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I believe that every American should have stable, dignified housing; health care; education - that the most very basic needs to sustain modern life should be guaranteed in a moral society.
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
Life
Education
Health
Needs
Basic Needs
Care
Believe
Every
Society
Dignified
Moral
Most
Health Care
Housing
Very
American
Modern
Stable
Sustain
Modern Life
Should
Basic
Every American
Guaranteed
Child abuse and neglect offend the basic values of our state. We have a responsibility to provide safe settings for at-risk children and facilitate permanent placement for children who cannot return home.
Matt Blunt
Home
Values
Responsibility
Settings
State
Neglect
Our
At-Risk
Facilitate
Abuse
Safe
Return
Return Home
Permanent
Provide
Offend
Child
Child Abuse
Children
Cannot
Placement
Who
Basic
It seems that I have always been ahead of my time. I had to wait nineteen years before Niagara was harnessed by my system, fifteen years before the basic inventions for wireless which I gave to the world in 1893 were applied universally.
Nikola Tesla
Time
World
Wait
Before
Gave
Nineteen
System
Seems
Inventions
My Time
Wireless
Had
Always
Were
Been
Years
Which
Fifteen
Niagara
Basic
Applied
Universally
The most basic human desire is to feel like you belong. Fitting in is important.
Simon Sinek
You
Important
Feel
Like
Most
Fitting
Fitting In
Human
Basic
Belong
Desire
You have to expect spiritual warfare whenever you stand up for righteousness or call attention to basic values. It's just a matter of light battling the darkness. But the light wins every time. You can't throw enough darkness on light to put it out.
Thomas Kinkade
Time
Spiritual
You
Righteousness
Darkness
Light
Matter
Values
Every
Enough
Every Time
Out
Battling
Wins
Throw
Put
Attention
Call
Up
Expect
Just
Whenever
Warfare
Stand
Stand Up
Basic
The basic Buddhist stand on the question of equality between the genders is age-old. At the highest tantric levels, at the highest esoteric level, you must respect women: every woman.
Dalai Lama
You
Respect
Woman
Women
Equality
Every
Must
Highest
Buddhist
Between
Question
Esoteric
Age-Old
Stand
Basic
Level
Levels
The most basic question is not what is best, but who shall decide what is best.
Thomas Sowell
Best
Shall
Most
Question
Decide
Who
Basic
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.
Warren Buffett
Money
Before
Out
Had
Simply
Known
Were
Dollars
Traits
Just
Them
Billion
Billion Dollars
Billionaires
Jerks
Basic
Brings
Having a mind that is open to everything and attached to nothing seems to me to be one of the most basic principles that you can adopt to contribute to individual and world peace.
Wayne Dyer
Me
You
Peace
World
Mind
Nothing
World Peace
Everything
Adopt
Seems
Having
Attached
Individual
Open
Most
Principles
Contribute
Basic
Basic Principles
Life is not a matter of place, things or comfort; rather, it concerns the basic human rights of family, country, justice and human dignity.
Imelda Marcos
Life
Family
Justice
Rights
Dignity
Matter
Country
Human Rights
Rather
Concerns
Comfort
Human
Place
Human Dignity
Basic
Things
Basic Human Rights
When you single out any particular group of people for secondary citizenship status, that's a violation of basic human rights.
Jimmy Carter
You
Rights
People
Single
Group
Human Rights
Secondary
Out
Status
Citizenship
Particular
Any
Human
Basic
Basic Human Rights
Violation
Access to computers and the Internet has become a basic need for education in our society.
Kent Conrad
Education
Internet
Become
Society
Our
Computers
Access
Basic
Need
I believe everyone should have a broad picture of how the universe operates and our place in it. It is a basic human desire. And it also puts our worries in perspective.
Stephen Hawking
Perspective
Picture
Believe
Universe
Broad
Everyone
Our
Worries
Puts
Also
How
Human
Place
Should
Basic
Desire
The basic tenet of black consciousness is that the black man must reject all value systems that seek to make him a foreigner in the country of his birth and reduce his basic human dignity.
Steven Biko
Man
Dignity
Value
Black
Country
Birth
Value Systems
Systems
Must
Seek
Make
Him
Reduce
Foreigner
His
Human
Human Dignity
Basic
Consciousness
Reject
There is only one basic human right, the right to do as you damn well please. And with it comes the only basic human duty, the duty to take the consequences.
