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• I wanted to get rid of the element that had been considered essential in pop music: the voice.

  Brian Eno

  Aquariums, Voice, Elements

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• An essential idea is that if you give to some person or endeavor in life, you will make that more important.

  George Weinberg

  Aquariums, Ideas, Giving

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• Titles are not only important, they are essential for me. I cannot write without a title

  Guillermo Cabrera Infante

  Writing, Important, Literature

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• I believe it is essential for our planetary future to develop tools that can change the consciousness which has created the crisis that we are in.

  Stanislav Grof

  Believe, Tools, Consciousness

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• Abstraction is a mental process we use when trying to discern what is essential or relevant to a problem; it does not require a belief in abstract entities.

  Tom G. Palmer

  Trying, Doe, Use

  Tom G. Palmer (2009). “Realizing Freedom: Libertarian Theory, History, and Practice”, p.34, Cato Institute

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• The purpose of the United Nations should be to protect the essential sovereignty of nations, large and small.

  Nikita Khrushchev

  Purpose, Should, Protect

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• I contend that not only can you laugh at adversity, but it is essential to do so if you are to deal with setbacks without defeat.

  Allen Klein

  Adversity, Laughing, Defeat

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• Freedom from the desire for an answer is essential to the understanding of a problem.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Love, Life, Truth

  Jiddu Krishnamurti (1956). “Commentaries on Living”, p.105, Penguin Books India

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• It is absolutely essential that one should be neutral and not fall in love with the hypothesis.

  David Douglass

  Falling In Love, Should, Hypothesis

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• A lot of people criticize the primaries, but I think they are absolutely essential to the education of the President of the United States.

  Pierre Salinger

  Education, Thinking, People

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• The essential quality of an animal is that it seeks its own living, whereas a vegetable has its living brought to it

  Henry Mayhew

  Animal, Vegetables, Quality

  Henry Mayhew (1851). “London Labour and the London Poor: A Cyclopaedia of the Condition and Earnings of Those that Will Work, Those that Cannot Work, and Those that Will Not Work”, p.158

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• Revolution as an ideal concept always preserves the essential content of the original thought: sudden and lasting betterment.

  Johan Huizinga

  Aquariums, Original Thought, Revolution

  "In the Shadow of Tomorrow". Book by Johan Huizinga, Ch. 2, 1936.

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• And just because God attains and wins and finds this uniqueness all our lives win in our union with him the individuality which is essential to their true meaning.

  Josiah Royce

  Winning, Individuality, Unions

  Josiah Royce (1952). “The Religious Philosophy of Josiah Royce; Edited, with an Introductory Essay, by Stuart Gerry Brown”

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• Our relations with the other powers of Europe have experienced no essential change since the last session.

  James Monroe

  Europe, Lasts, Relation

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

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• Lies are essential to humanity. They are perhaps as important as the pursuit of pleasure and moreover are dictated by that pursuit.

  Marcel Proust

  Life, Success, Lying

  Marcel Proust (1948). “The Maxims of Marcel Proust”

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• The essential point of view of Christianity is sin.

  Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

  Views, Literature, Sin

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• It is essential that we realize once and for all that man is much more of a sex creature than a moral creature. The former is inherent, the other is grafted on.

  Emma Goldman

  Sex, Men, Aquariums

  Alphonso Lingis, Emma Goldman (1996). “Red Emma Speaks: An Emma Goldman Reader”, Humanities Press International

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• Windows are as essential to office prestige as Christmas is to retailing.

  Enid Nemy

  Christmas, Office, Window

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• In extreme situations, the entire universe becomes our foe; at such critical times, unity of mind and technique is essential - do not let your heart waver!

  Morihei Ueshiba

  Sports, Heart, Aquariums

  Morihei Ueshiba (2005). “The Art of Peace”, p.134, Shambhala Publications

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• It's not the daily increase but daily decrease. Hack away at the unessential.

  Bruce Lee

  Motivational, Letting Go, Crazy

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• The bottom line is, insults only hurt when they come from someone I respect.

  Kresley Cole

  Respect, Hurt, Insulting

  Kresley Cole (2012). “Lothaire”, p.88, Simon and Schuster

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• Most importantly, nothing has happened to change my conviction that freedom and the love of liberty remain the essential defining attributes of our national character as a people.

  Ibrahim Babangida

  Character, People, Liberty

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• Essential to the theory of evolution is the premise that everything has come into being by itself.

  Unknown

  Aquariums, Theory Of Evolution, Premises

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• Our essential differences from the norm are both huge and deeply offensive to those among us who wish to be quietly integrated into society without particular reference to our nature.

  Reverend Malcolm Boyd

  Differences, Wish, Quiet

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• Water is a finite resource that is essential in the advancement of agriculture, and is vital to human life.

  Jim Costa

  Agriculture, Water, Advancement

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