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Every good relationship, especially marriage, is based on respect. If it's not based on respect, nothing that appears to be good will last very long.
Amy Grant

Marriage, Good, Respect

All compromise is based on give and take, but there can be no give and take on fundamentals. Any compromise on mere fundamentals is a surrender. For it is all give and no take.
Mahatma Gandhi

Give, Compromise, Surrender

Power is of two kinds. One is obtained by the fear of punishment and the other by acts of love. Power based on love is a thousand times more effective and permanent then the one derived from fear of punishment.
Mahatma Gandhi

Love, Power, Fear

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.
Socrates

Emotional, True, Nothing

Trust your hunches. They're usually based on facts filed away just below the conscious level.
Joyce Brothers

Trust, Away, Facts

My religion is based on truth and non-violence. Truth is my God. Non-violence is the means of realising Him.
Mahatma Gandhi

Religion, God, Truth

A good decision is based on knowledge and not on numbers.
Plato

Good, Knowledge, Decision

I would heartily welcome the union of East and West provided it is not based on brute force.
Mahatma Gandhi

Union, Force, Welcome

Anger is a manifestation of a deeper issue... and that, for me, is based on insecurity, self-esteem and loneliness.
Naomi Campbell

Anger, Insecurity, Loneliness

Nothing is more despicable than respect based on fear.
Albert Camus

Respect, Fear, Nothing

Beauty and femininity are ageless and can't be contrived, and glamour, although the manufacturers won't like this, cannot be manufactured. Not real glamour; it's based on femininity.
Marilyn Monroe

Beauty, Real, Cannot

The society based on production is only productive, not creative.
Albert Camus

Society, Creative, Productive

Real nobility is based on scorn, courage, and profound indifference.
Albert Camus

Courage, Real, Profound

Relationships based on obligation lack dignity.
Wayne Dyer

Dignity, Lack, Obligation

Tonight, we gather to affirm the greatness of our nation - not because of the height of our skyscrapers, or the power of our military, or the size of our economy. Our pride is based on a very simple premise, summed up in a declaration made over two hundred years ago.
Barack Obama

Power, Simple, Made

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My success was not based so much on any great intelligence but on great common sense.
Helen Gurley Brown

Success, Great, Sense

If the critics are right that I've made all my decisions based on polls, then I must not be very good at reading them.
Barack Obama

Good, Made, Decisions

All war is based on deception.
Sun Tzu

Most comedy is based on getting a laugh at somebody else's expense. And I find that that's just a form of bullying in a major way. So I want to be an example that you can be funny and be kind, and make people laugh without hurting somebody else's feelings.
Ellen DeGeneres

Funny, Laugh, Feelings

All warfare is based on deception.
Sun Tzu

Deception, Warfare

Love is an emotion that is based on an opinion of women that is impossible for those who have had any experience with them.
H. L. Mencken

Love, Women, Experience

The strength and power and goodness of America has always been based on the strength and power and goodness of our communities, our families, our faiths. That is the bedrock of what makes America, America. In our best days, we can feel the vibrancy of America's communities, large and small.
Mitt Romney

Power, Best, Strength

I believe all Americans who believe in freedom, tolerance and human rights have a responsibility to oppose bigotry and prejudice based on sexual orientation.
Coretta Scott King

Freedom, Human, Tolerance

A hallucination is a fact, not an error; what is erroneous is a judgment based upon it.
Bertrand Russell

Fact, Judgment, Error

The advance of technology is based on making it fit in so that you don't really even notice it, so it's part of everyday life.
Bill Gates

Life, Technology, Making

Maybe every other American movie shouldn't be based on a comic book. Other countries will think Americans live in an infantile fantasy land where reality is whatever we say it is and every problem can be solved with violence.
Bill Maher

Live, Reality, Book

Our success educationally, industrially and politically is based upon the protection of a nation founded by ourselves. And the nation can be nowhere else but in Africa.
Marcus Garvey

Success, Else, Nation

Our limitations and success will be based, most often, on your own expectations for ourselves. What the mind dwells upon, the body acts upon.
Denis Waitley

Success, Mind, Often

I think people are born bisexual and the make subconscious choices based on the pressures of society. I have no question in my mind about being bisexual. But I'm also a hypocrite: I would never date a girl who is bisexual, because that means they also sleep with men, and men are so dirty that I'd never sleep with a girl who had slept with a man.
Megan Fox

Men, Society, Girl

The whole idea of compassion is based on a keen awareness of the interdependence of all these living beings, which are all part of one another, and all involved in one another.
Thomas Merton

Living, Compassion, Another

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