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The ability to row in any conditions, raging crosswind, two-foot tall jet ski wakes, torrential downpour, is absolutely essential in order to be a champion… — Brad Alan Lewis
In modern physics, the universe is experienced as a dynamic inseparable whole which always includes the observer in an essential way. — Fritjof Capra
What people most need now is to apply their conversion skills to those things that are essential for their survival. They need to convert facts… — Norman Cousins
I never set limits or created mental barriers. You may have read that I imagined my biceps as big as mountain peaks when I did… — Arnold Schwarzenegger
These smugglers, many of them present in trafficking through my State of Arizona, create false Social Security cards, false green cards, visas and a variety… — John Shadegg
No one who has read official documents needs to be told how easy it is to conceal the essential truth under the apparently candid and… — Woodrow Wilson
Pain is physical; suffering is mental. Beyond the mind there is no suffering. Pain is essential for the survival of the body, but none compels… — Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
It is my deliberate opinion that the one essential requisite of human welfare in all ways is scientific knowledge of human nature. — Harriet Martineau
There are men whose manners have the same essential splendor as the simple and awful sculpture on the friezes of the Parthenon, and the remains… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Throughout this book, we've been evangelizing simplicity, but ironically, the practice of simplicity is not simple. It is easy to build a bulky design by… — Jakob Nielsen
I can still recall vividly how Freud said to me, "My dear Jung, promise me never to abandon the sexual theory. That is the most… — Carl Jung
Governments having failed the people, the people are entirely justified in assuming for themselves and essential role in government. Where a government takes proper measures… — Benjamin Franklin
But the truth is that it is only by believing in God that we can ever criticize the government. Once abolish the God, and the… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
But if they are well-founded and just, they can be no less than the high requirements of heaven, addressed by the voice of God to… — Simon Greenleaf
The truth seems . . . to be that in the ultimate and essential problem the economic factor is relatively superficial and unimportant. — Frank Knight
This grossness, physical love, which is actually the biological cooling system, is very essential. The prana feeds the tattvas and the tattvas create the rasa.… — Harbhajan Singh Yogi
There's an essential order you have to follow in everything. It's a way of showing respect, following everything in the correct order. — Haruki Murakami
It is essential that our present negative propaganda regarding psychedelic drugs be replaced with honesty and truthfulness about their effects, both good and bad. — Alexander Shulgin
Our essential differences from the norm are both huge and deeply offensive to those among us who wish to be quietly integrated into society without… — Reverend Malcolm Boyd
To a great experience one thing is essential, an experiencing nature. — Walter Bagehot
I believe that it must be the policy of the United States to support free peoples who are resisting attempted subjugation by armed minorities or… — Harry S. Truman
Negotiations with Iran, especially, will not be easy under any circumstances, but I suspect that they might be somewhat less difficult if the nuclear-weapon states… — Hans Blix
First and foremost it is essential to understand the essence, the overall idea of any fashionable variation, and only then include it in one's repertoire.… — Lev Polugaevsky
Privative appropriation and domination are thus originally imposed and felt as a positive right, but in the form of a negative universality. Valid for everyone,… — Raoul Vaneigem
More essential than working on attitudes and behaviors is examining the paradigms out of which those attitudes and behaviors flow. — Stephen Covey

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