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Essential Quotes by Thornton Wilder
- What is essential does not die but clarifies.
- On the stage it is always now; the personages are standing on that razor-edge, between the past and the future, which is the essential character…
- I am convinced that, except in a few extraordinary cases, one form or another of an unhappy childhood is essential to the formation of exceptional…
- All that we know about those we have loved and lost is that they would wish us to remember them with a more intensified realization…
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- The freedom of all is essential to my freedom. — Mikhail Bakunin
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- In the continuing debate over the morality of enhanced interrogation, an essential consideration is often overlooked: intent. — Gary Bauer
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