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• The essence of a general's job is to assist in developing a clear sense of purpose . to keep the junk from getting in the way of important things.

  Victor Borge

  Jobs, Military, Important

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• The essence of the stage is concentration and penetration. Of the screen action, movement, sweep.

  Elia Kazan

  Movement, Action, Penetration

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• The risk of a terrorist victory is greater when in fighting terror, democracy betrays its own essence.

  Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero

  Fighting, Risk, Victory

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• In essence the Renaissance was simply the green end of one of civilization's hardest winters.

  John Fowles

  Winter, Civilization, Renaissance

  1969 The French Lieutenant's Woman, ch.10.

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• Pretending to be other people is my game and that to me is the essence of the whole business of acting.

  John Hurt

  Business, Games, People

  Interview with Geoff Andrew, www.theguardian.com. April 26, 2000.

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• And there is a difference between the essence of a Sacrament and its use.

  Martin Chemnitz

  Differences, Use, Sacraments

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• The essence of man is, discontent, divine discontent; a sort of love without a beloved, the ache we feel in a member we no longer have.

  Jose Ortega y Gasset

  Love, Men, Transcendentalism

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• It is of the essence of imaginative culture that it transcends the limits both of the naturally possible and of the morally acceptable.

  Northrop Frye

  Culture, Limits, Imaginative

  Northrop Frye (2015). “Anatomy of Criticism”, p.127, Princeton University Press

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• But what I attach great importance to is observation of the movement of colors. It is only in this way that I have found the laws of complementary contrast and the simultaneity of those colors that nourish the rhythm of my vision. There I find the representative essence — which does not arise from a system or an a priori theory.

  Robert Delaunay

  Color, Doe, Movement

  "The New Art of Color: The Writings of Robert and Sonia Delaunay".

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• To administer is to govern: to govern is to reign. That is the essence of the problem.

  Honore Gabriel Riqueti, comte de Mirabeau

  Reign, Problem

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• It is not of the essence of mathematics to be conversant with the ideas of number and quantity.

  George Boole

  Ideas, Numbers, Transcendentalism

  George Boole (1854). “An Investigation of the Laws of Thought: On which are Founded the Mathematical Theories of Logic and Probabilities”, p.12

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• The present age ... prefers the sign to the thing signified, the copy to the original, fancy to reality, the appearance to the essence ... for in these days illusion only is sacred, truth profane.

  Ludwig Feuerbach

  Reality, Atheism, Age

  Ludwig Feuerbach (2012). “The Essence of Christianity”, p.12, Courier Corporation

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• If therefore my work is negative, irreligious, atheistic, let it be remembered that atheism — at least in the sense of this work — is the secret of religion itself; that religion itself, not indeed on the surface, but fundamentally, not in intention or according to its own supposition, but in its heart, in its essence, believes in nothing else than the truth and divinity of human nature.

  Ludwig Feuerbach

  Believe, Heart, Secret

  Ludwig Feuerbach (1854). “The essence of Christianity”, p.8

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• The essence of government is control, or the attempt to control.

  Benjamin Tucker

  Government, Transcendentalism

  Benjamin Ricketson Tucker (1926). “Individual liberty: selections from the writings of Benjamin R. Tucker”

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• Science sometimes falls short when trying to fathom the depths of our essence - and our inspiration comes from that essence.

  Lance Secretan

  Inspiration, Fall, Trying

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• She represented the distilled essence of the battle between the sexes.

  Anne Edwards

  Sex, Battle

  Anne Edwards (1988). “A Remarkable Woman: A Biography of Katharine Hepburn”, Pocket

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• As to the mental essence, we find it in infants devoid of every mental form.

  Avicenna

  Transcendentalism, Form, Infant

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• The essence of conservative ideology is its being anchored in the divine order of things.

  Franz von Papen

  Divine Order, Anchors, Conservative

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• The essence of a man is found in his faults.

  Francis Picabia

  Men, Faults, Found

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• What I learned as an actor was the only way you could really do August Wilson's work, you had to leave an ounce of your essence on that stage,... Otherwise it was impossible.

  Charles S. Dutton

  August, Actors, Way

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• The essence of the Way is detachment.

  Bodhidharma

  Way, Detachment, Detached

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• The essence of competitiveness is liberated when we make people believe that what they think and do is important - and then get out of their way while they do it.

  Jack Welch

  Inspirational, Believe, Thinking

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• The essence of the religious emotions consists in the feeling of an absolute dependence.

  Friedrich Schleiermacher

  Religious, Feelings, Religion

  "On Religion: Speeches to Its Cultured Despisers".

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• Hypocrisy is the essence of snobbery, but all snobbery is about the problem of belonging.

  Alexander Theroux

  Hypocrisy, Problem, Snobbery

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• I want to know what the difference between the essence of a man and woman is.

  Tina Turner

  Men, Differences, Want

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