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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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• The stillness of prayer is the most essential condition for fruitful action. Before all else, the disciple kneels down.

  Gianna Beretta Molla

  Prayer, Action, Disciple

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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Jackson locked himself in an upstairs bathroom, refusing to emerge until assured that all non-essential adults had been replaced by a number of children.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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• Sacrifice, discipline and prayer are essential. We gain strength through God's word. We receive grace from the sacrament. And when we fumble due to sin - and it's gonna happen - confession puts us back on the field.

  Lou Holtz

  Prayer, Sacrifice, Discipline

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• I really believe that the past is beyond our grasp and what is essential about the past is something unspeakable.

  Joshua Oppenheimer

  Believe, Past, Unspeakable

  "Filmmaker Interview". "POV", www.pbs.org. October 6, 2014.

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• I have long since abandoned the notion that higher education is essential to either success or happiness. Hothouses of learning do not always grow anything edible.

  Robert Moses

  Long, Abandoned, Higher Education

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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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• The trade unions are a long-established and essential part of our national life. We take our stand by these pillars of our British society as it has gradually developed and evolved itself, of the right of individual labouring men to adjust their wages and conditions by collective bargaining, including the right to strike.

  Winston Churchill

  Men, Long, Unions

  Winston Churchill (1950). “Europe Unite: Speeches 1947 and 1948”, London, Cassell

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• An honorable leader must demonstrate a willingness to reveal his or her 'inner self' to their team. It builds trust and trust is essential. It's also a sign of strength and authenticity, and people are attracted to those who are 'real' and authentic.

  Leon F. "Lee" Ellis

  Real, Team, Self

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• For artists, scientists, inventors, schoolchildren, and the rest of us, intrinsic motivation-the drive to do something because it is interesting, challenging, and absorbing-is essential for high levels of creativity.

  Daniel H. Pink

  Motivation, Creativity, Artist

  Daniel H. Pink (2011). “Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us”, p.45, Penguin

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• The public must retain control of the great waterways. It is essential that any permit to obstruct them for reasons and on conditions that seem good at the moment should be subject to revision when changed conditions demand.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Rafting, Demand, Revision

  Theodore Roosevelt (1910). “Works: Presidential addresses and state papers, Dec. 3, 1901, June 1910, and European addresses. 8 v”

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• To be effective, leaders must have the qualities and attitudes essential to work in a group setting.

  Meg Whitman

  Attitude, Leader, Quality

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• There is never a day in any mans life when repentance is not essential to his well being in eternal progress.

  Spencer W. Kimball

  Progress, Repentance, Well Being

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• What difference does it make how much there is laid away in a man's safe or in his barns, how many head of stock he grazes or how much capital he puts out at interest, if he is always after what is another's and only counts what he has yet to get, never what he has already. You ask what is the proper limit to a person's wealth? First, having what is essential, and second, having what is enough.

  Seneca the Younger

  Men, Differences, Barns

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• It is essential to make oneself used to putting up with a little. Even the wealthy and the well provided are continually met and frustrated by difficult times and situations. It is in no man's power to have whatever he wants; but he has it in his power not to wish for what he hasn't got, and cheerfully make the most of the things that do come his way.

  Seneca the Younger

  Men, Frustrated, Wish

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• Every living being longs always to be happy, untainted by sorrow; and everyone has the greatest love for himself, which is solely due to the fact that happiness is his real nature. Hence, in order to realize that inherent and untainted happiness, which indeed he daily experiences when the mind is subdued in deep sleep, it is essential that he should know himself. For obtaining such knowledge the inquiry 'Who am I?' in quest of the Self is the best means.

  Ramana Maharshi

  Real, Mean, Sleep

  Sri Ramana Maharshi (2016). “Words of Grace”, p.5, Sai ePublications

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• Who could doubt that sport is a crucial window for the propagation of fair play and justice? After all, fair play is a value that is essential to sport.

  Nelson Mandela

  Sports, Play, Justice

  Nelson Mandela (2011). “Nelson Mandela By Himself: The Authorised Book of Quotations”, p.378, Pan Macmillan

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• Perseverance is the essential requirement in the practice of yoga. It has to be done day by day, week by week, year by year, until the mind is brought to the 'still point' where it is open to the grace of God.

  Bede Griffiths

  Perseverance, Yoga, Years

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• Our surest protection against assault from abroad has been not all our guards, gates and guns, or even our two oceans, but our essential goodness as a people. Our richest asset has been not our material wealth but our values.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Ocean, Gun, Two

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• All of us need better skills in listening, conversing, respecting one another's uniqueness, because these are essential for strong relationships.

  Margaret J. Wheatley

  Strong, Skills, Listening

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• I think it is vitally important to study History. If we are going to lead Britain safely into the future, it is essential that we understand our country's historical roots. If we can learn the lessons of the past, we will be able to avoid making mistakes in the future.

  Tony Blair

  Country, Mistake, Past

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• Would it not be much better to have a president who deliberately lied to the people because he thought a war was essential than to have one who was so dumb as to be taken in by intelligence agencies, especially those who told him what he wanted to hear?

  Andrew Greeley

  War, Taken, Agency

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• However, the Bible is called the Word of God because the whole transcript is an inspired, faithful, and infallible record of what God determined essential for us to know about Himself, the cosmos in which we live, our spiritual allies and adversaries, and our fellow man.

  Walter Martin

  Spiritual, Men, Faithful

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