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Letter "B" » base
«Half the worry in the world is caused by people trying to make decisions before they have sufficient knowledge on which to base a decision.»
«All love that has not friendship for its base, is like a mansion built upon the sand.»
«A well-ordered life is like climbing a tower; the view halfway up is better than the view from the base, and it steadily becomes finer as the horizon expands.»
Author: William Lyon Phelps
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Educator,
Journalist,
Professor)
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About:
Life
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The Base,
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«How about a positive LSD story? Wouldn't that be news-worthy, just the once? To base your decision on information rather than scare tactics and superstition and lies? I think it would be news-worthy.»
«An extra-terrestrial philosopher, who had watched a single youth up to the age of twenty-one and had never come across any other human being, might conclude that it is the nature of human beings to grow continually taller and wiser in an indefinite progress towards perfection; and this generalization would be just as well founded as the generalization which evolutionists base upon the previous history of this planet.»
Author: Bertrand Russell
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Logician,
Philosopher)
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«Build today, then strong and sure, With a firm and ample base; And ascending and secure. Shall tomorrow find its place.»
Author: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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Poet)
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«Base souls have no faith in great individuals.»
«All learning has an emotional base.»
«Always be ready to speak your mind and a base man will avoid you.»
«Base men being in love have then a nobility in their natures more than is native to them»