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• Soon silence will have passed into legend. Man has turned his back on silence. Day after day he invents machines and devices that increase noise and distract humanity from the essence of life, contemplation, meditation.

  Hans Arp

  Technology, Men, Silence

  "Arp on Arp: poems, essays, memories". p. 231, 1972.

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• The essence of childhood, of course, is play, which my friends and I did endlessly on streets that we reluctantly shared with traffic.

  Bill Cosby

  Play, Childhood, Comedy

  Twitter post from Nov 11, 2009

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• The very essence of instinct is that it's followed independently of reason.

  Charles Darwin

  Inspirational, Intuition, Transcendentalism

  Charles Darwin (2016). “The Descent of Man: the Evolution”, p.113, VM eBooks

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• Integrity is the essence of everything successful.

  R. Buckminster Fuller

  Inspirational, Success, Integrity

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• The essence of pleasure is spontaneity.

  Germaine Greer

  Spontaneity, Pleasure

  Germaine Greer (1970). “The female eunuch”, Macgibbon & Kee

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• Like bones to the human body, the axle to the wheel, the wing to the bird, and the air to the wing, so is liberty the essence of life. Whatever is done without it is imperfect.

  Jose Marti

  Air, Wings, Bird

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• I don't think poetry is something that can be taught. We can encourage young writers, but what you can't teach them is the very essence of poetry.

  Robert Morgan

  Thinking, Taught, Young Writers

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• Style and Structure are the essence of a book; great ideas are hogwash.

  Vladimir Nabokov

  Book, Writing, Ideas

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• It is a widely accepted notion among painters that it does not matter what one paints as long as it is well painted. This is the essence of academicism.

  Mark Rothko

  Artist, Long, Doe

  Mark Rothko, Miguel López-Remiro (2006). “Writings on Art”, p.36, Yale University Press

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• The Essence of Knowledge is, having it, to use it.

  Confucius

  Use

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• The real glory is being knocked to your knees and then coming back. That's real glory. That's the essence of it.

  Vince Lombardi

  Inspirational, Running, Volleyball

  "El Guerrouj digs deep for long-awaited gold" by Duncan Mackay, www.theguardian.com. August 24, 2004.

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• Fairness through leveling is the essence of Obamaism.

  Charles Krauthammer

  Fairness

  "Obama's Ultimate Agenda". Column, jewishworldreview.com. April 2, 2009.

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• The essence of philosophy is that a man should so live that his happiness shall depend as little as possible on external things.

  Epictetus

  Inspirational, Happiness, Happy

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• Sure, I could of done it different... put my clown in a closet and dressed up in straight clothing. I could of compromised my essence, and swallowed my soul.

  Wavy Gravy

  Soul, Different, Done

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• You're always a little disappointing in person because you can't be the edited essence of yourself.

  Mel Brooks

  Disappointment, Luck, Littles

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• The essence of strategy is choosing what not to do.

  Michael Porter

  Deep Thought, Transcendentalism, Great Business

  Harvard Business Review, John P. Kotter, Michael Porter, Elizabeth Olmsted Teisberg (2015). “Leadership, Strategy, and Innovation: Health Care Collection (8 Items)”, p.1721, Harvard Business Review Press

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• Pursuit and seduction are the essence of sexuality. It's part of the sizzle.

  Camille Paglia

  Love, Seduction, Transcendentalism

  Camille Paglia (2011). “Sex, Art, and American Culture: Essays”, p.59, Vintage

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• Desire is the essence of a man.

  Baruch Spinoza

  Men, Desire

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• There is, so I believe, in the essence of everything, something that we cannot call learning. There is, my friend, only a knowledge - that is everywhere.

  Hermann Hesse

  Believe, Knowledge, Siddhartha

  Hermann Hesse (2015). “Siddhartha: An Indian Tale”, p.18, Om Books International

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• For life is tendency, and the essence of a tendency is to develop in the form of a sheaf, creating, by its very growth, divergent directions among which its impetus is divided.

  Henri Bergson

  Life, Creating, Growth

  Henri Bergson (2015). “Creative Evolution”, p.90, Sheba Blake Publishing

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• The essence of justice is mercy.

  Edwin Hubbel Chapin

  Justice, Mercy

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• Surely we have a responsibility to finally listen to - and honor - the siren calls of our souls, which have been silenced by our egos throughout our lives? How else can we connect with our essence, the source of our calling?

  Lance Secretan

  Responsibility, Ego, Soul

  Lance Secretan (2004). “Inspire! What Great Leaders Do”, p.93, John Wiley & Sons

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• Instead of 'watching the thinker,' you can also create a gap in the mind stream simply by directing the focus of your attention into the Now. Just become intensely conscious of the present moment. This is a deeply satisfying thing to do. In this way, you draw consciousness away from mind activity and create a gap of no-mind in which you are highly alert and aware but not thinking. This is the essence of meditation.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Thinking, Focus, Meditation

  Eckhart Tolle (2001). “Practicing the Power of Now: Essential Teachings, Meditations, and Exercises from the Power of Now”, p.21, New World Library

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• The essence of romantic love is that wonderful beginning, after which sadness and impossibility may become the rule.

  Anita Brookner

  Love, Happiness, Sadness

  Anita Brookner (1987). “A friend from England”, Pantheon

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• Individual science fiction stories may seem as trivial as ever to the blinder critics and philosophers of today - but the core of science fiction, its essence has become crucial to our salvation if we are to be saved at all.

  Isaac Asimov

  Writing, Fiction Stories, May

  "My Own View". "The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction". Book edited by Robert Holdstock, 1978.

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