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Programming in Basic causes brain damage. -- Edsger Dijkstra
Basic scientific research is scientific capital. -- Vannevar Bush
Basic religion is the reason we have morals. -- Brandon Flowers
Basic facts tend always to be those most easily overlooked. -- Doris Lessing
Basic Economics 101. It's the most complicated simple subject there is. -- Rush Limbaugh
Basic fact of life: no matter how far you run, you always take yourself with you. -- K.J. Parker
Basic Instincts It's the way mother birds build nests, and build them high enough to elude -- T. D. Jakes
Basic beauty lies in the way a woman walks; it is health and an attitude to life. -- Nancy Astor
Basic problem is that all models are wrong - not got enough middle and low level clouds. -- Phil Jones
Basic research is like shooting an arrow in the air and, where it lands, painting a target. -- Homer Burton Adkins
Basic research is very useful, but it should be more geared toward application than it was before. -- Luc Montagnier
Basic services such as electricity have never been worse and the economy of Arab Iraq is in ruins. -- Andrew Gilligan
Basic income is not a utopia, it's a practical business plan for the next step of the human journey. -- Jeremy Rifkin
I could make Basic Instinct 16. If guys will keep thinking I'm hot, I might turn it into a TV series. -- Sharon Stone
Basic education links the children, whether of the cities or the villages, to all that is best and lasting in India. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Desire, burning desire, is basic to achieving anything beyond the ordinary. -- Joseph B. Wirthlin
The very basic core of a man's living spirit is his passion for adventure. -- Christopher McCandless
A safe and nutritionally adequate diet is a basic individual right and an essential condition for sustainable development, especially in developing countries. -- Gro Harlem Brundtland
I learned two basic lessons on Everest. First, just because something has worked in the past does not mean it will work today. Second, different challenges require different mindsets. -- Lewis Gordon Pugh
The problem is that everywhere the gas drilling industry goes, a trail of water contamination, air pollution, health concerns and betrayal of basic American civic and community values follows. -- Josh Fox
Success doesn't necessarily come from breakthrough innovation but from flawless execution. A great strategy alone won't win a game or a battle; the win comes from basic blocking and tackling. -- Naveen Jain
The basic fact about human existence is not that it is a tragedy, but that it is a bore. It is not so much a war as an endless standing in line. -- H. L. Mencken
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. -- Nhat Hanh
Just as the constant increase of entropy is the basic law of the universe, so it is the basic law of life to be ever more highly structured and to struggle against entropy. -- Vaclav Havel
The possibility of a scientific treatment of history means a wider experience, a greater maturity of practical reason, and finally a fuller realization of certain basic ideas regarding the nature of life and time. -- Muhammad Iqbal
Mathematics as an expression of the human mind reflects the active will, the contemplative reason, and the desire for aesthetic perfection. Its basic elements are logic and intuition, analysis and construction, generality and individuality. -- Richard Courant
Feeling angry is a universal human phenomenon. It is as basic as feeling hungry, lonely, loving, or tired. The capacity to feel angry and to respond in some way to that feeling is in us from birth. -- Theodore Isaac Rubin
Let us remember we are all part of one American family. We are united in common values, and that includes belief in equality under the law, basic respect for public order, and the right of peaceful protest. -- Barack Obama
The desire to get married, which - I regret to say, I believe is basic and primal in women - is followed almost immediately by an equally basic and primal urge - which is to be single again. -- Nora Ephron
The sole and basic source of our strength is the solidarity of workers, peasants and the intelligentsia, the solidarity of the nation, the solidarity of people who seek to live in dignity, truth, and in harmony with their conscience. -- Lech Walesa
