"Those who consider the inessential to be essential And see the essential as inessential Don't reach the essential, Living in the field of wrong intention"
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"Nowhere is one more alone than in Paris ... and yet surrounded by crowds. Nowhere is one more likely to incur greater ridicule. And no visit is more essential."
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"I don't like the phrase shock value. Surprise is essential in comedy, and if people are shocked by what I consider merely surprising, then that's their shock. But there is no joke without surprise."
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"Community always calls us back to solitude, and solitude always calls us to community. Community and solitude, both, are essential elements of ministry and witnessing."
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"If you want to know anything about community, you have to realize that the contemplative side is essential. Community without retreating and quiet time never survives."
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"The question in brief, is whether democracy and freedom are values to be preserved or threats to be avoided . . . democracy and freedom are more than values to be treasured; they may well be essential to survival."
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"Our relations with the other powers of Europe have experienced no essential change since the last session."
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"Not until we see the richness of the Hindu mind and its essential spirituality can we understand India"
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"Theoretical approaches have their place and are, I suppose, essential but a theory must be tempered with reality."
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"Intelligence is the capacity to perceive the essential, the what is; and to awaken this capacity, in oneself and in others, is education."
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"It is absolutely essential to have a living visible example of what a Christian ought to be."
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"If it were felt that the free development of individuality is one of the leading essentials of well-being; that it is not only a coordinate element with all that is designated by the terms civilisation, instruction, education, culture, but is itself a necessary part and condition of all those things; there would be no danger that liberty should be undervalued."
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"Imperfection is in some sort essential to all that we know of life. It is the sign of life in a mortal body, that is to say, of a state of progress and change. Nothing that lives is, or can be rigidly perfect; part of it is decaying, part nascent."
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"The things of this world reveal their essential absurdity when they are put in the Venetian context. In the unreal realm of the canals, as in a Swiftian Lilliput, the real world, with its contrivances, appears as a vast folly."
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"Deep down there was understanding, not of the facts of our lives so much as of our essential natures."
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"It is essential for the oppressed to realize that when they accept the struggle for humanization they also accept, from that moment, their total responsibility for the struggle."
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"What began in deadly competition has helped us to see that global cooperation is the essential precondition for our survival. Travel is broadening. It's time to hit the road again."
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"The present and future of knowledge attainment and essential business skills."
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"Fast tempo is essential for success; do it, fix it, try it!"
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"Why should it be essential to love rarely in order to love much?"
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