Essential Quotes

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I do not conceive that power is given to the President and Senate to dismember the empire, or to alienate any great, essential right. I… — James Madison
To preserve liberty, it is essential that the whole body of people always possess arms... — Richard Henry Lee
Whereas, to preserve liberty, it is essential that the whole body of the people always possess arms, and be taught alike, especially when young, how… — Richard Henry Lee
Loss is essential. Loss is part and parcel of that necessary calamity called life. — Rohinton Mistry
The God-image in man was not destroyed by the Fall but was only damaged and corrupted ('deformed'), and can be restored through God's grace. The… — Carl Jung
What is essential in a work of art is that it should rise far above the realm of personal life and speak to the spirit… — Carl Jung
We cannot protect our children from life. Therefore, it is essential that we prepare them for it. — Rudolf Dreikurs
Smitten as we are with the vision of social righteousness, a God indifferent to everything but adulation, and full of partiality for his individual favorites,… — William James
For there is but one essential justice which cements society, and one law which establishes this justice. This law is right reason, which is the… — Marcus Tullius Cicero
Expansion and modernization of the nation's productive plant is essential to accelerate economic growth and to improve the international competitive position of American industry An… — John F. Kennedy
Associative indexing, the basic idea of which is a provision whereby any item may be caused at will to select immediately and automatically another. This… — Vannevar Bush
We must first realize that dancing is an absolutely independent art, not merely a secondary accompanying one. I believe that it is one of the… — George Balanchine
I couldn’t get near what I wanted through seeing, recognizing and recreating, so I stood the problem on its head. I started studying squares, rectangles,… — Bridget Riley
Of all the arts, abstract painting is the most difficult. It demands that you know how to draw well, that you have a heightened sensitivity… — Wassily Kandinsky
In my work a good library is essential. It enables me to learn the background and previous discussions of the various issues I am called… — Sandra Day O'Connor
The ultimate Mystery of being, the ultimate Truth, is Love. This is the essential structure of reality. When Dante spoke of the 'love which moves… — Venerable Bede
For in order for capitalism to work -- in order for it to produce a good and a stable society -- the traditional Christian virtues… — Antonin Scalia
Asking questions is an essential part of police investigation. In the ordinary sense a police officer is free to ask a person for identification without… — Anthony Kennedy
It is essential to have good tools, but it is also essential that the tools should be used in the right way. — Wallace D. Wattles
Initiative is as essential to success as a hub is essential to a wagon wheel. — Napoleon Hill
Mystery is the essential element of every work of art. — Luis Bunuel
A writer or painter cannot change the world. But they can keep an essential margin of nonconformity alive. — Luis Bunuel
The very design of the gospel doth tend to self-abasing; and the work of grace is begun and carried on in humiliation. Humility is not… — Richard Baxter
I have lived hard and ruined the essential innocence [sic] in myself that could make it that possible [sic], and the fact that I have… — F. Scott Fitzgerald
The mystic reverence, the religious allegiance, which are essential to a true monarchy, are imaginative sentiments that no legislature can manufacture in any people. — Walter Bagehot

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