Essence Quotes
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The essence of good business is knowing when to step on a train and when to step off.
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Self-control is only courage under another form. It may also be regarded as the primary essence of character.
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The essence of pleasure is spontaneity.
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I am part of a divine essence. I don't have to become anything. I already am.
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I can't help but think that at the end of your life, when you look back, there'll be a tone. And that tone will come from the essence of how you live your day to day what you did in that between time because that is really your life.
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It is of the essence of imaginative culture that it transcends the limits both of the naturally possible and of the morally acceptable.
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The writing of a novel is taking life as it already exists, not to report it but to make an object, toward the end that the finished work might contain this life inside it and offer it to the reader. The essence will not be, of course, the same thing as the raw material; it is not even of the same family of things. The novel is something that never was before and will not be again.
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I was a little worried she might try to drag me off to hell and drain my essence at some point, but I figured that was still better than having Gretchen for a best friend.
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Change is the essence of life; change is the great challenge, the great constant. Change is the ultimate teller of tales.
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The inability to stop is the essence of what addiction is, ... my favorite drug was more and all.
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Oppression is the essence of power.
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I'm studying Kabbalah, which is really the essence of Jewish spirituality.
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..people are working harder than ever, but because they lack clarity and vision, they aren’t getting very far. They, in essence, are pushing a rope...with all of their might.
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When we understand that man is the only animal who must create meaning, who must open a wedge into neutral nature, we already understand the essence of love. Love is the problem of an animal who must find life, create a dialogue with nature in order to experience his own being.
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All deep things are song. It seems somehow the very central essence of us, song; as if all the rest were but wrappages and hulls!
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The essence of marketing today is to tell a story to people who want to hear it, in a way that resonates with them so they are likely to either respond or connect to you, or tell their friends.
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The essence of what it is to be American is the deep moral urge to be free, to freely express yourself and have the right to do so, and to look at all people as equals.
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And killing time is perhaps the essence of comedy, just as the essence of tragedy is killing eternity.
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Existence without essence is very stressful.
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The essence of the best thinking in the area of time management (practice planning) can be captured in a single phrase: Organize and execute around priorities
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I will scrape and dig into every word as far as I can get, right down to the essence of the word, to the substance of the image.
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Every act of rebellion expresses a nostalgia for innocence and an appeal to the essence of being.
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Walnuts have a shell, and they have a kernel. Religions are the same. They have an essence, but then they have a protective coating. This is not the only way to put it. But it's my way. So the kernels are the same. However, the shells are different.
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As we’ve seen, the essence of trauma is feeling godforsaken, cut off from the human race.
