Essential Quotes

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The world's forests need to be seen for what they are.. giant global utilities, providing essential services to humanity on a vast scale. Rainforests store… — Prince Charles
Women's rights are an essential part of the overall human rights agenda, trained on the equal dignity and ability to live in freedom all people… — Ruth Bader Ginsburg
For too long the development debate has ignored the fact that poverty tends to be characterized not only by material insufficiency but also by denial… — Kofi Annan
No chemical compound in the atmosphere has a worse reputation than CO2, thanks to the single-minded demonization of this natural and essential atmospheric gas by… — William Happer
Christians, in particular, realize that their responsibility within creation and their duty towards nature and the Creator are an essential part of their faith. — Pope John Paul II
In physical science a first essential step in the direction of learning any subject is to find principles of numerical reckoning and practicable methods for… — Lord Kelvin
Love is the essential reality and our purpose on earth. To be consciously aware of it, to experience love in ourselves and others, is the… — Marianne Williamson
Of course voting is useful. But then again, I don't put a big glow to it. Voting is about as essential as washing yourself. It's… — Chuck D
95 percent of economics is common sense made complicated, and even for the remaining 5 percent, the essential reasoning, if not all the technical details,… — Ha-Joon Chang
It is good to realize that falling apart is not such a bad thing. Indeed, it is as essential to evolutionary and psychological transformation as… — Joanna Macy
I believe we're going to find that respect and affection are essential to all relationships working and contempt destroys them. — John M. Gottman
Death? Why this fuss about death? Use your imagination, try to visualize a world without death! Death is the essential condition of life, not an… — Charlotte Perkins Gilman
The city as a center where, any day in any year, there may be a fresh encounter with a new talent, a keen mind or… — Margaret Mead
Not until we see the richness of the Hindu mind and its essential spirituality can we understand India — Lin Yutang
Wilderness has become one of the world's fastest disappearing resources, and it is non-renewable. Yet unlike oil, gold or woodchips, it is essential to the… — Bob Brown
Business is the economic engine of our Western culture, and if it could be transformed to truly serve nature as well as ourselves, it could… — Karl-Henrik Robert
The nature of finite things is to have the seed of their passing-away as their essential being: the hour of their birth is the hour… — Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
Security against foreign danger is one of the primitive objects of civil society. It is an avowed and essential object of the American Union. — James Madison
There can be no limitation of that authority which is to provide for the defense and protection of the community in any matter essential to… — Alexander Hamilton
The law given from Sinai was a civil and municipal as well as a moral and religious code; it contained many statutes . . .… — John Quincy Adams

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