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Jai Ganesh

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Basis Quotes

Basis Quotes

1. Mystery creates wonder and wonder is the basis of man's desire to understand. - Neil Armstrong

2. Morality is the basis of things and truth is the substance of all morality. - Mahatma Gandhi

3. Physical fitness is not only one of the most important keys to a healthy body, it is the basis of dynamic and creative intellectual activity. - John F. Kennedy

4. I'm not really religious but very spiritual. I give money to this company that manufactures hearing aids on a regular basis. More people should really hear me sing. I have a gift from God. - Christina Aguilera

5. People respond in accordance to how you relate to them. If you approach them on the basis of violence, that's how they'll react. But if you say, 'We want peace, we want stability,' we can then do a lot of things that will contribute towards the progress of our society. - Nelson Mandela

6. The power to question is the basis of all human progress. - Indira Gandhi

7. The basis of our political system is the right of the people to make and to alter their constitutions of government. - George Washington

8. In socialism, private property is anathema, and equal distribution of income the first consideration. In capitalism, private property is cardinal, and distribution left to ensue from the play of free contract and selfish interest on that basis, no matter what anomalies it may present. - George Bernard Shaw

9. Trust should be the basis for all our moral training. - Robert Baden-Powell

10. All sports must be treated on the basis of equality. - Pierre de Coubertin

11. The true basis of morality is utility; that is, the adaptation of our actions to the promotion of the general welfare and happiness; the endeavour so to rule our lives that we may serve and bless mankind. - Annie Besant

12. I became the Dalai Lama not on a volunteer basis. - Dalai Lama

13. The social relations which are the basis of the reproduction of the species are founded upon the continuous union of parents in marriage. - Maria Montessori

14. The basis of our partnership strategy and our partnership approach: We build the social technology. They provide the music. - Mark Zuckerberg

15. I believe mutual respect for one another and cooperation should be the basis for relationships with foreign nations. - Narendra Modi

16. 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 F. Kennedy

17. So Europe needs to be competitive and we also need to be competitive if we wish to remain an interesting economic partner for the United States. This has to be done on the basis of strength, of competitiveness. - Angela Merkel

18. A lot of people talk about what the 1982 team did on the pitch but that side was so dear to Brazilian fans also because it featured players that supporters would see in flesh and bone on a regular basis, either at games or even on the streets. Now they basically only see the Selecao on the TV. - Zico

19. As long as we have decided to coexist in peace, we must do so on a firm basis that will withstand time and for generations. - Yasser Arafat

20. Failing is what we do, or stumbling is what we do on a daily basis. - Sandra Bullock

21. The only definition by which America's best days are behind it is on a purely relative basis. - Bill Gates

22. Africans require, want, the franchise on the basis of one man one vote. They want political independence. - Nelson Mandela

23. 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. - George Washington

24. You have to do things right to stay in business, and that's not easy, and that's a choice on a daily basis, the choices you make in how to run your business and how to have a point of differentiation and how to be true to your brand, how to offer something that people want and to offer something that you love. - Venus Williams

25. Children can take lessons in that school via the Internet and can score extra points like e.g. in Geography or History. That sounds very promising and is a fantastic basis for future steps. - Anatoly Karpov

26. I believe India and Israel should focus on building bilateral relations on the basis of shared perspectives and commonalities between our two democracies. This has to be a forward-looking exercise rather than harking back to perceptions of the past. - Atal Bihari Vajpayee

27. Contract farming can be promoted if it is structured on the basis of a win-win situation both for the producer and the purchaser. - M. S. Swaminathan

28. We have always been prepared to negotiate with the U.S. government everything that has to do with bilateral relations, on a basis of the strictest mutual respect for the sovereign rights of each country. We will never try to ask the government of the United States to change its economic and political system. - Fidel Castro

29. 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. - Pieter Zeeman

30. Back then, a half-a-century ago, the situation was totally different. Economically, we were practically on our knees, and politically, we were still excluded from the community of nations. Today, in this respect, we have a totally different and much more stable basis. - Franz Beckenbauer

31. A general loathing of a gang or sect usually has some sound basis in instinct. - Ezra Pound

32. Having your work be the basis of fame, that's a far more stable feeling. - Nicole Kidman

33. The U.K. needs a system for family migration underpinned by three simple principles. One: that those who come here should do so on the basis of a genuine relationship. Two: that migrants should be able to pay their way. And three: that they are able to integrate into British society. - Theresa May

34. General relativity is the cornerstone of cosmology and astrophysics. It has also provided the conceptual basis for string theory and other attempts to unify all the forces of nature in terms of geometrical structures. - Paul Davies

35. I'm always searching for new music, and I change what I listen to on a regular basis. - Rafael Nadal

36. It is wrong to make anyone into an enemy; it is wrong to scare the people of one's own country with that enemy and try to rally some allies on that basis. - Vladimir Putin.

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