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"The music masters familiarize children's minds with rhythms and melodies, thus making them more civilized, more balanced, better adjusted in themselves, and more capable in whatever they say or do, for rhythm and harmony are essential to the whole of life."
"For me, temperance is essential to good work."
"A sudden silence in the middle of a conversation suddenly brings us back to essentials: it reveals how dearly we must pay for the invention of speech."
"I didn't like the idea of being foolish, but I learned pretty soon that it was essential to fail and be foolish."
"It is absolutely essential that one should be neutral and not fall in love with the hypothesis."
"The absurd is the essential concept and the first truth."
"Combinatory play seems to be the essential feature in productive thought."
"For, after all, the foundation of our whole nature, and, therefore, of our happiness, is our physique, and the most essential factor in happiness is health, and, next in importance after health, the ability to maintain ourselves in independence and freedom from care."
"What is the basic, the essential, the crucial principle that differentiates freedom from slavery? It is the principle of voluntary action versus physical coercion or compulsion."
"Plans are of little importance, but planning is essential."
"Compassion is an essential element of love."
"Coquetry is the essential characteristic, and the prevalent humor of women; but they do not all practice it, because the coquetry of some is restrained by fear or by reason."
"Education should therefore include the two forms of work, manual and intellectual, for the same person, and thus make it understood by practical experience that these two kinds complete each other and are equally essential to a civilized existence."
"The essential act of war is destruction, not necessarily of human lives, but of the products of human labor."
"Stieglitz conceived, though he never carried out, a series of photographs of the heads of stallions and mares, of bulls and cows, in the act of mating, hoping to catch in the brute an essential quality that would symbolize the probably unattainable photograph of a passionate human mating."
"Wine is one of the agreeable and essential ingredients of life"
"We have become a society where the artist is regarded as a self-indulgent superfluity, and the person who juggles stocks and shares is an essential part of the economy."
"The wisdom and experience of older people is a resource of inestimable worth. Recognizing and treasuring the contributions of older people is essential to the long-term flourishing of any society."
"My aim is to create a happy society with genuine friendship. Friendship between Tibetan and Chinese peoples is very essential."
"For cultural invasion to succeed, it is essential that those invaded become convinced of their intrinsic inferiority."