I think I could walk into any music shop anywhere and with a guitar off the rack, a couple of basic pedals and an amp I could sound just like me. There's no devices, customized or otherwise, that give me my sound. -- David Gilmour
When businesses go through hard times, through down markets, what do they do is they challenge every basic assumption of how they operate. They innovate. They create disruption for a while that leads them to even greater heights when the economy turns around. -- Jeb Bush
When it comes down to it, it's giving people a good night out in a basic way and I think my company guarantees that. There's always something new and something to excite us and surprise us, and that's why people come back, I hope. -- Matthew Bourne
When I was younger I probably didn't understand something basic about tact, but I think it kept faint-hearted people at arm's distance and that's not such a bad thing, because life is short and I know the kind of people I want to work with. -- Debra Winger
We all fight over what the label 'feminism' means but for me it's about empowerment. It's not about being more powerful than men - it's about having equal rights with protection, support, justice. It's about very basic things. It's not a badge like a fashion item. -- Annie Lennox
Putting forward your positive energy connects you back to basic human values which we all share. Good Deeds Day shows that no matter the size of the gesture, a smile that brightens someone else's day or volunteering in your community, we can all take active part in making a difference. -- Shari Arison
One of the most basic factors in sports is that winning becomes a habit, and losing is the same way. When failure starts to feel normal in your life or your work or even your darkest vices, you won't have to go looking for trouble, because trouble will find you. Count on it. -- Hunter S. Thompson
Imagine, for example, birds. When they look out at the world, they have a sense that they are alive. If they are in pain, they can do something about it. If they have hunger or thirst, they can satisfy that. It's this basic feeling that there is life ticking away inside of you. -- Antonio Damasio
As a multisport athlete, I was always fascinated with competition and how to win. At HBS and later at the Harvard Department of Economics, I was drawn to the field of competition and strategy because it tackles perhaps the most basic question in both business management and industrial economics: What determines corporate performance? -- Michael Porter
The old adage about giving a man a fish versus teaching him how to fish has been updated by a reader: Give a man a fish and he will ask for tartar sauce and French fries! Moreover, some politician who wants his vote will declare all these things to be among his 'basic rights.' -- Thomas Sowell
Drama's not safe and it's not pretty and it's not kind. People expect the basic template of television drama where there might be naughty villains, but everyone ends up having a nice cup of tea. You've got to do big moral choices and show the terrible things people do in terrible situations. Drama is failing if it doesn't do that. -- Russell T Davies
I'm a pretty basic surfer. -- Jeff Bridges
Credibility is a basic survival tool. -- Rebecca Solnit
Plagiarism is basic to all culture -- Pete Seeger
My basic advise is don't lose money -- Jim Rogers
I kid because I'm on basic cable. -- Jon Stewart
Life is supplied with a basic adequacy. -- E. Stanley Jones
The present basic philosophy is nuclear deterrence. -- Joseph Rotblat
My basic life philosophy is Harry Potter -- Michael Clifford
Successful strategies adhere to a basic pattern. -- Scott D. Anthony
Can true function arise from basic dysfunction? -- Ursula K. Le Guin
Humanity in its basic form is co-humanity. -- Karl Barth
I make very basic country rustic furniture. -- Thomas Middleditch
We need to see ourselves as basic miracles. -- Virginia Satir
I have confidence in people's basic common sense. -- Dixie Lee Ray
The basic condition of human life is happiness. -- Dalai Lama
I'm not what you call your basic intellectual. -- George H. W. Bush
To live intensely is a basic human necessity. -- Jessica Zafra
I learnt basic cookery by watching my mum. -- Jane Asher
If your playing basic music, its just rock. -- Chuck Berry
I believe that beauty is a basic service. -- Theaster Gates
I only envy as basic old sexual jealousy. -- Joan Juliet Buck
The basic and essential human is the woman. -- Orson Welles
Man's mind is his basic tool of survival. -- Ayn Rand
