Famous quotes containing the words basis and/or pursuit:
“Protoplasm, simple or nucleated, is the formal basis of all life. It is the clay of the potter: which, bake it and paint it as he will, remains clay, separated by artifice, and not by nature from the commonest brick or sun-dried clod.”
—Thomas Henry Huxley (18251895)
“One knows so well the popular idea of health. The English country gentleman galloping after a foxthe unspeakable in full pursuit of the uneatable.”
—Oscar Wilde (18541900)
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