Quotes and Sayings About Essentials
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Not just a timely movie, a great one...Timbuktu feels at once timely and permanent, immediate and essential.
-- A. O. Scott -
The teacher that I was for decades, and that I still am in a certain way, wondered what was meant by the word education. I was truly dumbfounded at the very thought of dealing with such an essential and extensive subject.
-- Abdoulaye Wade -
Needless, heedless, wanton and deliberate injury of the sort inflicted by Life's picture story is not an essential instrument of responsible journalism.
-- Abe Fortas -
No psychological health is possible unless this essential care of the person is fundamentally accepted, loved and respected by others and by himself.
-- Abraham Maslow -
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Wit and puns aren't just decor in the mind; they're essential signs that the mind knows it's on, recognizes its own software, can spot the bugs in its own program.
-- Adam GopnikSource : "Get Smart" by Adam Gopnik, www.newyorker.com. April 4, 2011.
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The art of reading consists in remembering the essentials and forgetting non essentials.
-- Adolf Hitler -
The very first essential for success is a perpetually constant and regular employment of violence.
-- Adolf Hitler -
In order to persuade Britain to pack up, to compel her to make peace, it was essential to rob her of her hope of being able still to confront us, on the continent itself, with an adversary of a stature equal to our own.
-- Adolf Hitler -
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The repossession by women of our bodies will bring far more essential change to human society than the seizing of the means of production by workers.
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the labors of the true critic are more essential to the author, even, than to the reader.
-- Agnes Repplier -
Surveillance technologies now available - including the monitoring of virtually all digital information - have advanced to the point where much of the essential apparatus of a police state is already in place.
-- Al Gore -
The urge to revolt is one of the essential dimensions of human nature.
-- Albert Camus -
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Why should it be essential to love rarely in order to love much?
-- Albert Camus -
The absurd is the essential concept and the first truth.
-- Albert Camus -
There can be no question of masking the evidence, of suppressing the absurd by denying one of the terms of its equation. It is essential to know whether one can live with it or whether, on the other hand, logic commands one to die of it.
-- Albert Camus -
Combinatory play seems to be the essential feature in productive thought.
-- Albert Einstein -
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We read to understand, or to begin to understand. We cannot do but to read. Reading almost as much as breathing, is our essential function.
-- Alberto ManguelSource : "A History of Reading". Book by Alberto Manguel, 1996.
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That which is called humanism, but what would be more correctly called irreligious anthropocentrism, cannot yield answers to the most essential questions of our life
-- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn -
Strip it all down to essentials and draw the hell out of what's left.
-- Alex Toth -
There can be no limitation of that authority which is to provide for the defense and protection of the community in any matter essential to the formation, direction, or support of the NATIONAL FORCES.
-- Alexander Hamilton -
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Wherever indeed a right of property is infringed for the general good, if the nature of the case admits of compensation, it ought to be made; but if compensation be impracticable, that impracticability ought to be an obstacle to a clearly essential reform.
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Money is, with propriety, considered as the vital principle of the body politic; as that which sustains its life and motion, and enables it to perform its most essential functions.
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It is essential that our present negative propaganda regarding psychedelic drugs be replaced with honesty and truthfulness about their effects, both good and bad.
-- Alexander ShulginSource : Alexander Shulgin, Ann Shulgin (1995). “Pihkal: A Chemical Love Story”
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Music is an essential part of my life and I'm completely lost without a good album to listen to or my iPod in my pocket!
-- Alfred MolinaSource : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
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Routine is the god of every social system; it is the seventh heaven of business, the essential component in the success of every factory, the ideal of every statesman. The social machine should run like clockwork.
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Respect for human rights requires transparent and accountable institutions and governance as well as the effective participation of all individuals and civil society, who are an essential part of realizing social and people-centred sustainable development.
-- Alfred-Maurice de ZayasSource : "India: Urgent Call to Halt Odisha Mega-Steel Project Amid Serious Human Rights Concerns". "Alfred de Zayas' Human Rights Corner" blog, dezayasalfred.wordpress.com. October 01, 2013.
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The commandment to refrain from placing blame on our parents, deeply imprinted in us by our upbringing, skillfully performs the function of hiding essential truths from us.
-- Alice MillerSource : Alice Miller (2002). “For Your Own Good: Hidden Cruelty in Child-Rearing and the Roots of Violence”, p.61, Macmillan
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It's essential that we understand that taking care of the planet will be done as we take care of ourselves. You know that you can't really make much of a difference in things until you change yourself.
-- Alice Walker -
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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 -
We do not deceive ourselves that we are engaging in an activity that is anything but debilitating, dangerous, euphoric, kinesthetic, expensive, frivolously essential, economically useless and totally without redeeming social significance. One should not probe for deeper meanings.
-- Allen Steck