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“We'll support the government on issues if it's essential to the country but our primary responsibility is not to prop up the government, our responsibility is to provide an opposition and an alternative government for Parliament and for Canadians.”

Ifs Country Government Responsibility Support Issues Essentials Alternatives Primaries Opposition Parliament Props

Author:Stephen Harper

“Your projects can often demonstrative new and innovative approaches that can be supported and eventually replicated with greater support from the public sector. Showing up and speaking up at city council and state legislature hearings are essential, but so is the project work.”

States Cities Support Greater Essentials Projects Approach Hearing Council Innovative Legislature Showing Up Speaking Up Public Sector State Legislatures City Council

Author:Mark Winne

“And so when the essential idea of love is lost there comes talk of fidelity. Actually, the only possible basis for two beings, male and female, to relate to each other is to grant each other total freedom.”

Two Ideas Lost Love Is Essentials Female Bases Males Relate Grants Fidelity Love Is Lost

Author:Alan Watts

“Community is essential when it comes to successfully living out the Christian walk in a day-to-day context. So the math is simple: More community = More disciples.”

Christian Community Simple Walks Essentials Math Disciple Day To Day

Book:Transformational Groups: Creating a New Scorecard for Groups

Source: Transformational Groups: Creating a New Scorecard for Groups

“An independent and free media is essential to ensure democracy.”

Democracy Media Essentials Independent

Author:Warren Christopher

“A recovery of the old sense of sin is essential to Christianity. Christ takes it for granted that men are bad. Until we really feel this assumption of His to be true, though we are part of the world He came to save, we are not part of the audience to whom His words are addressed.”

Men World Feels Christ Sin Christianity Audience Essentials Recovery Being True Granted Assumption

Author:C. S. Lewis

“As the feudal system retained many of the elements of slavery, modified by the traditions, customs, and practices of the primitive communities, so capitalism retained the essential usurpations of feudalism, though professing to guard personal freedom, and to observe equity between the owner and the occupier of the land, the employer and the employed.”

Community Practice Land Essentials Elements Capitalism Tradition Slavery Owners Customs Primitive Employed Equity Employers Personal Freedom Feudalism Usurpation Feudal System

Author:Joshua K. Ingalls

“You are not merely the physical body that you identify with out of habit. Your essential state is a field of infinite possibilities.”

States Body Fields Possibility Habit Essentials Infinite Physical Body Infinite Possibilities

Book:Grow Younger, Live Longer: Ten steps to reverse ageing

Source: Grow Younger, Live Longer: Ten steps to reverse ageing

“Without Leskov there would be no Bulgakov, no Chekhov, but also no Garca Mrquez and Julio Cortzar. . . . Leskov is the essential storyteller: he does not portray life, he creates it in all its wonder and terror and magic.”

Doe Would Be Wonder Magic Essentials Terror Storyteller Chekhov

Author:Alberto Manguel

“The detail is as important as the essential is. When it is inadequate, it destroys the whole outfit.”

Important Whole Essentials Details Inadequate

Author:Christian Dior

“I know no other way to associate with great tasks than as play: as a sign of greatness, this is an essential presupposition.”

Knows Way Play Greatness Essentials Tasks Associates

Book:On the Genealogy of Morals

Source: On the Genealogy of Morals

“We must come to understand the deep mutual connection or kinship between the various forms of our spirituality. We must recollect our original spiritual and moral substance, which grew out of the same essential experience of humanity. I believe that this is the only way to achieve a genuine renewal of our sense of responsibility for ourselves and for the world. And at the same time, it is the only way to achieve a deeper understanding among cultures that will enable them to work together in a truly ecumenical way to create a new order for the world.”

“Hyesims poems: transformative as walking high granite mountains by moonlight, with fragrant herbs underfoot and a thermos of clear tea in the backpack. Their bedrock is thusness, their images beauty is pellucid and new, their view without limit. The shelf of essential Zen poets for American readers grows larger with this immediately indispensable collection.”

Grows Views Clear Poet Reader Walking Mountain Limits Essentials Tea Collections Shelves Indispensable Moonlight Herbs Bedrock Granite Thermos

Author:Jane Hirshfield

“Those who sacrifice essential liberty for temporary safety are not deserving of either liberty or safety.”

