In essence, money gives us the calories we need to survive. Over time, we became aware that exchange and cooperation increase our… — Kabir Sehgal Copy Share Image
Superstition belongs to the essence of mankind and takes refuge, when one thinks one has suppressed it completely, in the strangest nooks… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
I believe that the essence of government lies with unceasing concern for the welfare and dignity and decency and innate integrity of… — Lyndon B. Johnson Copy Share Image
Most of our occupations are low comedy… We must play our part duly, but as the part of a borrowed character. Of… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
Sometimes, if a song is written, in essence, to be that stripped down, it's very touchy when you start adding things, because… — Chris Cornell Copy Share Image
I'm totally crazy, I know that. I don't say that to be a smartass, but I know that that's the very essence… — Maurice Sendak Copy Share Image
The awakening is the purpose. The awakening of the fact that in essence we are light, we are love. Each cell of… — Dolores Cannon Copy Share Image
Jesus didn't wait until we got better to die for us. He died when we were in our most unlovely state. The… — Tony Evans Copy Share Image
Fear is not at the heart of Christianity nor of our nation. The very essence of Christian faith lies in forgiveness. Christians… — Cory Bernardi Copy Share Image
Too much study of the scriptures does more harm than good. The important thing is to know the essence of the scriptures.… — Ramakrishna Copy Share Image
I can't help but think that at the end of your life, when you look back, there'll be a tone. And that… — Richard Linklater Copy Share Image
The mistake we make is to turn upon our past with angry wholesale negation. … The way of wisdom is to treat… — John Cowper Powys Copy Share Image
We have to be on guard that we don't spend so much time worrying about terrorism and guarding ourselves that we start… — Colin Powell Copy Share Image
The police are asking through the bedroom door, why did I make a batch of strawberry daiquiris before I called them? Because… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
The very essence of civil liberty certainly consists in the right of every individual to claim the protection of the laws, whenever… — John Marshall Copy Share Image
I try to play the bare essence, to let everything be just what it's supposed to be in that particular spot...You have… — Dizzy Gillespie Copy Share Image
May peace reign in all hearts; let us not forget that peace is light. Let us not forget that peace is an… — Samael Aun Weor Copy Share Image
LSD should be treated as a sacred drug and receive corresponding preparation, preparation of quite a different kind than other psychotropic agents.… — Albert Hofmann Copy Share Image
A river is nearly the ultimate symbol for the very essence of change itself. It flows unceasingly from one point of being… — Aberjhani Copy Share Image
The essence of power is the knowledge that what you do is going to have an effect not just an immediate but… — Bob Hawke Copy Share Image
Government, in its very essence, is opposed to all increase in knowledge. Its tendency is always towards permanence and against change...[T]he progress… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
Plato ... teaches the separation of the human soul from its " home " in the realm of pure essences. Man is… — Paul Tillich Copy Share Image
When it is understood that one loses joy and happiness in the attempt to possess them, the essence of natural farming will… — Masanobu Fukuoka Copy Share Image
I did short film with Damian Lewis from Homeland, that was a really incredible experience. He's one of the best actors I've… — Shannyn Sossamon Copy Share Image
Perhaps this sounds very simple, but simple things are always the most difficult. In actual life it requires the greatest discipline to… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
Even a stone, and more easily a flower or a bird, could show you the way back to God, to the Source,… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
God is the efficient cause not only of the existence of things, but also of their essence. Corr. Individual things are nothing… — Baruch Spinoza Copy Share Image
Art lives on the mental plane (the real painting is not the set of dry pigments on the canvas nor is a… — David Mumford Copy Share Image
Stand-up comedy is a very hard thing on the spirit. There are people who transcend it, like Jack Benny and Steve Martin,… — Mike Nichols Copy Share Image
Harmony sinks deep into the recesses of the soul and takes its strongest hold there, bringing grace also to the body &… — Plato Copy Share Image
To love yourself, truly love yourself, is to finally discover the essence of personal courage, self-respect, integrity, and self-esteem. These are the… — Caroline Myss Copy Share Image
We mustn't fear to adopt the advanced management methods applied in capitalist countries. The very essence of socialism is the liberation and… — Deng Xiaoping Copy Share Image
I think the best way to view the Gospels is to view them as a magnificent portrait being painted by Jewish artists… — John Shelby Spong Copy Share Image
Freedom is the essence of this faith. It has for its object simply to make men good and wise. Its institutions then… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
When you have achieved a state of calmness and readiness, then you are ready to know, ready to understand in a deep… — Tsoknyi Rinpoche Copy Share Image
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