"Exaggerate the essential, leave the obvious vague." — Vincent Van Gogh

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• Touch seems to be as essential as sunlight. — Diane Ackerman
• I'm working for the women in the world, today; that's my essential issue. — Michelle Bachelet
• We have to make sure that women's issues are an essential element on the agendas of all heads of state,… — Michelle Bachelet
• The freedom of all is essential to my freedom. — Mikhail Bakunin
• Bathtubs, pools, water - to me, it's a very essential part of being grounded and sensual and feeling yourself. — Andre Balazs
• Women of this planet need some essential resources: wells, seeds and roads. That is primarily all we have ever needed.… — Roseanne Barr
• The Hebrews have done more to civilize men than any other nation. If I were an atheist, and believed blind… — John Adams
• The essential element in personal magnetism is a consuming sincerity - an overwhelming faith in the importance of the work… — Bruce Barton
• The pleasure we derive from the representation of the present is due, not only to the beauty it can be… — Charles Baudelaire
• In the continuing debate over the morality of enhanced interrogation, an essential consideration is often overlooked: intent. — Gary Bauer
• A desire to be in charge of our own lives, a need for control, is born in each of us.… — Robert Foster Bennett

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