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• What ever beauty may be it has for its basis order and for its essence unity Beauty is only skin deep, but ugly goes clean to the bone.

  Dorothy Parker

  Beauty, Order, Unity

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• I grew up with a lot of fairy tales. And they had an essence of darkness to them.

  Rupert Sanders

  Darkness, Fairy Tale, Grew Up

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• Rewriting is the essence of writing well: it's where the game is won or lost. The idea is hard to accept. We all have emotional equity in our first draft; we can't believe that it wasn't born perfect. But the odds are close to 100 percent that it wasn't.

  William Zinsser

  Believe, Writing, Emotional

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• Life exists in countless forms in countless dimensions, in places that we simply cannot see. The essence of life - while it might not appear so when we watch television or watch our loved ones suffer - is good.

  Frederick Lenz

  Inspirational, Buddhism, Suffering

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• There was a time when you came forth from infinity, your essence that is. You've always existed, and you'll always exist. But there are different states of mind in the universe.

  Frederick Lenz

  Inspirational, Buddhism, Mind

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• The essence of all reincarnation is to have the best lifetime now that you've ever had, no matter what's going on.

  Frederick Lenz

  Inspirational, Buddhism, Matter

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• All of the universes are but phantoms, mirages, and while they have their own essence, their own pantomime - they pass forgotten.

  Frederick Lenz

  Mirages, Phantoms, Forgotten

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• You're much too hung up on all of your ideas and your desires. You still have not penetrated the essence of yoga.

  Frederick Lenz

  Yoga, Ideas, Desire

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• Those who seek liberation want to go beyond individualized perception. The essence of their being wants to dissolve back into the cosmos.

  Frederick Lenz

  Perception, Cosmos, Want

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• In essence I find that the foundation of modern conservatism is driven by a clinging to God in fear of the world, whereas the foundation of modern liberalism is a clinging to the world in fear of God; albeit, the true foundation should be one's clinging to God in fear of God.

  Criss Jami

  Fear, World, Foundation

  Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.53, Criss Jami

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• If you look at the true essence of the Black Panthers, they were more of a community protection group.

  Anthony Mackie

  Community, Black, Groups

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• It's the essence of a degenerating mind periodically, to lose all sense of continuous self, and therefore any regard for what others think of your lack of continuity.

  Ian Mcewan

  Thinking, Self, Mind

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• The Saudis and Emiratis blame all of this on Iran. I think they’d have to grant, that as has been said, that the Houthis are an internally generated movement in Yemen and the Saudis were supposed to be dealing with the Houthis, who started out in essence along their border. So one of the things that we’re seeing is a complete failure of Saudi policy toward Yemen over the past 10 years, but the Saudis totally believe that the reason the Houthis are able to succeed militarily is the amount of money, advice, and guns they are receiving from Iran.

  Elliott Abrams

  Believe, Thinking, Gun

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• Life—God—in its essence is vibration.

  Edgar Cayce

  Vibrations

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• Angels can recognize the nature of our unique essence on the basis of nothing more than a brief conversation with us. From hearing the tone of our voice angels sense what we love; and from hearing what we say, angels sense our level of understanding.

  Emanuel Swedenborg

  Angel, Unique, Voice

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• I'm not so much in the future as always in the present. The future always takes care of itself. What I do now with my video camera, it can only record what is happening now. I am celebrating reality and the essence of the moment. And that's the greatest challenge that I have.

  Jonas Mekas

  Reality, Challenges, Cameras

  "Jonas Mekas: Anthology Film Archives". Interview with Terence Teh, www.dazeddigital.com. April 27, 2011.

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• Glamour is not self-conscious; it’s not trying really hard. It’s just expressing your own truth. I think that’s what the essence of glamour really is—expressing your uniqueness.

  Kevyn Aucoin

  Thinking, Self, Trying

  Kerry Diamond, Kevyn Aucoin (2004). “Kevyn Aucoin a Beautiful Life: The Success, Struggles, and Beauty Secrets of a Legendary Makeup Artist”, p.158, Simon and Schuster

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• For AERO, I wanted to revisit in 5.1 some existing tracks in order to give them that space I had imagined when I originally composed them, and also to compose some new tracks for this new technology. All of the existing tracks in AERO have been performed with the original instruments, re-recorded and spatially arranged/spatialised for this new dimensional sound experience without betraying their very essence.

  Jean Michel Jarre

  Technology, Order, Space

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• What is so intriguing about this interplay between technology and the human imagination is that here we are dealing with the equation. As I imagine, so I become - and this is the very essence of magic.

  Nevill Drury

  Technology, Imagination, Magic

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• Science knows the qualities of electricity, but not its real essence.

  Mahmoud Mohammed Taha

  Real, Technology, Quality

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• From the ethical point of view, no one can escape responsibility with the excuse that he is only an individual, on whom the fate of the world does not depend. Not only can this not be known objectively for certain, because it is always possible that it will depend precisely on the individual, but this kind of thinking is also made impossible by the very essence of ethics, by conscience and the sense of responsibility.

  Gyorgy Lukacs

  Responsibility, Fate, Thinking

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• The essence of acting is the conveyance of truth through the medium of the actor's mind and person. The science of acting deals with the perfecting of that medium.

  Minnie Maddern Fiske

  Mind, Acting, Actors

  Minnie Maddern Fiske, Alexander Woollcott (1917). “Mrs. Fiske: Her Views on Actors, Acting, and the Problems of Production”

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• You see, it's really quite simple. A simile is just a mode of comparison employing 'as' and 'like' to reveal the hidden character or essence of whatever we want to describe, and through the use of fancy, association, contrast, extension, or imagination, to enlarge our understanding or perception of human experience and observation.

  Norton Juster

  Character, Simple, Imagination

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• Merciful heaven, Thou rather with thy sharp and sulphurous bolt Splits the unwedgeable and gnarled oak Than the soft myrtle; but man, proud man, Dressed in a little brief authority, Most ignorant of what he's most assured His glassy essence--like an angry ape Plays such fantastic tricks before high heaven As makes the angels weep; who, with our spleens, would all themselves laugh mortal.

  William Shakespeare

  Angel, Men, Play

  William Shakespeare, N. W. Bawcutt (1998). “Measure for Measure”, p.128, Oxford University Press, USA

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• Learning to enjoy being single involves the ability to experience everything through your own essence, instead of living vicariously through a spouse or partner.

  Ernie J Zelinski

  Single, Partners, Enjoy

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