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- Any translation which intends to perform a transmitting function cannot transmit anything but information-hence, something inessential. This is the hallmark of bad… — Walter Benjamin
- Failure means a stripping away of the inessential. — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
- Kindness, as we will see, has many facets. But its essence is as simple as can be. We will find that kindness… — Piero Ferrucci
- And everything else will then turn out to be unimportant and inessential except this: father, child, and love. And then, looking at… — Pope John Paul II
- The premonition of death may for many be a stimulus to novelty of experience: the imminence of death serves to sweep away… — David Riesman
- I feel a sudden clear focus and perspective. There is no time for anything inessential. — Oliver Sacks
- To know anything of a poet but his poetry is, so far as the poetry is concerned, to know something that may… — John Drinkwater
- In a society that celebrates the inessential, architecture can put up a resistance, counteract the waste of forms and meanings and speak… — Peter Zumthor
- There are essential and inessential insanities... Inessential insanities get one in trouble with oneself. Essential insanities get one in trouble with others.… — Tom Robbins
- Creativity has more to do with the elimination of the inessential than with inventing something new. — Helmut Jahn
- Why do I talk about the benefits of failure? Simply because failure meant a stripping away of the inessential. I stopped pretending… — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
- There are essential and inessential insanities. The later are solar in character, the former are linked to the moon. — Tom Robbins