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• I felt strongly that since the pursuit of good science was so difficult it was essential that the problem being studied was an important one to justify the effort expanded.

  Paul Nurse

  Effort, Important, Problem

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• So I have cultivated the vast garden of human experience which is history, without troubling myself overmuch about laws, essential first causes, or how it is all coming out.

  Samuel Eliot Morison

  Garden, Aquariums, Law

  Samuel Eliot Morison (1953). “By Land and by Sea: Essays and Addresses”, New York : Knopf

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• Man's idea of God, and a God's collusion, is an essential part of the equation to wage war.

  Ralph Steadman

  War, Men, Ideas

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• Well, there's no question that a good script is an absolutely essential, maybe the essential thing for a movie.

  Sydney Pollack

  Scripts, Wells

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• The Art of Seeing. It is essential to an architect to know how to see: I mean, to see in such a way that the vision is not overpowered by rational analysis.

  Luis Barragan

  Art, Mean, Vision

  Acceptance speech fot the Pritzker Architecture Prize, 1980.

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• Touch seems to be as essential as sunlight.

  Diane Ackerman

  Love, Sunlight, Seems

  Diane Ackerman (2011). “A Natural History of the Senses”, p.80, Vintage

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• Life is the only art that we are required to practice without preparation, and without being allowed the preliminary trials, the failures and botches, that are essential for the training...

  Lewis Mumford

  Life, Art, Practice

  "The Conduct Of Life". Book by Lewis Mumford, 1951.

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• The repossession by women of our bodies will bring far more essential change to human society than the seizing of the means of production by workers.

  Adrienne Rich

  Mean, Aquariums, Body

  Adrienne Rich (1976). “Of woman born motherhood as experience and institution”

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• A task becomes a duty from the moment you suspect it to be an essential part of that integrity which alone entitles a man to assume responsibility.

  Dag Hammarskjold

  Integrity, Responsibility, Men

  "Markings". Book by Dag Hammarskjold, 1964.

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• The very first essential for success is a perpetually constant and regular employment of violence.

  Adolf Hitler

  Aquariums, Evil, Mein Kampf

  Adolf Hitler, Ludwig Lore (1939). “Mein Kampf”, New York : Stackpole

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• Networking is an essential part of building wealth.

  Armstrong Williams

  Networking, Building Wealth, Prosperity

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• The books I loved in childhood - the first loves - I’ve read so often that I’ve internalized them in some really essential way: they are more inside me now than out.

  Donna Tartt

  Book, First Love, Aquariums

  "A Conversation with Donna Tartt, Author of THE LITTLE FRIEND". Penguin Random House Interview, www.penguinrandomhouse.com.

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• As we are all aware, Special Operations Forces, SOF, are playing an increasingly essential role as we continue to fight and, more importantly, win the war on terror.

  Robin Hayes

  War, Fighting, Winning

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• Intervals and other types of speed work are essential to improve running speed.

  Frank Shorter

  Running, Speed, Type

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• Imagination is as vital to any advance in science as learning and precision are essential for starting points.

  Percival Lowell

  Learning, Science, Aquariums

  Percival Lowell (1903). “The Solar System: Six Lectures Delivered at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in December, 1902”

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• Anxiety is the essential condition of intellectual and artistic creation and everything that is finest in human history.

  Charles Frankel

  Worry, Anxiety, Intellectual

  CHARLES FRANKEL (1956). “THE CASE FOR MODERN MAN”

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• My own early experiences in war led me to suspect the value of discipline, even in that sphere where it is so often regarded as the first essential for success.

  Herbert Read

  War, Aquariums, Discipline

  Herbert Read (1963). “Selected Writings: Poetry and Criticism”

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• The essential function of art is moral. But a passionate, implicit morality, not didactic. A morality which changes the blood, rather than the mind.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Art, Motherhood, Blood

  D. H. Lawrence, Ezra Greenspan, Lindeth Vasey (2003). “Studies in Classic American Literature”, p.155, Cambridge University Press

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• The only purpose of education is to teach a student how to live his life-by developing his mind and equipping him to deal with reality. The training he needs is theoretical, i.e., conceptual. He has to be taught to think, to understand, to integrate, to prove. He has to be taught the essentials of the knowledge discovered in the past-and he has to be equipped to acquire further knowledge by his own effort.

  Ayn Rand

  Education, Home, School

  Ayn Rand (1988). “The Ayn Rand Lexicon: Objectivism from A to Z”, p.154, Penguin

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• Unalloyed love of God is the essential thing. All else is unreal.

  Ramakrishna

  God Love, Unreal

  Ramakrishna, Mahendra Nath Gupta (1942). “The Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna”, Ramakrishna Vivekanada Center

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• The motivation part is all essential in keeping my voice, but there are the human factors of discipline.

  Jerome Hines

  Motivational, Voice, Discipline

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• So the idea that there is nothing essential, in the sense that there are no human universals, is dogma. Ask most anyone who is going to be shot at dawn.

  Catharine MacKinnon

  Aquariums, Ideas, Dawn

  Catharine A. MacKinnon (2007). “Are Women Human?”, p.53, Harvard University Press

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• It is essential that men start being interested in and excited by how women think.

  Holly Near

  Men, Thinking, Excited

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• I object to you using words like squander and pork. What is pork in one part of the country is an essential project in another part.

  John Breaux

  Country, Aquariums, Pork

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• I live with the people I create and it has always made my essential loneliness less keen.

  Carson McCullers

  Loneliness, Writing, Aquariums

  Carson McCullers (2017). “Carson McCullers: Stories, Plays & Other Writings”, p.302, Library of America

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