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"It is absolutely essential that the oppressed participate in the revolutionary process with an increasingly critical awareness of their role as subjects of the transformation."
"What is essential in a work of art is that it should rise far above the realm of personal life and speak to the spirit and heart of the poet as man to the spirit and heart of mankind."
"In the last analysis, the essential thing is the life of individual. This alone makes history, here alone do the great transformations take place, and the whole future, the whole history of the world, ultimately springs as a gigantic summation from these hidden source in individuals."
"For a very small expence the public can facilitate, can encourage, and can even impose upon almost the whole body of the people, the necessity of acquiring those most essential parts of education."
"Our essential nature is pure consciousness, the infinite source of everything that exists in the physical world."
"There is almost no country in Africa where it is not essential to know to which tribe, or which subgroup of which tribe, the president belongs. From this single piece of information you can trace the lines of patronage and allegiance that define the state."
"Your ability to concentrate single-mindedly on one thing, the most important thing, and stay at it until it is complete, is an essential prerequisite for success."
"Every employee must be essential to the functions of the organization."
"Non-cooperation in military matters should be an essential moral principle for all true scientists."
"The essentials of being a person of my type lies precisely in what they think and how they think, not in what they do. Your thoughts shape you."
"It is characteristic of the military mentality that non-human factors ... are held essential, while the human being, his desires and thoughts-in short, the psychological factors-are considered as unimportant and secondary."
"Routine is the god of every social system; it is the seventh heaven of business, the essential component in the success of every factory, the ideal of every statesman. The social machine should run like clockwork."
"Enthusiasm is essential to the successful attainment of any high endeavor."
"...music is about as physical as it gets: your essential rhythm is your heartbeat; your essential sound, the breath. We're walking temples of noise, and when you add tender hearts to this mix, it somehow lets us meet in places we couldn't get to any other way."
"Here is my secret. It is very simple: one sees well only with the heart. The essential is invisible to the eyes."
"Anything whose presence or absence makes no discernible difference is no essential part of the whole."
"An appearance of delicacy, and even fragility, is almost essential to beauty."
"The essential fault of surrealism is that it invents without discovering. To make a clam play an accordion is to invent not to discover. The observation of the unconscious, so far as it can be observed, should reveal things of which we have previously been unconscious, not the familiar things of which we have been conscious plus imagination."
"Possessing a powerful worldwide brand is essential for sustained success."
"Desert being the essential condition of praise, there can be no reality in the one without the other."
