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“The library was one more essential in the parade of rooms in a big 18th-century house - and part of the required kit ever afterwards. The important thing was to have the books, not actually read them.”

Important Book Bigs House Rooms Century Essentials Important Things Library Parades Ever After 18th Century

Author:Peter York

“It is easy and dismally enervating to think of opposition as merely perverse or actually evil -- far more invigorating to see it as essential for honing the mind, and as a positive good in itself. For the day that moral issues cease to be fought over is the day the word human disappears from the race.”

Thinking Mind Humans Evil Easy Race Moral Issues Essentials Disappear Cease Opposition Dissent Invigorating Moral Issues Honing

Author:Jill Tweedie

“The Internet has exceeded our collective expectations as a revolutionary spring of information, news, and ideas. It is essential that we keep that spring flowing. We must not thwart the Internet's availability by taxing access to it.”

Ideas Information Internet Essentials News Spring Expectations Access Revolutionary Collectives Availability

Author:Chris Cannon

“The only way that has ever been discovered to have a lot of people cooperate together voluntarily is through the free market. And that's why it's so essential to preserving individual freedom.”

People Way Together Individual Freedom Economy Essentials Economics Partnership Free Market Individual Freedom Free Market Capitalism

Author:Milton Friedman

“It is the potential for economic growth that provides the basis for the development of countries, for bringing to people essential goods and services, such as water to drink and facilities for healthcare.”

People Country Growth Water Economy Economic Development Drink Essentials Bases Goods Healthcare Facility Economic Growth Goods And Services

Author:Lee R. Raymond

“It seems essential to try to find some meaning to life and I guess Jungian philosophy is the one that's helped me understand myself and the world more than anything else.”

World Trying Philosophy Seems Essentials Meaning Life

Author:Noah Taylor

“There are 3 elements essential in the matters of the State, Food, Military equipment, and Confidence of the people in the ruler. Of these 3, Military Equipment is the least important, Food being the 2nd important, and Confidence of the people being the MOST important. All men rather die of starvation than in war, but nevertheless all men do die of old age. Lacking in Confidence from the people, a state cannot survive.”

People Men Important War Matter States Age Dies Military Confidence Essentials Elements Old Age Rulers Nevertheless Lacking Equipment Starvation Military Equipment

Author:Confucius

“Understanding our strengths, articulating our values, knowing where we belong -- these are also essential to addressing one of the great challenges of organizations: improving the abysmally low productivity of knowledge workers.”

Values Understanding Challenges Knowing Essentials Lows Organization Workers Productivity Improving Articulating Knowledge Workers

Author:Peter Drucker

“It is rewarding to find someone you like, but it is essential to like yourself. It is quickening to recognize that someone is a good and decent human being, but it is indispensable to view yourself as acceptable. It is a delight to discover people who are worthy of respect and admiration and love, but it is vital to believe yourself deserving of these things.”

Source: Advice from a Failure

“Self-esteem is as important to our well-being as legs are to a table. It is essential for physical and mental health and for happiness.”

Wells Important Self Self Esteem Essentials Tables Mental Health Legs Mental Illness Esteem Well Being Great Self Esteem

Author:Louise Hart

“Love is unconditional acceptance. It is love of parents for child; also the non-possessive love of partners; also the caring love between all people that enables forgiveness. It's above energy, though it may be expressed energetically. It's our essential nature: Spirit itself, the quality we share with God. And it is the binding force of the Universe, inherent in all that is.”

“The more usual reason for adopting a strategy of limited aim is that of awaiting a change in the balance of force ... The essential condition of such a strategy is that the drain on him should be disproportionately greater than on oneself.”

Should Reason Force Greater Conditions Military Balance Essentials Aim Strategy Oneself Usual Drains Adopting

Author:B. H. Liddell Hart

“Gardens always mean something else, man absolutely uses one thing to say another.”

Men Mean Use One Thing Essentials Garden Gardening Gardener

Book:Eccentric Spaces

Source: Eccentric Spaces

“An essential part of a happy, healthy life is being of service to others.”

Life Is Healthy Essentials Happy Service Healthy Living Being Happy Service To Others Healthy Life

Book:The Courage to Be Yourself: A Woman's Guide to Emotional Strength and Self-Esteem

Source: The Courage to Be Yourself: A Woman's Guide to Emotional Strength and Self-Esteem

“The essential question is not, however, how love began, but whether it is growing.”

Love Is Growing Essentials Valentine Valentine's Day Essential Questions

Book:The Seven Cardinal Virtues

Source: The Seven Cardinal Virtues

“Every living thing is both a whole system in and of itself as well as an essential part of other systems.”

Wells Whole Essentials Living Things

Author:Meredith L. Young-Sowers

“Who took away the part so essential to the whole Left you a hollow body Skin and bone.”

