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“If we act together along these lines, we will create conditions, the conditions for trust that Shinzō Abe speaks about, so as to take another step and conclude a peace treaty on certain terms. However, first, it is essential to cover this part of the way and then agree on the terms for signing a peace treaty. Both are challenging tasks but they are feasible.”

Ifs Way Firsts Together Certain Speak Term Challenges Lines Steps Conditions Essentials Tasks Agree Treaties Signing Abe Peace Treaties

Author:Vladimir Putin

“Most artists I know consider themselves to be phonies, along with the feeling that there's something that you're doing is essential, essential to communicate, and deeply, deeply real.”

Knows Real Feelings Artist Essentials Communicate Phony

Author:Bruce Springsteen

“The different social forces that affected my parents' lives or my friends' lives or I saw around me became essential for me to write about.”

Writing Different Force Social Parent Saws Essentials My Friends Affected

Author:Bruce Springsteen

“When we fail to live up to our ideals, for instance, we might begin to wonder who we are - most people are aware of a discrepancy, I think. There are idiosyncrasies and foibles, but we're not sure if these are essential. Some people think they are the most essential things of all.”

People Ifs Thinking Might Wonder Failing Essentials Ideals Instance Not Sure Who We Are Idiosyncrasies Discrepancies Foibles

Author:Quentin S. Crisp

“I was in just the right generation to have taken feminism seriously by osmosis - also the generation when the breakdown of the family really began and for whom The Smiths were something new and essential.”

Taken Generations Feminism Essentials Something New Breakdown Osmosis

Author:Quentin S. Crisp

“Being pro-life is an essential part of being a writer.”

Life Is Essentials Pro Life

Author:Nat Hentoff

“After many years of thinking, reading and writing and looking, I came to believe that there are two basic, essential values which are indispensable for humane, decent, dignified life: one is freedom, and the other is security.”

Thinking Writing Years Believe Two Values Reading Security Essentials Decent Indispensable Humane Reading And Writing

Author:Zygmunt Bauman

“I think that the essential instruction of the Bible is very much topical. The sole problem is that with every change of historical setting, you need to readjust the interpretation of the message.”

Thinking Needs Problem Essentials Messages Historical Setting Settings Interpretation Instruction Sole

Author:Zygmunt Bauman

“My father [Erwin Rommel] believed that [Adolf] Hitler has a gift of touching the important points, the essential points.”

Important Father Essentials Touching Rommel

Author:Manfred Rommel

“Any writer knows that what's left out is as essential, if not more so, than what's there. Unlearning works that way.”

Ifs Knows Way Left Essentials Left Out

Author:Lynne Tillman

“I'm intensely anxious to preserve the freedom that gives you the right to think and to act and to talk as you please. That I think is essential to happiness and the life of the people.”

People Thinking Giving Please Essentials Preserves Anxious

Author:Eleanor Roosevelt

“I do know that some people believe that I see gender as a "choice" rather than as an essential and firmly fixed sense of self. My view is actually not that. No matter whether one feels one's gendered and sexed reality to be firmly fixed or less so, every person should have the right to determine the legal and linguistic terms of their embodied lives.”

People Knows Feels Should Believe Persons Self Matter Reality Choices Term Views Essentials Should Have Determine Gender Fixed Sense Of Self

Author:Judith Butler

“To a materialist, matter is essential: a stone is a stone, a mountain is a mountain, water is water and earth is earth. As far as I am concerned, I am a materialist of the body, which means that the body is the basis of all my work.”

Mean Matter Body Earth Water Mountain Essentials Concerned Stones Bases

Author:Paul Virilio

“In anything really, it's finding the reality. You can't be 'real,' but you can create a reality. And that created reality is what the audience believes in. And that's essential. Because if the audience doesn't believe that, they're never going to trust you. And if they don't trust you, you can't lead them up the mountain.”

Ifs Believe Real Reality Audience Mountain Essentials Findings Being Real Don't Trust

Author:John Hurt

“I would not like to draw analogies, with the past.Governments, leaders, intellectuals, mainly intellectuals who should know the ethical dimensions, are so important, so essential to culture, religion, to civilization, and to our own lives. And that means what? It means not to be indifferent, not to stand idly by. That is a biblical commandment that we are committed.”

Knows Should Mean Important Government Past Culture Leader Civilization Essentials Draws Committed Dimensions Ethical Biblical Indifferent Commandments Analogies Culture Religion

Author:Elie Wiesel

“The work is important and essential and I've had a therapist myself for decades and it's important work, but I knew that I wanted to work with people who are more functioning and that's when I decided to pursue my performance career full-time.”

People Important Wanted Careers Essentials Decided Performances Decades Pursue Therapists Important Work

Author:Kelly Carlin-McCall

“Being successful as a creative person is a crapshoot, but it's essential if you feel drawn to being creative that you express it.”

