Essentials Quotes - Page 6

• A line has to be drawn somewhere between what is essential and what is peripheral.

  Sargent Shriver

  Lines

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• In a world where change is inevitable and continuous, the need to achieve that change without violence is essential for survival.

  Andrew Young

  Change, Achievement, Black History

  Andrew Young (1994). “A way out of no way: the spiritual memoirs of Andrew Young”, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• A desire to be in charge of our own lives, a need for control, is born in each of us. It is essential to our mental health, and our success, that we take control.

  Robert Foster Bennett

  Power, Desire, Needs

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• I consider it essential that the photographer should do his own printing and enlarging. The final effect of the finished print depends so much on these operations.

  Bill Brandt

  Photography, Finals, Photographer

  Bill Brandt (1948). “Camera in London”

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• If there is one realm in which it is essential to be sublime, it is in wickedness. You spit on a petty thief, but you can't deny a kind of respect for the great criminal.

  Denis Diderot

  Sublime, Thieves, Wickedness

  "Rameau's Nephew". Book by Denis Diderot, 1805.

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• It is essential that policy instruments be developed that would firmly establish democratization on the basis of social consensus and enable transformation on stable grounds.

  Recep Tayyip Erdogan

  Transformation, Social, Instruments

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• It is absolutely essential that the oppressed participate in the revolutionary process with an increasingly critical awareness of their role as subjects of the transformation.

  Paulo Freire

  Roles, Transformation, Revolutionary

  Paulo Freire (2014). “Pedagogy of the Oppressed: 30th Anniversary Edition”, p.127, Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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• Law is the essential foundation of stability and order both within societies and in international relations.

  J. William Fulbright

  Order, Law, Foundation

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• All violations of essential privacy are brutalizing.

  Katharine Fullerton Gerould

  Aquariums, Privacy, Violation

  Katharine Fullerton Gerould (1920). “Modes and Morals”

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• The essential elements of giving are power and love - activity and affection - and the consciousness of the race testifies that in the high and appropriate exercise of these is a blessedness greater than any other.

  Mark Hopkins

  Love, Inspirational, Life

  Mark Hopkins (1852). “Receiving and Giving: A Baccalaureate Sermon, Delivered at Williamstown , Ms. August 15, 1852. Published by Request of the Class”, p.20

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• To be a philosophical sceptic is, in a man of letters, the first and most essential to being a sound, believing Christian.

  David Hume

  Christian, Believe, Philosophical

  David Hume (1826). “The Philosophical Works: Including All the Essays, and Exhibiting the More Important Alterations and Corrections in the Successive Ed. Publ. by the Author”, p.548

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• The eyebrow pencil and false eyelashes were essential; my mother didn't feel dressed without them.

  Lorna Luft

  Mother, Eyelashes, Aquariums

  Lorna Luft (2015). “Me and My Shadows: A Family Memoir”, p.73, Simon and Schuster

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• It's absolutely essential that we have the same safeguards that straight couples do. But I want more than a 50 percent chance of success. I don't want to emulate that.

  George Michael

  Couple, Aquariums, Want

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• A diplomatic peace is not yet the real peace. It is an essential step in the peace process leading towards a real peace.

  Yitzhak Rabin

  Real, Aquariums, Steps

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• The Christian ethic played an essential part in my upbringing.

  David Rockefeller

  Christian, Aquariums, Ethics

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

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• It is essential that all Americans take the time to honor and remember those individuals who gave their lives in defense of our liberty.

  Charles Schumer

  Honor, Liberty, Defense

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• But which is the State's essential function, aggression or defence, few seem to know or care.

  Benjamin Tucker

  Aquariums, Care, States

  Benjamin Ricketson Tucker (1926). “Individual liberty: selections from the writings of Benjamin R. Tucker”

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• Winter testing is essential but there comes a point where you have had enough of all the rehearsals and the pretend racing. You just want to get down to the real action.

  Damon Hill

  Sports, Real, Athlete

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• Physics investigates the essential nature of the world, and biology describes a local bump. Psychology, human psychology, describes a bump on the bump.

  Willard Van Orman Quine

  Nature, Science, Psychology

  W. V. Quine, Willard Van Orman Quine (1981). “Theories and Things”, p.93, Harvard University Press

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• The ordinary scientific man is strictly a sentimentalist. He is a sentimentalist in this essential sense, that he is soaked and swept away by mere associations.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Men, Aquariums, Literature

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• Agents are essential, because publishers will not read unsolicited manuscripts.

  Jackie Collins

  Aquariums, Agents, Publishers

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• I wanted to get rid of the element that had been considered essential in pop music: the voice.

  Brian Eno

  Aquariums, Voice, Elements

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• The purpose of the United Nations should be to protect the essential sovereignty of nations, large and small.

  Nikita Khrushchev

  Purpose, Should, Protect

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• I contend that not only can you laugh at adversity, but it is essential to do so if you are to deal with setbacks without defeat.

  Allen Klein

  Adversity, Laughing, Defeat

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• Freedom from the desire for an answer is essential to the understanding of a problem.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Love, Life, Truth

  Jiddu Krishnamurti (1956). “Commentaries on Living”, p.105, Penguin Books India

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