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• I find no quality so easy for a man to counterfeit as devotion, though his life and manner are not conformable to it; the essence of it is abstruse and occult, but the appearances easy and showy.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Men, Quality, Appearance

  Michel de Montaigne (1849). “Works: Comprising His Essays, Letters, and Journey Through Germany and Italy; with Notes, Notices, Etc”, p.401

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• A person who is trained to consider his actions, to undertake them deliberately, is in so far forth disciplined. Add to this ability a power to endure in an intelligently chosen course in the face of distraction, confusion, and difficulty, and you have the essence of discipline.

  John Dewey

  Discipline, Confusion, Faces

  John Dewey (2015). “Democracy and Education: Top American Authors”, p.98, 谷月社

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• The essence of thought, as the essence of life, is growth.

  Oscar Wilde

  Growth, Essence Of Life, Life Is

  Oscar Wilde (2016). “Aphorisms”, p.13, Oscar Wilde

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• The essence of government is concern for the widest possible public interest; the essence of the humanities, it seems to me, is private study, thought, and passion. Publicity is a essential to the one as privacy is to the other.

  John Updike

  Passion, Government, Humanity

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• The essence of taste is suitability. Divest the word of its prim and priggish implications, and see how it expresses the mysterious demand of the eye and mind for symmetry, harmony and order.

  Edith Wharton

  Eye, Order, Mind

  Edith Wharton (2013). “Delphi Works of Edith Wharton (Illustrated)”, p.4504, Delphi Classics

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• The essence of the expert is that his field shall be very special and narrow: one of the ways in which he inspires confidence is to rigidly limit himself to the little toe; he would scarcely venture an off-the-record opinion on an infected little finger.

  Louis Kronenberger

  Inspire, Special, Limits

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• My friend asked me the essence of life and I smiled.

  Michael Dolan

  Life, Essence Of Life, My Friends

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• The very essence of meditation is to be so silent that there is no stirring of thoughts in you, that words don't come between you and reality, that the whole net of words falls down, that you are left alone. This aloneness, this purity, this unclouded sky of your being is meditation.

  Rajneesh

  Fall, Reality, Sky

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• The ultimate essence of yoga is the contact and the union between the individual consciousness and the divine consciousness.

  Raphael

  Yoga, Unions, Consciousness

  Raphael (1996). “Essence and Purpose of Yoga: The Initiatory Pathways to the Transcendent”, Element Books Limited

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• The essence of politics is to direct oneself to the group which wields power

  Steven Biko

  Groups, Oneself, Direct

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• The essence of idolatry is the entertainment of thoughts about God that are unworthy of Him. The heaviest obligation lying upon the Christian Church today is to purify and elevate her concept of God until it is once more worthy of Him.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Christian, Lying, Church Today

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• Everything that we do has a spiritual essence. There is a spiritual dimension in everything. All of life has meaning and everything that you do in life is in preparation for your great meeting. This great meeting is your meeting with your Lord, which is absolutely inevitable.

  Hamza Yusuf

  Spiritual, Preparation, Dimensions

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• Self-help and self-control are the essence of the American tradition.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Self, Helping, Tradition

  Franklin D. Roosevelt (1995). “The Essential Franklin Delano Roosevelt”, Gramercy

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• This is the merit and distinction of art: to be more real than reality, to be not nature but nature's essence.

  William Ernest Henley

  Art, Real, Merit

  William Ernest Henley, Robert Louis Stevenson (1908). “Views and reviews; essays in appreciation: I. Literature. II. Art”

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• It is wrong to follow the advice of an adversary; nevertheless it is right to hear it, that you may do the contrary; and this is the essence of good policy.

  Saadi

  Advice, May, Policy

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• All evolutionary biologists know that variation itself is nature's only irreducible essence... I had to place myself amidst the variation.

  Stephen Jay Gould

  Variation, Biologist, Knows

  Stephen Jay Gould (2010). “Bully for Brontosaurus: Reflections in Natural History”, p.476, W. W. Norton & Company

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• If there is anybody I detest, it is weak-minded sentimentalists-all those melancholy people who, out of an excess of sympathy for others, miss the thrill of their own essence and drift through life without identity, like a human fog, feeling sorry for everyone.

  John Cheever

  Sorry, Fog, People

  John Cheever, Blake Bailey (2009). “John Cheever: Collected Stories and Other Writings”

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• Money is the alienated essence of man's work and existence; this essence dominates him and he worships it.

  Karl Marx

  Money, Men, Worship

  Karl Marx, Regula Qureshi (2002). “Music and Marx: Ideas, Practice, Politics”, p.148, Psychology Press

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• The society of merchants can be defined as a society in which things disappear in favor of signs. When a ruling class measures its fortunes, not by the acre of land or the ingot of gold, but by the number of figures corresponding ideally to a certain number of exchange operations, it thereby condemns itself to setting a certain kind of humbug at the center of its experience and its universe. A society founded on signs is, in its essence, an artificial society in which man's carnal truth is handled as something artificial.

  Albert Camus

  Men, Numbers, Land

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• Much of the philosophy of religious education has been based upon a false premise, and perhaps many have missed the essence of Christian experience, having had religious training take its place.

  Billy Graham

  Christian, Religious, Philosophy

  Billy Graham (1966). “The Quotable Billy Graham”

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• To hide a passion totally (or even to hide, more simply, its excess) is inconceivable: not because the human subject is too weak, but because passion is in essence made to be seen: the hiding must be seen: I want you to know that I am hiding something from you, that is the active paradox I must resolve: at one and the same time it must be known and not known: I want you to know that I don't want to show my feelings: that is the message I address to the other.

  Roland Barthes

  Passion, Hiding Something, Feelings

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• Music and politics are in essence about communication. Without over-stretching the analogy I do feel a sense of rhythm is important in getting your message across.

  Charles Kennedy

  Communication, Important, Analogies

  Interview with Will Hodgkinson, www.theguardian.com. April 15, 2005.

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• The essence of jiu-jitsu is philosophy.

  David Mamet

  Philosophy, Jiu Jitsu

  "Q&A with film director David Mamet". Sports Illustrated Interview, www.si.com. April 8, 2008.

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• There are single thoughts that contain the essence of a whole volume, single sentences that have the beauties of a large work.

  Joseph Joubert

  Volume, Sentences, Whole

  Joseph Joubert (1867). “Some of the "Thoughts" of Joseph Joubert”, p.150

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• The essence of life consists in thinking, and being conscious of one's soul.

  Joseph Joubert

  Thinking, Soul, Conscious

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