by having runners caught stealing.

  Bill James

  Running, Gains, Add

  "The Man Behind The 'Moneyball' Sabermetrics". "Talk of the Nation" with Neal Conan, www.npr.org. September 26, 2011.

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• Today, we can tell people we have a testing process and facilities in place on a nationwide basis.

  Mike Johanns

  People, Today, Process

  "An Exclusive Interview: USDA Secretary Mike Johanns". Interview with Sam Gazdziak, www.provisioneronline.com. June 1, 2005.

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• If the Holy Spirit can take over the subconscious with our consent and cooperation, then we have almighty Power working at the basis of our lives, then we can do anything we ought to do, go anywhere we ought to go, and be anything we ought to be.

  E. Stanley Jones

  Spirit, Cooperation, Holy

  "Weekend (John 16: 7-15)" by Pastor Chris Kam,

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• This is the way I look at sex scenes: I have basically been doing them for a living for years. Trying to seduce an audience is the basis of rock 'n roll, and if I may say so, I'm pretty good at it.

  Jon Bon Jovi

  Sex, Rocks, Years

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• The emotional stakes a memoirist bets with could not be higher, and it's physically enervating. I nap on a daily basis like a cross-country trucker.

  Mary Karr

  Country, Emotional, Naps

  "Mary Karr, The Art of Memoir No. 1". Interview with Amanda Fortini, The Paris Review, Issue 191, www.theparisreview.org. Winter 2009.

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• I really like visiting military bases.

  Stacy Keibler

  Military, Visiting, Military Bases

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