The entire point of life is to find ways to get others to do your work for you. Don’t you know anything about basic economics?
The good or healthy society would then be defined as one that permitted people's highest purposes to emerge by satisfying all their basic needs.
I believe that one's basic financial attitudes are - like a tendency toward fat knees - probably formed in utero, or, at the very latest, in cribbo.
Improv requires one thing I lack that I think most mothers need - the basic instinct to put someone else first.
Kant does not regard freedom as an item of faith because it is too basic to our agency to be related to any end.
We have now just enshrined, as soon as I sign this bill, the core principle that everybody should have some basic security when it comes to their healthcare.
Illness reduces man to his basic state: a cloaca in which the chemical processes continue. The meaningless hegemony of the involuntary.
Basic fairness and equity demand that the color of your collar should not dictate if you receive a bail-out or get bailed on.
Lies were lethal, however honourable the intentions of the liar. They deprived people of the opportunity to know the basic facts of their own lives.
When it comes to educating all of us about the most basic things in life, it seems to me we need more kindergartens and fewer graduate schools.
The basic laws of good acting are the same, but everything about the experience is different-your job responsibility, the time you spend on it.
There were a number of books about Bill Wilson, and by him, but a lot of the basic biographical tasks had not been done.
The economic and social decline of Zimbabwe is shocking and appalling. Life there is unrecognisable from that of the recent past. Each day is a struggle for basic survival.
A major gap between many of the denominations stems from how people define some of the most basic terms, such as 'religion' itself.
I honestly think that we're getting away from the basic structure of wrestling and it causes wrestlers' careers to come up short because of injuries.
I have a rule: I will not alter the basic history of a real-life character to suit our fictional needs in a big way.
Surveys have shown going back as far as you and I can remember that people have perceived a leftward tilt in the basic coverage that they get on TV news.
So we just hope that all of these governors who are grappling will be able to provide the basic services to our citizens and not have to cut things that really are painful.
It's basic due diligence to make sure that whenever a foreign entity acquires a controlling interest in a U.S. company that national security isn't threatened.
Generalized intelligence and mental alertness are the most powerful enemies of dictatorship and at the same time the basic conditions of effective democracy.
There is a basic idea to this fighting spirit: that there are standards worth devoting yourself to that are more important than your self-interest.
It's all about having a product that you're proud of and coming to work every day. Those basic building blocks are the same in any business.
A second basic fact that characterizes nonviolence is that it does not seek to defeat or humiliate the opponent, but to win his friendship and understanding.
Humankind has not evolved in its most basic instincts much beyond the caveman era. Yet every attempt to change that is met with scorn.
Forming of a web of information nodes rather than a hierarchical tree or an ordered list is the basic concept behind HyperText.
People want to know about what's going on with what's in the universe, what are particles like, what are the basic rules of nature. It's a lot of curiosity out there.
Far from being accidental details, the properties of nature's basic building blocks are deeply entwined with the fabric of space and time.
The very idea of marriage is basic to recognition as equals in our society; any status short of that is inferior, unjust, and unconstitutional.
Families represent the basic building blocks of our society, and primary care a foundational piece of any healthcare system.
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
I write my lyrics the day I sing the song, so even when I have the basic things, I'm thinking what can I change, what can I add, how many harmonies can I do.
I have a quad rep in my house, so I'm doing bench presses and pull ups on that, any sort of basic strength movements I can do at home.
...we must be wary of granting too much power to natural selection by viewing all basic capacities of our brain as direct adaptations.
But what is more, if we have succeeded in adding to the basic understanding of our universe and ourselves, we will have made a contribution to the totality of human culture.
More consequences for thought and action follow the affirmation or denial of God than from answering any other basic question.
It's always a collective group of people coming together to oppose those things which are fundamentally contrary to our basic humanity.
Both sexes like the exercise and challenge of sports, but for men it's also a basic display behavior for impressing and winning a mate.
Any cause that requires mockery and abuse to advance itself isn't one I need to engage with, regardless of my basic beliefs or agreement with the underlying goals.
I did 'Basic Instinct 2' because I had a baby about to be born, and the director said we could shoot before the due date.
What was considered a peak mystical experience a few years ago is today the basic platform of sanity from which our exploration begins.
I remain committed to improving education in our state. The best way to fulfill this basic promise is a strong public educational system.
The broader and more influential organisations of businessmen have acted to undermine the basic foundation of the free market system they purport to represent and defend.
I wasn't aware so many kids were lacking basic things like a hot meal at night and somewhere warm and safe to live.
I guess if people all followed the basic principles of their own religions, they would love everybody instead of hating half the world.
I didn't grasp the basic principle of being a promoter, which was: Put on music but also generate an income. I was on the dole most of the time.
Reading is the basic springboard for learning. And books provide the liftoff. They are the great equalizer, opening up new worlds to everyone.
The nation has placed its faith in the precept that all laws should be inspired by actual needs here on earth as a basic fact of national life.
In this time of budget cuts, we cannot forget that basic science is a building block for scientific innovation and economic growth in the information age.
You can read a dozen different textbooks or how-to manuals that will tell you the basic rules of what makes a story - a beginning, a middle, and an end.
I've always maintained the basic business principles of keeping it simple, doing your homework, hard work, and common sense.
If an economy is to sustain progress, it must satisfy the basic principles of ecology. If it does not, it will decline and eventually collapse. There is no middle ground
If in our daily life we can smile, if we can be peaceful and happy, not only we, but everyone will profit from it. This is the most basic kind of peace work.
The real case against socialism is not its economic inefficiency, though on all sides there is evidence of that. Much more fundamental is its basic immorality.
She was aware that in love even the most passionate idealism will not rid the body's surface of its terrible, basic importance.
The program is a voyage chart, a series of signals, which, like the pilot's radio, provides the basic orienting information required for the trip.
Any creed whose basic doctrines do not include respect for the creeds of others, is simply power politics masquerading as philosophy.
Sometimes astronauts feel a little ill or get minor scrapes. I trained as a crew medical officer to do basic treatment.
My effort in the whole thing was the basic determination, the burning desire in me to prove to this world that a physically handicapped girl is in no way inferior.
The basics of acting are really better in America than in Europe. Just the basic "fake laugh" is impossible to get in France.
I knew the basic outline of the novel [The Dissemblers] and would write whatever scene of the book I felt particularly excited about at the time.
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