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"Some scientists claim that hydrogen, because it is so plentiful, is the BASIC building block of the universe. I dispute that. I say that there is more stupidity than hydrogen, and that is the BASIC building block of the universe." »Frank Zappa
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"BASIC research is what I am doing when I don't know what I am doing." »Wernher von Braun
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"...the BASIC delusion that men may be governed and yet be free." »Henry Louis Mencken
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"I am a man of principle, and one of my BASIC principles is flexibility." »Everett Dirksen
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"I speak BASIC to clients, 1-2-3 to management, and mumble to myself." »Anonymous
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"The BASIC notion underlying USENET is the flame." »Chuq Von Rospach
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"The BASIC fact about human existence is not that it is a tragedy, but that it is a bore." »Henry Louis Mencken
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"Most of the BASIC truths of life sound absurd at first hearing." »Elizabeth Goudge
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"If there is one BASIC element in our Constitution, it is civilian control of the military." »Harry S. Truman
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"Every sale has five BASIC obstacles no need, no money, no hurry, no desire, no trust." »Zig Ziglar
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"No one that ever lived has ever had enough power, prestige, or knowledge to overcome the BASIC condition of all life - you win some and you lose some." »Ken Keyes
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"A kiss can be a comma, a question mark or an exclamation point. That's BASIC spelling that every woman ought to know." »Mistinguett
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"BASIC - A programming language. Related to certain social diseases in that those who have it will not admit it in polite company." »Anonymous
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"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
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"Insecurity, commonly regarded as a weakness in normal people, is the BASIC tool of the actor's trade." »Miranda Richardson
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"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
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"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
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"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
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"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
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"It is practically impossible to teach good programming style to students that have had prior exposure to BASIC; as potential programmers they are mentally mutilated beyond hope of regeneration." »Professor Edsger Dijkstra
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"I think God is as much a BASIC ingredient in the universe as neutrons and positrons. This is the prime force, when we look around the universe." »Gene Roddenberry
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"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
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"Success is neither magical or mysterious. Success is the natural consequence of consistently applying the BASIC fundamentals." »Jim Rohn
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"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
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"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.
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"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
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"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
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"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
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"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, Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal, 1966
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"Violence, naked force, has settled more issues in history than any other factor, and the contrary opinion is wishfull thinking at its worst. Breeds that forget this BASIC truth have always paid for it with their lives and freedoms." »Robert A. Heinlein, Starship Troopers chapter 4
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