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Menders of all times and places have taught that silencing the thoughts in our heads and opening to the experience of the body and emotions is the basis of all healing. It's the only means by which we can reclaim our true nature or feel the subtle cues telling us how to find our way through life. Martha Beck
The basis of all true cosmic horror is violation of the order of nature, and the profoundest violations are always the least concrete and describable. H. P. Lovecraft
Gustave Flaubert quote: "I have come to have the firm conviction that vanity is the..."
I have come to have the firm conviction that vanity is the basis of everything. Gustave Flaubert
I’ve never enjoyed myself more than I have the past forty-eight hours, during which I’ve been trapped in a car with one of the worst drivers I’ve ever seen, run up the Spanish Steps and then down again so I could be on time to wait in line to perjuer myself at the American consulate. And I’d like to continue doing those sorts of thing with you on a regular basis for the foreseeable future. Meg Cabot
Oscar Wilde quote: "The proper basis for marriage is a mutual misunderstanding."
The proper basis for marriage is a mutual misunderstanding. Oscar Wilde
The actor's life offers, on a daily basis, the simulacrum of love; a mask can be satisfied, or at least consoled, by the echo of what it seeks. Salman Rushdie
Terry Jones quote: "Sarah: That's not fair! Jareth: You say that so often, I..."
Sarah: That's not fair! Jareth: You say that so often, I wonder what your basis for comparison is? Terry Jones
Milan Kundera quote: "The basis of shame is not some personal mistake of ours, but..."
The basis of shame is not some personal mistake of ours, but that this humiliation is seen by everyone Milan Kundera
One of the great tragedies of mankind is that morality has been hijacked by religion. So now people assume that religion and morality have a necessary connection. But the basis of morality is really very simple and doesn't require religion at all. Arthur C. Clarke
And, as I watched the Lincoln come by degrees to a relationship with what it saw, I understood something: the basis of life is not a greed to exist, not a desire of any kind. It's fear, the fear which I saw here. And not even fear: much worse. Absolute dread. Paralyzing dread so great as to produce apathy. Philip K. Dick
All through my life the counsel to depend on prayer has been prized above almost any other advice I have ever received. It has become an integral part of me, an anchor, a constant source of strength and the basis of my knowledge of things divine. Ezra Taft Benson
In their brief time together Slothrop forms the impression that this octopus is not in good mental health, though where's his basis for comparing? Thomas Pynchon
History does not record anywhere a religion that has any rational basis. Religion is a crutch for people not strong enough to stand up to the unknown without help. Robert A. Heinlein
Listen -- strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government. Supreme executive power derives from a mandate from the masses, not from some farcical aquatic ceremony. Michael Palin
Joel Madden quote: "Without cigarettes, I would be doing heroin, probably, on a..."
Without cigarettes, I would be doing heroin, probably, on a daily basis. Joel Madden

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