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• Playing inside the changes means playing enough of the important notes of the chord progression at important times. A good solo might be very free, but every once in a while it loops or hooks into an essential note that describes the harmonic change.

  Chuck Israels

  Mean, Important, Hook

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• Stuffwise we are not a lean operation. We're the kind of people who, if we were deciding what absolute minimum essential items we'd need to carry in our backpacks for the final, treacherous ascent to the summit of Mount Everest, would take along aquarium filters, just in case.

  Dave Barry

  Aquariums, People, Ascent

  Dave Barry (2010). “Dave Barry Talks Back”, p.70, Crown Archetype

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• The essential humanity of men can be protected and preserved only where government must answer, not just to the wealthy, not just to those of a particular religion, or a particular race, but to all its people.

  Robert Kennedy

  Men, Race, People

  Robert F. Kennedy (1998). “Make Gentle the Life of the World: The Vision of Robert F. Kennedy”, Harcourt

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• Social evolution is a resultant of the interaction of two wholly distinct factors: the individual ... bearing all the power of initiative and origination in his hands; and, second, the social environment with its power of adopting or rejecting both him and his gifts. Both factors are essential to change. The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without the sympathy of the community.

  William James

  Hands, Two, Community

  William James (2015). “Essays in Popular Philosophy: Top Essays”, p.144, 谷月社

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• That's what the drummer is supposed to do. Keep the time. If you can do something else besides that, fine. But the time is essential and non-negotiable.

  Elvin Jones

  Drummer, Fine, Can Do Something

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• Impressed with a conviction that the due administration of justice is the firmest pillar of good Government, I have considered the first arrangement of the Judicial department as essential to the happiness of our Country, and to the stability of its political system.

  George Washington

  Country, Government, Justice

  George Washington, Jared Sparks (1852). “Life of Washington”, p.453

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• Nothing is more essential, than that permanent, inveterate antipathies against particular Nations, and passionate attachments for others, should be excluded; and that, in place of them, just and amicable feelings towards all should be cultivated.

  George Washington

  Attachment, Feelings, Passionate

  George Washington, Andrew Jackson (1862). “Washington's Farewell Address: The Proclamation of Jackson Against Nullification, and the Declaration of Independence”, p.9

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• There is an inherently minimum set of essential concepts and current information, cognizance of which could lead to our operating our planet Earth to the lasting satisfaction and health of all humanity.

  R. Buckminster Fuller

  Humanity, Information, Satisfaction

  R. Buckminster Fuller (1982). “Synergetics: Explorations in the Geometry of Thinking”, p.25, Estate of R. Buckminster Fuller

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• Maleness in America is not absolutely defined; it has to be kept and re-earned every day, and one essential element in the definition is beating women in every game that both sexes play.

  Margaret Mead

  Sex, Games, Play

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• Still more pathetic is the total collapse of moral fanaticism. Fanatics think that their single-minded principles qualify them to do battle with the powers of evil; but like a bull they rush at the red cloak instead of the person who is holding it; he exhausts himself and is beaten. He gets entangled in non-essentials and falls into the trap set by cleverer people.

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer

  Fall, Thinking, People

  "Letters and Papers from Prison (Who Stands Fast?)". Book by Dietrich Bonhoeffer (p. 4), 1967.

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• I think it wasn't so much that the White House altered me in any essential way as that I found the resources with which to respond to a series of challenges. You never know what you can do until you have to do it. In the beginning, it was like going to a party you're terrified of, and finding out to your amazement that you're having a good time.

  Betty Ford

  Party, Thinking, White

  Betty Ford, Chris Chase (1978). “The times of my life”, Ballantine Books

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• The more our feelings diverge, the more deeply felt they are, the greater is our obligation to grant the sincerity and essential decency of our fellow citizens on the other side.

  Edward Kennedy

  Feelings, Citizens, Sides

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• The recurrence of fundamentals is essential to perpetuity.

  Harold B. Lee

  Fundamentals, Recurrence

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• The essential dilemma of education is to be found in the fact that the sort of man (or woman) who knows a given subject sufficiently well to teach it is usually unwilling to do so.

  H. L. Mencken

  Men, Facts, Found

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• Whether it's your own material or somebody else's material, it's essential that you identify with it thoroughly. It's like you want to archive it; you want to freeze it in time in terms of your perspective on it, then move on, because folk music is that volatile and comments not only on overall human concerns but also on the specifics.

  Paul Stookey

  Moving, Perspective, Archives

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• Burgundy was the winiest wine, the central, essential, and typical wine, the soul and greatest common measure of all the kindly wines of the earth.

  Charles Edward Montague

  Wine, Soul, Typical

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• Every cure of obesity must begin with these three essential precepts:discretion in eating, moderation in sleeping, and exercise.

  Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

  Sleep, Exercise, Three

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• If the denial of death is self-hatred, as it is to deny our freedom and live in fear of death (which is to say, to live in a form of bondage), then the acceptance and affirmation of death is indeed a form of self-love. But I'd want to make a distinction between a form of self-love which is essential to what it means to be human, and a narcissism of self-regard, like Rousseau's distinction between amour de soi and amour propre, self-love and pride.

  Simon Critchley

  Mean, Pride, Acceptance

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• Anecdote: The extent of Michael Jackson's fame at its height, and his eagerness to exploit it is shown by an incident in 1984 when invited to a White House reception hosted by then President and First Lady Ronald and Nancy Reagan. Jackson had been assured that the only people there, besides the presidential couple, would be a few staff members' children. Aghast to find around 75 adults and no children, Jackson locked himself in an upstairs bathroom, refusing to emerge until assured that all non-essential adults had been replaced by a number of children.

  Michael Jackson

  Children, Couple, White

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• The pain of losing my child was a cleansing experience. I had to throw overboard all excess baggage and keep only what is essential.

  Isabel Allende

  Pain, Children, Excess Baggage

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• For a person who cherishes compassion and love, the practice of tolerance is essential, and for that, and enemy is indispinsable. So we should be grateful to our enemies, for it is they who can best help us to develop a tranquil mind.

  Dalai Lama

  Grateful, Compassion, Practice

  Dalai Lama XIV, Rajiv Mehrotra (2010). “In My Own Words: An Introduction to My Teachings and Philosophy”, p.12, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Arthur Miller once payed me a great compliment saying that my plays were 'necessary.' I will go one step further and say that Arthur's plays are 'essential'

  Edward Albee

  Play, Steps, Compliment

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• Playfullness is the essential feature of productive thought.

  Albert Einstein

  Features, Productive

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• The essential thing is not to have conquered but to have fought well.

  Pierre de Coubertin

  Olympic Spirit, Olympics, Wells

  "The Olympian". Book by Peter L. Dixon, 1984.

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• Nothing from outside can stop a man from enjoying lasting peace and permanent joy in life, for it is the essential nature of his own soul.

  Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

  Men, Joy, Soul

  Maharishi Mahesh Yogi (1986). “Thirty Years Around the World: 1957-1964”, Stichting Drukkerij En Uitgeverij Mvu

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