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• Love is eternal, the aspect may change, but not the essence. 


  Vincent Van Gogh

  Love, Sympathy, Wedding Anniversary

  Vincent van Gogh (1958). “Complete letters: with reproductions of all the drawings in the correspondence”

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• When you see how the President makes political or policy decisions, you see who he is. The essence of the Presidency is decision-making.

  Bob Woodward

  Decision, Political, President

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• He who gives only what he would as readily throw away, gives without generosity; for the essence of generosity is in self-sacrifice.

  Henry Taylor

  Sacrifice, Self, Generosity

  Henry Taylor (1853). “Notes from Life in Seven Essays”, p.13

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• Our names are labels, plainly printed on the bottled essence of our past behavior.

  Logan Pearsall Smith

  Integrity, Past, Names

  Logan Pearsall Smith (1931). “Afterthoughts”

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• I don't see a benefit in accepting every single little morsel of work that comes along because I think in essence what you're doing is you're raping yourself really.

  Karl Urban

  Thinking, Benefits, Littles

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• For books are more than books, they are the life, the very heart and core of ages past, the reason why men worked and died, the essence and quintessence of their lives.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Book, Heart, Past

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• Now, the essence, the very spirit of Christmas is that we first make believe a thing is so, and lo, it presently turns out to be so.

  Stephen Leacock

  Christmas, Believe, Firsts

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• I wish to note that intellectual property theft by a government represents the very essence of organized crime.

  Howard Berman

  Government, Intellectual, Wish

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• Our invisibility is the essence of our oppression. And until we eliminate that invisibility, people are going to be able to perpetuate the lies and myths about gay people.

  Jean O'Leary

  Lying, Gay, People

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• I'm studying Kabbalah, which is really the essence of Jewish spirituality.

  Sandra Bernhard

  Kabbalah, Spirituality, Study

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• The essence of a role-playing game is that it is a group, cooperative experience.

  Gary Gygax

  Playing Games, Groups, Role Playing

  "Gary Gygax, Game Pioneer, Dies at 69" by Seth Schiesel, www.nytimes.com. March 05, 2008.

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• So what I did on the field was the essence of what I am. Remember me like that.

  Steve Carlton

  Sports, Fields, Transcendentalism

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• The first essence of journalism is to know what you want to know, the second, is to find out who will tell you.

  John Gunther

  Want, Firsts, Transcendentalism

  John Gunther (1962). “A fragment of autobiography: the fun of writing the inside books”

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• You heard it from the heart, you saw it in their eyes. Then I got used to the fact that I couldn't feel my fingers and my feet. That for me was the essence of the battle.

  Jude Law

  Eye, Heart, Feet

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• Close to the Edge, Red, One of a kind, Discipline, Earthworks, The Sound of Surprise, all seem to me to be albums that captured the essence of the intention.

  Bill Bruford

  Discipline, Sound, Albums

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• Now, the essence, the very spirit of Christmas is that we first make believe a thing is so, and lo, it presently turns out to be so. - Stephen Leacockof Christmas trees around the house, so it smells good.

  Bill Murray

  Christmas, Believe, Smell

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• This subsistence, or manner of being of God is his one essence so far as it has personal properties.

  William Ames

  Property, Subsistence

  William Ames (1968). “The marrow of theology”

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• All the efforts of the human mind cannot exhaust the essence of a single fly.

  Thomas Aquinas

  Philosophical, Thoughtful, Love Is

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• Originality is the essence of true scholarship. Creativity is the soul of the true scholar.

  Nnamdi Azikiwe

  Creativity, Soul, Transcendentalism

  Nnamdi Azikiwe “ZIK A SELECTION FROM THE SPEECHES OF NNAMDI AZIKIWE Governor-General of the Federation of Nigeria formerly President of the Nigerian Senate formerly Premier of the Eastern Region of Nigeria”, CUP Archive

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• True humor springs not more from the head than from the heart. It is not contempt; its essence is love. It issues not in laughter, but in still smiles, which lie far deeper.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Love, Cute, Happiness

  Thomas Carlyle, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry Swasey McKean, Charles Stearns Wheeler (1838). “Critical and Miscellaneous Essays”, p.18

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• Advertising is the very essence of democracy.

  Anton Chekhov

  Democracy, Transcendentalism, Advertising

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• What sculptors do is represent the essence of gesture. What is important in mime is attitude.

  Marcel Marceau

  Attitude, Important, Gestures

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• There is no progress whatever. Everything is just the same as it was thousands, and tens of thousands, of years ago. The outward form changes. The essence does not change.

  Robert Louis Stevenson

  Years, Progress, Doe

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• The essence of a free government consists in an effectual control of rivalries.

  John Adams

  Government, Political, Politics

  John Adams (2001). “The Political Writings of John Adams”, p.361, Regnery Publishing

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• Posthumous charities are the very essence of selfishness when bequeathed by those who, even alive, would part with nothing.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Generosity, Selfishness, Alive

  Charles Caleb Colton (1866). “Lacon: or, Many things in few words”, p.38

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