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I don't think we've been influenced massively by our success and by our travels. The lyrics [singer Chris Martin] writes are more basic than that, more basic, emotional ideas rather than life experiences. There's probably a few lines in there which reflect what's happened in the last year or so, but it's hard to say
View quotes by Guy Berryman

We can never have too much preparation and training. We must be a strong competitor. We must adhere staunchly to the basic principle that anything less than full equality is not enough. If we compromise on that principle our soul is dead.
View quotes by Ralph Bunche

My basic rule is to speak slowly and simply so that my audience has an opportunity to follow and think about what I am saying.
View quotes by Margaret Chase Smith

The extension of women's rights is the basic principle of all social progress.
View quotes by Charles Fourier

He who does not bellow the truth when he knows the truth makes himself the accomplice of liars and forgers (Basic Verities)
View quotes by Charles Peguy

The basic rule of free enterprise: You must give in order to get.
View quotes by Scott Alexander

Reading is a basic tool in the living of a good life.
View quotes by Joseph Addison

Of the billionaires I have known, money just brings out the basic traits in them. If they were jerks before they had money, they are simply jerks with a billion dollars.
View quotes by Warren Buffett

The basic discovery about any people is the discovery of the relationship between men and women.
View quotes by Pearl Buck

The best emotions to write out of are anger and fear or dread. The least energizing emotion to write out of is admiration. It is very difficult to write out of because the basic feeling that goes with admiration is a passive contemplative mood.
View quotes by Susan Sontag

The historical experience of socialist countries has sadly demonstrated that collectivism does not do away with alienation but rather increases it, adding to it a lack of basic necessities and economic inefficiency.
View quotes by Pope John Paul II

A Thaum is the basic unit of magical strength. It has been universally established as the amount of magic needed to create one small white pigeon or three normal-sized billiard balls.
View quotes by Terry Pratchett

Success is neither magical nor mysterious. Success is the natural consequence of consistently applying the basic fundamentals.
View quotes by Jim Rohn

It is a strange fact that freedom and equality, the two basic ideas of democracy, are to some extent contradictory. Logically considered, freedom and equality are mutually exclusive, just as society and the individual are mutually exclusive.
View quotes by Thomas Mann

Once you fully apprehend the vacuity of a life without struggle, you are equipped with the basic means of salvation.
View quotes by Tennessee Williams

Most of the basic material a writer works with is acquired before the age of fifteen.
View quotes by Willa Cather

I love sport because I love life, and sport is one of the basic joys of life.
View quotes by Yevgeny Yevtushenko

Of course I lie to people. But I lie altruistically - for our mutual good. The lie is the basic building block of good manners. That may seem mildly shocking to a moralist - but then what isn't?
View quotes by Quentin Crisp

It seems not to have been written. It is the quintessence of life. It is the basic truth.
View quotes by Brooks Atkinson

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
View quotes by Robert Hutchins



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