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• I was obsessed with religious questions, the basics: Why are we here? Why is the world so beautiful?

  Anne Rice

  Beautiful, Religious, World

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• My style is about making things last forever. When you're on a budget, it can be daunting to spend $300 on a pair of boots or a coat. But such basics are the building blocks from which your look is crafted.

  Nina Garcia

  Block, Forever, Style

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• I’ ve always been a fan of the basics. After you have a good solid foundation of Jiu-Jitsu, the rest comes by instinct. You create, invent. The rest is easy. The difficult part is the beginning.

  Carlos Gracie, Jr.

  Foundation, Fans, Jiu Jitsu

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• I believe that the basic attribute of mankind is to look after each other

  Fred Hollows

  Believe, People, Community

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• I talked about 12 to 18 months, and that's about reaffirming our foundation for sustained growth: getting the discipline back, getting the basics right, getting the customer focus back... so by the end of next year, I hope most of that's in place.

  Jim Cantalupo

  Years, Discipline, Focus

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• If you look at the human condition today, not everyone is well fed, has access to good medical care, or the physical basics that provide for a healthy and a happy life.

  Ralph Merkle

  Happy Life, Careers, Healthy

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• After you have the basics down it's all mental.

  Ken Venturi

  Golf

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• My father was both the person who gave me reason to learn how to fight and the one who taught me the basics of fighting. He would tell me that if it was a big fight, it would probably be uneven, it wouldn't be fair

  June Jordan

  Father, Fighting, Taught

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• Shoulda, coulda, and woulda won't get it done. In attacking adversity, only a positive attitude, alertness, and regrouping to basics can launch a comeback.

  Pat Riley

  Teamwork, Attitude, Adversity

  Pat Riley (1993). “The winner within: a life plan for team players”, Putnam Adult

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• Common sense as well as common values all lead us. Our future depends upon it and our present is going to be vastly better when we get back to these basics.

  Joan Blades

  Common Sense, Our Future, Wells

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• It's not what you spend but how you wear it that counts. The key is often to dress up inexpensive basics with accessories. Something like a beautiful designer bag or belt can make everything else look richer and more luxurious.

  Chloe Sevigny

  Beautiful, Keys, Dresses

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

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• You have to examine a scene on the page first. Then you get into the basics of acting: Who are you? Who are you talking to? How do you feel about that person?

  Debbie Allen

  Talking, Acting, Pages

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• Now it's time to focus on basics for people in our neighborhoods... and real ethics reform at City Hall.

  Laura Miller

  Real, Cities, People

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• I'm getting the basics with the AFL, but the NFL is a different animal

  John Elway

  Football, Animal, Nfl

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• Oh yeah, we all write. That's what's great about when you have basics in piano.

  Caroline Corr

  Writing, Piano, Yeah

  "Caroline Corr of The Corrs". Interview with Billy Amendola, www.moderndrummer.com. May 2005.

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• That's the classic nature of people, though. We'll skip the basics and get pissed when the sexy stuff doesn't work.

  Martyn Rooney

  Sexy, Workout, Bad Ass

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• No single person, including the President of the United States, should ever be given the power to make a medical decision for potentially millions of Americans. Freedom over one's physical person is the most basic freedom of all, and people in a free society should be sovereign over their own bodies. When we give government the power to make medical decisions for us, we in essence accept that the state owns our bodies.

  Ron Paul

  Freedom, Acceptance, Rights

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• Modern liberalism, for most liberals is not a consciously understood set of rational beliefs, but a bundle of unexamined prejudices and conjoined sentiments. The basic ideas and beliefs seem more satisfactory when they are not made fully explicit, when they merely lurk rather obscurely in the background, coloring the rhetoric and adding a certain emotive glow.

  James Burnham

  Emotional, Glowing, Color

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• In the midst of global crises such as pollution, wars and famine, kindness may be too easily dismissed as a 'soft' issue, or a luxury to be addressed after the urgent problems are solved. But kindness is the greatest need in all those areas - kindness toward the environment, toward other nations, toward the needs of people who are suffering. Until we reflect basic kindness in everything we do, our political gestures will be fleeting and fragile.

  Bo Lozoff

  Kindness, War, Adversity

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• "Who is secure in all his basic needs? Who has work, spiritual care, medical care, housing, food, occasional entertainment, free clothing, free burial, free everything? The answer might be nuns and monks, but the standard reply is 'prisoners'"

  Erik von Kuehnelt-Leddihn

  Spiritual, Food, Jail

  Erik von Kuehnelt-Leddihn (1990). “Leftism Revisited: From de Sade and Marx to Hitler and Pol Pot”, Gateway Books

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• The empathic understanding of the experience of other human beings is as basic an endowment of man as his vision, hearing, touch, taste and smell

  Heinz Kohut

  Men, Smell, Empathy

  Heinz Kohut (2012). “The Restoration of the Self”, p.144, University of Chicago Press

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• I used to think truth was eternal, that once I knew, once I saw, it would be with me forever, a constant by which everything else could be measured. I know now that this isn’t so, that most truths are inherently unretainable, that we have to work hard all our lives to remember the most basic things.

  Lucy Grealy

  Wisdom, Truth, Hard Work

  Lucy Grealy (1994). “Autobiography of a Face”, p.233, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Love, compassion and concern for others are real sources of happiness. If you have these in abundance, you will not be disturbed even by the most uncomfortable circumstances. If you nurse hatred, however, you will not be happy even in the lap of luxury. Thus, if we really want happiness, we must widen the sphere of love. This is both religious thinking and basic common sense.

  Dalai Lama

  Love, Happiness, Being Happy

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• Those of us who shout the loudest about Americanism, are all too frequently those who . . . ignore some of the basic principles of Americanism-the right to criticize, the right to hold unpopular beliefs, the right to protest, the right of independent thought.

  Margaret Chase Smith

  Independent, Rights, America

  Margaret Chase Smith (1972). “Declaration of conscience”

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• Imagination is as vital to any advance in science as learning and precision are essential for starting points.

  Percival Lowell

  Learning, Science, Aquariums

  Percival Lowell (1903). “The Solar System: Six Lectures Delivered at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in December, 1902”

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