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• To make a collaboration succeed there can be no visible contusions or abrasions. For the collaboration to succeed, the relationship must be nourished and survive. That is absolutely essential for a collaboration to succeed.

  Van Dyke Parks

  Succeed, Collaboration, Visible

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• The social sciences, like much of biology but unlike most fields of the physical sciences, have to deal with structures of essential complexity, i.e. with structures whose characteristic properties can be exhibited only by models made up of relatively large numbers of variables.

  Friedrich August von Hayek

  Numbers, Variables, Fields

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• Dreams are unrealistic, impractical, demanding - and absolutely essential to living a rich and fulfilling life.

  Ralph Marston

  Dream, Rich, Fulfilling

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• My mum thought my TV and film addiction was laziness. If you're an immigrant, you know you'll never be an accepted part of society, but you hope your children will be, and you try to make them essential to the community in a practical way - being a doctor or a lawyer. Acting was beyond their comprehension.

  Sanjeev Bhaskar

  Children, Doctors, Addiction

  "Sanjeev Bhaskar: Goodness, I'm home!". Interview with Tina Jackson, www.theguardian.com. December 3, 2010.

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• Mere mental assimilation of these truths cannot withstand temptation, however. The revelation of God is positively essential. The Spirit of God must reveal how we are in Christ and how we are united with Him in one.

  Watchman Nee

  Temptation, Spirit, Christ

  Watchman Nee (1993). “The Finest of the Wheat, vol 2 - Hardcover: Selected Excerpts from the Published Works of Watchman Nee”, p.54, Christian Fellowship Publishers

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• That is my essential reason for writing, not for fame, not to be celebrated after death, but to heighten and create life all around me. I also write because when I am writing I reach the high moment of fusion sought by the mystics, the poets, the lovers, a sense of communion with the universe.

  Anais Nin

  Writing, Fusion, Lovers

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• Those who consider the inessential to be essential
  And see the essential as inessential
  Don't reach the essential,
  Living in the field of wrong intention

  Gautama Buddha

  Fields, Intention

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• It's naive and even irresponsible for a grownup today to get her or his information about foreign policy and war and peace exclusively from the administration in power. It's essential to have other sources of information, to check those against one's own common sense, and to form your own judgment as to whether we ought to go to or persist in war.

  Daniel Ellsberg

  War, Common Sense, Information

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• It is absolutely essential to have a living visible example of what a Christian ought to be.

  Judah Smith

  Christian, Example, Ought

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• Faith transcends reason because divine truth is not only higher, but also wider than the human mind, and the rationalist in his haste for premature simplification always tends to shut his eyes to one aspect of the truth and to seek a false harmony of thought by the sacrifice of an essential element of reality.

  Christopher Dawson

  Eye, Sacrifice, Reality

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• An adequate share of humor and laughter represents an essential part of the diet of the healthy person.

  Norman Cousins

  Laughter, Healthy, Adequate

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• The Warren Court wasn't that radical. It didn't break free from the essential constraints that were placed by the founding fathers in the Constitution... I intend to succeed where they failed.

  Barack Obama

  Father, Succeed, Constitution

  "The Gipper vs. Obama" by Roger Kimball, www.realclearpolitics.com. February 15, 2009.

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• The essential task of Canadian statesmanship is to discover the terms on which as many as possible of the significant interest groups of our country can be induced to work together in common policy.

  Frank Underhill

  Country, Working Together, Groups

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• For, after all, the foundation of our whole nature, and, therefore, of our happiness, is our physique, and the most essential factor in happiness is health, and, next in importance after health, the ability to maintain ourselves in independence and freedom from care.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Independence, Foundation, Care

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2015). “The Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer - The Wisdom of Life (illustrated)”, p.44, Full Moon Publications

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• Self-sacrifice is essential to leadership. You will give, give all the time.

  Napoleon Hill

  Sacrifice, Self, Giving

  Napoleon Hill (2013). “The Law of Success”, p.179, Courier Corporation

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• One of the most essential yet the hardest truths that I have had to learn is that every person should be his own hardest task-master.

  Napoleon Hill

  Tasks, Should, Masters

  Napoleon Hill (2013). “The Law of Success”, p.335, Courier Corporation

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• I meditate. Daily practice is essential to my life.

  Richard Gere

  Practice

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• I am not in the business of predicting general stock market of business fluctuations. If you think I can do this, or think it is essential to an investment program, you should not be in the partnership.

  Warren Buffett

  Thinking, Investment, Partnership

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• The essential difference between the unhappy, neurotic type person and him of great joy is the difference between get and give.

  Erich Fromm

  Differences, Giving, Joy

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• Possessing a powerful worldwide brand is essential for sustained success.

  Warren Buffett

  Powerful, Brands, Possessing

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• Liberty is the essential precondition for achieving virtue... In order to exercise virtue, we need to have the ability to choose freely.

  Dinesh D'Souza

  Exercise, Order, Liberty

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• It is essential that Christians understand this. Every Jew, secular, religious, assimilated, left-wing, right-wing, fears being killed because he is Jewish. This is the best-kept secret about Jews, who are widely perceived as inordinately secure and powerful. But it is the only universally held sentiment among Jews.

  Dennis Prager

  Christian, Religious, Powerful

  "The Passion: Jews and Christians are watching different films". www.dennisprager.com. October 28, 2003.

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• The notion that there is no basic value system is far more incoherent or invalid than the notion that there are essential values. Every religion can tell you it has basic values. You ask a Christian, most Christians would say love God and love your neighbor. Is that the entirety of Christianity? No one in his right mind would say it is.

  Dennis Prager

  Christian, Love You, Mind

  "Dennis Prager: Americanism Is The Best Hope". Interview with Dave Gordon, www.breitbart.com. June 03, 2012.

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• One of the major symptoms of the general crisis existent in our world today is our lack of sensitivity to words. We use words as tools. We forget that words are a repository of the spirit. The tragedy of our times is that the vessels of the spirit are broken. We cannot approach the spirit unless we repair the vessels. Reverence for words - an awareness of the wonder of words, of the mystery of words - is an essential prerequisite for prayer. By the word of God the world was created.

  Abraham Joshua Heschel

  Prayer, Our World, Broken

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• It is essential to the sanity of mankind that each one should think the other crazy - a condition with which the cynicism of human nature so cordially complies, one could wish it were a concurrence upon a subject more noble.

  Emily Dickinson

  Crazy, Thinking, Wish

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