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• If we turn our back on the people of this country who need to work for a living, we shouldn't be here, to be honest, because that has to be an essential part of what we do to protect the country, from the standpoint of defense, protect workers and make sure they have jobs.

  Barbara Boxer

  Country, Jobs, People

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• To me, business isn't about wearing suits or pleasing stockholders. It's about being true to yourself, your ideas and focusing on the essentials.

  Richard Branson

  Motivational, Inspiring, Ideas

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Sigmund Freud was the apostle of disbelief. He was the one who made psychoanalysis a part of our culture, and in so doing he kicked out a flying buttress that had been essential for holding up our cathedral of faith.

  Tony Campolo

  Flying, Culture, Made

  "Religion After Freud" by Tony Campolo, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 31, 2007.

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• Why should it be essential to love rarely in order to love much?

  Albert Camus

  Order, Should

  Albert Camus (2012). “The Myth of Sisyphus: And Other Essays”, p.69, Vintage

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• I think we need a very, very serious effort, primarily through tax policy to provide incentives and encouragement for people to save and invest and expand their businesses and to create more jobs. The kind of thing we did in the early Reagan years, 30 years ago. I think that's essential.

  Dick Cheney

  Encouragement, Jobs, Thinking

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• The environmental crisis arises from a fundamental fault: our systems of production - in industry, agriculture, energy and transportation - essential as they are, make people sick and die.

  Barry Commoner

  Agriculture, People, Sick

  Interview with Alan Hall, www.scientificamerican.com. June 23, 1997.

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• Water and air, the two essential fluids on which all life depends, have become global garbage cans.

  Jacques Yves Cousteau

  Ocean, Air, Aquariums

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• Trust is the glue of life. It's the most essential ingredient in effective communication. It's the foundational principle that holds all relationships.

  Stephen Covey

  Relationship, Trust, Boyfriend

  Stephen R. Covey, A. Roger Merrill, Rebecca R. Merrill (1995). “First Things First”, p.203, Simon and Schuster

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• College was just so essential for my sense of self and my development.

  Claire Danes

  College, Self, Development

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• The last two times I went to spring training, I had to win a job, and if I didn't get off to a blazing start, I'm on the bench. Now, I've proven myself, so it's not essential that I get off to a real good start.

  Eric Davis

  Jobs, Spring, Real

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Nothing brings me more happiness than trying to help the most vulnerable people in society. It is a goal and an essential part of my life - a kind of destiny. Whoever is in distress can call on me. I will come running wherever they are.

  Princess Diana

  Happiness, Happy, Running

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• The traditional mathematician recognizes and appreciates mathematical elegance when he sees it. I propose to go one step further, and to consider elegance an essential ingredient of mathematics: if it is clumsy, it is not mathematics.

  Edsger Dijkstra

  Appreciate, Ingredients, Steps

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• Granny Ditto always referred to perfume as "smell good" and for me it's an essential. I have a sweetheart who's extremely allergic to most scents, so I have to be extra careful - as well as creative - in the smell department. The key, I've found, are essential oils, which come in all kinds of 100% natural scents.

  Beth Ditto

  Keys, Essential Oils, Smell

  "What would Beth Ditto do?" by Beth Ditto, www.theguardian.com. July 6, 2007.

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• I just spend my money on the essentials. Just basically food and shelter.

  David Duchovny

  Shelter

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• My dogs are spoilt for sure. They are pampered pooches. But I love them so much! I guess all dogs need to be washed, but maybe blueberry facials aren't essential. It's quite fun, though. You want to give your children everything; I don't have children, so I want my dogs to have a good life.

  Tamara Ecclestone

  Dog, Children, Fun

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• I can't think of anyone I admire who isn't fuelled by self-doubt. It's an essential ingredient. It's the grit in the oyster.

  Richard Eyre

  Thinking, Self, Oysters

  "A life in theatre: Richard Eyre" by Andrew Dickson, www.theguardian.com. November 29, 2010.

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• Sequencing - the careful striptease by which you reveal information to the reader - matters in an article, but it is absolutely essential to a book.

  Joshua Foer

  Book, Information, Matter

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• Being understood is not the most essential thing in life.

  Jodie Foster

  Things In Life, Understood

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The left and the right live in parallel universes. The right listens to talk radio, the left's on the Internet and they just reinforce one another. They have no sense of reality. I have now one ambition: to retire before it becomes essential to tweet.

  Barney Frank

  Ambition, Reality, Radio

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• Collectively, we activists are essential to advancing U.S. policy to help empower marginalized people to lift themselves and their communities out of poverty for good.

  Michael Franti

  People, Empowering, Community

  "Time for Passion and Strategy on Climate Change" by Michael Franti, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 26, 2009.

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• The only way that has ever been discovered to have a lot of people cooperate together voluntarily is through the free market. And that's why it's so essential to preserving individual freedom.

  Milton Friedman

  Freedom, People, Together

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• The rapprochement of peoples is only possible when differences of culture and outlook are respected and appreciated rather than feared and condemned, when the common bond of human dignity is recognized as the essential bond for a peaceful world.

  J. William Fulbright

  Differences, Peaceful, Culture

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• Some children naturally have more cognitive control than others, and in all kids this essential skill is being compromised by the usual suspects: smartphones, TV, etc. But there are many ways that adults can help kids learn better cognitive control.

  Daniel Goleman

  Children, Kids, Smartphones

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• Surveillance technologies now available - including the monitoring of virtually all digital information - have advanced to the point where much of the essential apparatus of a police state is already in place.

  Al Gore

  Technology, Police, Surveillance

  "The Future: Six Drivers of Global Change". Book by Al Gore, 2013.

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• It always depresses me when people moan about how commercial Christmas is. I love everything about it. The tradition of having this great big feast, slap bang in the middle of winter, is an essential thing to look forward to at the end of the year.

  Richard E. Grant

  Christmas, Depressing, Winter

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