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The one thing that is absolutely essential is that there shouldn't be any governmental control [of the media] directly or indirectly.

Tony Benn

Media, One Thing

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Gardeners often focus exclusively on plants, missing the absolutely essential visual role played by structures, from paths to pavilions.

Janet Macunovich

Focus, Missing, Roles

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Liberty is the essential basis, the sine qua non, of morality.

Henry Hazlitt

Liberty, Morality, Bases

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It is a mistake to assume that government must necessarily last forever. The institution marks a certain stage of civilization-is natural to a particular phase of human development. It is not essential, but incidental. As amongst the Bushmen we find a state antecedent to government, so may there be one in which it shall have become extinct.

Herbert Spencer

Mistake, Civilization, Government

Herbert Spencer (1873). “Social Statics; Or, The Conditions Essential to Human Happiness Specified, & the First of Them Developed”, p.24

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[Liberty] is freedom of choice, a divine gift, an essential virtue in a peaceful society.

David O. McKay

Choices, Peaceful, Liberty

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Unless we retain a vibrant desire to be free, and unless we understand and practice the principles that give life to essential freedoms, we have little reason to hope they will endure.

Dean L. Larsen

Practice, Giving, Desire

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An essential point in the social philosophy of interventionism is the existence of an inexhaustible fund which can be squeezed forever. The whole system of interventionism collapses when the fountain is drained off: The Santa Clause principle liquidates itself.

Ludwig von Mises

Philosophy, Forever, Principles

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It's one thing to maintain that upper-income earners should pay higher tax rates because they are better able to shoulder the burden for essential government services. But it's constitutional blasphemy to claim that the tax code should be used as a weapon against the wealthy and that the state should be the tyrannical arbiter of how income is distributed.

David Limbaugh

Government, Income, Pay

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No one can explain how the notes of a Mozart melody, or the folds of a piece of Titian's drapery, produce their essential effects. If you do not feel it, no one can by reasoning make you feel it.

John Ruskin

Pieces, Produce, Notes

John Ruskin (1860). “Modern Painters ...: pt. 6. Of leaf beauty. pt. 7. Of cloud beauty. pt. 8-9. Of ideas of relation”, p.169

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But a wild democracy . . . too often disdains the essential principles of justice.

Edward Gibbon

Justice, Democracy, Principles

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[Successful] projects that entrepreneurs initiated and carried through had one essential quality. All had been thoroughly contemplated by the regnant experts and dominant companies, with their large research staffs and financial resources, and had been judged too difficult, untimely, risky, expensive and unprofitable.

George Gilder

Successful, Entrepreneur, Quality

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It is always easiest to run with the herd; at times, it can take a deep reservoir of courage and conviction to stand apart from it. Yet distancing yourself from the crowd is an essential component of long-term investment success.

Seth Klarman

Running, Investment Success, Long

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As we watch the world today, sometimes it seems that we`re at the mercy of events instead of shaping events. And a strong America`s essential to shape events, and a strong America, by the way, depends on a strong military.

Mitt Romney

Strong, Military, America

Source: www.nbcnews.com

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Notwithstanding what some regard as the institutionalization of compassion, the transfer society quashes genuine virtue. Redistribution of income by means of government coercion is a form of theft. Its supporters attempt to disguise its essential character by claiming that democratic procedures give it legitimacy, but this justification is specious. Theft is theft, whether it be carried out by one thief or by a hundred million thieves acting in concert. And it is impossible to found a good society on the institutionalization of theft.

Robert Higgs

Character, Mean, Compassion

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In the absence of touching and being touched, people of all ages can sicken and grow touched starved. Touch seems to be as essential as sunlight.

Diane Ackerman

People, Touching, Age

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The essential element of love is a belief in its own eternity.

W. Somerset Maugham

Love Is, Elements, Belief

W. Somerset Maugham (2013). “The Essential W. Somerset Maugham Collection”, p.2527, eBookIt.com

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It's just odd that something as essential in life as sex has been flattened out in mainstream cinema - and in art cinema. Even in art movies, sex always seems to be treated negatively. Why does it always end in disaster?

John Cameron Mitchell

Art, Sex, Doe

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How many understand that Nature is the essential character of whatever is. It's something you'll find by looking not at, but in, always in. It's always inside the thing, and it makes the outside. And some day, when you get sufficiently proficient in understanding the use of the term, you can tell by the outside pretty much from what's inside.

Frank Lloyd Wright

Character, Understanding, Use

Frank Lloyd Wright, Bruce Brooks Pfeiffer (1987). “Frank Lloyd Wright: his living voice”, California State University (Fresno)

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You must be made miserable before you can know true Christian joy. Indeed the real trouble with the miserable Christian is that he has never been truly made miserable because of conviction of sin. He has by-passed the essential preliminary to joy, he has been assuming something that he has no right to assume.

Martyn Lloyd-Jones

Christian, Real, Joy

D. Martyn Lloyd-Jones (1995). “Reflections: A Treasury of Daily Readings”, Nelson Bibles

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Strangely, although they may seem worlds apart, boxing and tennis have a certain kinship. Two individuals head-to-head, probing for weakness and attacking it. Footwork, timing and stamina are essential. Just you and your opponent until one of you is beaten. There's no brain damage in tennis - although sometimes I wonder.

Bud Collins

Two, Boxing, Tennis

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Hiding behind such sacred terms as human rights and distributive justice, politicians and intellectuals alike have perpetrated a gargantuan ruse on humankind: they have convinced us that mass homogeneity is more essential for the betterment of society than is individual initiative, and they have adorned this dubious assumption with assurances that by leveling all distinctions between human beings, collective peace and unity will result as a matter of course, just as water runs downhill or the cart follows the ox.

Gonzalo Fernandez de la Mora

Running, Rights, Justice

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In assuming any office besides its essential one, the State begins to lose the power of fulfilling its essential one.

Herbert Spencer

Office, Assuming, States

Herbert Spencer (1892). “Social Statics: Abridged and Revised; Together with The Man Versus the State”

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Intellectual methods-study and reason-are essential to our progress toward eternal life, but they are not sufficient. They can prepare the way. They can get the mind ready to receive the Spirit. But what the scriptures call conversion-the change of mind and heart that gives us the direction and strength to move resolutely toward eternal life-comes only by the witness and power of the Holy Spirit.

Dallin H. Oaks

Moving, Heart, Giving

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The United States didn't create religious liberty. Religious liberty created the United States of America. It's the reason we are here today. This is an essential freedom and an essential right and I don't think you give up this right by simply taking a job.

Bobby Jindal

Religious, Jobs, Giving Up

"Bobby Jindal Defends Kentucky Clerk Kim Davis" by Sam Levine and Samantha-Jo Roth, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 2, 2015.

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How do you remember everything from different books when you are still writing the HP series? As obsessive fans will tell you, I do slip up! Several classrooms move floors mysteriously between books and these are the least serious continuity errors! Most of the fansites will point you in the direction of my mistakes. But the essentials remain consistent from book to book because the story has been plotted for a long time and it is clear in my mind.

J. K. Rowling

Mistake, Moving, Book

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