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• The essence of tyranny is the enforcement of stupid laws.

  Edmund Burke

  Stupid, Law, Enforcement

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• Science advances through tentative answers to a series of more and more subtle questions which reach deeper and deeper into the essence of natural phenomena.

  Louis Pasteur

  Answers, Natural, Subtle

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• If we don't know ourselves, our essence, where our true power comes from, we will believe our power comes from collecting victories, trophies, money, or recognition. And these are all fine, but it's not ultimately what life is about. When we think it is, we really waste our greatest possibilities.

  Arianna Huffington

  Believe, Thinking, True Power

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• I am part of a divine essence. I don't have to become anything. I already am.

  Tom Shadyac

  Divine

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• To know what you like is the beginning of wisdom and of old age. Youth is wholly experimental. The essence and charm of that unquiet and delightful epoch is ignorance of self as well as ignorance of life.

  Robert Louis Stevenson

  Ignorance, Self, Age

  Robert Louis Stevenson (2016). “Across the Plains”, p.179, BookRix

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• Getting along with others is the essence of getting ahead, success being linked with cooperation.

  William Feather

  Cooperation, Linked, Getting Along

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• Beyond the beauty of external forms, there is more here: something that cannot be named, something ineffable, some deep, inner, holy essence. Whenever and wherever there is beauty, this inner essence shines through somehow. It only reveals itself to you when you are present.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Inspirational, Shining, Holy

  Eckhart Tolle (2001). “Practicing the Power of Now: Essential Teachings, Meditations, and Exercises from the Power of Now”, p.58, New World Library

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• The unique essence of being an artist is dying. Eveything looks the same. Now there’s a formula. And it works. - But it takes away from the reason we do it.

  Usher

  Artist, Unique, Dying

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• Lean into the sharp points and fully experience them. The essence of bravery is being without self-deception. Wisdom is inherent in (understanding) emotions.

  Pema Chodron

  Self, Bravery, Understanding

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• He who believes in goodness has the essence of all faith. He is a man of cheerful yesterdays and confident to-morrows.

  James Freeman Clarke

  Believe, Men, Yesterday

  James Freeman Clarke (1880). “Self-culture, lectures”

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• Love is the essence of the universe,. Love in action is service.

  Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

  Love Is, Action, Universe

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• There is no such thing as a dumb poet or a handless painter. The essence of an artist is that he should be articulate.

  Algernon Charles Swinburne

  Artist, Dumb, Poet

  Algernon Charles Swinburne (1875). “Essays and Studies”, p.152, Chatto & Windus

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• This is the essence of God's sovereignty; His absolute independence to do as He pleases and His absolute control over the actions of all His creatures. No creature, person, or empire can either thwart His will or act outside the bounds of His will.

  Jerry Bridges

  Independence, Empires, Action

  Jerry Bridges (2016). “Trusting God”, p.33, NavPress

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• The belief that love is a finite essence that will eventually run out holds a certain logic for me even now, even if I am supposed to know better.

  Susanna Moore

  Running, Love Is, Belief

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• The B.C. spirit bear symbolizes the essence of the spirit of British Columbia. It is a powerful presence and a thing of wonder that lives in a magical land of beauty, grace and unbridled potential.

  Gordon Campbell

  Powerful, Land, Grace

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• When we dance we touch the essence of who we are and experience the unity between spirit and matter.

  Angeles Arrien

  Unity, Who We Are, Matter

  Angeles Arrien (1993). “The four-fold way”

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• If someone praises you with what you are not, they are in essence criticizing you of a deficiency in you.

  Wahb ibn Munabbih

  Praise, Criticize, Deficiency

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• The essence of saintliness is total acceptance of the present moment,
  harmony with things as they happen.

  Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

  Acceptance, Moments, Harmony

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• In you, as in each human being, there is a dimension of consciousness far deeper than thought. It is the very essence of who you are. We may call it presence, awareness, the unconditioned consciousness.

  Eckhart Tolle

  May, Dimensions, Being There

  Eckhart Tolle (2010). “Stillness Speaks”, p.13, New World Library

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• The sons of Adam are limbs of each other, Having been created of one essence. When the calamity of time affects one limb, the other limbs cannot remain at rest. If you have no sympathy for the troubles of others, You are unworthy to be called by the name of a human.

  Saadi

  Son, Names, Trouble

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• The essence of love is that what is ours should belong to someone else. Feeling the joy of someone else as joy within ourselves-that is loving.

  Emanuel Swedenborg

  Love Is, Joy, Feelings

  Emanuel Swedenborg, George F. Dole, Gregory R. Johnson, Jonathan S. Rose, Reuben P. Bell (2003). “Divine Love and Wisdom”, p.68, The Swedenborg Foundation

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• War is harmful, not only to the conquered but to the conqueror. Society has arisen out of the works of peace; the essence of society is peacemaking. Peace and not war is the father of all things. Only economic action has created the wealth around us; labor, not the profession of arms, brings happiness. Peace builds, war destroys.

  Ludwig von Mises

  War, Father, Arms

  Ludwig von Mises (2016). “Socialism - An Economic and Sociological Analysis: The Economist”, p.44, VM eBooks

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• Now understand me well. It is provided in the essence of things that from any fruition of success, no matter what, shall come forth something to make a greater struggle necessary.

  Walt Whitman

  Struggle, Fruition, Matter

  Walt Whitman “Annotated LEAVES OF GRASS with English Grammar Exercises: by Walt Whitman (Author), Robert Powell (Editor)”, Powell Publications, LLC

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• The essence of fighting is the art of moving at the right time.

  Bruce Lee

  Art, Moving, Fighting

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• The point is not how long you meditate; the point is whether the practice actually brings you to a certain state of mindfulness and presence, where you are a little open and able to connect with your heart essence. And five minutes of wakeful sitting practice is of far greater value than twenty minutes of dozing!

  Sogyal Rinpoche

  Heart, Practice, Long

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