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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
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
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
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
No one is more insufferable than he who lacks basic courtesy. – Bryant McGill
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
The poor and the affluent are not communicating because they do not have the same words. When we talk of the millions who are culturally deprived, we refer not to those who do not have access to good libraries and bookstores, or to museums and centers for the performing arts, but those deprived of the words with which everything else is built, the words that opens doors. Children without words are licked before they start. The legion of the young wordless in urban and rural slums, eight to ten years old, do not know the meaning of hundreds of words which most middle-class people assume to be familiar to much younger children. Most of them have never seen their parents read a book or a magazine, or heard words used in other than rudimentary ways related to physical needs and functions. Thus is cultural fallout caused, the vicious circle of ignorance and poverty reinforced and perpetuated. Children deprived of words become school dropouts; dropouts deprived of hope behave delinquently. Amateur censors blame delinquency on reading immoral books and magazines, when in fact, the inability to read anything is the basic trouble. – Peter S. Jennison
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
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
...the basic delusion that men may be governed and yet be free. – Henry Louis Mencken
A kiss can be a comma, a question mark or an exclamation point. That's basic spelling that every woman ought to know. – Mistinguett
Anyone who clings to the historically untrue - and thoroughly immoral - doctrine that violence never settles anything I would advise to conjure up the ghosts of Napoleon Bonaparte and the duke of Wellington and let them debate it. The ghost of Hitler would referee. Violence, naked force, has settled more issues in history than any other factor, and the contrary opinion is wishful thinking at its worst. Breeds that forgot this basic truth have always paid for it with their lives and there freedoms. – Robert Heinlein
BASIC - A programming language. Related to certain social diseases in that those who have it will not admit it in polite company. – Anonymous
Basic research is what I am doing when I don't know what I am doing. – Wernher von Braun
Even Bach comes down to the basic suck, blow, suck, suck, blow. – Mouth organist Larry Adler
Every sale has five basic obstacles no need, no money, no hurry, no desire, no trust. – Zig Ziglar
I am a man of principle, and one of my basic principles is flexibility. – Everett Dirksen
I speak BASIC to clients, 1-2-3 to management, and mumble to myself. – Anonymous
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
I was always puzzled by the fact that people have a great deal of trouble and pain when and if they are forced or feel forced to change a belief or circumstance which they hold dear. I found what I believe is the answer when I read that a Canadian neurosurgeon discovered some truths about the human mind which revealed the intensity of this problem. He conducted some experiments which proved that when a person is forced to change a basic belief or viewpoint, the brain undergoes a series of nervous sensations equivalent to the most agonizing torture. – Sidney Madwed
If there is one basic element in our Constitution, it is civilian control of the military. – Harry S. Truman
Insecurity, commonly regarded as a weakness in normal people, is the basic tool of the actor's trade. – Miranda Richardson
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
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
Most of the basic truths of life sound absurd at first hearing. – Elizabeth Goudge

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