Essentially Quotes
973 Essentially quotes by 803 unique authors
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In the course of four hours, I watched my brain completely deteriorate in its ability to process all information. On the morning of the hemorrhage,…
— Jill Bolte Taylor
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The whole procedure [of shooting rockets into space] . . . presents difficulties of so fundamental a nature, that we are forced to dismiss the…
— Richard van der Riet Woolley
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The Archivist of the United States essentially works for the American people across partisan lines and not, regardless of which Administration nominates the person, for…
— Allen Weinstein
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We're essentially continuing a system where profits are privatized and...losses socialized,
— Nouriel Roubini
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A money-financed tax cut is essentially equivalent to Milton Friedman's famous 'helicopter drop' of money.
— Ben Bernanke
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I am essentially an amateur medecin, and this to me is almost a mania.
— Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin
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A conservative government survives essentially by dampening expectations and subduing hopes. Conservatism is basically pessimistic, reformism is basically optimistic.
— Gough Whitlam
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My "thinking" time was devoted mainly to activities that were essentially clerical or mechanical: searching, calculating, plotting, transforming, determining the logical or dynamic consequences of…
— J. C. R. Licklider
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Human nature, essentially changeable, as unstable as the dust, can endure no restraint; if it binds itself it soon begins to tear madly at its…
— Franz Kafka
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Therefore, the Negro nation are, as a rule, submissive to slavery, because [Negroes] have little [that is essentially] human and have attributes that are quite…
— Ibn Khaldun
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I’ve always essentially been a New Yorker,
— Lawrence Block
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Sound morals, religious liberty, and a just sense of religious responsibility are essentially connected with all true and lasting happiness.
— William Henry Harrison
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It meant something to me – the idea of a coat guarding and hiding a woman’s body. For me, a woman who is absorbed in…
— Yohji Yamamoto
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Access to high quality video content -- essentially TV programming -- has never been better than today
— Lloyd Braun
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It is one of the many merits of this admirable biography of Proust's mother that it invites one to return to the novel with perhaps…
— Allan Massie
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Android has been managed essentially to make it a profitless prosperity. Right now, if Google is not careful, Android will be Samsung or Samsung will…
— Roger McNamee
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The pathology of setting a deadline to the earliest articulable date essentially guarantees that the schedule will be missed.
— Tom DeMarco
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Life is too long to be good at C++ – if you had spent all that time to become good at it, you would essentially…
— Erik Naggum
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The definition of a limit is essentially his [Cauchy's] creation and is as much of a miracle as those fantastic Swiss clocks of the period…
— David Berlinski
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The other thing I like, in fact, several months ago I introduced a bill to end the absurd catch and release policy where our government…
— John Doolittle
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