"Gardening gives one back a sense of proportion about everything - except itself."
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"Isn't it absolutely essential to keep a fierce Left and fierce Right, both on their toes and each terrified of the other? That's how we get things done."
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"If the individual, or heretic, gets hold of some essential truth, or sees some error in the system being practiced, he commits so many marginal errors himself that he is worn out before he can establish his point."
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"Deeply listening to music opens up new avenues of research I'd never even dreamed of. I feel from now on music should be an essential part of every analysis."
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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."
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"If there is one realm in which it is essential to be sublime, it is in wickedness. You spit on a petty thief, but you can't deny a kind of respect for the great criminal."
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"Women are the essential part of the theater but the writers are not writing about women. I think they're too perplexed about the whole female situation probably."
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"Kindness is an essential part of Gods work and ours here on earth."
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"I expect that essential oils may some day prove a vital weapon in the fight against strains of antibiotic-resi stant bacteria."
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"Action is with the scholar subordinate, but it is essential. Without it, he is not yet man. Without it, thought can never ripen into truth."
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"The essential thing to know about God is that God is Good. All the rest is secondary."
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"What is essential, therefore, is not that you no longer believe, but that God continues to believe in you."
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"Nos are just as valuable as yeses in the game of life. In fact, they're essential."
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"In most cases learning something essential in life requires physical pain."
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"The nature of finite things is to have the seed of their passing-away as their essential being: the hour of their birth is the hour of their death."
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"Love is a very ancient force, which served its purpose in its day but no longer is essential for the survival of the species."
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"Good strong banks are essential for every family and for every business in the country and extraordinary times call for the bold and far-reaching solutions that the Treasury has announced today."
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"Hope is an essential thread in the fabric of all fantasies, an Ariadne's thread to guide us out of the labyrinth ... Human beings have always needed hope, and surely now more than ever."
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"Stillness is your essential nature."
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"True listening is another way of bringing stillness into the relationship. When you truly listen to someone, the dimension of stillness arises and becomes an essential part of the relationship."
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