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• The essence of genius is to know what to overlook.

  William James

  Philosophical, Genius, Awareness

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• The freedom to be an individual is the essence of America.

  Marilyn vos Savant

  America, Literature, Individual

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• I would be willing to do almost anything to make Art happy. I care about our friendship. The only thing I won't do is change the essence of my work.

  Paul Simon

  Art, Lost Friendship, Would Be

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• However, if the religions in essence merely repeat statements from the United Nations Human Rights Declaration, such a Declaration becomes superfluous; an ethic is more than rights.

  Hans Kung

  Rights, Ethics, United Nations

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• The essence of childhood, of course, is play.

  Bill Cosby

  Play, Childhood, Courses

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• Conflict is the very essence of life.

  Mary Roberts Rinehart

  Essence Of Life, Conflict

  Mary Roberts Rinehart (2013). “The Album”, p.224, Overamstel Uitgevers

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• The real essence of work is concentrated energy.

  Walter Bagehot

  Real, Energy, Transcendentalism

  Walter Bagehot, Richard Holt Hutton (1889). “The Works of Walter Bagehot: With Memoirs by R. H. Hutton”

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• Above all, I craved to seize the whole essence, in the confines of one single photograph, of some situation that was in the process of unrolling itself before my eyes.

  Henri Cartier-Bresson

  Photography, Eye, Transcendentalism

  Peter Galassi, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Museum of Modern Art (New York, N.Y.) (1987). “Henri Cartier-Bresson, the early work”

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  Every act of rebellion expresses a nostalgia for innocence and an appeal to the essence of being.

  Albert Camus

  Innocence, Nostalgia, Rebellion

  Albert Camus (2012). “The Rebel: An Essay on Man in Revolt”, p.105, Vintage

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• ...the essence of gospel-humility is not thinking more of myself or thinking less of myself, it is thinking of myself less.

  Timothy Keller

  Religious, Humility, Thinking

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• The essence of oneself and the essence of the world: these two are one. [ The aim is not to see, but to realize that one is, that essence; then one is free to wander as that essence in the world.] Hence separateness, withdrawal, is no longer necessary. Wherever the hero may wander, whatever he may do, he is ever in the presence of his own essence-for he has the perfected eye to see.

  Joseph Campbell

  Hero, Eye, Two

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• God is all there is - God includes everything, all possibility and all action, for Spirit is the invisible essence and substance of all form.

  Ernest Holmes

  God, Substance, Spirit

  Ernest Holmes (1984). “Living the Science of Mind: The Only Writings by the Founder of SCIENCE OF MIND to Help You Understand His Classic Textbook”, p.3, DeVorss & Company

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• Awakening is waking up from the daytime dream and realizing that who you thought you were is not limited to thought, emotion or form. Beyond the imaginary seeker, beyond concepts and beliefs, there is a field of innocence and purity. We are this deep peace and sacredness, which is absolute and beyond all intellectual understanding. I invite you to recognize this Essence of Being and to directly realize the illusion of all psychological suffering due to misidentification, misperception of separation and attachment to conditioned thought.

  Katie Davis

  Dream, Attachment, Understanding

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• The essence of design... lies in the process of discovering a problem shared by many people and trying to solve it.

  Kenya Hara

  Lying, People, Design

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• When the mind is in a passive and receptive state, absolutely still and in silence, the Essence or Buddhata is liberated from the mind, and ecstasy arrives.

  Samael Aun Weor

  Silence, Mind, States

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• I know perfectly well that only in happy instants am I lucky enough to lose myself in my work. The painter-poet feels that his true immutable essence comes from that invisible realm that offers him an image of reality....I feel that I do not exist in time, but that time exists in me. I can also realize that it is not given to me to solve the mystery of art in an absolute fashion. Nonetheless, I am almost brought to believe that I am about to get my hands on the divine.

  Carlo Carra

  Fashion, Art, Believe

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• I had an essence in my life that I was nothing.

  Demi Moore

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• With a few exceptions, Fellini's films have failure and despair running through them: Life continues, but I can't imagine 'Felliniesque' as an exclusively uplifting adjective. Fellini's best films are the ones that distill this essence -- the paradoxical quality of melancholic ecstasy, a surreal, bittersweet vitality -- to perfection.

  Damian Pettigrew

  Uplifting, Running, Perfection

  The Los Angeles Times, April 2003.

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• What is the essence of America? The essence of America is finding and maintaining that perfect, delicate balance between freedom "to" and freedom "from."

  Marilyn vos Savant

  4th Of July, Patriotic, America

  "Women Know Everything!: 3,241 Quips, Quotes, & Brilliant Remarks". Book by Karen Weekes, 2007.

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• It doesn't matter what you do. In the end, you are going to be judged, and all the times that you're not at your most dignified are the ones that will be recalled in all their vivid, heartbreaking detail. And then of course these things will be distorted and exaggerated and replayed over and over, until eventually they turn into the essence of you: your cartoon.

  Dan Chaon

  Heartbreaking, Cartoon, Details

  Dan Chaon (2009). “Among the Missing”, p.80, Ballantine Books

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• The sky is purple, the flare of a match behind a cupped hand is gold; the liquor is green, bright green, made from a thousand herbs, made from altars. Those who know enough to drink Chartreuse at Mardi Gras are lucky, because the distilled essence of the town burns in their bellies. Chartreuse glows in the dark, and if you drink enough of it, your eyes will turn bright green.

  Poppy Z. Brite

  Eye, Dark, Hands

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• When philosophers use a word--"knowledge," "being," "object," "I," "proposition," "name"--and try to grasp the essence of the thing, one must always ask oneself: is the word ever actually used in this way in the language-game which is its original home?--What we do is to bring words back from their metaphysical to their everyday use.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Home, Games, Names

  Ludwig Wittgenstein (1973). “Philosophical investigations”

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• When it's cold, water freezes into ice; when it's warm, ice melts into water. Similarly, when you are confused, essence freezes into mind; when you are enlightened, mind melts into essence.

  Muso Soseki

  Art, Confused, Ice

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• Existence without essence is very stressful.

  Brian Christian

  Stressful, Existence

  "The Most Human Human: What Talking with Computers Teaches Us About What It Means to Be Alive". Book by Brian Christian, March 1, 2011.

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• Time is of the essence, particularly if we're sending images out on social media. The reality is that the majority of images are only viewed for a few seconds, often on a phone or computer. There are so many images freely available that it takes a lot of will power to concentrate and prolong the gaze on one picture at the expense of the thousands of others waiting to be viewed!

  Michael Kenna

  Reality, Media, Phones

  Source: www.smh.com.au

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