Whole Body Left Essentials Skins Bones Emptiness Hollow Detachment Numbness Skin And Bones

Author:Tracy Chapman

“Sight is not absolutely essential in this process, but we use sight because it is the dominant sense. It's easiest to interrupt the flow of thought in sense perception and move the mind beyond sense perception with sight.”

Mind Use Moving Process Essentials Perception Flow Sight Concentration Dominant Sense Perception

Author:Frederick Lenz

“The path is focus. The power of focus is absolutely essential. To stop all thoughts, you have to have tremendous power of focus.”

Path Focus Essentials

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Meditating everyday is essential. If you meditate every day and learn to control and stop your thoughts, you will become psychic.”

Ifs Essentials Everyday Psychics Meditating

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Lost is a mystery show, so I think that would be stripping the franchise of sort of its essential nature.”

Thinking Shows Would Be Lost Mystery Essentials Stripping

Author:Damon Lindelof

“When we read a book, our most essential trait - imagination - is given the opportunity to soar.”

Book Opportunity Given Imagination Essentials Traits Soar

Author:Saint Augustine

“The essential discovery of maturity has little if anything to do with information about the names, the locations, and the sequence of facts; it is the acquiring of a different sense of life, a different kind of intuition about the nature of things.”

Ifs Kind Littles Different Facts Names Information Essentials Discovery Intuition Maturity Different Kinds Location Sequence

Book:The Essential Lippmann: A Political Philosophy for Liberal Democracy

Source: The Essential Lippmann: A Political Philosophy for Liberal Democracy

“One of the chief motives of artistic creation is certainly the need of feeling that we are essential in relationship to the world.”

World Needs Feelings Motivation Creation Essentials Chiefs Artistic Motive Artistic Creation

Book:Literature & Existentialism

Source: Literature & Existentialism

“The rapprochement of peoples is only possible when differences of culture and outlook are respected and appreciated rather than feared and condemned, when the common bond of human dignity is recognized as the essential bond for a peaceful world.”

World Humans Culture Differences Common Essentials Dignity Peaceful Outlook Appreciated Human Dignity Peaceful World Personal Dignity

Author:J. William Fulbright

“Law is the essential foundation of stability and order both within societies and in international relations.”

Law Order Essentials Relation Foundation International Stability International Relations

Author:J. William Fulbright

“A man without force, is without the essential dignity of humanity. Human nature is so constituted, that it cannot honor a helpless man, although it can pity him.”

Men Humans Humanity Force Human Nature Honor Essentials Dignity Pity Helpless

Book:The Essential Douglass: Selected Writings and Speeches

Source: The Essential Douglass: Selected Writings and Speeches

“The first essential to success in the art you practice is respect for the art itself.”

Firsts Art Practice Essentials

Author:Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

“In man's life, the absence of an essential component usually leads to the adoption of a substitute. The substitute is usually embraced with vehemence and extremism, for we have to convince ourselves that what we took as second choice is the best there ever was. Thus blind faith is to a considerable extent a substitute for the lost faith in ourselves; insatiable desire a substitute for hope; accumulation a substitute for growth; fervent hustling a substitute for purposeful action; and pride a substitute for an unattainable self-respect.”

Source: Between the Devil and the Dragon: The Best Essays and Aphorisms of Eric Hoffer

“If one looks closely one sees that there is no essential difference between a beggar's livelihood and that of numberless respectable people. Beggars do not work, it is said; but then, what is work? A navvy works by swinging a pick. An accountant works by adding up figures. A beggar works by standing out of doors in all weathers and getting varicose veins, chronic bronchitis, etc. It is a trade like any other; quite useless, of course - but then, many reputable trades are quite useless.”

People Ifs Looks Said Courses Differences Doors Figures Essentials Picks Standing Trade Weather Useless Etc Working It Standing Out Veins Respectable Beggar Livelihood Accountants Bronchitis

Author:George Orwell

“The arousing of prejudice, pity, anger, and similar emotions has nothing to do with the essential facts, but is merely a personal appeal to the man who is judging the case.”

Men Facts Emotion Cases He Man Judging Essentials Prejudice Anger Pity Appeals

Book:Rhetoric

Source: Rhetoric

“It is essential... that discipline should not be practised like a rule imposed on oneself from the outside, but that it becomes an expression of one's own will; that it is felt as pleasant, and that one slowly accustoms oneself to a kind of behaviour which one would eventually miss, if one stopped practising it.”

Ifs Should Kind Felt Missing Expression Discipline Essentials Oneself Pleasant Behaviour

Author:Erich Fromm

“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.”

Should Has Beens Play Imagination Essentials Conscious Faults Familiar Observation Unconscious Plus Discovering Surrealism Accordions Clams Familiar Things

Book:Opus Posthumous: Poems, Plays, Prose

Source: Opus Posthumous: Poems, Plays, Prose

“Mercy stood in the cloud, with eye that wept Essential love.”

