Essential Quotes

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Some writers are curiously unmusical. I don't get it. I don't get them. For me, music is essential. I always have music on when I'm… — Barry Hannah
What is thematically posited is only what is given, by pure reflection, with all its immanent essential moments absolutely as it is given to pure… — Edmund Husserl
I represent nine sovereign Sioux tribes. In South Dakota, some of the tribes are in the most remote, rural areas of the country. They lack… — Stephanie Herseth Sandlin
You know, Taylor Lautner, with a body like that, he should be taking his shirt off. For me, it's not so essential. — Max Irons
The great philosophers and the great works are standards for the selection of what is essential. Everything that we do in studying the history of… — Karl Jaspers
The essential attribute of a new sense is, not the perception of external objects or influences which ordinarily do not act upon the senses, but… — Johannes Peter Muller
If you are a poet, you will see clearly that there is a cloud floating in this sheet of paper. Without a cloud, there will… — Nhat Hanh
It will feel impossible; like you are dying inside this is your soul crying out for life. It may take everything you have; every ounce… — Bryant H. McGill
The study of motivation goes back to the Greeks. Their sports were essential to their education. They saw in sports the integration of body, mind… — George A. Sheehan
The free-trade idea, logically applied, will abolish usury; and with usury will disappear the chief bone of contention between labor and capital. But, just at… — Ezra Heywood
Of course, with well-masticated food playing the role of social glue, it's absolutely essential that everyone clear their plate. Sod the starving kiddies in Africa… — Will Self
Are there so many fascinating, exciting things to do or so many challenges pressing down upon you that it is hard to keep focused on… — Richard G. Scott
Passion is essential for a meaningful existence. Life is about what you feel. — Jonathan Cainer
Beauty draws us in. We can't stop looking or listening or touching. It takes us outside ourselves and it motivates us. It's essential to life… — Nancy Etcoff
The self you have betrayed is your mind; self-esteem is reliance on one’s power to think. The ego you seek, that essential “you” which you… — John Galt
Our most dangerous tendency is to expect too much of government, and at the same time do for it too little. We contemplate the immediate… — Warren G. Harding
It is the business of thought to define things, to find the boundaries; thought, indeed, is a ceaseless process of definition. It is the business… — Vance Palmer
Imagination transforms one substance into another. It changes what is into what might be, what was into what might have been. Straw becomes gold, gold… — Steve Rasnic Tem
Not just a timely movie, a great one...Timbuktu feels at once timely and permanent, immediate and essential. — A. O. Scott
The essential difference in service is not machines or 'things.' The essential difference is minds, hearts, spirits, and souls. — Herb Kelleher
The fundamental aspect of video is not the image, even though you can stand in amazement at what can be done electronically, how images can… — Bill Viola
Bible study is the most essential ingredient in the believer's spiritual life, because it is only in study of the Bible as that is blessed… — James Montgomery Boice
Shame and guilt are noble emotions essential in the maintenance of civilized society, and vital for the development of some of the most refined and… — Willard Gaylin
Babies and language are the essential ingredients of civilization, and speakers of language no more know where it came from than babies know where they… — Charlton Laird
Let us be clear: censorship is cowardice. ... It masks corruption. It is a school of torture: it teaches, and accustoms one to the use… — Pablo Antonio Cuadra

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