Essentials Quotes

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The highest compliment one can be paid by another human being is to be told: 'Because of what you are, you are essential to my… — Nathaniel Branden
Nationwide thinking, nationwide planning and nationwide action are the three great essentials to prevent nationwide crises for future generations to struggle through. — Franklin D. Roosevelt
It is, therefore, essential that we guard our own thinking and not be among those who cry out against prejudices applicable to themselves, while busy… — Wendell Willkie
There is far less to the Presidency, in terms of essential activity, than meets the eye. — Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.
Non-cooperation in military matters should be an essential moral principle for all true scientists ... — Albert Einstein
It is characteristic of the military mentality that non-human factors ... are held essential, while the human being, his desires and thoughts-in short, the psychological… — Albert Einstein
There are two essential epochs in any enterprise - to begin, and to get done. — Liberty Hyde Bailey
This is the essential evil of vice: it debases a man. — Edwin Hubbel Chapin
Poetry has to be something more than a conception of the mind. It has to be a revelation of nature. Conceptions are artificial. Perceptions are… — Wallace Stevens
Nothing is more essential in the treatment of serious disease than the liberation of the patient from panic and foreboding. — Norman Cousins
Routine is the god of every social system; it is the seventh heaven of business, the essential component in the success of every factory, the… — Alfred North Whitehead
The continuation of authority has frequently proved the undoing of democratic governments. Repeated elections are essential to the system of popular governments, because there is… — Simon Bolivar
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… — Thornton Wilder
The government being the peoples business, it necessarily follows that its operations should be at all times open to the public view. Publicity is therefore… — William Jennings Bryan
If one man can be allowed to determine for himself what is law, every man can. That means first chaos, then tyranny. Legal process is… — Felix Frankfurter
Respect for the word - to employ it with scrupulous care and an incorruptible heartfelt love of truth - is essential if there is to… — Dag Hammarskjold
The existence of pleasure is the first mystery. The existence of pain has prompted far more philosophical speculation. Pleasure and pain need to be considered… — John Berger
The present era grabs everything that was ever written in order to transform it into films, TV programs; or cartoons. What is essential in a… — Milan Kundera
If it were felt that the free development of individuality is one of the leading essentials of well-being; that it is not only a coordinate… — John Stuart Mill
The first essential in writing about anything is that the writer should have no experience of the matter. — Isadora Duncan

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