Liberty Sacrifice Essentials Safety Temporary Deserving

Author:Benjamin Franklin

“Literacy is the door to knowledge, essential to individual self-esteem and empowerment. Books, in all forms, play an essential role here.”

Book Self Play Form Individual Roles Doors Self Esteem Essentials Empowerment Esteem Literacy

Author:Irina Bokova

“If you have an approach that makes money, then money management can make the difference between success and failure... ... I try to be conservative in my risk management. I want to make sure I'll be around to play tomorrow. Risk control is essential.”

Ifs Want Trying Play Differences Risk Tomorrow Essentials Approach Management Conservative Making Money Success And Failure Risk Management Money Management

Author:Monroe Trout

“We must distinguish between spirituality in general terms, which aims to make us better people, and religion. Adopting a religion remains optional, but becoming a better human being is essential.”

People Humans Spirituality Term Human Beings Becoming Essentials Aim Remains Adopting Optional

Book:The Quantum and the Lotus: A Journey to the Frontiers Where Science and Buddhism Meet

Source: The Quantum and the Lotus: A Journey to the Frontiers Where Science and Buddhism Meet

“The basic and essential human is the woman.”

Humans Essentials Feathers

Author:Orson Welles

“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.”

Men Action Essentials Scholar Subordinates American Scholar

Book:The Essential Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson

Source: The Essential Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson

“A sense of continuity with the rest of creation is a form of religious experience essential to sanity.”

Form Religion Religious Creation Essentials Sanity Continuity Religious Experience

Author:Rene Dubos

“But opinions, judgments, memories, dreaming about the future—ninety percent of the thoughts spinning around in our heads have no essential reality.”

Dream Reality Memories Opinion Future Essentials Judgment Percent Ninety Spinning Spinning Around

Author:Joko Beck

“The cultivation of one set of faculties tends to the disuse of others. The loss of one faculty sharpens others; the blind are sensitive in touch. Has not the extreme cultivation of the commercial faculty permitted others as essential to national life, to be blighted by disease?”

Loss Essentials Disease Blind Extremes Sensitive Faculty Cultivation Commercialism

Author:Judith Ellen Foster

“There was danger at times that women might not be judged by the highest standards, but more leniently because of their sex. "She is a remarkably good chemist--for a woman," you might hear a man say. It seemed to me essential, if the ablest young women scholars were to achieve the best work of which they were capable, that they should be held to the most rigorous standards. ...To advance, a woman must do at least as good work as her male colleagues, usually better.”

Ifs Men Should Might Young Sex Achieve Danger Essentials Highest Capable Standards Males Sexism Judged Scholar Good Work Young Women Colleagues Advancement Best Work Chemist

Author:Virginia Gildersleeve

“I take it that the judgment is an essential point in every conviction, let the punishment be fixed or not.”

Essentials Judgment Conviction Punishment Fixed

Author:Sherrilyn Kenyon

“Nothing suffers annihilation, but at dissolution there is a change, and things fall back to the essential element in which they were before.”

Suffering Fall Essentials Elements Fall Back Annihilation Dissolution

Author:Marcus Vitruvius Pollio

“This is the essential distinction--even opposition--between the painting and the film: the painting is composed subjectively, thefilm objectively. However highly we rate the function of the scenario writer--in actual practice it is rated very low--we must recognize that the film is not transposed directly and freely from the mind by means of a docile medium like paint, but must be cut piece-meal out of the lumbering material of the actual visible world.”

World Mind Mean Film Practice Pieces Cutting Painting Materials Essentials Lows Function Paint Rate Mediums Cinema Meals Visible Distinction Opposition Scenarios Docile

Author:Herbert Read

“In a sense, every tool is a machine--the hammer, the ax, and the chisel. And every machine is a tool. The real distinction is between one man using a tool with his hands and producing an object that shows at every stage the direction of his will and the impression of his personality; and a machine which is producing, without the intervention of a particular man, objects of a uniformity and precision that show no individual variation and have no personal charm. The problem is to decide whether the objects of machine production can possess the essential qualities of art.”

“The quest of the truth had been born in me - the most tragic and incomplete, as well as the most essential, of man's quests.”

