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The basic nature of all conscious beings is 'self-existing wakefulness'. -- Tulku Urgyen Rinpoche
Contrary to popular belief, there are lots of actions on the part of Jefferson and Hemings that "speak" about the basic nature of their relationship. -- Annette Gordon-Reed
All outward forms of change brought about by wars, revolutions, reformations, laws and ideologies have failed completely to change the basic nature of man and therefore of society. -- Jiddu Krishnamurti
Literary revolution and revolutionary literature did not create a beautiful new world but instead divested literature of its basic nature, promoted violence, and, by resorting to linguistic violence, made a battlefield of this domain of spiritual freedom. -- Gao Xingjian
Freedom is the basic concept and construct of life everywhere, because freedom is the basic nature of God. All systems which reduce, restrict, impinge upon or eliminate freedom in any way are systems which work against life itself. -- Neale Donald Walsch
The basic nature of all conscious beings is 'self-existing wakefulness'. Self-existing meaning spontaneous or without effort and wakefulness meaning natural awareness. To ignore our basic nature, is to wander in fear and confusion, to directly realise our essential nature is to be Enlightened. -- Tulku Urgyen Rinpoche
Vegetation is the basic instrument the creator uses to set all of nature in motion. -- Antoine Lavoisier
Your basic person wants to talk about material culture, internet culture. I think about God, cats, nature. -- Billy Corgan
There will always be people treated badly, which I feel is basic human nature and difficult to eliminate. -- Peter F. Hamilton
The urge to dominion is God-given and is basic to the nature of man. An aspect of this dominion is property. -- Rousas John Rushdoony
Greed is a basic part of animal nature. Being against it is like being against breathing or eating. It means nothing. -- Ben Stein
I think the attraction of 'American Idol' is about the basic human nature attitude that is, 'We can put you up there. But we can take you down.' -- Quincy Jones
I really loved crunk. I loved the extreme nature of it, how repetitious it was, and how these basic, angry chants would just be repeated over and over again. -- Rick Rubin
Physics is the most basic part of science and, of course, math. It gives you insight into everything - a foundation, I should say, to understand nature and the universe. -- Fred Kavli
Nature is pretty good at networks, self-organizing systems. By contrast, social systems are top-down and hierarchical, from which we draw the basic assumption that organization and order can only come from centralism. -- Nicholas Negroponte
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
Our challenge for the future is that we realize we are very much a part of the earth's ecosystem, and we must learn to respect and live according to the basic biological laws of nature. -- Jim Fowler
It's one of the most basic laws of human nature, isn't it? The more we are denied something, the more we want it. The more silence given to this or that topic, the more power. -- Jill McCorkle
To pass from estrangement from God to be a son of God is the basic fact of conversion. That altered relationship with God gives you an altered relationship with yourself, with your brother man, with nature, with the universe. -- E. Stanley Jones
There will be, I think, an attempt to grasp again the surprise and accidents of nature and a more intimate and sympathetic study of its moods, together with a renewed wonder and humility on the part of such as are still capable of these basic reactions. -- Edward Hopper
Doing things like playing music, something that's so natural and basic to human function, running around in nature, eating delicious food. These things are intrinsic in basic, primordial to human beings, so that's sort of a way to return to a blank canvas, allowing my true personality to return. -- Ezra Miller
Shambhala teachings say we all have the potential to accomplish our enlightened nature - our basic goodness. -- Sakyong Mipham
The propensity to make strong emotional bonds to particular individuals [is] a basic component of human nature -- John Bowlby
Nature is with us if we can learn how to align with it and not break the basic laws that generate life. -- Frances Moore LappÃ©
Far from being accidental details, the properties of nature's basic building blocks are deeply entwined with the fabric of space and time. -- Brian Greene
There are people who believe in the basic goodness of human nature. I believe in the basic evil of human nature. ~ Aarush Kashyap -- Kirtida Gautam
I figured out some basic stuff: that form and colour defines your perception of the nature of an object, whether or not it is intended to. -- Jonathan Ive
It is the basic, metaphysical fact of man's nature -- the connection between his survival and his use of reason -- that capitalism recognizes and protects. -- Ayn Rand
Everything in life is built on principles - plants, seas, birds, all of the natural elements of nature, they all follow and obey certain basic fundamental principles. -- Myles Munroe
If I say, "I am a monk." or "I am a Buddhist," these are, in comparison to my nature as a human being, temporary. To be human is basic. -- Dalai Lama
The basic rule of human nature is that powerful people speak slowly and subservient people quickly - because if they don't speak fast enough, nobody will listen to them. -- Michael Caine

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