Essential Quotes

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A safe and nutritionally adequate diet is a basic individual right and an essential condition for sustainable development, especially in developing countries. — Gro Harlem Brundtland
Mere parsimony is not economy. Expense, and great expense, may be an essential part in true economy. — Edmund Burke
Sigmund Freud was the apostle of disbelief. He was the one who made psychoanalysis a part of our culture, and in so doing he kicked… — Tony Campolo
The absurd is the essential concept and the first truth. — Albert Camus
Why should it be essential to love rarely in order to love much? — Albert Camus
For all right judgment of any man or things it is useful, nay, essential, to see his good qualities before pronouncing on his bad. — Thomas Carlyle
A person who is gifted sees the essential point and leaves the rest as surplus. — Thomas Carlyle
I think we need a very, very serious effort, primarily through tax policy to provide incentives and encouragement for people to save and invest and… — Dick Cheney
The ordinary scientific man is strictly a sentimentalist. He is a sentimentalist in this essential sense, that he is soaked and swept away by mere… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
In this possibly terminal phase of human existence, democracy and freedom are more than just ideals to be valued - they may be essential to… — Noam Chomsky
Part of our essential humanity is paying respect to what God gave us and what will be here a long time after we're gone. — William J. Clinton
Mockery of religion is one of the most essential things because to demystify supposedly 'holy text dictated by god' and show that they are man… — Christopher Hitchens
When faced with world problems - like hunger, overpopulation, nuclear weapons, the arms trade - you may be among those who are overwhelmed by a… — Scilla Elworthy
...we must face the fact that unilateral action on the part of the United States will never be enough to stop illegal immigration. Immigrants come… — Barbara Jordan
I wouldn't say that religion has promoted the social progress of mankind. I say that it has been a detriment to the progress of civilization,… — Unknown Author
Developing excellent COMMUNICATION skills is absolutely essential to effective leadership. The leader must be able to share knowledge and ideas to transmit a sense of… — Gil Amelio
Winter testing is essential but there comes a point where you have had enough of all the rehearsals and the pretend racing. You just want… — Damon Hill
Of these three essential factors, space might be said to be one with which biogeography is primarily concerned. However space necessarily interplays with time and… — Leon Croizat
When considering the stature of an athlete or for that matter any person, I set great store in certain qualities which I believe to be… — Donald Bradman
If we accept and internalize the fact of our own mortality, then, by definition, we have to deal with the essential questions of how we… — Surya Das
It is essential to seek out enemy agents who have come to conduct espionage against you and to bribe them to serve you. Give them… — Sun Tzu
Secret operations are essential in war; upon them the army relies to make its every move. — Sun Tzu
...[V]igor of government is essential to the security of liberty... — Alexander Hamilton
Energy in the executive is a leading character in the definition of good government. It is essential to the protection of the community against foreign… — Alexander Hamilton
The citizens of America have too much discernment to be argued into anarchy. And I am much mistaken, if experience has not wrought a deep… — Alexander Hamilton

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