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• The essence of my work, and of me, is the softer side of a strong woman, and that goes into a number of different roles.

  Dee Wallace

  Strong Women, Numbers, Different

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• The essence of worldliness is exclusion of God.

  Henry Jacobsen

  Exclusion, Materialism, Appearance

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• If you think about it, we love others not for who they are, but for how they make us feel. In order to willingly accept the direction of another individual, it must make you feel good to do so...If you believe what I'm saying, you cannot help but come to the conclusin that those you have followed passionately, gladly, zealously~have made you feel like somebody...This business of making another person feel good in the unspectacular course of his daily comings and goings is, in my view, the very essence of leadership.

  Irwin Federman

  Believe, Thinking, Views

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• We need Jesus like we need oxygen. Like we need water. Like the branch needs the vine. Jesus is not merely a figure for devotions. He is the missing essence of your existence. Whether we know it or not, we are desperate for Jesus.

  John Eldred

  Jesus, Oxygen, Water

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• And I deeply pray that everyone discovers that they can strip away anything that might be holding them back on every level, and can begin living life from the real essence of their own soul.


  Brandon Bays

  Real, Live Life, Soul

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• Limitations force you to find the essence of what you want to say, which is one of the most important things to know for an artist.

  Julie Taymor

  Artist, Important, Want

  "Oh, girl: A Talk with Julie Taymor". Interview with Karsten Meinich, subtitlestocinema.wordpress.com. September 2, 2008.

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• There is no mysterious essence we can call a 'place'. Place is change. It is motion killed by the mind, and preserved in the amber of memory.

  J. A. Baker

  Memories, Mind, Amber

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• I paint to rest from the phenomena of the external world - to pronounce it -- and to make notations of its essences with which to verify the inner eye.

  Morris Graves

  Eye, World, Paint

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• Life is a series of diminishments. Each cessation of an activity either from choice or some variety of infirmity is a death, a putting to final rest. Each loss, of friend or precious enemy, can be equated with the closing off of a room containing blocks of nerves, or a dynamo governing a particular sensibility or intelligence and soon after the closing off the nerves atrophy and that part of oneself, in essence, drops away. The self is lightened, is held on earth by a gram less of mass and will.

  Coleman Dowell

  Death, Block, Loss

  "Mrs. October was Here".

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• Conquering evil, not the opponent, is the essence of swordsmanship.

  Yagyu Munenori

  Evil, Opponents, Conquer

  "Behold the Second Horseman" by Joseph Lumpkin, (p. 44), 2005.

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• For me, the value of a climb is the sum of three inseparable elements, all equally important: aesthetics, history, and ethics. Together they form the whole basis of my concept of alpinism. Some people see no more in climbing mountains than an escape from the harsh realities of modern times. This is not only uninformed but unfair. I don’t deny that there can be an element of escapism in mountaineering, but this should never overshadow its real essence, which is not escape but victory over your own human frailty.

  Walter Bonatti

  Real, Climbing, People

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• I don’t deny that there can be an element of escapism in mountaineering, but this should never overshadow its real essence, which is not escape but victory over your own human frailty.

  Walter Bonatti

  Real, Over You, Victory

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• Through recognizing and realizing the empty essence, instead of being selfish and self-centered, one feels very open and free

  Tsoknyi Rinpoche

  Selfish, Self Centered, Realizing

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• When in doubt, act boldly, as if it were impossible to fail. In essence it is.

  Steve Pavlina

  Success, Doubt, Impossible

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• It is amazing that our souls - our eternal essences, with all their hopes and dreams and visions of an eternal world - are contained within these temporal bodies. No wonder suffering is part of the human condition.

  Marion Woodman

  Dream, Soul, Suffering

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• One cannot inquire into the foundations and nature of mathematics without delving into the question of the operations by which the mathematical activity of the mind is conducted. If one failed to take that into account, then one would be left studying only the language in which mathematics is represented rather than the essence of mathematics.

  L. E. J. Brouwer

  Mind, Foundation, Would Be

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• We live in a regime built on force and lies. In essence, it's the same here as in Uzbekistan, except the government here is better at presenting itself to the outside world.

  Isa Gambar

  Lying, Uzbekistan, Government

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• Just as I shall lie alone in the grave, so, in essence, do I live alone.

  Anton Chekhov

  Lying, Graves

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• The essence of profound insight is simplicity.

  James C. Collins

  Profound, Simplicity, Insight

  "Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap...and Others Don't". Book by James C. Collins, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 16, 2001.

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• Ancient masters of excellence had a subtle essence, and a depth too profound to comprehend.

  Laozi

  Profound, Taoism, Excellence

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• Martin Buber suggested that evil prevailed because of the inability of man to imagine the real. Yet human beings do have that capacity. Lord Byron, a poet favored by Alfred Nobel, captured the stark essence of a post-nuclear world in his poem Darkness.

  Bernard Lown

  Real, Men, Evil

  "A Prescription for Hope". The Nobel Lecture, www.nobelprize.org. December 11, 1985.

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• Disease is in essence the result of conflict between Soul and Mind, and will never be eradicated except by spiritual and mental effort.

  Edward Bach

  Spiritual, Effort, Soul

  Edward Bach, F. J. Wheeler (1998). “The Bach Flower Remedies”, p.10, McGraw Hill Professional

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• That is the essence of a witch-hunt, that any questioning of the evidence or the procedures in itself constitutes proof of complicity.

  Bergen Evans

  Witch, Proof, Procedures

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• David Cristofanos debut novel captures the essence of the human spirit, and delivers a story that is simultaneously heartwarming and heartbreaking.

  Brad Listi

  Heartbreaking, Stories, Spirit

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• Real haiku is the soul of poetry. Anything that is not actually present in one's heart is not haiku. The moon glows, flowers bloom, insects cry, water flows. There is no place we cannot find flowers or think of the moon. This is the essence of haiku. Go beyond the restrictions of your era, forget about purpose or meaning, separate yourself from historical limitations—there you will find the essence of true art, religion, and science.

  Santoka Taneda

  Art, Real, Flower

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