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• Once evil is individualized, becoming part of everyday life, the way of resisting it also becomes individual. How does the soul survive? is the essential question. And the response is: through love and imagination.

  Azar Nafisi

  Evil, Imagination, Soul

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• The schoolmaster is the person who takes the children off the parents' hands for a consideration. That is to say, he establishes a child prison, engages a number of employee schoolmasters as turnkeys, and covers up the essential cruelty and unnaturalness of the situation by torturing the children if they do not learn, and calling this process, which is within the capacity of any fool or blackguard, by the sacred name of Teaching.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Children, Teaching, Hands

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• He was resentful against all those in authority over him, and this, combined with a lazy indifference toward his work, exasperated every master in school. He grew discouraged and imagined himself a pariah; took to sulking in corners and reading after lights. With a dread of being alone he attached a few friends, but since they were not among the elite of the school, he used them simply as mirrors of himself, audiences before which he might do that posing absolutely essential to him. He was unbearably lonely, desperately unhappy.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Lonely, Reading, School

  F. Scott Fitzgerald (2017). “F. Scott Fitzgerald :This Side of Paradise followed by The Beautiful and Damned”, p.18, Lulu.com

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• Gypsy dance is never just to be dancing. Instead it seems to be a part of an immense and significant non-verbal vocabulary of Gypsy communication and behavior. It is at the heart of an essential transformation, a transcended state, an escape from the realities of their daily lives to a more satisfying state of mind.

  Kate Magowan

  Dance, Communication, Heart

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• ... if you desire to marry you must realize that a mistress
  is won by the good temper and grace displayed while dancing...
  for dancing is practiced to reveal whether lovers
  are in good health and sound of limb,
  after which they are permitted to kiss their mistresses
  in order that they may touch and savor one another
  thus to ascertain if they are shapley
  or emit an unpleasant odor as of bad meat.
  Therefore, from this standpoint, quite apart from the
  many other advantages to be derived from dancing,
  it becomes an essential to a well-ordered society.

  Thoinot Arbeau

  Dance, Kissing, Order

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• Creating relationship is the heart of acting. It is basic. It is essential.

  Michael Shurtleff

  Heart, Creating, Acting

  Michael Shurtleff (2009). “Audition: Everything an Actor Needs to Know to Get the Part”, p.23, Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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• The basic essential of a great actor is that he loves himself in acting.

  Charlie Chaplin

  Aquariums, Theatre, Acting

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• Through the practices of yoga, we discover that concern for the happiness and well being of others, including animals, must be an essential part of our own quest for happiness and well being. The fork can be a powerful weapon of mass destruction or a tool to create peace on Earth.

  Sharon Gannon

  Success, Powerful, Yoga

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• Culture's essential service to a religion is to destroy intellectual idolatry, the recurrent tendency in religion to replace the object of its worship with its present understanding and forms of approach to that object.

  Northrop Frye

  Understanding, Intellectual, Atheism

  Northrop Frye (2015). “Anatomy of Criticism”, p.127, Princeton University Press

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• The critical element in meditation practice is beginning again. Everyone loses focus at times, everyone loses interest at times, and everyone gets distracted over and over again. What is essential, and also incredibly transforming, is realizing that we have the ability to begin again, without blaming or judging ourselves, without thinking we have failed, without losing heart, we can, and need to, constantly be beginning again.

  Sharon Salzberg

  Yoga, Heart, Thinking

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• Yoga is not an ancient myth buried in oblivion. It is the most valuable inheritance of the present. It is the essential need of today and the culture of tomorrow

  Satyananda Saraswati

  Life, Yoga, Today

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• Fear is essential for courage.

  John F. Murray

  Fear

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• A building does not have to be an important work of architecture to become a first-rate landmark. Landmarks are not created by architects. They are fashioned by those who encounter them after they are built. The essential feature of a landmark is not its design, but the place it holds in a city's memory. Compared to the place it occupies in social history, a landmark's artistic qualities are incidental.

  Herbert Muschamp

  Memories, Cities, History

  "The Secret History of 2 Columbus Circle" by Herbert Muschamp, www.nytimes.com. January 8, 2006.

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• To live, mankind must recover its essential humanness and its innate divinity; men must recover their capacity for humility, sanity and integrity; soldier and civilians must see their hope in some other world than one completely dominated by the physical and chemical sciences.

  George Stanley

  Integrity, Humility, Men

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• Truth is one, single, and it can never be misinterpreted. To know the truth it is essential that whatever human awareness we have got, it has to be expanded. There is something still lacking in that awareness by which we cannot know God, we cannot know the truth.

  Nirmala Srivastava

  Love, Wisdom, Yoga

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• In our time there are many artists who do something because it is new; they see their value and their justification in this newness. They are deceiving themselves; novelty is seldom the essential. This has to do with one thing only; making a subject better from its intrinsic nature.

  Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec

  Art, Novelty, Deceiving

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• There is no profession more essential than that of an educator, and it's time for all of us to embrace and celebrate their importance and contribution to America's children.

  Queen Latifah

  Teacher, Children, America

  "Queen Latifah to Host CBS Education Special" by AJ Marechal, variety.com. August 23, 2013.

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• Everything depends on the attitude of the artist toward his subject. It is essential.

  Robert Henri

  Art, Attitude, Subjects

  Robert Henri (1960). “The art spirit”, Lippincott Williams & Wilkins

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• I believe in the essential unity of all that lives. Therefore, I believe that if one person gains spiritually, the whole world gains, and that if one person falls, the whole world falls to that extent.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Believe, Fall, Diversity

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• The teacher that I was for decades, and that I still am in a certain way, wondered what was meant by the word education. I was truly dumbfounded at the very thought of dealing with such an essential and extensive subject.

  Abdoulaye Wade

  Education, Teacher, Way

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• I once knew an otherwise excellent teacher who compelled his students to perform all their demonstrations with incorrect figures, on the theory that it was the logical connection of the concepts, not the figure, that was essential.

  Ernst Mach

  Teacher, Science, Connections

  Ernst Mach, Thomas J. McCormack (2014). “Space and Geometry in the Light of Physiological, Psychological and Physical Inquiry”, p.93, Cambridge University Press

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• To be conscious of Being, you need to reclaim consciousness from the mind. This is one of the most essential tasks on your spiritual journey.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Spiritual, Journey, Mind

  Eckhart Tolle (2010). “The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment”, p.111, New World Library

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• Whether talking about addiction, taxation [on cigarettes] or education [about smoking], there is always at the center of the conversation an essential conundrum: How come we're selling this deadly stuff anyway?

  Anna Quindlen

  Talking, Addiction, Smoking

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• I have learned from experience that happiness is an acquired skill. Children are one of the greatest lessons in happiness, constantly challenging us to enjoy the moment, as the next one will not be the same. Gratitude is essential to happiness. Every time our children rush up to us and smile, we have something to be happy about; every time we get out of bed and can take a deep breath and go out for a walk, we have something to be happy about-that is the essence of a happy existence. Happiness is a muscle we must use, or it will wither away.

  Marianne Williamson

  Happiness, Gratitude, Children

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• No psychological health is possible unless this essential care of the person is fundamentally accepted, loved and respected by others and by himself.

  Abraham Maslow

  Self Esteem, Psychological Health, Care

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