Men Wells Truth Born Essentials Tragic Quests Incomplete

Book:All in the Day's Work: An Autobiography

Source: All in the Day's Work: An Autobiography

“The ability to choose is at the essential core of our grandeur. Even evil exists because God respects our ability to choose.”

Evil Ability Essentials Core Grandeur Ability To Choose

Author:William P. Young

“There can be no truly moral choice unless that choice is made in freedom; similarly, there can be no really firmly grounded and consistent defense of freedom unless that defense is rooted in moral principle. In concentrating on the ends of choice, the conservative, by neglecting the conditions of choice, loses that very morality of conduct with which he is so concerned. And the libertarian, by concentrating only on the means, or conditions, of choice and ignoring the ends, throws away an essential moral defense of his own position.”

“At the heart of the First Amendment is the recognition of the fundamental importance of the free flow of ideas and opinions on matters of public interest and concern. The freedom to speak one's mind is not only an aspect of individual liberty - and thus a good unto itself - but also is essential to the common quest for truth and the vitality of society as a whole. We have therefore been particularly vigilant to ensure that individual expressions of ideas remain free from governmentally imposed sanctions.”

“Of those who really love their sons, few know how to do it. Some spoil them when they are young, and then quarrel with them when they are grown up, for having been spoiled; some love them like mothers, and attend only to the bodily health and strength of the hopes of their family, solemnize his birthday, and rejoice, like the subjects of the Great Mogul, at the increase of his bulk: while others, minding, as they think, only essentials, take pains and pleasure to see in their heir, all their favourite weaknesses and imperfections.”

Source: The Works of Lord Chesterfield: Including His Letters to His Son, Etc : to which is Prefixed, an Original Life of the Author

“Cultivate the habit of thinking ahead, and of anticipating the necessary and immediate consequences of all your actions.... Likewise in your pleasures, ask yourself what such and such an amusement leads to, as it is essential to have an objective in everything you do. Any pastime that contributes nothing to bodily strength or to mental alertness is a totally ridiculous, not to say, idiotic, pleasure.”

Thinking Action Motivation Asks Pleasure Habit Essentials Consequence Ridiculous Objectives Amusement Pastime Idiotic Alertness Thinking Ahead Alertness Is

Author:Lord Chesterfield

“The thing that distinguishes social systems from physical or even biological systems is their incomparable (and embarrassing) richness in special cases. Generalizations in the social sciences are mere pathways which lead through a riotous forest of individual trees, each a species unto itself. The social scientist who loses this sense of the essential individuality and uniqueness of each case is all too likely to make a solemn scientific ass of himself, especially if he thinks that his faceless generalizations are the equivalents of the rich vareity of the world.”

“Of all the human values, three are most important. The foremost is love of God. Where there is love there is sacrifice. There arises purity of heart. There should be a fusion of love, sacrifice and purity. They are not mere human qualities. They constitute vital organs of a human being. They are as essential for a human being as the head, hands and legs for the body. Without these attributes, no one is a complete human being.”

“A picnic may well be a metaphor for life. The essentials for happiness are the right company, moderate if sanguine expectations and a reasonable standard of physical sustenance and comfort, the whole being bedeviled by the belief that there is always something better to be had if only one presses on.”

Ifs Wells May Whole Belief Company Comfort Essentials Standards Expectations Presses Metaphor Reasonable Moderates Something Better Sustenance Picnics Sanguine

Author:P. D. James

“Silence is essential for deep transformation. It allows the practice of conscious breathing to become deep and effective. Like still water that reflects things as they are, the calming silence helps us to see things more clearly, and therefore, to be in deeper contact with ourselves and those around us.”

Stills Helping Water Silence Practice Essentials Conscious Transformation Deeper Contact Breathing Silence Is Calming Still Waters

Author:Nhat Hanh

“To be a racing driver it's essential you have very good eyesight, and that's especially relevant at night. Your senses are heightened, you're travelling over 200mph, you need to focus on that 110-metre braking point and you have to have absolute faith and commitment in your driving.”

Needs Night Focus Essentials Commitment Absolutes Very Good Driving Senses Drivers Racing Relevant Eyesight Racing Driver

Author:Allan McNish

“Do not feel bad about your mistakes or those of others. Love them! Remember that one: they are to be expected; two: they're the first and most essential part of the learning process; and three: feeling bad about them will prevent you from getting better.”

