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Last updated on December 25, 2024.
I think the days of the climate deniers are over. To deny basic science is to risk the trust of the general public.
Feminism's agenda is basic: It asks that women not be forced to choose between public justice and private happiness.
Time, presence and physical attentiveness are our most basic proxies for something ultimately unprovable: that we are understood.
I understand abstract art as an attempt to feed imagination with a world built through the basic sensations of the eyes.
Brute force, no matter how strongly applied, can never subdue the basic human desire for freedom.
When you aren't sincere you need to pretend, and by pretending you end up believing yourself; that's the basic principle of every faith.
Marriage is the most basic expression of the vocation to love that all men and women have as persons made in God's image.
My basic rule is to speak slowly and simply so that my audience has an opportunity to follow and think about what I am saying.
Access to basic quality health care is one of the most important domestic issues facing our nation.
When it comes to investments, I have to go to someone else to understand them, but then I have to make a judgment. I can't do that if I don't have a basic understanding myself.
It is every American's right to question any big event, especially when it's seized on to take the basic liberties of Americans.
We forget that despite the superficial differences between us, people are equal in their basic wish for peace and happiness.
We cannot 'fix' the police without a revolution of values and radical change to the basic structure of our society.
Facebook is such a basic utility. It's something that is such a part of peoples' lives, I think it's hard to imagine it going away.
Meditation is certainly not a religion, cult, or spiritual path: it's actually a very basic practice to reduce stress.
Books were to my family's house like beds and stoves, the most basic items, necessary for survival
My first job out of school was to do basic research at Johns Hopkins University's applied physics lab.
People begin running for any number of motives, but we stick to it for one basic reason-to find out who we really are.
I like working with modern sounds in the studio as much as I'm happy to work with a basic rock n' roll format.
Imagine growing up never feeling loved by your family - the most basic of human needs.
We understand that athletes aren't necessarily role models, but we at least expect them to abide by the basic laws of the state.
If the Chinese government gets carried away with denying basic rights, then there will be a pushback from within.
If you have a craftsman's command of the language and basic writing techniques you'll be able to write - as long as you know what you want to say.
There's no magic bullet to end poverty in the world. But if you could, the closest thing to it would be basic primary education.
In a very basic way, a prominent landmark such as Mt. Holyoke tells you where you are. They let you know that you're not the first person in a place
The use of expressive colors is felt to be one of the basic elements of the modern mentality, an historical necessity, beyond choice.
I think any writer keeps going back to some basic theme. Sometimes it's autobiographical. I guess it usually is.
There's no reason to think that you'll be capable of loyalty to a diet until you address your basic disloyalty toward yourself.
Keeping a Diary all my life helped me to discover some basic elements essential to the vitality of writing.
If the basic structure of Grameen is changed, the worry is that the poor women who are the rightful owners of the bank will be disenfranchised.
One in seven Americans, including more than 8 million children, does not have even basic healthcare coverage.
At home, I warm milk, stir in two teaspoons of honey, and drink it in a teacup. It's so basic yet pure; I love it.
The basic fact about human existence is not that it is a tragedy, but that it is a bore. It is not so much a war as an endless standing in line.
My basic food mantra is small portions, no water during the meal and the capacity to say no to an extra helping if it's not required.
The basic principles of the gospel of Jesus Christ are simple, and they are universal. Faith in the Savior is the same in Boston as it is in Accra.
And the basic sort of thrust of Star Trek being about equality and tolerance and things I believe in deeply.
I can install toilets. I know all about the wax ring. I can tile floors. I'm learning how to do basic wiring.
Never too late to learn some embarrassingly basic, stupidly obvious things about oneself.
However long I serve in public life, I'll stand on that basic liberty of the right to keep and bear arms.
My basic political posture is "what a shame the human race did this to earth." What we have done environmentally, politically, culturally.
A program whose basic thesis is, not that the system of free enterprise for profit has failed in this generation, but that it has not yet been tried!
The first thing you have to do is acknowledge the basic and fundamental goodness of all beings. If you don't, then you are going to have conflict. That's at the core of Shambhala.
In China, much of life involves skirting regulations, and one of the basic truths is that forgiveness comes easier than permission.
The basic idea of governance, as I see it, is to hold the society together so that it can develop and march towards certain goals.
All religions teach one basic discipline - the removal from the mind of the blemish of egoism, of running after little joys.
Within a system which denies the existence of basic human rights, fear tends to be the order of the day.
Since the 1970s, California has failed to carry out its most basic tasks under the Clean Air Act.
I was born in Scotland and have lived there all my life. I speak conversational Cantonese with my dad when I'm at home, and very basic Mandarin.
Perhaps the basic thing which contributes to charm is the ability to forget oneself and be engrossed in other people.
These are the two basic controls at the photographer's command--positi on and timing--all others are extensions, peripheral ones, compared to them
The corporatization of something as basic and intimate as eating is, for many of us today, a good place to draw the line.
I find myself sick to death, tired of arguing about details with people who don't know basic facts.
At a very basic level, people need to know that there is constancy in their jobs and, more broadly, in where the organization is headed.
The basic issue is whether the financial elite or the government on behalf of the people should have the profit from creating money.
Divide and Conquer. As long as some people have commanded the work of others, this has been management's basic principle.
Feminism, when it truly achieves its goals, will crack through the most basic structures of our society.
The basic principle of spiritual life is that our problems become the very place to discover wisdom and love.
Some women run with wolves, but the majority would be much happier with your basic lap dog.
The basic guarantees of our Constitution are warrants for the here and now, and unless there is an overwhelmingly compelling reason, they are to be promptly fulfilled.
Self-awareness can't be built on looking at our pluses and minuses before we look at the most basic essence of what we are.
