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• The people with the best sense of what is essential to a community, of what gives and maintains its spirit, are often doing very humble, manual tasks. It is often the poorest person - the one who has a handica[p, is] ill or old - who is the most prophetic. People who carry responsibility must be close to them and know what they think, because it is often they who are free enough to see with the greatest clarity the needs, beauty and pain of the community.

  Jean Vanier

  Pain, Humble, Responsibility

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• Ah, paths of the soul, mysterious ways of the heart! One must walk their full lengths before facing the supreme equation of Eternal Life. It is essential for you to live all their conflicts and to know them fully in the long process of spiritual ascension.

  Andre Luiz Moreira

  Spiritual, Heart, Long

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• If our hearts and minds are not properly transformed, we are like musicians playing untuned instruments, or engineers working with broken and ill-programmed computers. The attunement of the heart is essential to the outflow of grace...We must aim at building the structures of God's kingdom but recognized that we will only create these through the transformation of our experience. Concentration on reformation without revival leads to skins without wine; concentration on revival without reformation soon loses the wine for want of skins.

  Richard Lovelace

  Wine, Heart, Broken

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• A wise ignorance is an essential part of knowledge.

  Plato

  Wise, Ignorance

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• Yet it is the one essential, vital quality for those who seek to change a world which yields most painfully to change.

  Robert Kennedy

  Courage, Yield, Eulogy

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

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• Isn't the essential pillar of Catholicism papal infallibility? Well, then how can the church ever change its mind about anything unless God gets confused one day? Not all religions claim the direct authority of God speaking to their leader. You know, I'm an atheist, but I'm a Puritan atheist.

  Dave Foley

  Atheist, Confused, Leader

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• We are living in a time of uncertainty, anxiety, fear, and despair. It is essential that you become aware of the light, power, and strength within each of you, and that you learn to use those inner resources in service of your own and others' growth.

  Copyright: Elisabeth Kubler-Ross Family Limited Partnership.

  Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

  Light, Anxiety, Growth

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• Some of us are fortunate enough to play championship golf, but this isn't essential in the enjoyment of the game.

  Babe Didrikson Zaharias

  Golf, Games, Play

  Babe Didrikson Zaharias (1948). “Championship golf”

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• Culture constitutes an essential element of social and political liberation. As people rise up across the Middle East and North Africa, the diversity of their cultures is not only the means but also the ultimate goal of their liberation and their freedom.

  Tariq Ramadan

  Mean, Diversity, Goal

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• Our Government understands that local, community organizations are essential in addressing social issues like economic development, poverty, education and integration in Canadian communities. The Community and College Social Innovation Fund will connect the innovative talent of researchers and students at colleges and polytechnics to meet the research needs of local community organizations to build stronger, safer, healthier communities.

  Ed Holder

  College, Organization, Issues

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• Real power is achieved when the ruling class controls the material essentials of life, granting and withholding them from the masses as if they were privileges.

  George Orwell

  Real, Class, Privilege

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• Heartbreak is essential. We grow, evolve, and learn about the most beautiful thing ever: Love! My first heartbreak taught me that love is supposed to ADD beauty and happiness to my already love-filled life!

  Zulay Henao

  Beautiful, Love Is, Add

  Source: www.pittsburghurbanmedia.com

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• I'm not against banking. Banking allowed our modern society to happen, it is essential. It connects the work through finance, so banking is good.

  Adam McKay

  Banking, Finance, Modern

  Source: www.hollywoodchicago.com

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• There's a marvelous and unique man named Frank Gilroy. He's the only writer I know who absolutely, pointedly refuses to do any changes that he doesn't feel are absolutely essential and totally in keeping with his own view and perspective. But not too many writers are that independent and that strong-willed.

  Rod Serling

  Strong, Independent, Unique

  Source: www.rodserling.com

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• While I'm sure people in Britain have money worries, they don't have them like the French do. The French, however much money they have, are worried. They're a very stressed people. It seems to be a very essential component of the national psyche.

  Jonathan Meades

  Worry, People, Stressed

  Source: thequietus.com

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• University presidents should be loud and forceful in defending the university as a social good, essential to the democratic culture and economy of a nation. They should be criticizing the prioritizing of funds for military and prison expenditures over funds for higher education. And this argument should be made as a defense of education, as a crucial public good, and it should be taken seriously. But they aren't making these arguments.

  Henry Giroux

  Military, Taken, President

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• I think we have made progress. There's no doubt about it, we have moved forward. But there's some essential, core thing that has not been deconstructed. And I'm telling you, it's connected to the body. I know it is.

  Eve Ensler

  Thinking, Doubt, Progress

  "The Big Idea: Eve Ensler". Interview with Suzanne Koven, therumpus.net. June 12, 2013.

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• Go back to the breathing and try to be in that moment deeply. Because there is a possibility to handle every kind of event and the essential is to keep the peace in yourself.

  Nhat Hanh

  Breathing, Trying, Events

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• Some people believe that everyone will experience judgment day. But it's my understanding that the Judgment Day or Rapture that I'm going to experience, as a nonbeliever, is not going to be the good part. That's the essential difference between the Singularity and what we're usually told about the fate of our eternal souls.

  Ron Currie Jr.

  Believe, Fate, Differences

  Source: therumpus.net

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• As with most of my work, I started from the abstract, from research, building an intellectual model that slowly became internalized when the characters came alive. It's fascinating what happens to the model you've so assiduously assembled when characters are allowed to run rampant: things you thought essential are broken and other things are vastly improved.

  Lauren Groff

  Running, Character, Broken

  Interview with Jason Skipper, therumpus.net. August 24, 2012.

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• We can become very short-sighted in terms of objectives. The first thing to go during times of economic crisis and budget cuts is funding for things that are essential and not-quantifiable, like the arts. Save Big Bird

  Julia Stiles

  Art, Cutting, Bird

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• What's more important that spiritual life? It seems to me it's the bedrock of everything essential about being human.

  Dani Shapiro

  Spiritual, Important, Being Human

  Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com. September 1, 2013.

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• Being deeply aware of fragility and ecstasy seems to me an essential part of being alive and living fully - and there's no way for me to separate this from my poems.

  Alex Lemon

  Fragility, Alive, Way

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• Creativity is essential to any kind of joyful living. Sometimes I act, sometimes I draw, I paint, I write poems. I can't imagine living without it.

  Zephyr Teachout

  Writing, Creativity, Kind

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• Not only is a good prank harmless, but, like a good story, it reveals an essential truth that would otherwise be hidden.

  Mac Barnett

  Stories, Pranks, Good Story

  "Mac Barnett & Jory John Talk with Roger". Interview with Roger Sutton, www.hbook.com. February 3, 2015.

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