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• The absurd is the essential concept and the first truth.

  Albert Camus

  Truth, Firsts, Absurd

  "The Myth of Sisyphus". Book by Albert Camus, 1942.

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• Beneath all differences of doctrine or discipline there exists a fundamental agreement as to the simple, absolute essentials in religion.

  Julia Ward Howe

  Simple, Agreement, Differences

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• Mere parsimony is not economy. Expense, and great expense, may be an essential part in true economy.

  Edmund Burke

  Commitment, May, Economy

  Edmund Burke (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Edmund Burke (Illustrated)”, p.3780, Delphi Classics

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• Direct access to sea is an essential part of foreign policy.

  Carlos Mesa

  Sea, Foreign Policy, Direct

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• The Patriot Act is essential to our continued success in the war on terror here at home.

  Mike Pence

  War, Home, Patriot

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I believe it is incumbent upon Congress to act aggressively to ameliorate fear and help our country take the essential steps that will make our communities and lives safer.

  Paul Gillmor

  Country, Believe, Aquariums

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• Mass media provides the essential link between the individual and the demands of the technological society.

  Jacques Ellul

  Media, Links, Demand

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• It seems essential, in relationships and all tasks, that we concentrate only on what is most significant and important.

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Relationship, Aquariums, Dating

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• In my experience it's not essential to get on with the person that you're acting opposite.

  Hugh Dancy

  Aquariums, Opposites, Acting

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• Part of our essential humanity is paying respect to what God gave us and what will be here a long time after we're gone.

  William J. Clinton

  Success, Long Distance Relationship, Encouragement

  Clinton, William J. (2000). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: William J. Clinton, 1999”, p.311, Best Books on

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• The family is the first essential cell of human society.

  Pope John XXIII

  Inspirational, Family, Inspiring

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• No partner in a love relationship... should feel that he has to give up an essential part of himself to make it viable.

  May Sarton

  Love, Relationship, Giving Up

  May Sarton (2017). “The Journals of May Sarton Volume One: Journal of a Solitude, Plant Dreaming Deep, and Recovering”, p.96, Open Road Media

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• Motherhood has a very humanizing effect. Everything gets reduced to essentials.

  Meryl Streep

  Mothers Day, Mom, Mother And Daughter

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• I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Inspirational, Life, Death

  Walden ch. 2 (1854)

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• History is, in its essentials, the science of change. It knows and it teaches that it is impossible to find two events that are ever exactly alike, because the conditions from which they spring are never identical.

  Marc Bloch

  Spring, Two, History

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• Gates is the ultimate programming machine. He believes everything can be defined, examined, reduced to essentials, and rearranged into a logical sequence that will achieve a particular goal.

  Stewart Alsop II

  Believe, Science, Technology

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

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• Maintaining healthy forests is essential to those who make a living from the land and for those of us who use them for recreational purposes.

  Cathy McMorris Rodgers

  Land, Healthy, Environmental

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• The first essentials, of course, is to know what you want.

  Robert Collier

  Want, Firsts, Courses

  Robert Collier (2013). “The Law of the Higher Potential”, p.14, Simon and Schuster

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• We try to realize the essential unity of the world with the conscious soul of man; we learn to perceive the unity held together by the one Eternal Spirit, whose power creates the earth, the sky, and the stars, and at the same time irradiates our mind.

  Rabindranath Tagore

  Stars, Men, Sky

  Rabindranath Tagore, General Press (2017). “The Complete Works of Rabindranath Tagore (Illustrated Edition)”, p.1867, GENERAL PRESS

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• Seriousness is a sickness; your sense of humor makes you more human, more humble. The sense of humor - according to me - is one of the most essential parts of religiousness.

  Rajneesh

  Humble, Aquariums, Sense Of Humor

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• As far as I'm concerned, the essentials of jazz are: melodic improvisation, melodic invention, swing, and instrumental personality.

  Mose Allison

  Swings, Personality, Jazz Improvisation

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• Now it is established in the sciences that no knowledge is acquired save through the study of its causes and beginnings, if it has had causes and beginnings; nor completed except by knowledge of its accidents and accompanying essentials.

  Avicenna

  Causes, Study, Accidents

  "On Medicine". Essay by Avicenna (circa 1020), as quoted in "The Sacred Books and Early Literature of the East" edited by Charles F. Horne (Volume VI "Medieval Arabia", pp. 90-91), sourcebooks.fordham.edu. 1917.

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• I believe that thrift is essential to well-ordered living.

  John D. Rockefeller

  Believe, Aquariums, Economy

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

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• In essentials, unity; in differences, liberty; in all things, charity.

  Philipp Melanchthon

  Freedom, Differences, Unity

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• So I have cultivated the vast garden of human experience which is history, without troubling myself overmuch about laws, essential first causes, or how it is all coming out.

  Samuel Eliot Morison

  Garden, Aquariums, Law

  Samuel Eliot Morison (1953). “By Land and by Sea: Essays and Addresses”, New York : Knopf

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