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• Silence is essential. We need silence just as much as we need air, just as much as plants need light. If our minds are crowded with words and thoughts, there is no space for us.

  Nhat Hanh

  Light, Air, Space

  FaceBook post by Thich Nhat Hanh from Jan 27, 2015

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• Poetry is a language pared down to its essentials.

  Ezra Pound

  Language, Poetry Is

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• By stripping down an image to essential meaning, an artist can simplify that meaning.

  Scott McCloud

  Artist, Stripping, Simplify

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• A sense of thrift is essential to success in business. The businessman must discipline himself to practice economy whenever possible, in his personal life as well as his business affairs.

  J. Paul Getty

  Practice, Discipline, Business Success

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• The music masters familiarize children's minds with rhythms and melodies, thus making them more civilized, more balanced, better adjusted in themselves, and more capable in whatever they say or do, for rhythm and harmony are essential to the whole of life.

  Plato

  Children, Mind, Harmony

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• It is essential to learn to enjoy life. It really does not make sense to go through the motions of existence if one does not appreciate as much of it as possible.

  Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

  Appreciate, Enjoy Life, Doe

  Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi (1993). “The evolving self: a psychology for the third millennium”, Harpercollins

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• Everybody thinks of economics whether he is aware of it or not. In joining a political party or in casting his ballot, the citizen implicitly takes a stand upon essential economic theories.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Party, Thinking, Political

  Human Action: A Treatise on Economics ch. 38 (1949)

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• There is a difference between something being essential, and it being necessary. If you take your favorite book and strip it down to what is merely essential to tell the story, it would be butchery. The end result would horrify you. Essential is the bones of the story, but the soul lives somewhere else.

  Patrick Rothfuss

  Book, Somewhere Else, Differences

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• Love is unconditional acceptance. That quality is also our essential nature, who we really are.

  Peter Shepherd

  Acceptance, Love Is, Quality

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• I believe it is essential to have English as the official language of our National Government, for the English language is the tie that binds the millions of immigrants who come to America from divergent backgrounds. We should, and do, encourage immigrants to maintain and share their traditions, customs and religions, but the use of English is essential for immigrants and their children to participate fully in American society and achieve the American dream.

  Jim Sensenbrenner

  Dream, Children, Believe

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• All fundamentalist theologians make the ordinances of creation an essential part of creation and absolutize them. Women belong at home, fulfil their life through motherhood, by caring for their husbands and serving them. The fixed role pattern of one particular economic and family order is transformed into an order willed by God and given by creation. With a methodologically similar logic, slaves were understood as those elected by God to serve the whites.

  Dorothee Solle

  Husband, Home, Caring

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• Many traders ride an emotional roller coaster and miss the essential element of winning: the management of their emotions.

  Alexander Elder

  Winning, Emotional, Missing

  Alexander Elder (1993). “Trading for a Living: Psychology, Trading Tactics, Money Management”, p.3, John Wiley & Sons

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• Playing inside the changes means playing enough of the important notes of the chord progression at important times. A good solo might be very free, but every once in a while it loops or hooks into an essential note that describes the harmonic change.

  Chuck Israels

  Mean, Important, Hook

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• The essential tendency of life is toward happiness . . . . Optimism is the only true condition for a reasonable man.

  Phillips Brooks

  Men, Optimism, Life Is

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• Stuffwise we are not a lean operation. We're the kind of people who, if we were deciding what absolute minimum essential items we'd need to carry in our backpacks for the final, treacherous ascent to the summit of Mount Everest, would take along aquarium filters, just in case.

  Dave Barry

  Aquariums, People, Ascent

  Dave Barry (2010). “Dave Barry Talks Back”, p.70, Crown Archetype

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• The essential humanity of men can be protected and preserved only where government must answer, not just to the wealthy, not just to those of a particular religion, or a particular race, but to all its people.

  Robert Kennedy

  Men, Race, People

  Robert F. Kennedy (1998). “Make Gentle the Life of the World: The Vision of Robert F. Kennedy”, Harcourt

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• If you had to choose an oil...it would have to be lavender essential oil, because it is antibacterial and antiviral. So, it's great to have when people around you are sick; it can also be used to relax.

  Karen Rose

  Oil, People, Sick

  Source: www.refinery29.com

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• American leadership is essential.

  Hillary Clinton

  American Leadership

  "Democratic debate transcript: Clinton, Sanders, O'Malley in Iowa". www.cbsnews.com. November 14, 2015.

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• Social evolution is a resultant of the interaction of two wholly distinct factors: the individual ... bearing all the power of initiative and origination in his hands; and, second, the social environment with its power of adopting or rejecting both him and his gifts. Both factors are essential to change. The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without the sympathy of the community.

  William James

  Hands, Two, Community

  William James (2015). “Essays in Popular Philosophy: Top Essays”, p.144, 谷月社

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• That's what the drummer is supposed to do. Keep the time. If you can do something else besides that, fine. But the time is essential and non-negotiable.

  Elvin Jones

  Drummer, Fine, Can Do Something

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• I don't think you fully appreciate the importance of Illusion in life, the Essential Nature of Lies and Deception of the body politic.

  H. G. Wells

  Lying, Thinking, Appreciate

  H. G. Wells (2013). “Delphi Collected Works of H. G. Wells (Illustrated)”, p.1049, Delphi Classics

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• Impressed with a conviction that the due administration of justice is the firmest pillar of good Government, I have considered the first arrangement of the Judicial department as essential to the happiness of our Country, and to the stability of its political system.

  George Washington

  Country, Government, Justice

  George Washington, Jared Sparks (1852). “Life of Washington”, p.453

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• Nothing is more essential, than that permanent, inveterate antipathies against particular Nations, and passionate attachments for others, should be excluded; and that, in place of them, just and amicable feelings towards all should be cultivated.

  George Washington

  Attachment, Feelings, Passionate

  George Washington, Andrew Jackson (1862). “Washington's Farewell Address: The Proclamation of Jackson Against Nullification, and the Declaration of Independence”, p.9

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• Rightness of limitation is essential for growth of reality.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Reality, Growth, Unlimited Possibilities

  Alfred North Whitehead (2011). “Religion in the Making”, p.137, Cambridge University Press

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• The most essential factor to economic recovery today [1932] is the restoration of confidence.

  Herbert Hoover

  Recovery, Restoration, Today

  Herbert Hoover, Ruth Dennis (1995). “The Wit and Wisdom of Herbert Hoover: A Compilation of Many of His Quotations”, Vantage Pr

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