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• Inspiration, in its rich variety, must be present in any discussion about Africa. We need role models - they are essential to the advancement of our society.

  Richard Attias

  Inspiration, Role Models, Advancement

  "Africa and the Six ‘I’s: Independence, Investment, Infrastructure, Innovation, Incubation, Inspiration" by Richard Attias, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 11, 2013.

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• The sincere effort to accept and promote the human values - Truth, Right Conduct, Peace, Non-Violence and Love. These five values are a essential for a full and worthwhile life as the five vital airs or pranas mentioned in the scriptures.

  Sathya Sai Baba

  Air, Effort, Scripture

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• The desire for transcendence is intimately connected with the desire for creativity. It is just as essential to who and what we are.

  Marianne Williamson

  Creativity, Desire, Transcendence

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• Creflo Dollar is compromising, confusing or outright contradicting essential Christian doctrine. Joel Osteen does exactly the same thing. Now, not necessarily the exact same doctrines, but he is compromising, confusing or contradicting essential Christian doctrine. Their view of faith is a force, words are the containers of the force, and through the force of faith, one can create his or her own reality. That's not biblical faith. That's a false faith, or faith that doesn't satisfy and ultimately will lead people into harm's way.

  Hank Hanegraaff

  Christian, Biblical, Reality

  Source: www.christianpost.com

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• Uncertainty is the essential, inevitable and all-pervasive companion to your desire to make art

  David Bayles

  Art, Desire, Inevitable

  David Bayles, Ted Orland (2001). “Art & Fear: Observations on the Perils (and Rewards) of Artmaking”, p.21, Image Continuum Press

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• There are certain things in a man that have to be won, not forced; inspired, not compelled. Among these are many, I should say most, of the things that constitute the good life. All are essential to democracy. All are proof against its enemies.

  Alfred Whitney Griswold

  Good Life, Men, Enemy

  Alfred Whitney Griswold (1962). “Liberal Education and the Democratic Ideal: And Other Essays”

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• Some of the ideas are kind of inspired by the songs, and I always want to use music to tell the story and give the movie a certain kind of mood. That's always essential to me.

  Wes Anderson

  Song, Ideas, Giving

  Interview with Keith Phipps, www.avclub.com. February 10, 1999.

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• I'm not fixed in any genre. I love all kinds of films. The essential thing is; you have to have good material. If you have the filmmaker, and the material, and the script is good, you can start from there.

  Jason Statham

  Scripts, Kind, Film

  Source: movieweb.com

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• Boys were a very essential part of rock & roll. The girls were more onlookers.

  Mick Jagger

  Girl, Boys, Rocks

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• There's always got to be room for what you might call benign corruption. Nobody blames a man who steals food to feed his starving children, but on the other hand, somebody who picks up a badge and takes an oath to serve and protect; we do expect a certain level of essential honesty.

  Denzel Washington

  Children, Honesty, Men

  Source: movieweb.com

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• I don't think there can ever be too many messages about AIDS. If you stop the education process, then people are going to think the problem is all over and done with. They'll think that it's OK to go and have sex again. Education is essential, especially among young people.

  Elton John

  Sex, Thinking, People

  "Q&A WITH ELTON JOHN : Having a Go at 'Indifference, Intolerance'". Interview with Robert Hilburn, articles.latimes.com. September 22, 1993.

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• Without animals, something essential is removed from the minds of the farmers.

  Wendell Berry

  Animal, Mind, Farmers

  "Nature as an Ally: An Interview with Wendell Berry". Interview with Sarah Leonard, www.dissentmagazine.org. Spring 2012.

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• Our most valuable teachers are our enemies.While our friends can help us in many ways, only our enemies can provide us with the challenge we need to develop tolerance, patience, and compassionthree virtues essential for building character, developing peace of mind, and bringing us true happiness.

  Dalai Lama

  Teacher, Character, Challenges

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• Everyone has a need to do penance. It's a basic need, like washing. It's about harmony, an absolutely essential inner balance. It's the balance we call morality.

  Jo Nesbo

  Balance, Needs, Penance

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• Cryptography is the essential building block of independence for organisations on the internet, just like armies are the essential building blocks of states, because otherwise one state just takes over another.

  Julian Assange

  Block, Army, Independence

  "Julian Assange: the fugitive". Interview with Decca Aitkenhead, www.theguardian.com. December 7, 2012.

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• My aim is to create a happy society with genuine friendship. Friendship between Tibetan and Chinese peoples is very essential.

  Dalai Lama

  Genuine Friends, Chinese, Tibetan

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• I am excited by this collaboration: this is the first time H&M involves a Fashion Director in a special project. This is the sign of an important evolution in fashion, and I am both thrilled and humbled to be the one chosen to lead it. I wanted to create precious accessories that are impossible to find. As a stylist I know accessorization is essential: it is the personal touch to any outfit. With these pieces everybody can have fun, turning an ordinary day into a fantastic fashion day

  Anna Dello Russo

  Fashion, Fun, Ordinary Days

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• The MacGuffin is that thing which is most important to us - that most essential thing. The audience will supply it, each member for himself.

  David

  Important, Members, Audience

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• In putting together your standards, remember that it is essential to involve your entire team. Standards are not rules issued by the boss; they are a collective identity. Remember, standards are the things that you do all the time and the things for which you hold one another accountable.

  Mike Krzyzewski

  Team, Boss, Together

  Mike Krzyzewski (2009). “The Gold Standard: Building a World-Class Team”, p.63, Hachette UK

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• If you don't eat right as an athlete, you'll get tired and won't be as sharp. It's simple to drink sodas and sports drinks, but water is the most essential drink to put in your body.

  Troy Polamalu

  Sports, Tired, Athlete

  "Training Tips for the No-Offseason Athlete". Interview, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 16, 2012.

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• The most essential characteristic of scientific technique is that it proceeds from experiment, not from tradition.

  Bertrand Russell

  Technique, Tradition, Characteristics

  Bertrand Russell (2009). “The Scientific Outlook”, p.125, Routledge

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• Everything in my past, in my training, everything that has been most essential in my activity up to now has made me above all a man who writes, and it is too late for that to change.

  Jean-Paul Sartre

  Writing, Past, Men

  Jean-Paul Sartre (1978). “Sartre in the Seventies: Interviews and Essays”

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• Human life is precious, sublime and meaningful. But by involvement in purely worldly pursuits, the greatness of human birth is forgotten. Without human values, life is meaningless. When there is purity in thought, word and deed, human values are practised. The unity of the three H's is essential. 'Heart, Head and Hand. ' But today this unity is absent among people, with the result that men are becoming inhuman.

  Sathya Sai Baba

  Meaningful, Heart, Greatness

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• At the present moment, in the prevailing situation, what is most essential is the cultivation of love. Losing love mankind has lost its humanness. Love is the Supreme human value. Truth, righteousness, peace and non-violence are other human values. Knowing these values, men are foolishly leading valueless lives.

  Sathya Sai Baba

  Love Is, Men, Knowing

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• [Children should contribute] to a family's essential survival and happiness. [In] an urban society, children are ... robbed of the opportunity to do genuinely responsible work.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Children, Opportunity, Survival

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