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If man is to survive, he will have learned to take a delight in the essential differences between men and between cultures. He will learn… — Gene Roddenberry
I entertain a private suspicion that physical sports were much more really effective and beneficent when they were not taken quite so seriously. One of… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
It was strange: When you reduced even a fledgling love affair to its essentials--I loved her, she maybe loved me, I was foolish, I suffered--it… — Susan Vreeland
Exaggerate the essential, leave the obvious vague. — Vincent Van Gogh
I did not believe him capable of love. That is an emotion in which tenderness is an essential part, but Strickland had no tenderness either… — W. Somerset Maugham
Religious institutions that use government power in support of themselves and force their views on persons of other faiths, or of no faith, undermine all… — Thomas Jefferson
...music is about as physical as it gets: your essential rhythm is your heartbeat; your essential sound, the breath. We're walking temples of noise, and… — Anne Lamott
In the things that really matter--our covenants, the commandments, and following the prophet--we need to be completely united. In the non-essentials, we have our agency… — Sheri L. Dew
Like all other lonely or hungry things, ego loves the light. It sees light, and the possibility of being close to the soul, and it… — Clarissa Pinkola Estes
...Our Lord Jesus Christ added nothing to God in his essential being and glory, either by what He did or suffered. True, blessedly and gloriously… — Arthur W. Pink
Experience shows that Being is the essential, basic nature of the mind; but, since It commonly remains in tune with the senses projecting outwards toward… — Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
The art of reading consists in remembering the essentials and forgetting non essentials. — Adolf Hitler
For the canons of good society are, or should be, the same as the canons of art. Form is absolutely essential to it. — Oscar Wilde
Relate comic things in pompous fashion. Irregularity, in other words the unexpected, the surprising, the astonishing, are essential to and characteristic of beauty. Two fundamental… — Charles Baudelaire
And he gave it for his opinion, "that whoever could make two ears of corn, or two blades of grass, to grow upon a spot… — Jonathan Swift
Asking the proper question is the central action of transformation- in fairy tales, in analysis, and in individuation. The key question causes germination of consciousness.… — Clarissa Pinkola Estes
Poetry, the best of it, is lunar and is concerned with the essential insanities. Journalism is solar (there are numerous newspapers named The Sun, none… — Tom Robbins
Once evil is individualized, becoming part of everyday life, the way of resisting it also becomes individual. How does the soul survive? is the essential… — Azar Nafisi
The schoolmaster is the person who takes the children off the parents' hands for a consideration. That is to say, he establishes a child prison,… — George Bernard Shaw
He was resentful against all those in authority over him, and this, combined with a lazy indifference toward his work, exasperated every master in school.… — F. Scott Fitzgerald

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