Essence Quotes
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New Orleans is my essence, my soul, my muse...
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Greek dress was in its essence inartistic. Nothing should reveal the body but the body.
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Love is eternal – the aspect may change, but not the essence. There is the same difference in a person before and after he is in love as there is in an unlighted lamp and one that is burning. The lamp was there and was a good lamp, but now it is shedding light too, and that is its real function. And love makes one calmer about many things, and that way, one is more fit for one's work.
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Don't fear the unknown. Embrace the opportunity. Failure is not permanent it is the essence of learning.
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Jesus didn't wait until we got better to die for us. He died when we were in our most unlovely state. The person who doesn't deserve love actually needs love more, not less. If you know someone unworthy of love, that's great! You now have a chance to emulate Christ, because the essence of His love is unconditional.
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The essence of genius is to know what to overlook.
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I would like to do whatever it is that presses the essence from the hour.
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Style and Structure are the essence of a book; great ideas are hogwash.
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I think that where I've gotten frustrated during the course of my presidency has never been because I was getting pushed too hard by activists to see the justness of a cause or the essence of an issue.
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For those who want to understand the issues of the environmental crisis, Encounters with the Archdruid is a superb book. McPhee reveals more nuances of the value revolution that dominates the new age of ecology than most writers could pack into a volume twice as long. I marvel at his capacity to listen intently and extract the essence of a man and his philosophy in the fewest possible words.
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They have, in essence, treated these articles as empty vessels to be filled with some witches' brew of charges.
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The old notion that brevity is the essence of wit has succumbed to the modern idea that tedium is the essence of quality.
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The essence of America lies not in the headlined heroes...but in the everyday folks who live and die unknown, yet leave their dreams as legacies
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History is a great deal closer to poetry than is generally realised: in truth, I think, it is in essence the same.
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All truths are erroneous. This is the very essence of the dialectical process: today's truths become errors tomorrow; there is no final number.
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In golf, humiliations are the essence of the game.
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The man who comes to writing late, but is in essence a writer, may sometimes gain as much as he has lost: his experience of life has given him a subject, he is spared the youthful writer's self-torment and soul-searching.
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Man would be otherwise. That is the essence of the specifically human.
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Simplicity is the essence of the great, the true, the beautiful in art.
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You can get the true essence of New Yorkers by just hanging out in Central Park
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Whereas the entire meaning of the Quran must easily be interpreted by the lives of Muslims, Islam's followers abandoned its essence.
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Strip away all the assumptions about what competition is supposed to do, all the claims in its behalf that we accept and repeat reflexively. What you have left is the essence of the concept: mutually exclusive goal attainment (MEGA). One person succeeds only if another does not. From this uncluttered perspective, it seems clear right away that something is drastically wrong with such an arrangement. How can we do our best when we are spending our energies trying to make others lose--and fearing that they will make us lose?
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It is the essence of certainty to be established only with reservations.
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Overcoming negative tendencies and enhancing positive potential are the very essence of the spiritual path.
