Essentials Quotes - Page 25

• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• Quietness is an essential part of all awareness. In quiet times and sleepy times, a child can dwell in thoughts of his own, and in songs and stories of his own.

  Margaret Wise Brown

  Song, Children, Stories

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• those two wholesome defects of the French people, malice and curiosity, both of which are essential to its greatness.

  Marthe Bibesco

  Greatness, Two, People

  Marthe Bibesco (1928). “Catherine-Paris”

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• As a global community, we must ensure that legitimate concerns about liability do not hold back the possibility of developing an Ebola vaccine, an essential strategy in our global response to the Ebola epidemic in West Africa.

  Sylvia Mathews Burwell

  Epidemics, Ebola, Vaccines

  "US agency offers legal immunity to Ebola vaccine makers". www.foxnews.com. December 10, 2014.

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• Intelligent planning is essential for success in any undertaking designed to accumulate riches.

  Napoleon Hill

  Intelligent, Riches, Planning

  Napoleon Hill (2015). “Think and grow rich: Brazilian edition”, p.92, CDG Edições e Publicações LTDA

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• Self-reinvention is an essential trope of the American project, closely linked to another such trope: going on the lam. Both are regularly featured in movies and novels and suchlike. Criminals and persons loitering with and without intent hold a crucial place in the culture. For obvious reasons, the culture cannot endorse this behavior, even as it is in thrall to it.

  Luc Sante

  Self, Criminals, Culture

  Source: www.believermag.com

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• Music is the soundtrack of our lives, it's essential for our lives.

  Tavis Smiley

  Soundtracks, Music Is, Our Lives

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• The visual and literary arts are of perennial interest to me, and these art forms have become more and more a part of my life; they have become companions of sorts. I cannot imagine my day to day experiences without the presence of these art forms. They're absolutely essential.

  Michael Hersch

  Art, Imagine, Form

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• The credibility of a newspaper or news magazine is essential so you can check it for accuracy. I'm not saying it's not valuable. One can make a case for just running everything. Just run it! That's one of the advantages of the web, you can run everything - but you don't help the reader find out what's important.

  Harold Evans

  Running, Important, News

  "Harold Evans Sees Bright Future for Print-on-Demand Newspapers". Interview with Mark Glaser, mediashift.org. October 29, 2009.

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• The improvements of ages have had but little influence on the essential laws of man's existence: as our skeletons, probably, are not to be distinguished from those of our ancestors.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Men, Skeletons, Law

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “The Essential Thoreau”, p.10, Simon and Schuster

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• The best-informed man is not necessarily the wisest. Indeed there is a danger that precisely in the multiplicity of his knowledge he will lose sight of what is essential. But on the other hand, knowledge of an apparently trivial detail quite often makes it possible to see into the depth of things. And so the wise man will seek to acquire the best possible knowledge about events, but always without becoming dependent upon this knowledge. To recognize the significant in the factual is wisdom.

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer

  Wise, Reality, Men

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer (1965). “Ethics”

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• The essential feature of statistics is a prudent and systematic ignoring of details.

  Erwin Schrodinger

  Systematic, Prudent, Details

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