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Quotes About Basis

Piano should be the one. Yeah, because that's your basis. Everything is right there in front of you.
~ Billy Eckstine
All experiment is made on a basis of tradition; all tradition is the crystallization of experiment.
~ Louis MacNeice
Respect for the truth comes close to being the basis for all morality.
~ Frank Herbert
There's always a germ of truth in just about everything.
~ Jim Lehrer
If you seek just a little truth, as most, you should not ignore abstract forms, the basis from which all short-lived experiences we call reality springs.
~ Eugene J. Martin
Personal experience is the basis of all real literature.
~ George Henry Lewis
Almost everything in 'A Day With Wilbur Robinson' has some basis in truth. And yes, my sister did pay me to feed her grapes while she talked to her boyfriend on the phone.
~ William Joyce
You go deep enough or far out enough in consciousness and you will bump into the sacred. It's not something we generate; it's something out there waiting to be discovered. And this reliably happens to nonbelievers as well as believers." Second, that, whether occasioned by drugs or other means, these experiences of mystical consciousness are in all likelihood the primal basis of religion.
~ Michael Pollan
The same phenomenon that pointed to a materialist explanation for spiritual and religious belief gave people an experience so powerful it convinced them of the existence of a nonmaterial reality—the very basis of religious belief.
~ Michael Pollan
I've always found the script to be more of a skeleton, the template.
~ Taika Waititi
Love is the basis of our friendship as it is of religion.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
am not at all sure how we should tackle such a crisis, but on the basis of what we know so far, I would suggest, as a start, quarantining Texas. I
~ Bill Bryson
Colonel Rheault, the commander of the Fifth Special Forces at the time, was the basis for Colonel Kurtz in Apocalypse Now.
~ Bob Mayer
Rhythm is the basis of life, not steady forward progress. The forces of creation, destruction, and preservation have a whirling, dynamic interaction.
~ Kabbalah
Both Israel and America should acknowledge that scraps of information cannot serve as the basis for action against Iran, and they should find new criteria for such a decision.
~ Ronen Bergman
A compact defense has always been the basis of Italy's team.
~ Fabio Cannavaro
an essay in the Human Rights Reader, Rorty suggested that the basis for human rights is not rationality or moral law but "what Baier calls 'a progress of sentiments.'…It is the result of what I have been calling 'sentimental education.'"17 So the basis for morality, in Rorty's view, is "sentiment." We are back to preferences and tastes. But whose sentiments? Rorty's? A Nazi's? Or someone else's?
~ Francis S. Collins
If, as I believe, natural regrowth has to be the basis for the renaissance of the world's trees, then the custodians of that process must be the people who live in, among and from them.
~ Fred Pearce
Compassion is the fruit of solitude and the basis of all ministry.
~ Henri J.M. Nouwen
There is no more usual basis of union than a mutual misunderstanding
~ Henry James
We are not coaching on a daily basis because we often travel with our charity and commercial interests.
~ Nadia Comaneci
We recognized in 1996 that, with progress in the field of genetics accelerating at a breathtaking pace, we need to ensure that advances in treatment and prevention of disease do not constitute a new basis for discrimination.
~ Olympia Snowe
In your very imperfections you will find the basis for your firm, way-seeking mind.
~ Shunryu Suzuki
The desire of the Holy Spirit to produce the life of love in us and our failure to allow the Spirit to do so has created the basis for the world's rejection of Christianity.
~ Steve Harper