Essence Quotes - Page 24

• 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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• I am talking about societies drained of their essence, cultures trampled underfoot, institutions undermined, lands confiscated, religions smashed, magnificent artistic creations destroyed, extraordinary possibilities wiped out.

  Aime Cesaire

  Talking, Land, Artistic Creation

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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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• Around the edge of the crowd was a little 13-year-old bouncing up and down with a grin that went from ear to ear. She was so happy for her sister. It was a charming moment, and I think thats the essence of what Emily Hughes is.

  Dick Button

  Thinking, Years, Littles

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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 that is truly lived is constantly burning away the veils of illusion, gradually revealing the essence of the individual.

  Marion Woodman

  Burning, Veils, Illusion

  Marion Woodman (1985). “The Pregnant Virgin: A Process of Psychological Transformation”

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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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• There is an essence of, when you are fearless, you become more creative, and the more fearless I became, the more creative I was.

  Gurbaksh Chahal

  Creative, Fearless

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• Limitations force you to find the essence of what you want to say, which is one of the most important things to know for an artist.

  Julie Taymor

  Artist, Important, Want

  "Oh, girl: A Talk with Julie Taymor". Interview with Karsten Meinich, subtitlestocinema.wordpress.com. September 2, 2008.

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• I paint to rest from the phenomena of the external world - to pronounce it -- and to make notations of its essences with which to verify the inner eye.

  Morris Graves

  Eye, World, Paint

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• Conquering evil, not the opponent, is the essence of swordsmanship.

  Yagyu Munenori

  Evil, Opponents, Conquer

  "Behold the Second Horseman" by Joseph Lumpkin, (p. 44), 2005.

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• For me, the value of a climb is the sum of three inseparable elements, all equally important: aesthetics, history, and ethics. Together they form the whole basis of my concept of alpinism. Some people see no more in climbing mountains than an escape from the harsh realities of modern times. This is not only uninformed but unfair. I don’t deny that there can be an element of escapism in mountaineering, but this should never overshadow its real essence, which is not escape but victory over your own human frailty.

  Walter Bonatti

  Real, Climbing, People

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• When in doubt, act boldly, as if it were impossible to fail. In essence it is.

  Steve Pavlina

  Success, Doubt, Impossible

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• If you think about it, we love others not for who they are, but for how they make us feel. In order to willingly accept the direction of another individual, it must make you feel good to do so...If you believe what I'm saying, you cannot help but come to the conclusin that those you have followed passionately, gladly, zealously~have made you feel like somebody...This business of making another person feel good in the unspectacular course of his daily comings and goings is, in my view, the very essence of leadership.

  Irwin Federman

  Believe, Thinking, Views

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• I love spring flowers: daffodils and hyacinths are the ultimate flower for me. They are the essence of spring.

  Kirsty Gallacher

  Spring, Flower, Hyacinths

  "Kirsty Gallacher: my Saturday job" by Mark King, www.theguardian.com. March 2, 2012.

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• Curiosity is the essence of human existence.

  Gene Cernan

  Curiosity, Existence, Humans

  "Last Man on the Moon recalls US era of courage to do the impossible" by Henry Barnes, www.theguardian.com. June 08, 2014.

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• Real haiku is the soul of poetry. Anything that is not actually present in one's heart is not haiku. The moon glows, flowers bloom, insects cry, water flows. There is no place we cannot find flowers or think of the moon. This is the essence of haiku. Go beyond the restrictions of your era, forget about purpose or meaning, separate yourself from historical limitations—there you will find the essence of true art, religion, and science.

  Santoka Taneda

  Art, Real, Flower

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• The man who comes to writing late, but is in essence a writer, may sometimes gain as much as he has lost: his experience of life has given him a subject, he is spared the youthful writer's self-torment and soul-searching.

  Wright Morris

  Writing, Men, Self

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• Accountability is the essence of democracy. If people do not know what their government is doing, they cannot be truly self-governing. The national security state assumes the government secrets are too important to be shared, that only those in the know can see classified information, that only the president has all the facts, that we must simply trust that our rulers of acting in our interest.

  Garry Wills

  Government, Self, People

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• Making choices that are meaningful to you is the essence of the French woman's secret.

  Mireille Guiliano

  Meaningful, Choices, Secret

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• David Cristofanos debut novel captures the essence of the human spirit, and delivers a story that is simultaneously heartwarming and heartbreaking.

  Brad Listi

  Heartbreaking, Stories, Spirit

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• The essence of trade unionism is social uplift. The labor movement has been the haven for the dispossessed, the despised, the neglected, the downtrodden, the poor.

  A. Philip Randolph

  Uplifting, Labour Movement, Organized Labor

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• That is the essence of a witch-hunt, that any questioning of the evidence or the procedures in itself constitutes proof of complicity.

  Bergen Evans

  Witch, Proof, Procedures

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• The essence of worldliness is exclusion of God.

  Henry Jacobsen

  Exclusion, Materialism, Appearance

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• An elementary particle is not an independently existing, unanalyzable entity. It is, in essence, a set of relationships that reaches outward to other things.

  Henry Stapp

  Vegetarian, Entity, Reach Out

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