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• The essence of man is his freedom. Sin is committed in that freedom. Sin can therefore not be attributed to a defect in his essence. It can only be understood as a self-contradiction, made possible by the fact of his freedom but not following necessarily from it.

  Reinhold Niebuhr

  Men, Self, Facts

  Reinhold Niebuhr (1996). “The Nature and Destiny of Man: A Christian Interpretation : Human Nature”, p.17, Westminster John Knox Press

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• A calm despair, without angry convulsions or reproaches directed at heaven, is the essence of wisdom.

  Alfred de Vigny

  Heaven, Despair, Calm

  "Journal d'un poète"by Alfred de Vigny, (p. 32), 1949.

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• Walnuts have a shell, and they have a kernel. Religions are the same. They have an essence, but then they have a protective coating. This is not the only way to put it. But it's my way. So the kernels are the same. However, the shells are different.

  Huston Smith

  Different, Shells, Way

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• I will scrape and dig into every word as far as I can get, right down to the essence of the word, to the substance of the image.

  Chairil Anwar

  Substance, I Can

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• Most writers are unhappy with film adaptations of their work, and rightly so. 'Field of Dreams,' however, caught the spirit and essence of 'Shoeless Joe' while making the necessary changes to make the work more visual.

  W. P. Kinsella

  Dream, Unhappy, Necessary Change

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• If you decide to move to another country and to live within its laws you don't express your disregard for the essence of the culture. It's a form of aggression.

  V. S. Naipaul

  Country, Moving, Law

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• The essence of being human is that, in the brief moment we exist on this spinning planet, we can love some persons and some things, in spite of the fact that time and death will ultimately claim us all.

  Rollo May

  Spinning, Facts, Human Nature

  Rollo May (1994). “The Courage to Create”, p.25, W. W. Norton & Company

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• To reflect on the essence of the Creator ... is forbidden to the human intellect because of the severance of all relation between the two existences.

  Muhammad Abduh

  God, Two, Existence

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• The essence of a government health care system - for people who have never lived under it and don't know - is waiting, waiting, waiting. You wait for everything. You wait for years for operations that are routine in America.

  Mark Steyn

  Government, Years, America

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• A good book is the very essence of a good man. His virtues survive in it, while the foibles and faults of his actual life are forgotten. All the goodly company of the excellent and great sit around my table, or look down on me from yonder shelves, waiting patiently to answer my questions and enrich me with their wisdom. A precious book is a foretaste of immortality.

  Theodore L. Cuyler

  Book, Reading, Men

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• Nature seemed to me full of wonders, and I wanted to steep myself in them. Every stone, every plant, every single thing seemed alive and indescribably marvelous. I immersed myself in nature, crawled, as it were, into the very essence of nature and away from the whole human world.

  Carl Jung

  Nature, Alive, World

  Carl Gustav Jung (1973). “Memories, dreams, reflections”, Random House Inc

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• There is a fear of peace that I don't understand. Witness the old epithet "peaceniks," the association of peace with weakness. We mistake kindness for weakness in individuals, too. Gandhi found the essence of Christianity to be gentleness, the exaltation of means over ends. Using violence, against us or them, to achieve peace is like beating children to get them to be good. It only works in the short term. Believe in peace, think peace, live peace. Be a building-block of peace. Make it the center of your strength.

  Jennifer James

  Peace, Kindness, Children

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• Since I reached the conclusion that the essence of the creative person is being in love with what one is doing, I have had a growing awareness that this characteristic makes possible all the other personality characteristics of the creative person: independence of thought and judgment, honesty, perseverance, curiosity, willingness to take risks and the like.

  Ellis Paul Torrance

  Perseverance, Honesty, Being In Love

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• It is of man's essence to create materially and morally, to fabricate things and to fabricate himself. Homo faber is the definition I propose ... Homo faber, Homo sapiens, I pay my respects to both, for they tend to merge.

  Henri Bergson

  Men, Definitions, Pay

  Henri Bergson (2012). “The Creative Mind: An Introduction to Metaphysics”, p.67, Courier Corporation

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• Love is our true essence.

  Mata Amritanandamayi

  Love, Love Is

  Swami Amritaswarupananda Puri, Amma, Sri Mata Amritanandamayi Devi (2014). “The Color Of The Rainbow”, p.176, M A Center

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• We should learn to love everyone equally, because in essence we are all one, one Atman, one soul.

  Mata Amritanandamayi

  Relationship, Soul, Atman

  Sri Mata Amritanandamayi Devi, Amma (2014). “108 Quotes On Love”, p.87, M A Center

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• Books are the basis; purity is the force; preaching is the essence; utility is the principle.

  A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada

  Book, Principles, Purity

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• Writing needs to be practiced; there is a limit to how much can be gleaned from a teacher or a manual. The true essence of writing is out there, in the world, and inside, within yourself. To write, you have to give.

  Jasper Fforde

  Teacher, Writing, Giving

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• Construed as turf, home just seems a provisional claim, a designation you make upon a place, not one it makes on you. A certain set of buildings, a glimpsed, smudged window-view across a schoolyard, a musty aroma sniffed behind a garage when you were a child, all of which come crowding in upon your latter-day senses -- those are pungent things and vivid, even consoling. But to me they are also inert and nostalgic and unlikely to connect you to the real, to that essence art can sometimes achieve, which is permanence.

  Richard Ford

  Art, Children, Real

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• The essence of modern dictatorship is the combination of one-dimensional, flat thinking with power and terror.

  Theodor Haecker

  Thinking, Dictator, Modern

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• Culture has never the translucidity of custom; it abhors all simplification. In its essence it is opposed to custom, for custom is always the deterioration of culture.

  Frantz Fanon

  Culture, Deterioration, Customs

  Frantz Fanon (1965). “Damnés de la terre”, Grove Pr

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• The essence is, what can we do next? And will it be good?

  Vidal Sassoon

  Next, Be Good

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• Good acting comes from finding the essence of a character.

  John Larroquette

  Character, Acting, Findings

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I want to be defined by my own essence.

  Kathy Bates

  Want, My Own, Defined

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• When I sing, I have a sense of peace, I feel like my brain turns off, and I become the core person of who I am - the essence of me. I feel connected to whatever is out there. It's almost like I leave my body and get to watch.

  Michelle Branch

  Who I Am, Brain, Watches

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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