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• I don’t deny that there can be an element of escapism in mountaineering, but this should never overshadow its real essence, which is not escape but victory over your own human frailty.

  Walter Bonatti

  Real, Over You, Victory

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• Through recognizing and realizing the empty essence, instead of being selfish and self-centered, one feels very open and free

  Tsoknyi Rinpoche

  Selfish, Self Centered, Realizing

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• When in doubt, act boldly, as if it were impossible to fail. In essence it is.

  Steve Pavlina

  Success, Doubt, Impossible

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• It is amazing that our souls - our eternal essences, with all their hopes and dreams and visions of an eternal world - are contained within these temporal bodies. No wonder suffering is part of the human condition.

  Marion Woodman

  Dream, Soul, Suffering

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• One cannot inquire into the foundations and nature of mathematics without delving into the question of the operations by which the mathematical activity of the mind is conducted. If one failed to take that into account, then one would be left studying only the language in which mathematics is represented rather than the essence of mathematics.

  L. E. J. Brouwer

  Mind, Foundation, Would Be

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• We live in a regime built on force and lies. In essence, it's the same here as in Uzbekistan, except the government here is better at presenting itself to the outside world.

  Isa Gambar

  Lying, Uzbekistan, Government

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• Just as I shall lie alone in the grave, so, in essence, do I live alone.

  Anton Chekhov

  Lying, Graves

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• The essence of profound insight is simplicity.

  James C. Collins

  Profound, Simplicity, Insight

  "Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap...and Others Don't". Book by James C. Collins, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 16, 2001.

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• Ancient masters of excellence had a subtle essence, and a depth too profound to comprehend.

  Laozi

  Profound, Taoism, Excellence

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• Martin Buber suggested that evil prevailed because of the inability of man to imagine the real. Yet human beings do have that capacity. Lord Byron, a poet favored by Alfred Nobel, captured the stark essence of a post-nuclear world in his poem Darkness.

  Bernard Lown

  Real, Men, Evil

  "A Prescription for Hope". The Nobel Lecture, www.nobelprize.org. December 11, 1985.

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• Disease is in essence the result of conflict between Soul and Mind, and will never be eradicated except by spiritual and mental effort.

  Edward Bach

  Spiritual, Effort, Soul

  Edward Bach, F. J. Wheeler (1998). “The Bach Flower Remedies”, p.10, McGraw Hill Professional

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• That is the essence of a witch-hunt, that any questioning of the evidence or the procedures in itself constitutes proof of complicity.

  Bergen Evans

  Witch, Proof, Procedures

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• David Cristofanos debut novel captures the essence of the human spirit, and delivers a story that is simultaneously heartwarming and heartbreaking.

  Brad Listi

  Heartbreaking, Stories, Spirit

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• Real haiku is the soul of poetry. Anything that is not actually present in one's heart is not haiku. The moon glows, flowers bloom, insects cry, water flows. There is no place we cannot find flowers or think of the moon. This is the essence of haiku. Go beyond the restrictions of your era, forget about purpose or meaning, separate yourself from historical limitations—there you will find the essence of true art, religion, and science.

  Santoka Taneda

  Art, Real, Flower

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• Khesed...mercy...love. It's God's nature, His essence. Don't forget that, through all this, don't forget that. Judgement is His necessity, but His nature and essence, His heart, is love. He's the one always calling out to the lost to be saved.

  Jonathan Cahn

  Heart, Judgement, Calling

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• Engineers are not superhuman. They make mistakes in their assumptions, in their calculations, in their conclusions. That they make mistakes is forgivable; that they catch them is imperative. Thus it is the essence of modern engineering not only to be able to check one's own work but also to have one's work checked and to be able to check the work of others.

  Henry Petroski

  Mistake, Engineering, Able

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• Curiosity is the essence of human existence.

  Gene Cernan

  Curiosity, Existence, Humans

  "Last Man on the Moon recalls US era of courage to do the impossible" by Henry Barnes, www.theguardian.com. June 08, 2014.

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• I love spring flowers: daffodils and hyacinths are the ultimate flower for me. They are the essence of spring.

  Kirsty Gallacher

  Spring, Flower, Hyacinths

  "Kirsty Gallacher: my Saturday job" by Mark King, www.theguardian.com. March 2, 2012.

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• Making choices that are meaningful to you is the essence of the French woman's secret.

  Mireille Guiliano

  Meaningful, Choices, Secret

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• The essence of cross-cultural communication has more to do with releasing responses than with sending messages. It is more important to release the right response than to send the right message.

  Edward T. Hall

  Communication, Important, Culture

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• To follow Story is to understand the path of healing. Each of our stories is a universe. Each one of us is living a story. To discover its shape and essence is essential to soul making.

  Deena Metzger

  Healing, Soul, Essentials

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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.

  Wright Morris

  Writing, Men, Self

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• Accountability is the essence of democracy. If people do not know what their government is doing, they cannot be truly self-governing. The national security state assumes the government secrets are too important to be shared, that only those in the know can see classified information, that only the president has all the facts, that we must simply trust that our rulers of acting in our interest.

  Garry Wills

  Government, Self, People

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• The real essence of art turned out to be not something high up and far off - it was right inside my ordinary daily self - If a musician wants to become a finer artist, he must first become a finer person.

  Shinichi Suzuki

  Art, Real, Self

  Dr. Shinichi Suzuki, Waltraud Suzuki (1983). “Nurtured by Love: The Classic Approach to Talent Education”, p.82, Alfred Music

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• The essence of trade unionism is social uplift. The labor movement has been the haven for the dispossessed, the despised, the neglected, the downtrodden, the poor.

  A. Philip Randolph

  Uplifting, Labour Movement, Organized Labor

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