Bill Gates

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.

American Businessman

J. K. Rowling

I pay a lot of tax, and I feel, one of the reasons I stay and pay why I'm not based in Monaco... I think my country helped me.

English Author

Henri Nouwen

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

Dutch Clergyman

Michelle Obama

I am so tired of fear. And I don't want my girls to live in a country, in a world, based on fear.

American First Lady

Pele

Edson is the person that supports Pele. Edson is the base. Pele just comes and adds the face.

Brazilian Athlete

James Russell Lowell

In the ocean of baseness, the deeper we get, the easier the sinking.

American Poet

Felix Baumgartner

I base jumped off one of the highest buildings in the world.

Austrian Athlete

Fahadh Faasil

I've always wanted to do a role based on a real-life person.

Indian Actor

Stevie Wonder

You can't base your life on other people's expectations.

American Musician

Jamie Oliver

My life is really so much based in England.

British Chef

Used to describe the physical base that supports objects or structures.

Literal Foundation

Sometimes used metaphorically to represent the starting point or fundamental principle of an idea.

Metaphorical Use

Refers to a central location from which operations are directed, especially in military context.

Operational Hub

Implies the physical place associated with an operation, not just the concept of headquarters.

Activity Ground

Used in cooking to describe the primary flavor or ingredient which others are added to.

Culinary Context

Indicates the initial set of ideas or facts that something else is developed from.

Starting Point

In math, refers to the number that is repeatedly multiplied in exponential form.

Mathematical Multiplication

A substance that neutralizes acids and can feel slippery or taste bitter.

Reacts with Acids

In baseball, 'base' refers to the key points players must touch while running around the infield.

Baseball Reference

 dies that your lips are all numb and you can't really talk so i'm kind of like helping them out with their kids and they're taking their kids off and i can see in their eyes something exciting and happen their control came back to them as briana cole and i was like bronical and so that night you know we could have like skiddooed back to the to the base so you have having had a day

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 values are so what's been happening in the world is we've been evaluating all of the things that have been going on by ignoring our values because we don't realize we're in an infinite contest and we only look at our interests so we think about what should we do in Syria and we make a very very good decision based on Syria our interest in Syria we

What game theory teaches...

 daily life on the base to somebody who's not the soldier what's the difference they have much more free time than me they go to parties and people and study and I can do it only on my weekends somebody's telling you what to do sometime and sometimes you might not want to do if we need to do it because

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 Buddha proposed that we love because we are trying to satisfy our base desires. Yet, our passionate cravings are defects, and attachments, even romantic love, are a great source of suffering. Luckily, Buddha discovered the eight-fold path, a sort of program for extinguishing the fires of desire

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 to behind your hip, to the front of your knee, to a few inches in front of your ankle. This keeps your center of gravity directly over your base of support, which allows you to move efficiently with the least amount of fatigue and muscle strain. If you're sitting, your neck should be vertical,

The benefits of good...

 are qualitatively different from those based on real experiences. This suggests that creating a false story about a personal topic takes work and results in a different pattern of language use. A technology known as linguistic text analysis has helped to identify four such common patterns

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 OCD sufferers report feeling crazy for experiencing anxiety based on irrational thoughts and finding it difficult to control their responses. So what exactly causes OCD? The frustrating answer is we don't really know. However, we have some important clues.

Debunking the myths of...

 And doing that, I think, is the answer to the future because it's not about scaling a new solution; it's about creating a movement in education in which people develop their own solutions, but with external support based on a personalized curriculum.

Bring on the learning...

 are now being replaced with standards based on universal constants, like the speed of light. Consistent measurements are such an integral part of our daily lives that it's hard to appreciate what a major accomplishment for humanity they've been.

Why the metric system...

 focuses on changing the self-defeating attitudes people form about their life circumstances. There's also Viktor Frankl's logotherapy. Informed by Frankl's own time as a concentration camp prisoner, logotherapy is based on the Stoic principle