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"Democracy is, first and foremost, a spiritual force, it is built upon a spiritual basis - and on a belief in God and an observance of moral principle. And in the long run only the church can provide that basis. Our founder knew this truth - and we will neglect it at our peril." »President Harry Truman, Public Papers of the President of the United States: Harry S. Truman - 1951 U.S. Gov. 1966 p1063
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"The law demands good works and uses its terror--rejection, shame, fear of punishment, unanswered prayer, personal tragedy, etc.--as motivation. Here performance is a necessity to secure the blessings and avoid the curses. Grace, on the other hand, allows us to serve on a different basis--not from fear but on the basis of love and gratitude, from appreciation and gladness for blessings freely given and freely received." »Richard Jordan
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"Compassion is the basis of all morality." »Arthur Schopenhauer
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"It is only possible to live happily ever after on a day-to-day basis." »Margaret Bonnano
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"...happiness gives us the energy which is the basis of health." »Henri Frdric Amiel
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"The basis of optimism is sheer terror." »Oscar Wilde
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"Science is the refusal to believe on the basis of hope." »Carrie P. Snow
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"The basis for optimism is sheer terror." »Oscar Fingall O'Flahertie Wills Wilde
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"When you have no basis of argument, abuse the plaintiff." »Cicero
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"The power of love, as the basis of a State, has never been tried." »Ralph Waldo Emerson
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"The basis of a democratic state is liberty." »Aristotle
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"The proper basis for marriage is a mutual misunderstanding." »Oscar Wilde
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"Respect for the truth comes close to being the basis for all morality." »Frank Herbert
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"A law is something which must have a moral basis, so that there is an inner compelling force for every citizen to obey." »Chaim Weizmann
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"Knowing how things work is the basis for appreciation, and is thus a source of civilized delight." »William Safire
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"All of us failed to match our dreams of perfection. So I rate us on the basis of our splendid failure to do the impossible." »William Faulkner
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"Truth is the secret of eloquence and of virtue, the basis of moral authority it is the highest summit of art and life." »Henri Frdric Amiel
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"What we don't need to know for achievement, we need to know for our pleasure. Knowing how things work is the basis for appreciation, and is thus a source of civilized delight." »William Safire
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"Truth is the secret of eloquence and of virtue, the basis of moral authority; it is the highest summit of art and life." »Henri-Frédéric Amiel
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"The consensus seemed to be that if really large numbers of men were sent to storm the mountain, then enough might survive the rocks to take the citadel. This is essentially the basis of all military thinking." »Terry Pratchett, Eric
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"Rhythm is the basis of life, not steady forward progress. The forces of creation, destruction, and preservation have a whirling, dynamic interaction." »Kabbalah
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"The sharing of joy, whether physical, emotional, psychic, or intellectual, forms a bridge between the sharers which can be the basis for understanding much of what is not shared between them, and lessens the threat of their difference." »Adure Lord
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"The academic mind can eat away the very basis of its own assurance ... produce contortions when it tries to bend over backward ... allow itself to be dismayed by the picture it has created of relentless historical process." »Herbert Butterfield
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"Accurate knowledge is the basis of correct opinions; the want of it makes the opinions of most people of little value." »Charles Simmons
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"A man does what he must-in spite of personal consequences, in spite of obstacles and dangers and pressures-and that is the basis of all human morality." »John Fitzgerald Kennedy
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"Curiosity is the very basis of education and if you tell me that curiosity killed the cat, I say only the cat died nobly." »Arnold Edinborough
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"Anthropology provides a scientific basis for dealing with the crucial dilemma of the world today how can peoples of different appearance, mutually unintelligible languages, and dissimilar ways of life get along peaceably together" »Clyde Kluckhohn
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"A man's ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties no religious basis is necessary. Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear of punishment and hope of reward after death." »Albert Einstein
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"... Religion ... [is] the basis and foundation of government ... before any man can be considered as a member of civil society, he must be considered as a subject of the Governor of the Universe." »James Madison
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"What we need to do is learn to work in the system, by which I mean that everybody, every team, every platform, every division, every component is there not for individual competitive profit or recognition, but for contribution to the system as a whole on a win-win basis." »W. Edwards Deming
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