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I gradually became persuaded that the subjects, without intending to, had revealed to me a basic truth about markets that was foreign to the literature of economics.
Vernon L. Smith

Truth, Literature, Economics

It seems not to have been written. It is the quintessence of life. It is the basic truth.
Brooks Atkinson

Life, Truth, Seems

I was interested in nuclei originally with my deuteron photo work because that was one of the fundamental forces, and the measurement was basic to new science.
John Henry Carver

Work, Science, Interested

The very basic core of a man's living spirit is his passion for adventure.
Christopher McCandless

Passion, Living, Spirit

The written word is the basic of everything. Most important, the idea, and after that, the dialogue. You can rehash the dialogue as you go along, it 's disgraceful to have to do this, but now and again you have no choice.
Terence Fisher

Important, Everything, After

And, in fact, you can find that the lack of basic resources, material resources, contributes to unhappiness, but the increase in material resources do not increase happiness.
Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

Happiness, Find, Fact

If you don't invest in basic research at some stage you start losing the basis of applied research.
Rolf-Dieter Heuer

Start, Losing, Research

Whatever basic science resolves, at some stage it is of use to society. The problem is we do not know when or where.
Rolf-Dieter Heuer

Society, Science, Problem

I am very excited to be supporting one of the world's most visionary efforts to seek basic answers to some of the fundamental question about our universe and what other civilisations may exist elsewhere.
Paul Allen

May, Universe, Question

I have to plead basic ignorance of most new jazz artists here.
Gary Lucas

Ignorance, Here, Artists

Seriously, we are in the midst of the convergence of voice and data and that is challenging the infrastructure of the telephone companies. There are huge commercial interests in the basic technology, but even more so in content delivery and control of content.
Steve Crocker

Technology, Control, Seriously

Basic philosophy, spirit and drive of an organization have far more to do with its relative achievements than do technological or economic resources, organizational structure, innovation and timing.
Marvin Bower

Philosophy, Far, Spirit

I think that the basic philosophy was very good. It was just be nice to each other, and don't step on other people's toes and infringe on their freedom.
Kevin Ayers

Good, Freedom, Nice

Students who are interested in learning about the environment should not be dissuaded from doing so, but only if they have proved their proficiency in other basic courses, such as U.S. history. Until then, we need to focus on producing well-educated citizens steeped in their country's history and mindful of their civic responsibilities.
George Nethercutt

History, Learning, Focus

This is a basic requirement the meaning of globalization is that we should admit that the economy of each country is dependent on the economy of all the others.
Richard Grasso

Country, Others, Meaning

In video you are starting with nothing but a black screen. There's no game there. With pinball you at least start with that basic concept, but not with video. The challenge of going from no game to something today is only different because you have to create something so damn fun people will pay $1.00 every two minutes to play it.
Eugene Jarvis

Today, Fun, Nothing

The basic dream of many Colombians is to have a secure nation, without exclusions, with equity, and without hatred.
Alvaro Uribe

Hatred, Dream, Nation

Words are the basic tools, if you are a writer.
James Houston

Words, Writer, Tools

Thus, the more succinctly a train of thought was expounded, and the more comprehensive the unity of its basic idea, the closer it would approximate to the prerequisites of the mathematical way of thinking.
Max Bill

Thinking, Thought, Idea

Restricting access to such a basic health care service, which 99% of sexually experienced American women have used and 62% of American women are using right now, is out of touch with public sentiment.
Sandra Fluke

Health, Women, Care

I have received so many messages of support from across the country - women and men speaking out because they agree that contraception needs to be treated as a basic health care service.
Sandra Fluke

Health, Women, Men

I have seen that technology has contributed to improved communication, that it's contributed to better health care, that it's contributed to better food supplies, that it has contributed to all the basic human needs.
John Warnock

Health, Food, Technology

If diffraction or interference phenomena were to be sought it was therefore necessary, in accordance with the basic principles of wave theory, to select for the test arrangement far smaller decisive dimensions than those employed in corresponding tests with visible light.
Max von Laue

Light, Far, Test

The basic line in any good verse is cadenced... building it around the natural breath structures of speech.
Kenneth Rexroth

Good, Around, Speech

Clean air is a basic right. The responsibility to ensure that falls to Congress and the president.
Thomas Carper

President, Congress, Air

The basic notion was the idea that the loudspeaker should have a voice which was unique and not just an instrument of reproduction, but an instrument unto itself.
David Tudor

Idea, Unique, Voice

In 1970, I had begun work on the basic pancreatic trypsin inhibitor which has later become the model compound for the development of protein NMR, molecular dynamics, and experimental folding studies in other laboratories.
Robert Huber

Work, Become, Later

The photographs were never about me. They were always about the people who were laying their lives on the line for basic civil rights. I look back and I can't believe there was ever a time in this country when ANY citizen could not vote. The times were appalling.
Charles Moore

Time, Country, Vote

I learned about HeLa cells in my first basic biology class, and I just became completely obsessed with them from that point on.
Rebecca Skloot

Learned, Point, Class

We hope that the elected officials will respond positively to a ground swell of letters, phone calls, e-mails and visits from parents. The law clearly states that the responsibility for giving a sound basic education to our children lies with New York State.
Major R. Owens

Education, Hope, Children

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