Quotes having the keyword Basis
So with the end of the Cold War, it became increasingly obvious that there was no basis upon which any decision was being made, not in the White House, and certainly because of that, not in the Congress.
by Malcolm Wallop (Politician, American , born in 1933) keywords: any, basis, became, because, being, certainly, cold, congress, decision, end, house, increasingly, made, obvious, upon, war, which , white It may be laid down as a primary position, and the basis of our system, that every Citizen who enjoys the protection of a Free Government, owes not only a proportion of his property, but even of his personal services to the defense of it.
by George Washington (President, American , born in 1732) keywords: basis, citizen, defense, down, enjoys, even, every, free, government, his, laid, may, only, our, owes, personal, position, primary, property, proportion, protection, services , system The basis of our political system is the right of the people to make and to alter their constitutions of government.
by George Washington (President, American , born in 1732) keywords: alter, basis, constitutions, government, make, our, political, right, system , their You tend to meet on a more regular basis with people in your industry, and reality being what it is, you tend to meet with them at the particular level that you occupy; so that develops a fraternity relationship.
by Lew Wasserman (Producer, American , born in 1913) keywords: basis, being, develops, fraternity, industry, level, meet, more, occupy, particular, reality, regular, relationship, tend, them , your In other words, what is supposedly found is an invention whose inventor is unaware of his act of invention, who considers it as something that exists independently of him; the invention then becomes the basis of his world view and actions.
by Paul Watzlawick (Psychologist, Austrian , born in 1921) keywords: act, actions, basis, becomes, considers, exists, found, him, his, independently, invention, inventor, other, something, supposedly, then, unaware, view, whose, words , world No truth is more evident to my mind than that the Christian religion must be the basis of any government intended to secure the rights and privileges of a free people.
by Noah Webster (Writer, American , born in 1758) keywords: any, basis, christian, evident, free, government, intended, mind, more, must, privileges, religion, rights, secure, than , truth But God will have a people upon the earth to maintain the Bible, and the Bible only, as the standard of all doctrines and the basis of all reforms.
by Ellen G. White (Writer, American , born in 1827) keywords: basis, bible, doctrines, earth, god, maintain, only, reforms, standard, upon , will The nervous system and the automatic machine are fundamentally alike in that they are devices, which make decisions on the basis of decisions they made in the past.
by Norbert Wiener (Mathematician, American , born in 1894) keywords: alike, automatic, basis, decisions, devices, fundamentally, machine, made, make, nervous, past, system , which Fathers should be neither seen nor heard. That is the only proper basis for family life.
by Oscar Wilde (Dramatist, Irish , born in 1970) keywords: basis, family, fathers, heard, life, neither, nor, only, proper, seen , should Whether the family goes on a spiritual basis or not, the alcoholic member has to if he would recover. The others must be convinced of his new status beyond the shadow of a doubt. Seeing is believing to most families who have lived with a drinker.
by William Griffith Wilson (Celebrity, American , born in 1895) keywords: alcoholic, basis, believing, beyond, convinced, doubt, drinker, families, family, goes, his, lived, member, most, must, new, others, recover, seeing, shadow, spiritual, status, whether , would So the thing I realized rather gradually - I must say starting about 20 years ago now that we know about computers and things - there's a possibility of a more general basis for rules to describe nature.
by Stephen Wolfram (Scientist, English , born in 1959) keywords: ago, basis, computers, describe, general, gradually, know, more, must, nature, now, possibility, rather, realized, rules, say, starting, thing, things , years Independence I have long considered as the grand blessing of life, the basis of every virtue; and independence I will ever secure by contracting my wants, though I were to live on a barren heath.
by Mary Wollstonecraft (Writer, British , born in 1759) keywords: barren, basis, blessing, considered, contracting, ever, every, grand, heath, independence, life, live, long, secure, though, virtue, wants, were , will Government is an unnecessary evil. Human beings, when accustomed to taking responsibility for their own behavior, can cooperate on a basis of mutual trust and helpfulness.
by Fred Woodworthtopics: Government keywords: accustomed, basis, behavior, beings, cooperate, evil, government, human, mutual, own, responsibility, taking, their, trust , unnecessary Well, when I was younger, in high school, I started out smoking pot. Which escalated into taking acid on a regular basis, which escalated into selling acid. And then I started, when I went to college, I started doing opiates.
by John Wozniak (Musician, American , born in 1971) keywords: acid, basis, college, doing, high, into, out, pot, regular, school, selling, smoking, started, taking, then, well, went, which , younger Now here is a departure from the first principle of true ethics. Here we find ideas of moral wrong and moral right associated with something else than beneficial action. The consequent is, we lose sight of the real basis of morals, and substitute a false one.
by Francis Wright (Activist, Scottish , born in 1795) keywords: action, associated, basis, beneficial, consequent, departure, else, ethics, false, find, first, here, ideas, lose, moral, morals, now, principle, real, right, sight, something, substitute, than, true , wrong We have seen that no religion stands on the basis of things known; none bounds its horizon within the field of human observation; and, therefore, as it can never present us with indisputable facts, so must it ever be at once a source of error and contention.
by Francis Wright (Activist, Scottish , born in 1795) keywords: basis, bounds, contention, error, ever, facts, field, horizon, human, indisputable, known, must, never, none, observation, once, present, religion, seen, source, stands, therefore, things, us , within In the past 3-4 years I've developed a habit of keeping numerous small cassette recorders in my house and in a bag with me so that I'm able to commit to tape memory song ideas on a constant basis.
by Dwight Yoakam (Musician, American , born in 1956) keywords: able, bag, basis, cassette, commit, constant, developed, habit, house, ideas, keeping, memory, numerous, past, recorders, small, song, tape , years Society can exist only on the basis that there is some amount of polished lying and that no one says exactly what he thinks.
by Lin Yutang (Author, Chinese , born in 1895) keywords: amount, basis, exactly, exist, lying, only, polished, says, society, some , thinks On the basis of Lorentz's theory, if we limit ourselves to a single spectral line, it suffices to assume that each atom (or molecule) contains a single moving electron.
by Pieter Zeeman (Physicist, Dutch , born in 1865) keywords: assume, atom, basis, contains, each, electron, limit, line, molecule, moving, ourselves, single, spectral, suffices , theory
