Essentials Quotes
2179 quotes by 1543 authors
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We add that it would be all too easy to object that mutations have no evolutionary effect because they are eliminated by natural selection. Lethal…
— Pierre-Paul Grasse
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What is essential to practice the Tao is to get rid of cravings and vexations. If these afflictions are not removed, it is impossible to…
— Zhang Sanfeng
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If we want spiritual development, the practice of patience is essential.
— Dalai Lama
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God is waiting for the response of our freedom. Our own choice, our own creativity, is essential to the drama, and this makes the world…
— Stratford Caldecott
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It is not so essential to think much as to love much.
— Teresa of Avila
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Second, the reason to embrace and celebrate these novels as the countercultural event that they are is due largely to the subliminal messages delivered by…
— John Granger
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Stories are a kind of thing, too. Stories and objects share something, a patina. I thought I had this clear, two years ago before I…
— Edmund de Waal
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Love is an essential ingredient in all miracles as it is only love that heals. Techniques don’t heal. Where there is an open heart there…
— Sandra Ingerman
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Jesus wanted far more than to be accepted into one's life. He wanted to take over, and his essential call was to trust him enough…
— Scot McKnight
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But theological change happens though selective quoting. Every religious person does it: You quote those verses that resonate with your own religious insights and ignore…
— Yossi Klein Halevi
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Architect's designs must refer to the unquestionable perfection of the body's symmetry and proportions. If a building is to create a sense of eurythmia, it…
— Marcus Vitruvius Pollio
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Windows are as essential to office prestige as Christmas is to retailing.
— Enid Nemy
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Peace, of course, is different from divorce; indeed, in essential respects, divorce is the opposite of peace.
— Douglas J. Feith
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As every past generation has had to disenthrall itself from an inheritance of truisms and stereotypes, so in our own time we must move on…
— John F. Kennedy
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The teaching of their ancient belief is filled with truth for the present day. Its profound sense of justice, nation to nation, man to man,…
— Dwight D. Eisenhower
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This is America, and our commitment to religious freedom must be unshakeable. The principle that people of all faiths are welcome in this country, and…
— Barack Obama
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Contraction of theological influence has at once been the best measure, and the essential condition of intellectual advance.
— William Edward Hartpole Lecky
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If all consciousness is subject to essential laws in a manner similar to that in which spatial reality is subject to mathematical laws, then these…
— Edmund Husserl
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Idealists are people who believe in the potential of human nature for transformation. . . . The most essential attribute of human nature is its…
— M. Scott Peck
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It's impossible to feel good about yourself if you are doing things that you aren't proud of. . . . It's essential that you .…
— Ellen Bass
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