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• And this is a table ma'am. What in essence it consists of is a horizontal rectilinear plane surface maintained by four vertical columnar supports, which we call legs. The tables in this laboratory, ma'am, are as advanced in design as one will find anywhere in the world.

  Michael Frayn

  Humorous, Design, Support

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• Zen was a reaction. Just as Buddha came into the world and spoke against the fall of Vedanta, so Buddhism lost its essence and became ritual. Zen was a reaction to that.

  Frederick Lenz

  Fall, Buddhism, World

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• Each of the ten thousand states of mind presents you with a different view of essence and experience.

  Frederick Lenz

  Views, Mind, Different

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• Bodhidharma who brought Zen from India to the Orient, taught a very pure Zen - in that it was pure Zen. He wanted to show that the way still existed and wanted to get back to its essence.

  Frederick Lenz

  Taught, India, Way

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• Now when I speak about Zen, I have a problem, in the sense that the Zen of today has lost the essence, in my estimation, of what I call "old Zen."

  Frederick Lenz

  Today, Problem, Speak

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• If you are psychic you will become much more aware of the beauty of life. If you are psychic, when you look at a rose, you will see and feel the essence of the rose.

  Frederick Lenz

  Psychics, Rose, Looks

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• Who is that is dreaming all of this? Ecstasy, pure ecstasy, joy beyond understanding, bliss beyond the dry dullness of the mind's philosophical ranging, light beyond any light in this world - The substance and the essence of all existence is this light, the transcendental light.

  Frederick Lenz

  Dream, Philosophical, Light

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• Speed is the essence of war.

  Conor McGregor

  War, Mma, Speed

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• We are not meant to be seen as God's perfect, bright-shining examples, but to be seen as the everyday essence of ordinary life exhibiting the miracle of His grace.

  Oswald Chambers

  Perfect, Miracle, Shining

  Oswald Chambers (2013). “Utmost: Classic Readings and Prayers from Oswald Chambers”, p.60, Discovery House

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• Government, in its very essence, is opposed to all increase in knowledge. Its tendency is always towards permanence and against change...[T]he progress of humanity, far from being the result of government, has been made entirely without its aid and in the face if its constant and bitter opposition.

  H. L. Mencken

  Government, Humanity, Progress

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• History causes the military problem to become the essence of the political problem.

  Vladimir Lenin

  Military, Political, Causes

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• If democracy, in essence, means the abolition of class domination, then why should not a socialist minister charm the whole bourgeois world by orations on class collaboration?

  Vladimir Lenin

  Mean, Class, Democracy

  Vladimir Il'ich Lenin (1975). “Izbrannye Proizvedenii͡a V Trekh Tomakh”

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• There can be no return to prosperity while the government (of Ontario) believes that taking money from the people who have earned it and giving it away to the people who haven't, in exchange for their votes and regardless of merit, is the essence of fairness.

  Conrad Black

  Believe, Government, Giving

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• Curiosity is the essence of human existence and exploration has been part of humankind for a long time. The exploration of space, like the exploration of life, if you will, is a risk. We've got to be willing to take it.

  Gene Cernan

  Space, Long, Risk

  "Is the shuttle worth it?" by Richard Stenger, www.cnn.com. February 5, 2003.

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• Aioli intoxicates gently, fills the body with warmth, and the soul with
  enthusiasm. In its essence it concentrates the strength, the gaiety of
  Provence: sunshine.

  Frederic Mistral

  Sunshine, Soul, Body

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• And what is the very essence of poetry if it is not this 'metaphorical language'-this marking of the before unapprehended relations of things?

  Owen Barfield

  Language, Relation, Metaphorical

  Owen Barfield (1973). “Poetic Diction: A Study in Meaning”, p.67, Wesleyan University Press

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• In magical thought the human body is the 'microcosm' (small representation) of the Earth, which is the 'macrocosm'. The Earth is also the microcosm of the Universe. In other words, we are pictures of the essence of the planet and thusly of the universe. As such, when we change ourselves, we change the Earth and the universe.

  Scott Cunningham

  Body, Earth, Planets

  Scott Cunningham (1983). “Earth Power: Techniques of Natural Magic”, p.14, Llewellyn Worldwide

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• I am essence of Rose Solitude
  my cheeks are laced with cognac
  my hips sealed with five satin nails
  I carry dreams and romance of new fools and old
  flames
  between the musk of fat
  and the side pocket of my mink tongue.

  Jayne Cortez

  Dream, Flames, Rose

  Jayne Cortez (2002). “Jazz fan looks back”, Hanging Loose Pr

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• As readers, we are seldom interested in the fine sentiments of a lesson learnt; we seldom care about the good manners of morals. Repentance puts an end to conversation; forgiveness becomes the stuff of moralistic tracts. Revenge - bloodthirsty, justice-hungry revenge - is the very essence of romance, lying at the heart of much of the best fiction.

  Alberto Manguel

  Revenge, Lying, Heart

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• What is important-what lasts-in another language is not what is said but what is written. For the essence of an age, we look to its poetry and its prose, not its talk shows.

  Peter Brodie

  Important, Age, Lasts

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• What lasts is what is written. We look to literature to find the essence of an age.

  Peter Brodie

  Age, Looks, Literature

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• This human need for mysticism – surrender to an unknown truth, union – stands at the helm of all romantic feeling. It is, in essence, the same intimacy known in a mother’s arms; in those who are deprived of the experience, the need freezes and, distorted, it can rent a life. All addiction has as its foundation skewed yearning for the same transcendence. For me, the spell of the material was broken by my brother’s death; after his suicide, all I wanted was the renewal of my connection to the intangible.

  Antonella Gambotto-Burke

  Mother, Suicide, Brother

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• Mirrors are the essence of movies.

  Nicolas Roeg

  Mirrors

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• Pleasure, that immortal essence, the beauteous bead sparkling in the cup, effervesces soon and subsides.

  Amos Bronson Alcott

  Cups, Pleasure, Beads

  Amos Bronson Alcott (1877). “Table-talk”

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• Look to the essence of a thing, whether it be a point of doctrine, of practice, or of interpretation.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Practice, Doctrine, Looks

  "Meditations". Book by Marcus Aurelius. Book VIII, 22,

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