There is one basic cause of all effects. -- Giordano Bruno
Death to the pigs is my basic statement. -- Boots Riley
The basic rule of storytelling is 'show, don't tell. -- Julianna Baggott
Manners are the basic building blocks of civil society. -- Alexander McCall Smith
Stupidity is the basic building block of the universe. -- Frank Zappa
A goal is the basic unit of life design. -- Barbara Sher
The Bible was America's basic textbook in all fields. -- Noah Webster
The basic fundamental of behaviour should be to give. -- Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
There are two basic motivating forces: fear and love. -- John Lennon
I only knew basic western trail riding. Nothing fancy. -- Julie Benz
Invest in basic research and recruit the best minds. -- Ahmed H. Zewail
I want to help build their basic food terminology. -- Wolfgang Puck
The basic freedom of the world is woman's freedom. -- Margaret Sanger
Securing food is the basic task for all humans, -- Gong Li
Your soul has a single basic function-the act of valuing. -- Ayn Rand
The two basic processes of education are knowing and valuing. -- Robert J. Havighurst
Nevertheless, the basic forms, spaces, and appearances must be logical -- Kenzo Tange
Literacy is the most basic currency of the knowledge economy. -- Barack Obama
Kindness is the basic ingredient for the recipe of happiness. -- Vikrmn
Quantum physics thus reveals a basic oneness of the universe. -- Erwin Schrodinger
The basic nature of all conscious beings is 'self-existing wakefulness'. -- Tulku Urgyen Rinpoche
I don't experience basic human emotions. It's not my thing. -- Albert Brooks
All the basic information should be in the object itself. -- Michael Craig-Martin
Being pro-life is a basic perspective of everything I do. -- Nat Hentoff
Believe and create is a basic fact of successful living. -- Norman Vincent Peale
BASIC is to computer programming as QWERTY is to typing. -- Seymour Papert
The right angle is one of the world's basic shapes. -- Claes Oldenburg
Entrepreneurs have two basic assets: their creativity and their relationships. -- Mark Victor Hansen
Four basic premises of writing: clarity, brevity, simplicity, and humanity. -- William Zinsser
Why do we do basic research? To learn about ourselves. -- Walter Gilbert
Mystery is the basic element of all works of art. -- Luis Bunuel
I missed the basic curiosity of being in the lab. -- Eric Betzig
The basic theme of the kapha metabolic type is relaxed. -- Deepak Chopra
Business has only two basic functions - marketing and innovation. -- Peter Drucker
Managers are the basic and scarcest resource of any business enterprise. -- Peter Drucker
Fundamental progress has to do with the reinterpretation of basic ideas. -- Alfred North Whitehead
The prerequisite for an ideology is possession of a basic truth. -- Saul Alinsky
The basic trouble is that people make statements without sufficient data. -- Stacy Aumonier
a basic "must" for every writer: A simple solitude-physical & mental. -- Rod Serling
All relationships have the same basic components: people, needs, and expectations. -- Iyanla Vanzant
A basic tenet of healthy democracy is open dialogue and transparency -- Peter Fenn
birth control is the means by which woman attains basic freedom ... -- Margaret Sanger
The basic quality for the diplomat is not intelligence but loyalty. -- C. Northcote Parkinson
Paying attention is the most basic and profound expression of love. -- Tara Brach
We all need basic human values rooted in trust and affection. -- Dalai Lama
Capitalism is a funny name which lefties give to basic freedom. -- Fraser Nelson
Education is not a luxury, it is a basic human right. -- Madonna Ciccone
There are four basic human needs; food, sleep, sex and revenge. -- Banksy
No one is more insufferable than he who lacks basic courtesy. -- Bryant H. McGill
Women can't travel light. We're in charge of the basic facts. -- Hortense Calisher
The more basic the color, the more inward, the more pure. -- Piet Mondrian
The basic formula of all sin is: frustrated or neglected love. -- Franz Werfel
My basic philosophy is that no human being is a saint. -- David Maraniss
Education has really only one basic factor: one must want it. -- George Edward Woodberry
A basic tenet of a healthy democracy is open dialogue and transparency. -- Peter Fenn
I'm not a professional; I lack even basic knowledge about writing music. -- Ayumi Hamasaki

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