Essentials Quotes - Page 11

Specific units - such as memes are intended to represent have meaning when there is essential discontinuity between categories. Such convenient discontinuities are found in atoms, elementary particles, genes, and DNA.

Luigi Luca Cavalli-Sforza

Dna, Atoms, Genes

Luigi Luca Cavalli-Sforza, Marcus W. Feldman (1981). “Cultural Transmission and Evolution: A Quantitative Approach”, p.70, Princeton University Press

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Human being's essential nature is perfect and faultless.

Laozi

Perfect, Humans, Human Beings

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Oil is essential for a modern, industrial society. It's unique, first of all, because it's the primary source, at 40 percent, of the world's entire supply of energy, and it's irreplaceable in the transportation field; it provides 98 percent of world transportation energy.

Michael Klare

Unique, Oil, Energy

"The Permanent Energy Crisis". Interview with Julian Brookes, www.motherjones.com. June 19, 2006.

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Oil is also essential for military operations. No other substance, no other raw material, is so vital for the prosecution of warfare, than petroleum. And the United States being the world's only global power, is totally dependent on petroleum.

Michael Klare

Military, Oil, United States

"The Permanent Energy Crisis". Interview with Julian Brookes, www.motherjones.com. June 19, 2006.

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An essential criterion for any humane immigration policy is that it should allow families to remain together. Whether that means letting the entire family migrate together, or allowing a caregiver to travel back and forth across the border, it should make it easier for workers to be with their families instead of harder.

Jody Heymann

Mean, Together, Immigration

Source: www.motherjones.com

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In college, unable to be "special" - or in demand - as a girl, I made myself useful, even essential, in my microcosm - as a writer and photographer for the band, particularly for the band director. My "specialness" was to produce something of value, not to look like something (with that different kind of "value"), so I was still fundamentally invisible, but had a significant purpose.

Cris Mazza

Girl, College, Special

"'My discoveries weren't any more extensive or alarming than most people's. I just chose to look'". Interview with Antonia Crane, logger.believermag.com. November 5, 2013.

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It would be hard for me to overestimate the importance of reading. Nothing can expand the mind and heart like the magic al world of books. .... Our libraries are an essential resource for our children, our communities, and our future.

Danielle Steel

Children, Book, Reading

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Law and justice are from time to time inevitably in conflict ... . The jury ... adjusts the general rule of law to the justice to the particular case. Thus the odium of inflexible rules of law is avoided, and popular satisfaction is preserved ... That is what jury trial does. It supplies that flexibility of legal rules which is essential to justice and popular contentment.

John Henry Wigmore

Law, Justice, Contentment

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I have used Lenovo since I wrote my first novel. My old laptop broke, so I bought a new one, but still a Lenovo. It is one of my most essential devices.

Okky Madasari

Laptops, Firsts, Broke

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It is a fact that the Left routinely resists, then as now: Americans fought and died in Vietnam for freedom, just as they are doing in Iraq and Afghanistan today. Whatever mistakes generals and policymakers have made along the way cannot detract from that essential truth - which should be a part of any reliable history.

Arthur L. Herman

Mistake, Iraq, Vietnam

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The first essential for the coming of the Holy Ghost into a heart today is that the heart should be cleansed from sin, for the Holy Spirit does not fill an unclean heart. What God has cleansed, He then fills. Finally, whom God fills, He uses. A holy life is the authentic sign of being filled with the Spirit.

Leonard Ravenhill

Heart, Doe, Use

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Elegant and lucid . . . a pitch-perfect clarion call, issued not with preachy hubris but from a deep place of humility, for awakening to the greatest rewards of living . . . The Road to Character is an essential read in its entirety-Anne Lamott with a harder edge of moral philosophy, Seneca with a softer edge of spiritual sensitivity, E. F. Schumacher for perplexed moderns.

Maria Popova

Spiritual, Philosophy, Character

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As participants in a mobile culture, our default is to move. God embraces our broken world, and I have no doubt that God can use our movement for good. But I am convinced that we lose something essential to our existence as creatures if we do not recognize our fundamental need for stability. Trees can be transplanted, often with magnificent results. But their default is to stay.

Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove

Moving, Broken, Tree

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Since Moses was in Egypt land, Gods people have been struggling for justice while singing freedom songs. Theology can be clarifying. A good sermon has its place. But nothing is more essential for the life of faith in a community than liturgy that invites us to sing the freedom songs that are sung around the throne of God. Brother Ken Sehested is a song leader in that great cloud of witnesses. Receive his words as gift-and keep singing.

Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove

Song, Brother, Struggle

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As soon as the dialogue between two people touches on something fundamental, essential, numinous, and a certain rapport is felt, it gives rise to a phenomenon which Lévy-Bruhl fittingly called participation mystique. It is an unconscious identity in which two individual psychic spheres interpenetrate to such a degree that it is impossible to say what belongs to whom.

Carl Jung

Psychics, Two, People

Carl Gustav Jung, Herbert Read, Michael Fordham, Gerhard Adler (1964). “Civilization in transition”

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Prayer is our essential lifeline to God's throne and heart.

Franklin Graham

Prayer, Heart, Thrones

Franklin Graham (2008). “All for Jesus: A Devotional”, p.88, Thomas Nelson Inc

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Apostasy occurs when a church leaves its historic moorings, abandons its historic confessional position, and degenerates into a state where either essential Christian truths are blatantly denied or the denial of such truths is widely tolerated.

R. C. Sproul

Christian, Church, Denial

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Good writing is good writing no matter what genre you're writing in, and I believe that there are only a handful of fundamental craft tools that are essential for any genre-including nonfiction.

Georgia Heard

Believe, Writing, Tools

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The obese are eating the worst diet in the country if you define
worse as ratio of calories to essential micronutrients. They're just eating
empty calories.

Bruce Ames

Country, Ratios, Eating

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Whether we experience it or not, grief accompanies all the major changes in our lives. When we realize that we have grieved before and recovered, we see that we may recover this time as well. It is more natural to recover than to halt in the tracks of grief forever. Our expectations, willingness and beliefs are all essential to our recovery from grief. It is right to expect to recover, no matter how great the loss. Recovery is the normal way .

Judy Tatelbaum

Grief, Recovery, Loss

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Synthetic or inorganic substances do not contain any 'life force'; they are not dynamic. Everything is made of chemicals, but organic substances like essential oils have a structure which only mother nature can put together. They have a life force, an additional impulse which can only be found in living things.

Robert Tisserand

Mother, Oil, Together

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Our Government is pleased to partner with the Kelowna Visual and Performing Arts Centre Society, located in the heart of British Columbia's vibrant Central Okanagan region. Support for the performing arts is essential for the professional growth and development of our Canadian artists.

Shelly Glover

Art, Government, Support

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Art and culture are nonetheless vital, essential even, to what it means to be human, yet digital abundance has diminished our sense of their worth.

Astra Taylor

Art, Mean, Culture

Astra Taylor (2014). “The People's Platform: Taking Back Power and Culture in the Digital Age”, p.132, Macmillan

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If there was anything any Radchaai considered essential for civilised life, it was tea.

Ann Leckie

Tea, Civilised, Ifs

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Drinking beer with friends is perhaps the most underestimated of all Reformation insights and essential to ongoing reform; and wasting time with a choice friend or two on a regular basis might be the best investment of time you ever make.

Carl R Trueman

Drinking, Beer, Two

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