Ifs Feels Persons Creative Successful Essentials Being Successful Be Creative Creative Person

Author:Kelly Carlin-McCall

“[Roots of terrorism] come out of a long dialectic of U.S. involvement in the affairs of the Islamic world, the oil-producing world, the Arab world, the Middle East - those areas that are considered to be essential to U.S. interests and security.”

World Long Interest Middle Security Essentials Areas Roots Affair Terrorism Oil East Islamic Middle East Involvement Arab World Dialectics

Author:Edward Said

“The American founders, when framing their governments, looked to the Bible for insights into human nature, civic virtue, social order, political authority and other concepts essential to the establishment of a political society. They saw in Scripture political and legal models - such as republicanism, separation of powers, and due process of law - that they believed enjoyed divine favor and were worthy of emulation in their polities.”

“We are so defined by how people see us. We're a very materialistic culture. We're a very image-driven culture. What if that goes away and you are left with, God help us, what, indeed, is your essential self?”

People Ifs Self Helping Culture Left Essentials Driven Defined What If Materialistic God Help God Help Us

Author:Christine Baranski

“There`s a long conversation we`re going to have about how to enforce immigration laws. But physically securing the border is essential.”

Long Law Conversation Essentials Immigration Borders Immigration Laws Long Conversations

Author:Paul Ryan

“[James] Baldwin is needed even more today because he helps you focus to the essential, to what is important.”

Important Helping Today Focus Needed Essentials

Author:Raoul Peck

“On some level students are essentially the same. They are people with fears and dreams. They laugh and cry over many of the same things. They share an essential humanity as young people always have.hey differ in some significant ways now, too, I believe. They are forced to grapple with complex issues at a much younger age.”

People Way Believe Dream Age Young Humanity I Believe Levels Laughing Issues Share Cry Students Essentials Complexes Significant Hey Fears And Dreams

Author:Carol Ann Tomlinson

“If you don't uphold your legal responsibility to enforce the First Amendment, to provide speakers with platforms and audiences with safe, the ability to listen to speakers of all different kinds, agnostic ideology, if you don't do that as a university, you are not performing your essential function.”

“I should do something about the cigarettes; I quite accept that it's bad for your health, but you know a moderate tipple is positively beneficial and, at certain times, absolutely essential.”

Knows Should Certain Accepting Essentials Cigarette Moderates Beneficial Positively

Author:Charles Kennedy

“Anybody who knows about capitalism knows that bankruptcy is an essential part of capitalism.”

Knows Essentials Capitalism Bankruptcy

Author:Joseph Stiglitz

“[Hezbollah, Iran, and Russia] are here because they could offer very essential and important help, because the situation that we are facing now is not only about a few terrorists from within Syria; it's like international war against Syria.”

Important War Helping Situation Offers Essentials International Terrorist Russia Iran Syria Hezbollah

Author:Bashar al-Assad

“The most important part of [Russian] support is the aerial support, which is very essential, they have very strong firepower, and at the same time they are the main supply of our army for more than sixty years, so our army depends on the Russian support in different military domains.”

Years Important Different Strong Support Military Depends Essentials Army Very Strong Sixty Domain

Author:Bashar al-Assad

“António Guterres role as Secretary-General in bringing all powers together is very essential` and we hope he can succeed, it's not easy of course.”

Together Courses Easy Roles Succeed Essentials Secretary Ants

Author:Bashar al-Assad

“There are a very small number of doctors in France that use essential oils and herbs as well as conventional drugs in their treatments and sometimes they will use essential oils intensively, usually because they are treating people with cancer or chronic infections that patients have had for years, and ingested essential oils are a really a great choice for treating chronic infections if you're a doctor.”

“We need to have strong allies. Our association and connection with our allies is essential to America's strength. We're the great nation that has allies, 42 allies and friends around the world.”

World Needs America Strong Nations Essentials Connections Around The World Allies Association Great Nations

Author:Mitt Romney

“It is essential for America to understand what our mission is in Iran, and that is to dissuade Iran from having a nuclear weapon through peaceful and diplomatic means.”

Mean America Essentials Weapons Missions Nuclear Peaceful Iran Nuclear Weapons Diplomatic

Author:Mitt Romney

“It's essential for a president to show strength from the very beginning, to make it very clear what is acceptable and not acceptable.”

Shows President Clear Essentials Acceptable

Author:Mitt Romney

“We want to limit the exploitation of the fiscal capacity of the richer regions by keeping down the rate of immigration to a level that would be meaningful and efficient. One way to do that is to have a scheme of equalization which essential bribes people to stay in the poorer regions.”

People Way Want Would Be Levels Limits Essentials Capacity Rate Meaningful Immigration One Way Regions Efficient Schemes Exploitation Bribe

Author:James M. Buchanan

“We are all either wheels or connectors. Whichever we are we must find truth and balance, which is a bicycle. Trust and balance are also essential to true love.”

Balance Essentials Wheels Bicycle Connectors

Author:Nikki Giovanni

“I think it is essential that America does not stumble into a stupid war with Iran.”