Life Feels Firsts Two Feelings Remember Three Process Growth Mistake Essentials Personal Growth Investing Expected Get Better Learning Process Feeling Bad

Author:Ray Dalio

“People who excel at book learning tend to call up from memory what they have learned in order to follow stored instructions. Others who are better at internalized learning use the thoughts that flow from their subconscious. The experienced skier doesn't recite instructions on how to ski and then execute them; rather, he does it well "without thinking," in the same way he breathes without thinking. Understanding these differences is essential.”

People Thinking Way Life Wells Doe Book Use Order Understanding Growth Differences Memories Essentials Flow Personal Growth Investing Breathe Instruction Subconscious Skis Skiers Book Learning

Author:Ray Dalio

“My own feeling is that one should refuse to participate in any activity that implements American aggression - thus tax refusal, draft refusal, avoidance of work that can be used by the agencies of militarism and repression, all seem to me essential.”

Should Feelings Seems Used My Own Activity Taxes Essentials Refuse Agency Aggression Refusal Repression Avoidance Militarism

Author:Noam Chomsky

“Rising prices or wages do not cause inflation; they only report it. They represent an essential form of economic speech, sincemoney isjust another form of information.”

Form Causes Economic Information Speech Essentials Rising Reports Wages Inflation Rising Prices

Author:Walter Wriston

“When you start cutting government expenditure, at some point you are cutting essential services rather than excessive services. So you have to take into account the social costs involved in cutting government spending.”

Government Social Cutting Involved Cost Essentials Accounts Spending Expenditures Government Spending

Author:Raghuram Rajan

“Naps are essential to my process. Not dreams, but that state adjacent to sleep, the mind on waking.”

Mind States Dream Process Sleep Essentials Waking Naps

Author:William Gibson

“Talleyrand said that two things are essential in life: to give good dinners and to keep on fair terms with women. As the years pass and fires cool, it can become unimportant to stay always on fair terms either with women or one's fellows, but a wide and sensitive appreciation of fine flavours can still abide with us, to warm our hearts.”

Giving Years Heart Said Stills Two Term Friendship Fire Fine Essentials Eating Fairs Fellows Appreciation Warm Dinner Wide Sensitive Two Things Unimportant Flavour

Book:The Art of Eating

Source: The Art of Eating

“All the different classes of beings which taken together make up the universe are, in the ideas of God who knows distinctly their essential gradations, only so many ordinates of a single curve so closely united that it would be impossible to place others between any two of them, since that would imply disorder and imperfection. Thus men are linked with the animals, these with the plants and these with the fossils which in turn merge with those bodies which our senses and our imagination represent to us as absolutely inanimate.”

Knows Men Two Ideas Different Body Would Be Together Turns Universe Imagination Animal United Class Taken Impossible Essentials Plant Senses Disorder Imperfection Linked Curves Fossils

Author:Gottfried Leibniz

“The mammalian brain evolved exquisite place memory because that was essential for survival. This is why squirrels have such a good memory for where they buried their nuts.”

Memories Brain Essentials Survival Buried Nuts Exquisite Good Memories Squirrels

Author:Daniel Levitin

“A man in love ... is the master, so it seems, but only if his lady friend permits it! The need to interchange the roles of slave and master for the sake of the relationship is never more clearly demonstrated than in the course of an affair. Never is the complicity between victim and executioner more essential. Even chained, down on her knees, begging for mercy, it is the woman, finally, who is in command ... the all powerful slave, dragging herself along the ground at her master's heels, is now really the god. The man is only her priest, living in fear and trembling of her displeasure.”

“Life is large. We cannot possibly grasp the whole of it in the few years that we have to live. What is vital? What is essential? What may we profitably let go?”

Life Years May Whole Life Is Letting Go Essentials

Book:What is Worth While?

Source: What is Worth While?

“Surely knowledge of the natural world, knowledge of the human condition, knowledge of the nature and dynamics of society, knowledge of the past so that one may use it in experiencing the present and aspiring to the future--all of these, it would seem reasonable to suppose, are essential to an educated man. To these must be added another--knowledge of the products of our artistic heritage that mark the history of our esthetic wonder and delight.”

Source: On Knowing: Essays for the Left Hand

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