Essentials Quotes
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Law is good, proper, and essential in its place, but law can save no man, nor can law remake man and society.
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[James] Baldwin is needed even more today because he helps you focus to the essential, to what is important.
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Love is the essential energy of the universe. It is the force that puts the stars in the firmament, and it makes the blood run through the veins.
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Wounds are an essential part of life, and until you are wounded in some way, you cannot become a man.
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Music is one of the most essential things in life. It is what teaches us.
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Anxiety is the essential condition of intellectual and artistic creation and everything that is finest in human history.
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For mass struggles, nonviolence is essential.
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Infinite Love is who we really are and who we refuse to be. This refusal is our most essential tension.
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When we fail to live up to our ideals, for instance, we might begin to wonder who we are - most people are aware of a discrepancy, I think. There are idiosyncrasies and foibles, but we're not sure if these are essential. Some people think they are the most essential things of all.
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We are all either wheels or connectors. Whichever we are we must find truth and balance, which is a bicycle. Trust and balance are also essential to true love.
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It is essential for men of science to take an interest in the administration of their own affairs or else the professional civil servant will step in - and then the Lord help you.
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Silence gives us a new outlook on everything. We need silence to be able to touch souls. The essential thing is not what we say but what God says to us and through us.
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Clarity is essential. Knowing exactly what you want builds your self-confidence immeasurably.
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If I'm not writing, I'm not fully living. It has become the essential element that defines who I am.
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Knowledge of facts is important. Knowledge of truth is essential. Yet our Lord's concern goes beyond mere head knowledge. He wants us not only to know the truth but also to obey the truth. He wants us to live the truth, practice the truth, and be conformed to and transformed by that truth.
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We must have something of substance to say in our worship [services] that reminds us why Christ's story is so unique and so utterly essential.
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At least for me personally, drugs aren't an essential part of having a surreal experience, or what you might call a higher experience.
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Archiving is extremely expensive and time consuming. I'm sure an archivist would tell me I'm doing it wrong. It's an industry that's built upon essential ideas, and some of those practices are abusive.
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The essential part of our being can only survive if the transient part dissolves. Death is a condition of survival. That which has been gained must be eternalized, and can only be eternalized by being transmuted, by passing through death they must return
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We must live in groups; other people are like nutrients for us, and are absolutely essential for our survival.
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A picnic may well be a metaphor for life. The essentials for happiness are the right company, moderate if sanguine expectations and a reasonable standard of physical sustenance and comfort, the whole being bedeviled by the belief that there is always something better to be had if only one presses on.
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It is essential that the foreign forces who have invaded and occupy large parts of the Congo halt their offensive action
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Isn't it absolutely essential to keep a fierce Left and fierce Right, both on their toes and each terrified of the other? That's how we get things done.
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I used to think that music was like lace upon a garment, nice to have but not necessary. I have come to believe that music is absolutely essential to our community life.