Thinking Doe War America Stupid Essentials Iran

Author:Zbigniew Brzezinski

“[Giving] is the essence of the great religions of the world - whether you are discussing the Muslim, Hindu, Jewish or Christian religion. It is an essential fundamental principle of all religions, whatever stage of development a society has reached, to sympathize with others and to promote that spirit of equality.”

World Giving Christian Spirit Principles Stage Development Essentials Essence Fundamentals Discussing Fundamental Principles Stages Of Development

Author:Nelson Mandela

“Only the federal government has the power to spend beyond its current revenue. It shouldn't do that when the economy is at full employment. But it's an essential step for an economy mired in recession.”

Government Steps Economy Essentials Currents Employment Federal Government Revenue Recessions

Author:Robert H. Frank

“Those beliefs about the essential goodness or beauty of the world are fundamentally paper-thin bullshit. There's not an essential belief that isn't a contingent belief. It could all be destroyed in a second, at any second. And I have an issue with that.”

World Belief Issues Essentials Goodness Paper Destroyed Bullshit Beauty Of The World

Author:Zadie Smith

“I guess I've always written more from the opposite perspective, that kind of existentialist perspective which argues that existence precedes essence. And there really isn't anything essential in there - you're the product of your actions, which can always change. And they retrospectively make you one way or another.”

Way Kind Action Existence Written Products Perspective Essentials Essence Opposites Arguing One Way Existentialist

Author:Zadie Smith

“To me, Hillary [Clinton] looks alright. She looks like the kind of woman I admire. She doesn't seem to have distorted her essential nature.”

Looks Kind Seems Essentials Clinton Admire Alright

Author:Hilary Mantel

“Lincoln is such an iconic figure in American history. He seems to reflect so many elements of American culture that we consider essential, whether it's the self-made man, the frontier hero, the politician who tries to act in a moral way as well as in a political way, Honest Abe. His career raises these questions that are still with us, the power of the federal government vis-à-vis the states, the question of race in American life, can we be a society of equals? There are so many issues central to Lincoln's career that are still part of our society one hundred and fifty years later.”

“It is an essential feature of the just state that the wealthy be kept away from political power and that the politically powerful be kept away from wealth.”

States Political Wealth Powerful Essentials Features Wealthy Political Power

Book:Plato at the Googleplex: Why Philosophy Won't Go Away

Source: Plato at the Googleplex: Why Philosophy Won't Go Away

“Business is a noble vocation, directed to producing wealth and improving the world. It can be a fruitful source of prosperity for the area in which it operates, especially if it sees the creation of jobs as an essential part of its service to the common good. This common good also includes the earth... the environmental challenge we are undergoing, and its human roots, concern and affect us all.”

Ifs World Humans Earth Jobs Challenges Wealth Common Creation Source Essentials Areas Concern Roots Environmental Prosperity Noble Improving Vocation Common Good Environmental Challenges

Author:Pope Francis

“That's a point that Dan Ellsberg has made for years. He said it's kind of like if you and I go into a grocery store to rob it, and I have a gun. The guy may give you the money in the cash register. I'm using the gun even if I don't shoot. Well that's nuclear weapons - essential to post-war deterrence - they cast a shadow over everything.”

Ifs Giving Years Wells Kind May Made Said War Guy Essentials Weapons Gun Shadow Casts Stores Nuclear Posts Cash Nuclear Weapons Groceries Register Grocery Stores Post War Deterrence

Author:Noam Chomsky

“In fact it is essential that we strengthen efforts to learn from each other, and stop considering public health in the third world and in the U.S. as separate intellectual and practical endeavors.”

World Facts Effort Essentials Intellectual Thirds Practicals Endeavor Considering Third World Public Health

Author:Ruth Simmons

“Every American at some point has got to make the connection between their own hopes and dreams and who is elected to office. It's essential. It's very easy to pull the covers up over your head and say, "I can't handle it. Too much." But we just have to handle it and we have to accept that it's our job. Each of us. Nobody is going to take care of it.”

I Can Dream Care Jobs Easy Accepting Too Much Essentials Office Connections Take Care Handle Over You Hopes And Dreams Cover Ups

Author:Barbara Boxer

“What hermeneutics teaches is that progress comes from being exposed to different points of views because there's no point of view that is right for all situations and all times. And even if it's superior to the others, you can enrich it by drawing on others or thinking: "Why is that wrong and how do I improve my approach? How do I come up with a better approach?" So that's essential for innovation just like it is in technology.”

“If I'm not writing, I'm not fully living. It has become the essential element that defines who I am.”

Ifs Writing Essentials Elements Who I Am

Author:Danielle Trussoni

“Making pasta, cooking pasta and baking bread are two essential ideas to create a little bit of excitement, and you learn the basic, and then evolve it. Flavor the bread, flavor the pasta, go to a fish, go to a meat sauce and take it to another level.”

Littles Two Ideas Past Bits Levels Essentials Little Bit Cooking Fishes Bread Evolve Meat Excitement Flavor Baking Sauce Pasta Baking Bread

Author:Gordon Ramsay

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