Essentials Quotes

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The essential function of art is moral. But a passionate, implicit morality, not didactic. A morality which changes the blood, rather than the mind. — D. H. Lawrence
To have something to say is a question of sleepless nights and worry and endless ratiocination of subject - of endless trying to dig out… — F. Scott Fitzgerald
Every people may establish what form of government they please, and change it as they please, the will of the nation being the only thing… — Thomas Jefferson
This element of surprise or mystery - the detective element as it is sometimes rather emptily called - is of great importance in a plot.… — E. M. Forster
The Arts are man's most useless ... and essential ... activity. — Eugene Ionesco
The arts are the only things that separate us from the other animals. The arts are not decorative. ... They are essential to our comprehension… — Edward Albee
The essential role of the environment is still marginal in discussions about poverty. While we continue to debate these initiatives, environmental degradation, including the loss… — Wangari Maathai
UNICEF is doing amazing things here. They're helping these groups of kids to be mine aware, and using drama and workshops to teach children in… — Ewan McGregor
We must pay attention to the millions of children of this generation who are caught up in armed conflicts. How can we protect them from… — Landon Pearson
While it might seem that anyone can be a value investor, the essential characteristics of this type of investor-patience, discipline, and risk aversion-may well be… — Seth Klarman
I could discern clearly, even at that early age, the essential difference between people who are kind to dogs and people who really love them. — Frances Power Cobbe
It's very encouraging to see the structural changes that the RNC has made this past year in engaging communities on the ground. Recognizing that the… — S. E. Cupp
To most readers the word 'fiction' is an utter fraud. They are entirely convinced that each character has an exact counterpart in real life and… — Louis Auchincloss
Short stories are designed to deliver their impact in as few pages as possible. A tremendous amount is left out, and a good short story… — Orson Scott Card
An essential element for good writing is a good ear: One must listen to the sound of one's own prose. — Barbara Tuchman
To simplify complications is the first essential of success. — George Earle Buckle
If you're going to be a writer, the first essential is just to write. Do not wait for an idea. Start writing something and the… — Louis L'Amour
When I sit down to write, which is the essential moment in my life, I am completely alone. Whenever I write a book, I accumulate… — Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Any religion is forever in danger of petrifaction into mere ritual and habit, though ritual and habit be essential to religion. — Thomas Stearns Eliot
Besides language and music, it [mathematics] is one of the primary manifestations of the free creative power of the human mind, and it is the… — Hermann Weyl

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