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Quotes About Basic

The H-P system indicates the age of the bird in essentially the same way as the Life-Year system. The bird is considered to be in its first year (with plumages labeled first basic and first alternate) from hatching until the prebasic molt a year later, in its second year from that time until the following prebasic molt, and so on.
~ David Allen Sibley
In the old days... it was a basic, cardinal fact that producers didn't have opinions. When I was producing natural history programmes, I didn't use them as vehicles for my own opinion. They were factual programmes.
~ David Attenborough
For many years, I have lived uncomfortably with the belief that most planning and architectural design suffers for lack of real and basic purpose. The ultimate purpose, it seems to me, must be the improvement of mankind.
~ James Rouse
Physics is the most basic part of science and, of course, math. It gives you insight into everything - a foundation, I should say, to understand nature and the universe.
~ Fred Kavli
Basic Dimension Table Techniques The techniques in this section apply to all dimension tables. Dimension tables are discussed and illustrated in every chapter.
~ Ralph Kimball
I had to go to Asda, it's the best supermarket if you're poor as they have a good basic range, Sainsbury's is for rich, posh people.
~ Anne Hegerty
We all fight over what the label 'feminism' means but for me it's about empowerment. It's not about being more powerful than men - it's about having equal rights with protection, support, justice. It's about very basic things. It's not a badge like a fashion item.
~ Annie Lennox
We benefited from an enlightened post-war period in the United States: Our National Institutes of Health have enthusiastically and generously supported basic research.
~ Michael Rosbash
It is possible that by studying autism we'll learn about the nature of talent. Supposedly there's no connection between scientific talent and autism, but if we look closely, we find a very basic connection.
~ Simon Baron-Cohen
If that term confuses you take out the word "sexual" and just focus on "assault," on violence, on the refusal to treat someone as a human being, on the denial of the most basic of human rights, the right to bodily integrity and self-determination.
~ Rebecca Solnit
In the beginning was simplicity.
~ Richard Dawkins
... engineering is a basic instinct in man, the expression of which is existentially fulfilling.
~ Samuel Florman
I am a man of principle, and one of my basic principles is flexibility.
~ Everett Dirksen
That however the brains and abilities of men may differ, their stomachs are essentially the same.
~ F. Scott Fitzgerald
The more money you take away from families is the less power that family has. And that's a basic power.
~ Rick Santorum
Self-preservation is the first principle of our nature.
~ Alexander Hamilton
Everything in life is built on principles - plants, seas, birds, all of the natural elements of nature, they all follow and obey certain basic fundamental principles.
~ Myles Munroe
Language is so inherent to humanity, so necessary for even basic thinking, that stories and poetry are available to anyone who can process language.
~ Aleksandar Hemon
If I do talk politics it's very surface, it's not in-depth.
~ Brad Williams
I just spend my money on the essentials. Just basically food and shelter.
~ David Duchovny
Humans are always looking for explanations. I'm not interested in them. Is that food over there? Is there water over the hill? Where is there shade from the midday sun and a warm rock to rest on at night? These are the important questions.
~ David G. Hartwell
Anything simple always interests me.
~ David Hockney
UNICEF has repeatedly called on governments to ensure basic services for children and this includes providing food where the need exists.
~ Carol Bellamy
Right now at this very moment we have a mind, which is all the basic equipment we need to achieve complete happiness.
~ Howard Cutler