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Crisis alone is not enough. There must also be a basis, though it need be neither rational nor ultimately correct, for faith in the particular candidate chosen. ↗

— Thomas Kuhn

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Man is not logical and his intellectual history is a record of mental reserves and compromises. He hangs on to what he can in his old beliefs even when he is compelled to surrender their logical basis. ↗

— John Dewey

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I grew up in an abusive home and was told on a daily basis by my father that I would never amount to anything and that I looked like a boy. ↗

— Janice Dickinson

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The mystical poetry of William Blake's artwork also forms the basis for the album cover. ↗

— Bruce Dickinson

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I turned down some movies that were quite good. mainly on the basis of taste. ↗

— Dick Van Dyke

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My mother has never been involved in my professional life. I am very close to my mother but we keep it on a mother-daughter basis and not a work-related basis. ↗

— Sheena Easton

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I still work out on a daily basis. ↗

— Clint Eastwood

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The attack on Clinton on terrorism is entirely politically inspired by the right-wing of the Republicans, and has no basis in fact whatsoever. ↗

— Sidney Blumenthal

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On the basis of the familiar experience that that which is learned with difficulty is better retained, it would have been safe to prophesy such an effect from the greater number of repetitions. ↗

— Hermann Ebbinghaus

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Science has sometimes been said to be opposed to faith, and inconsistent with it. But all science, in fact, rests on a basis of faith, for it assumes the permanence and uniformity of natural laws - a thing which can never be demonstrated. ↗

— Tryon Edwards

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