Essentials Quotes

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It was only since the turn of the century that one returned to the immense role that abstraction plays in the human mind by its… — Sigfried Giedion
Good design is as little design as possible. Less, but better - because it concentrates on the essential aspects, and the products are not burdened… — Dieter Rams
A fad or heresy is the exaltation of something which even if true, is secondary or temporary in its nature against those things which are… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
There are no wise few. Every aristocracy that has ever existed has behaved, in all essential points, exactly like a small mob. — Gilbert K. Chesterton
A substantial extension of public ownership is an essential pre-requisite of greater equality of earned income — Roy Jenkins
From the point of view of logic, my report on 'Exclusion principle and quantum mechanics' has no conclusion. I believe that it will only be… — Wolfgang Pauli
The press and politicians. A delicate relationship. Too close, and danger ensues. Too far apart and democracy itself cannot function without the essential exchange of… — Howard Brenton
Any violation of a woman's body can become sex for men; this is the essential truth of pornography. — Andrea Dworkin
So the idea that there is nothing essential, in the sense that there are no human universals, is dogma. Ask most anyone who is going… — Catharine MacKinnon
We cannot alter the essential shape of a single letter without at the same time destroying the familiar printed face of our language, and thereby… — Jan Tschichold
Abortion politics have distracted all sides from what is really essential: a major aid campaign to improve midwifery, prenatal care and emergency obstetric services in… — Nicholas D. Kristof
Rhetoric is rooted in an essential function of language itself, a function that is wholly realistic and continually born anew: the use of language as… — Kenneth Burke
It is essential that we stop worrying about money and stop resenting our bills. — Louise Hay
The most important thingÂ in the Olympic GamesÂ is not to win but to take part, just as the most important thing in life is… — Pierre de Coubertin
Suffering is essential for the elimination of the ego, just as it was necessary for you to scrub and scrub in order to wash the… — Meher Baba
To maintain the ascendancy of the Constitution over the lawmaking majority is the great and essential point on which the success of the [American] system… — John C. Calhoun
Under the ominous shadow which the second World War and its attendant circumstances have cast on the world, peace has become as essential to civilized… — Cordell Hull
I knew damn well I would never be a movie star. It's too hard; and if you are intelligent, it's too embarrassing. My complexes aren't… — Holly Golightly
Every event has a purpose and every setback its lesson. I have realized that failure, whether of the personal, professional or even spiritual kind, is… — Robin Sharma
It is the work of the Canadian artist to paint or play or write in such a way that life will be enlarged for himself… — J. E. H. MacDonald

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