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• All government is, in its essence, organized exploitation, and in virtually all of its existing forms it is the implacable enemy of every industrious and well-disposed man.

  H. L. Mencken

  Men, Voting, Enemy

  "The Constitution". Baltimore Evening Sun, August 19, 1935.

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• I dare to imagine a country where every child I hold in my hands, are all God's children, regardless of the color of their skin, regardless of whether they're boy or girl, regardless of religion, regardless of rich or poor, that every child I hold in my hands, will have the same chance to reach her full potential or his full potential. That is the goodness of our country. That is the essence of the American dream.

  Paul Wellstone

  Girl, Dream, Country

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• The purposeful destruction of information is the essence of intelligent work.

  Ray Kurzweil

  Intelligent, Information, Destruction

  Ray Kurzweil (2000). “The Age of Spiritual Machines: When Computers Exceed Human Intelligence”, p.99, Penguin

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• Do we, as humans, having an ability to reason and to communicate abstract ideas verbally and in writing, and to form ethical and moral judgments using the accumulated knowledge of the ages, have the right to take the lives of other sentient organisms, particularly when we are not forced to do so by hunger or dietary need, but rather do so for the somewhat frivolous reason that we like the taste of meat? In essence, should we know better?

  Peter Cheeke

  Writing, Ideas, Age

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• Competition is pretty much the essence of everything, it gives humans drive.

  Ashton Eaton

  Giving, Competition, Humans

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• It is said Somerset Maugham traveled the world with a notebook to learn the essence of life and Kafka sat in a room for the same objective. Yet Kafka came out with a better world-view.

  U. R. Ananthamurthy

  Notebook, Views, World

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• In fact, a sense of essence is, in essence, the essence of sense, in effect.

  Douglas Hofstadter

  Facts, Effects

  Douglas Hofstadter (2008). “Metamagical Themas: Questing For The Essence Of Mind And Pattern”, p.489, Hachette UK

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• As animals, we walk the earth. As bearers of divine essence, we are among the stars. As human beings, we are caught in the middle, seeking to reconcile the paradox of how to make our way upon earth while striving for something more permanent and more profound.

  B.K.S. Iyengar

  Stars, Animal, Profound

  "Light on Life: The Yoga Journey to Wholeness, Inner Peace, and Ultimate Freedom". Book by B.K.S. Iyengar (p. 8), September 19, 2006.

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• Our Essence of Mind is intrinsically pure,
  and if we knew our mind and realized what our nature is, all of us would
  attain Buddhahood.

  Huineng

  Mind, Pure, Ifs

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• The most important aspect of freedom of speech is freedom to learn. All education is a continuous dialogue - questions and answers that pursue every problem on the horizon. That is the essence of academic freedom.

  William O. Douglas

  Graduation, Academic Freedom, Freedom Of Speech

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• The essence of independence has been to think and act according to standards from within, not without.

  Aleister Crowley

  Inspirational, Life, Philosophy

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• The premises being thus settled, I proceed to observe that the concatenation of self-existence, proceeding in a reciprocal duplicate ratio, naturally produces a problematical dialogism, which in some measure proves that the essence of spirituality may be referred to the second predicable.

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Self, May, Ratios

  Oliver Goldsmith, Carl Theodor von KERSTEN (1857). “Goldsmith's Vicar of Wakefield employed as a means of reading made easy without any alteration of orthography ... By Charles Theodor von Kersten”, p.69

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• To regard the fundamental as the essence, to regard things as coarse, to regard accumulation as deficiency, and to dwell quietly alone with the spiritual and the intelligent - herein lie the techniques of Tao of the ancients.

  Zhuangzi

  Spiritual, Lying, Intelligent

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• The female form provides the solution in which the essence itself is held; she is passio, and acted upon, the male is actio, the mover.

  Marina Warner

  Males, Female, Form

  Marina Warner (2000). “Monuments & Maidens: The Allegory of the Female Form”, p.69, Univ of California Press

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• The essence of dramatic tragedy is not unhappiness. It resides in the solemnity of the remorseless working of things.

  Garrett Hardin

  Tragedy, Dramatic, Unhappiness

  Garrett James Hardin (1995). “The Immigration Dilemma: Avoiding the Tragedy of the Commons”, F A I R-Federation for American Immigration Reform

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• Tradition, in its essence, is something simultaneously meta-historical and dynamic: it is an overall ordering force in the service of principles that have the chrism of a superior legitimacy (we may even call them 'principles from above').

  Julius Evola

  Historical, Principles, May

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• Black Consciousness is an attitude of the mind and a way of life, the most positive call to emanate from the black world for a long time. Its essence is the realisation by the black man of the need to rally together with his brothers around the cause of their oppression - the blackness of their skin - and to operate as a group to rid themselves of the shackles that bind them to perpetual servitude.

  Steven Biko

  Brother, Attitude, Men

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• David Grossman may be the most gifted writer I've ever read. [To the End of the Land is] powerful, shattering, and unflinching. To read it is to have yourself taken apart, undone, touched at the place of your own essence.

  Nicole Krauss

  Powerful, Taken, Land

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• Any combining, mixing, adding, diluting, exploiting, vulgarizing, or popularizing of abstract art deprives art of its essence and depraves the artist's artistic consciousness. Art is free, but it is not a free-for-all.

  Donald Judd

  Art, Mixing, Consciousness

  American Dialog Vol. 1-5, p.9, 1964.

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• The physical union of a man and a woman, in essence, is a supernatural act, a reminiscence of paradise, the most beautiful of all the hymns of praise dedicated to the Creator by the creature; it is the alpha and the omega of all creation.

  Samael Aun Weor

  Beautiful, Men, Hymns

  Samael Aun Weor (2010). “The Mystery of the Golden Blossom: The Magic of Spirituality, Sexuality, and Love”, p.32, Glorian Publishing

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• The function of the margin of safety is, in essence, that of rendering unnecessary an accurate estimate of the future.

  Benjamin Graham

  Safety, Unnecessary, Function

  Benjamin Graham (1959). “The Intelligent Investor: A Book of Practical Counsel”

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• A life truly lived constantly burns away veils of illusion, burns away what is no longer relevant, gradually reveals our essence, until, at last, we are strong enough to stand in our naked truth.

  Marion Woodman

  Strong, Naked, Veils

  Marion Woodman (2001). “Coming Home to Myself: Reflections for Nurturing a Woman's Body and Soul”, p.93, Conari Press

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• If you can attribute your success entirely to your own mental effort, to your own attitude, to some spiritual essence that you have that is better than other peoples, then that must feel pretty good.

  Barbara Ehrenreich

  Spiritual, Attitude, Effort

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• I simply love classic design when it's reinterpreted. These collections reflect the spirit of this design philosophy; clean pared down lines and forms rooted in tradition yet made to feel new and modern with unexpected or stylized scale, finishes and detailing. This contemporary take on tradition creates a look that's at once current yet timeless, fresh yet familiar…the essence of both beautiful design and a beautifully designed home.

  Candice Olson

  Beautiful, Philosophy, Home

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• I believe that the essence of good design is its ability to sustain long term integrity, to become classic and create a truly captivating home.

  Candice Olson

  Integrity, Believe, Home

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