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• MID-TWENTIES BREAKDOWN: A period of mental collapse occurring in one's twenties, often caused by an inability to function outside of school or structured environments coupled with a realization of one's essential aloneness in the world. Often marks induction into the ritual of pharmaceutical usage.

  Douglas Coupland

  School, Twenties, Inability

  Douglas Coupland (2015). “Generation X: Tales for an Accelerated Culture”, p.43, Hachette UK

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• The greatest damage done by advertising is precisely that it incessantly demonstrates the prostitution of men and women who lend their intellects, their voices, their artistic skills to purposes in which they themselves do not believe, and that it teaches [in the words of Leo Marx] 'the essential meaninglessness of all creations of the mind: words, images, and ideas.'

  Paul Baran

  Believe, Men, Skills

  "The Commercial Tidal Wave" by Robert W. McChesney & John Bellamy Foster in "Monthly Review", March 2003.

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• The capacity to still feel wonder is essential to the creative process.

  Donald Woods Winnicott

  Creative, Wonder, Process

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• Knowing the future is difficult, controlling the future is impossible. Knowing today is essential; controlling today is possible.

  John C. Maxwell

  Knowing, Today, Impossible

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• Intelligence is useful. Energy is valuable. Integrity is essential.

  Ron Kaufman

  Integrity, Energy, Valuable

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• Most women do not want to be liberated from their essential natures as women.

  Dan Quayle

  Want, Liberated

  Dan Quayle's remarks during his campaign in Kansas City, Missouri (September 2, 1992), as quoted in The New York Times, September 3, 1992.

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• Apart from an innate grasp of tactical concepts, a great coach must possess the essentials attributes of leadership which mold men into a cohesive, fighting team with an invincible will to victory.

  Douglas MacArthur

  Team, Fighting, Men

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• This over-consumption is also manifest in our use of raw materials. It can even be found in our dietary habits... . People are well aware of this. The root of the problem lies in a selfish world view which inflates personal consumption beyond the essential.

  Yehuda Levi

  Selfish, Lying, Views

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• The sense of space within the reality of any building is a new concept wherever architecture is concerned. But it is essential ancient principle just the same and is not only necessary now but implied by the ideal of democracy itself.

  Frank Lloyd Wright

  Reality, Space, Democracy

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• I have been listening to the Stooges' self-titled first album for well over half my life, and it remains one of the most exciting and essential records I have ever had the good fortune to come into contact with.

  Henry Rollins

  Self, Listening, Half

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• The essential nature of a democracy compels it to insist that individual power of all kinds, political, economic, or intellectual, shall not be perversely and irresponsibly exercised.

  Herbert Croly

  Political, Intellectual, Democracy

  Herbert Croly (2005). “The Promise of American Life”, p.448, Cosimo, Inc.

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• The frail, vulnerable sounds of which we are capable seem to be essential to a later ability to roar like a lion without scaring everyone to death.

  David Whyte

  Sound, Lions, Vulnerable

  David Whyte (2007). “The Heart Aroused: Poetry and the Preservation of the Soul in Corporate America”, p.121, Crown Business

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• Learning to be aware of feelings, how they arise and how to use them creatively so they guide us to happiness, is an essential lifetime skill.

  Joan Z. Borysenko

  Skills, Feelings, Use

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• Laws are essential emanations from the self-poised character of God; they radiate from the sun to the circling edge of creation. Verily, the mighty Lawgiver hath subjected himself unto laws.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Character, Self, Law

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• If someone is confronting our essential liberties, if someone is inflicting injuries and harm, by God I'll confront them!

  Margaret Thatcher

  Liberty, Injury, Harm

  Margaret Thatcher, Iain Dale (1997). “As I said to Denis--: the Margaret Thatcher book of quotations”, Robson Book Ltd

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• Anthropology... has always been highly dependent upon photography... As the use of still photography - and moving pictures - has become increasingly essential as a part of anthropological methods, the need for photographers with a disciplined knowledge of anthropology and for anthropologists with training in photography has increased. We expect that in the near future sophisticated training in photography will be a requirement for all anthropologists. (1962)

  Margaret Mead

  Photography, Moving, Training

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• Everything that we see in our daily lives is more or less distorted by acquired habits and this is perhaps more evident in an age like ours when cinema posters and magazines present us every day with a flood of ready-made images which are to the eye what prejudices are to the mind. The effort to see things without distortion demands a kind of courage; and this courage is essential to the artist, who has to look at everything as though he were seeing it for the first time.

  Henri Matisse

  Eye, Artist, Effort

  Henri Matisse, Jack D. Flam (1995). “Matisse on Art”, p.218, Univ of California Press

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• Stieglitz conceived, though he never carried out, a series of photographs of the heads of stallions and mares, of bulls and cows, in the act of mating, hoping to catch in the brute an essential quality that would symbolize the probably unattainable photograph of a passionate human mating.

  Lewis Mumford

  Quality, Passionate, Bulls

  Lewis Mumford, Robert Wojtowicz (2008). “Mumford on Modern Art in the 1930s”, p.58, Univ of California Press

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• It was essential that I never show doubt about what I was doing.

  Steve Martin

  Doubt, Shows

  Steve Martin (2008). “Born Standing Up: A Comic's Life”, p.100, Simon and Schuster

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• One view of photography is that it is a zen-like act which captures reality with its pants down - so that the vital click shows the anatomy bare. In this, the photographer is invisible but essential. A computer releasing the shutter would always miss the special moment that the human sensibility can register. For this work, the photographer's instinct is his aid, his personality a hindrance.

  Peter Brook

  Photography, Reality, Views

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• I raised the camera, pretended to study a focus which did not include them, and waited and watched closely, sure that I would finally catch the revealing expression, one that would sum it all up, life that is rhythmed by movement but which a stiff image destroys, taking time in cross section, if we do not choose the essential imperceptible fraction of it.

  Julio Cortazar

  Expression, Focus, Cameras

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• Drive, ego and cocksureness are all essential elements in terms of getting exactly what you want but losing everything you've got.

  Dane Cook

  Losing Everything, Ego, Elements

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• To see the Thing itself is essential: the quintessence revealed direct without the fog of impressionism... This then: to photograph a rock, have it look like a rock, but be more than a rock. Significant presentation - not interpretation.

  Edward Weston

  Rocks, Fog, Looks

  Edward Weston, Nancy Newhall (1990). “The daybooks of Edward Weston”

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• The essential factor in the transition of the baroque to photography is not the perfecting of a physical process... rather does it lie in a psychological fact, to wit, in completely satisfying our appetite for illusion by a mechanical reproduction in the making of which man plays not part. The solution is not to be found in the result achieved, but in the way of achieving it.

  Andre Bazin

  Photography, Lying, Men

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• Character is the salesperson's stock in trade. The product itself is secondary. Truthfulness, enthusiasm and patience are great assets to every salesperson. Without them, they couldn't go far. Courage and courtesy are essential equipment.

  George Madison Adams

  Character, Enthusiasm, Courtesy

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