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• The essence of all religions is One. Surrender is the main duty of everyone. Surrender means the feeling of oneness, I and God are One. Why? The reason is that the One who is present in you is present in me.

  Sathya Sai Baba

  Mean, Oneness, Feelings

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• The essence of a democracy is a free electorate.

  Arlen Specter

  Democracy, Transcendentalism, Electorate

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• And killing time is perhaps the essence of comedy, just as the essence of tragedy is killing eternity.

  Miguel de Unamuno

  Time, Tragedy, Comedy

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• The American people need to know the truth. The American people need to see the truth. In a democracy, letting the people know the truth is the essence of what it means to be free.

  Barbara Boxer

  Letting Go, Mean, People

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• In its famous paradox, the equation of money and excrement, psychoanalysis becomes the first science to state what common sense and the poets have long known - that the essence of money is in its absolute worthlessness.

  Norman O. Brown

  Science, Long, Common Sense

  Norman O. Brown (1972). “Life Against Death: The Psychoanalytical Meaning of History”

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• Too much study of the scriptures does more harm than good. The important thing is to know the essence of the scriptures. After that, what is the need of books? One should learn the essence and then dive deep in order to realize God.

  Ramakrishna

  God, Book, Learning

  Ramakrishna, Mahendra Nath Gupta (1942). “The Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna”, Ramakrishna Vivekanada Center

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• The claim of the Zen followers that they are transmitting the essence of Buddhism is based on their belief that Zen takes hold of the enlivening spirit of the Buddha, stripped of all its historical and doctrinal garments.

  D.T. Suzuki

  Buddhism, Historical, Followers

  D.T. Suzuki (2011). “Essays in Zen Buddhism”, p.42, Souvenir Press

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• The essence of generosity is letting go. Pain is always a sign that we are holding on to something - usually ourselves.

  Pema Chodron

  Letting Go, Pain, Generosity

  Pema Chodron (2003). “Comfortable with Uncertainty: 108 Teachings on Cultivating Fearlessness and Compassion”, p.133, Shambhala Publications

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• The essence of Government is power; and power, lodged as it must be in human hands, will ever be liable to abuse.

  James Madison

  Power, Hands, Government

  James Madison, Ralph Ketcham “Selected Writings of James Madison”, Hackett Publishing

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• The essence of lying is in deception, not in words.

  John Ruskin

  Lying, Political, Deception

  John Ruskin (1910*). “The Complete Works of John Ruskin”

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• The keystone of the Fascist doctrine is its conception of the State, of its essence, its functions, and its aims. For Fascism the State is absolute, individuals and groups relative.

  Benito Mussolini

  Groups, Doctrine, Individual

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• The toughest thing about the power of trust is that it's very difficult to build and very easy to destroy. The essence of trust building is to emphasize the similarities between you and the customer.

  Thomas J. Watson

  Trust, Building, Easy

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• The essence of war is violence. Moderation in war is imbecility.

  John Fisher, 1st Baron Fisher

  Military, War, Violence

  Lecture notes 1899-1902, in R. H. Bacon Life of Lord Fisher (1929) vol. 1, ch. 7

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• Re-telling the Christian story is the essence of my vocation. That has been going on since the Evangelists in one form or another.

  Anne Rice

  Christian, Stories, Form

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• A great actor is independent of the poet, because the supreme essence of feeling does not reside in prose or in verse, but in the accent with which it is delivered.

  Lee Strasberg

  Independent, Feelings, Doe

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  Music, at its essence, is what gives us memories. And the longer a song has existed in our lives, the more memories we have of it.

  Stevie Wonder

  Song, Memories, Giving

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The liberty of a democracy is not safe if the people tolerated the growth of private power to a point where it becomes stronger than the democratic state itself. That in its essence is fascism: ownership of government by an individual, by a group, or any controlling private power.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Freedom, Power, Government

  Roosevelt, Franklin D. (1941). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: F.D. Roosevelt, 1938, Volume 7”, p.305, Best Books on

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• One must love humanity in order to reach out into the unique essence of each individual: no one can be too low or too ugly.

  Georg Buchner

  Unique, Order, Humanity

  "Lenz". Book by Georg Buchner, 1835.

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• But the ability to articulate what you are doing, to be clear about it, and to stick to it is, I think, the essence of political leadership.

  Chris Patten

  Inspiring, Leadership, Thinking

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• For me it was really important to get the essence out of the music for the story and not, sort of, press the music into the service of the whimsical telling of it.

  Graeme Murphy

  Art, Important, Stories

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• The relative property of the Son is to be begotten, that is, so to proceed from the Father as to be a participant of the same essence and perfectly carry on the Father's nature.

  William Ames

  Father, Son, Property

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• Canada is the essence of not being. Not English, not American, it is the mathematic of not being. And a subtle flavour - we're more like celery as a flavour.

  Mike Myers

  Canada, Transcendentalism, Subtle

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The very essence of rationalism is that it assumes that the reason is the highest faculty in man and the lord of all the rest.

  Lyman Abbott

  Men, Transcendentalism, Assuming

  Lyman Abbott (1872). “Laicus: Or, The Experiences of a Layman in a Country Parish”, p.9

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• When it's working, what acting is really about is getting into the essence of a moment in a creative, joyous way - through whatever frees you up.

  Lili Taylor

  Creative, Acting, Way

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• Unlike the phone system, which is engineered around an application, the Internet layered model allows you to, in essence, separate applications from infrastructure.

  Michael K. Powell

  Phones, Separation, Internet

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