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A system of morality which is based on relative emotional values is a mere illusion, a thoroughly vulgar conception which has nothing sound in it and nothing true.

The spirit in which the offer was made must of necessity contribute to improving and alleviating the situation of the Jewish people without our renouncing one iota of the great principles upon which our movement is based.

I wonder how often in the past I may have missed the good in people because I pre-judged, based on the differences?

Historically, the notes of scale systems anywhere have been based on these pure harmonics.

Leave bands, go back to obscurity if I choose to, without a great sense of loss of security because it's all been based on the fact that I did it on my own or was doing, enjoying doing it on my own in the first place.

Look, the hard-line Jewish position is based, to this day, on the idea that the Palestinian Arabs somehow or other will either accept third-class status, or they will pick up and go away. Now, this isn't happening.

Much violence is based on the illusion that life is a property to be defended and not to be shared.

Too many problem-solving sessions become battlegrounds where decisions are made based on power rather than intelligence.

The core issue here is that the Israeli government refuses to commit to terms of reference for the negotiations that are based on international law and United Nations resolutions, and that it frantically continues to intensify building of settlements on the territory of the State of Palestine.

Comedy has to be based on truth. You take the truth and you put a little curlicue at the end.

The movie is actually from a book by Stephen King called The Body. When they were gonna put it to a motion picture, they found the story was a bit too strong for the title The Body, based on a young kid's movie. It would be too heavy.

Based on what our country stands for. We can't fail to stand for democracy.

We are living in a world where everything is based on security.

No one should be denied the opportunity to get an education and increase their earning potential based solely on their inability to pay for a college education.

Policymakers have to make judgments based on the best intelligence they get.

I do not think that we should select judges based on a particular philosophy as opposed to temperament, commitment to judicial neutrality and commitment to other more constant values as to which there is general consensus.

Well, my books - I think one of the hallmarks of my thrillers is that they're based in reality.

I never felt comfortable with making political decisions based on whether, you know, it was the right thing to do in terms of a poll.

If you met my dad, I think a lot of things would be put to rest. Because my pops is a pretty silly guy. But, Coldcut, they're based in the U.K. I'm a big fan of jazz music, so American music has had a big influence on what I listen to.

Know the difference between principles based on right or wrong vs. principles based on personal gain, and consider the basis of your own principles.

NAFTA recognizes the reality of today's economy - globalization and technology. Our future is not in competing at the low-level wage job; it is in creating high-wage, new technology jobs based on our skills and our productivity.

I am not the kind of girl who can trust a theory based on one person.

Our whole economy is based on planned obsolescence.

Yeah, my drum programming especially is based on my knowledge of playing a drum kit. For the bass too, definitely. It was the first thing that I translated any sort of ideas through. It must have shaped it somehow.

With fantasy and sci-fi, it's based in a real fandom. You're presenting to experts, and their source material is really important to them. They'll come up and ask: 'so when you turned your head slightly in that scene, what were you thinking?'

Most of the monsters... are based on some sort of mythology. Every culture and even some geographical areas have monsters and mythology that is their own.

I don't have advice for people on how to dress. People should dress based on what they find beautiful. My best advice: Keep your clothes clean.

Affirmative action based on quotas is wrong - wrong because it is antithetical to the genius of the American idea: individual liberty.

I never took acting classes, but I knew I could do it based on the skill with which I lied to my parents on a regular basis!

Americans' addiction to sports, with the NFL at the top, is based on the excitement generated by the potential for the unexpected great play which can only happen with honest competition from great athletes.