| "BASIC research is what I am doing when I don't know what I am doing." »Wernher von Braun |
| "I speak BASIC to clients, 1-2-3 to management, and mumble to myself." »Anonymous |
| "...the BASIC delusion that men may be governed and yet be free." »Henry Louis Mencken |
| "Most of the BASIC truths of life sound absurd at first hearing." »Elizabeth Goudge |
| "Every sale has five BASIC obstacles no need, no money, no hurry, no desire, no trust." »Zig Ziglar |
| "BASIC - A programming language. Related to certain social diseases in that those who have it will not admit it in polite company." »Anonymous |
| "A kiss can be a comma, a question mark or an exclamation point. That's BASIC spelling that every woman ought to know." »Mistinguett |
| "Insecurity, commonly regarded as a weakness in normal people, is the BASIC tool of the actor's trade." »Miranda Richardson |
| "The BASIC purpose of a liberal arts education is to liberate the human being to exercise his or her potential to the fullest." »Barbara M. White |
| "If we can recognize that change and uncertainty are BASIC principles, we can greet the future and the transformation we are undergoing with the understanding that we do not know enough to be pessimistic." »Hazel Henderson |
| "Surely a tired woman on her way to work at six in the morning on a subway deserves the right to get there safely . everyone who changes his or her life because of crime . have been denied a BASIC civil right." »George Herbert Walker Bush |
| "For in the final analysis, our most BASIC common link, is that we all inhabit this small planet, we all breathe the same air, we all cherish our children's futures, and we are all mortal." »John F. Kennedy |
| "Living up to BASIC ethical standards in the classroom-discipline, tolerance, honesty-is one of the most important ways children learn how to function in society at large." »Eloise Salholz |
| "The most distressing aspect of the world into which you are going is its indifference to the BASIC issues, which now, as always, are moral issues." »Robert Hutchins |
| "Success is neither magical or mysterious. Success is the natural consequence of consistently applying the BASIC fundamentals." »Jim Rohn |
| "One of the most BASIC principles for making and keeping peace within and between nations. . . is that in political, military, moral, and spiritual confrontations, there should be an honest attempt at the reconciliation of differences before resorting to combat." »James Earl Jimmy Carter, Jr. |
| "To bemoan the messiness of politics is not just a folly it betrays a dangerous impatience with BASIC realities. It is like becoming disturbed that people do not fall in love sensibly -- and so deciding to computerize the problem." »Theodore Roszak |
| "Sin bravely...We will never have all the facts to make a perfect judgement, but with the aid of BASIC experience we must leap bravely into the future." »Russell R. McIntyre |
| "The spread of evil is the symptom of a vacuum. whenever evil wins, it is only by default by the moral failure of those who evade the fact that there can be no compromise on BASIC principles." »Ayn Rand |
| "The most important function of education at any level is to develop the personality of the individual and the significance of his life to himself and to others. This is the BASIC architecture of a life the rest is ornamentation and decoration of the structure." »Grayson Kirk |
| "The BASIC test of freedom is perhaps less in what we are free to do than in what we are free not to do." »Eric Hoffer |
| "My BASIC principle is that you don't make decisions because they are easy you don't make them because they are cheap you don't make them because they're popular you make them because *they're right*." »Theodore Hesburgh |
| "The BASIC problem is that our civilization, which is a civilization of machines, can teach man everything except how to be a man." »Andre Malraux |
| "The BASIC difference between an ordinary person and a warrior is that a warrior takes everything as a challenge while an ordinary person takes everything as a blessing or a curse." »Carlos Castaneda |
| "Frank Well, uh I guess I, deep down, am feeling a little confused. I mean, suddenly, you get married, and you're supposed to be this entirely different guy. I don't feel different. I mean, take yesterday for example. We were out at the Olive Garden for dinner, which was lovely. And uh, I happen to look over at a certain point during the meal and see a waitress taking an order, and I found myself wondering what color her underpants might be. Her panties. Uh, odds are they are probably BASIC white, cotton, underpants. But I sort of think well maybe they're silk panties, maybe it's a thong. Maybe it's something really cool that I don't even know about. You know, and uh, and I started feeling... what what I thought we were in the trust tree in the nest, were we not" »Old School |
| "What I want to fix your attention on is the vast overall movement towards the discrediting, and finally the elimination, of every kind of human excellence -- moral, cultural, social or intellectual. And is it not pretty to notice how 'democracy' (in the incantatory sense) is now doing for us the work that was once done by the most ancient dictatorships, and by the same methods The BASIC proposal of the new education is to be that dunces and idlers must not be made to feel inferior to intelligent and industrious pupils. That would be 'undemocratic.' Children who are fit to proceed may be artificially kept back, because the others would get a trauma by being left behind. The bright pupil thus remains democratically fettered to his own age group throughout his school career, and a boy who would be capable of tackling Aeschylus or Dante sits listening to his coeval's attempts to spell out A CAT SAT ON A MAT. We may reasonably hope for the virtual abolition of education when 'I'm as good as you' has fully had its way. All incentives to learn and all penalties for not learning will vanish. The few who might want to learn will be prevented who are they to overtop their fellows And anyway, the teachers -- or should I say nurses -- will be far too busy reassuring the dunces and patting them on the back to waste any time on real teaching. We shall no longer have to plan and toil to spread imperturbable conceit and incurable ignorance among men." »Clive Staples Lewis |
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