#basis

There are great municipal investments out there, but on a blanket basis you have to be really careful about knowing what cash flows are supporting your investments. ↗

— Meredith Whitney

#basis #blanket #careful #cash #flows

I was getting hot flashes and sweats on a regular basis. That's not normal, even for my age. ↗

— Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

#basis #even #flashes #getting #hot

When men are arrested without any legal basis and for political reasons, it's merely a routine, everyday occurrence in Russia, and hardly anyone has any sympathy. ↗

— Alexei Navalny

#anyone #arrested #basis #everyday #hardly

A third ideal that has made its way in the modern world is reliance on reason, especially reason disciplined and enriched by modern science. An eternal basis of human intercommunication is reason. ↗

— Emily Greene Balch

#disciplined #enriched #especially #eternal #human

As to judging our own time, and thereby gaining some basis for a judgment of future possibilities, we are doubtless not only too close to it to appraise it but too much formed by it and enclosed within it to do so. ↗

— Emily Greene Balch

#basis #close #doubtless #enclosed #formed

Compassion has no place in the natural order of the world which operates on the basis of necessity. Compassion opposes this order and is therefore best thought of as being in some way supernatural. ↗

— John Berger

#being #best #compassion #natural #natural order