P. J. O'Rourke
You
Duty
Consequences
Damn
Please
Only
Take
Well
Human
Human Right
Right
Basic
The three ordinary things that we often don't pay enough attention to, but which I believe are the drivers of all success, are hard work, perseverance, and basic honesty.
Azim Premji
Success
Work
Hard Work
Perseverance
Honesty
Three
Pay
Believe
Enough
Drivers
Attention
Often
Ordinary
Which
Ordinary Things
Hard
Basic
Things
Jim Crow laws stripped blacks of basic rights. Despite landmark civil rights laws, many public schools were still segregated, blacks still faced barriers to voting, and violence by white racists continued. Such open racism is mostly gone in America, but covert racism is alive and well.
Bob Beckel
Rights
Racism
Voting
Gone
White
Public Schools
Jim
Despite
Jim Crow
Alive
Stripped
Civil
Civil Rights
Faced
Blacks
Laws
Crow
Segregated
Open
Schools
Well
Mostly
Still
Were
Continue
Covert
America
Public
Landmark
Racists
Barriers
Many
Basic
Basic Rights
Violence
The most basic obligation we have to our veterans is that we keep the promises that were made to them. That is what makes the recent failures of the Veterans Administration so shameful.
Doc Hastings
Obligation
Veterans
Made
Promises
Our
Administration
Shameful
Failures
Most
Makes
Were
Veterans Administration
Them
Keep
Basic
Recent
The sole and basic source of our strength is the solidarity of workers, peasants and the intelligentsia, the solidarity of the nation, the solidarity of people who seek to live in dignity, truth, and in harmony with their conscience.
Lech Walesa
Truth
Strength
Patriotism
Dignity
People
Nation
Live
Harmony
Our
Sole
Solidarity
Seek
Source
Intelligentsia
Workers
Who
Conscience
Basic
Peasants
No matter who we are or where we live, we all share a basic concern for the safety and well-being of our young people. Their welfare is the most telling measure of our nation's success - and their potential is the most promising element of its future. It is up to us - all of us - to safeguard that future.
Loretta Lynch
Success
Future
People
Welfare
Safety
Matter
Nation
Young
Live
Our
Telling
Promising
Potential
Share
Most
Safeguard
Concern
Well-Being
Up
Where
Young People
Us
Measure
Who
Element
Basic
Success doesn't necessarily come from breakthrough innovation but from flawless execution. A great strategy alone won't win a game or a battle; the win comes from basic blocking and tackling.
Naveen Jain
Success
Alone
Great
Game
Innovation
Battle
Win
Strategy
Tackling
Come
Execution
Blocking
Breakthrough
Flawless
Basic
Necessarily
The basic skills of leaders are always the same: be driven by a deeper purpose, be a human being, have a passion for what you do, and it's also about hard work and ethics.
Paul Polman
Work
Hard Work
You
Human Being
Passion
Ethics
About
Purpose
Driven
Leaders
Also
Always
Same
Human
Being
Skills
Hard
Deeper
Basic
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.
Pope John Paul II
Experience
Increases
Adding
Alienation
Collectivism
Rather
Economic
Countries
Sadly
Inefficiency
Does
Historical
Lack
Socialist
Away
Basic
Necessities
I think the big mistake in schools is trying to teach children anything, and by using fear as the basic motivation. Fear of getting failing grades, fear of not staying with your class, etc. Interest can produce learning on a scale compared to fear as a nuclear explosion to a firecracker.
Stanley Kubrick
Class
Learning
Mistake
Fear
Big
Think
Scale
Staying
Failing
Schools
Motivation
Big Mistake
Trying
Grades
Getting
Children
Anything
Interest
Etc
Produce
Teach
Your
Explosion
Using
Compared
Nuclear
Basic
Feeling angry is a universal human phenomenon. It is as basic as feeling hungry, lonely, loving, or tired. The capacity to feel angry and to respond in some way to that feeling is in us from birth.
Theodore Isaac Rubin
Angry
Tired
Lonely
Feeling
Birth
Way
Respond
Hungry
Some
Feel
Human
Loving
Capacity
Us
Basic
Universal
Phenomenon
A genocide in Africa has not received the same attention that genocide in Europe or genocide in Turkey or genocide in other part of the world. There is still this kind of basic discrimination against the African people and the African problems.
Boutros Boutros-Ghali
People
Genocide
World
Problems
Other
Kind
Part
Attention
Still
Discrimination
Same
Africa
African
Against
Turkey
Europe
Basic
Received
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