Eye Essentials Mercy Clouds

Book:Pollok's Course of Time

Source: Pollok's Course of Time

“The power of taxing people and their property is essential to the very existence of government.”

People Government Existence Taxes Essentials Property Tax Day Property Taxes

Author:James Madison

“It is essential..that you should form and adopt certain rules or principles, for the government of your own conduct and temper. Unless you have such rules and principles, there will be numberless occasions on which you will have no guide for your government but your passions..It is in the Bible, you must learn them, and from the Bible how to practice them.”

Should Government Form Certain Passion Principles Practice Essentials Bible Guides Occasions Temper

Author:John Quincy Adams

“But I am not discouraged. I do not despair for our country. I believe tonight, as I always have, that the essential decency, compassion and common sense of the American people will prevail.”

People Believe Country I Believe Common Compassion Essentials Despair Common Sense Our Country Tonight Decency Discouraged

Author:Jimmy Carter

“Reading is essential for those who seek to rise above the ordinary. We must not permit anything to stand between us and the book that could change our lives.”

Book Reading Our Lives Essentials Ordinary Permit Rise Above

Author:Jim Rohn

“Accurate drawing, accurate colour, is perhaps not the essential thing to aim at, because the reflection of reality in a mirror, if it could be caught, colour and all, would not be a picture at all, no more than a photograph.”

Ifs Reality Essentials Reflection Mirrors Aim Photograph Caught Drawing Colour Accurate Realism

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Vincent van Gogh (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Vincent van Gogh (Illustrated)

“There are essential and inessential insanities... Inessential insanities get one in trouble with oneself. Essential insanities get one in trouble with others. It's always preferable to be in trouble with others. In fact, it may be essential.”

May Facts Trouble Essentials Oneself Insanity Still Life With Woodpecker

Book:Still Life with Woodpecker

Source: Still Life with Woodpecker

“Lacking many of the essential implements, it irritated me to be reduced to impotence in the face of artistic projects to which I had passionately given myself.”

Faces Given Essentials Projects Artistic Lacking Impotence Irritated

Book:Noa Noa: The Tahitian Journal

Source: Noa Noa: The Tahitian Journal

“The essential thing is not that there be many truths in a work, but that no truth be abused.”

Truth Is Essentials

Author:Joseph Joubert

“Every victory of man over man has in itself a taste of defeat.... There is no essential difference between the various human groups, creatures whose bones and brains and members are the same; and every damage we do there is a form of mutilation, as if the fingers of the left hand were to be cut off by the right.”

Ifs Men Humans Hands Form Winning Left Differences Brain Cutting Groups Victory Taste Creatures Members Essentials Fingers Defeat Various Bones Damage Left Hand Mutilation

Book:the zodiac arch

Source: the zodiac arch

“It is essential that we understand people for who they are as individuals and not the public perception of them or their family and past.”

People Past Individual Essentials Perception

Author:Clement Freud

“If you give a child something very complex to paint, such as a bouquet of flowers or a natural landscape, if he is very good, eventually he will get back - like Cezanne - to the essential forms of what he sees.”

Ifs Giving Children Form Natural Flower Essentials Complexes Paint Very Good Landscape Get Back Bouquets Cezanne

Book:Robert Motherwell

Source: Robert Motherwell

“It is precisely the way which is productive - this is the essential thing; becoming is more important than being.”

Way Important Becoming Essentials Productive

Book:Paul Klee

Source: Paul Klee

“Anxiety is essential to the human condition. The confrontation with anxiety can relieve us from boredom, sharpen the sensitivity and assure the presence of tension that is necessary to preserve human existence.”

Humans Existence Worry Conditions Essentials Anxiety Preserves Tension Boredom Human Condition Sensitivity Confrontation Human Existence Anxiety And Worry

Author:Rollo May

“Spirit of Beauty, whose sweet impulses, flung like rose of dawn across the sea, alone can flush the exalted consciousness with shafts of sensible divinity-light of the world, essential loveliness.”

World Light Spirit Consciousness Beauty Sea Sweet Essentials Rose Impulse Dawn Divinity Sensible Exalted Loveliness Light Of The World

Book:Poems

Source: Poems

“I am a critic - as essential to the theatre as ants to a picnic.”

Essentials Critics Theatre Ants Picnics

Author:Joseph L. Mankiewicz

“It may indeed prove to be far the most difficult and not the least important task for human reason rationally to comprehend its own limitations. It is essential for the growth of reason that as individuals we should bow to forces and obey principles which we cannot hope fully to understand, yet on which the advance and even the preservation of civilization depend.”

Should Humans May Important Reason Individual Force Difficult Growth Principles Depends Civilization Prove Essentials Tasks Limitation Bows Preservation Human Reason

Author:Friedrich August von Hayek

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