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“The identification with the common lot which is the essential idea of Democracy becomes the source and expression of social ethics. It is as though we thirsted to drink at the great wells of human experience, because we knew that a daintier or less potent draught would not carry us to the end of the journey, going forward as we must in the heat and jostle of the crowd.”

Humans Wells Ideas Ends Social Common Democracy Journey Expression Source Drink Essentials Ethics Crowds Heat Human Experience Identification Draught

Book:Democracy and Social Ethics

Source: Democracy and Social Ethics

“The only way a work of art can become great is for one to acknowledge that it doesn't belong to anybody. The greatness is in constantly giving back, coming to an acknowledgment of the source. Look back to the source of any individual, any process, any set of materials. If the individual personality can relinquish its insistence on concepts like this is mine, I did it, this is original, nobody else has done it, it goes straight for greatness or the essential spirit.”

“No more soul-destroying doctrine could well be devised than the doctrine that sinners can regenerate themselves, and repent and believe just when they please...As it is a truth both of Scripture and of experience that the unrenewed man can do nothing of himself to secure his salvation, it is essential that he should be brought to practical conviction of that truth. When thus convinced, and not before, he seeks help from the only source whence it can be obtained.”

Men Should Believe Wells Soul Helping Can Do Source Please Essentials Salvation Conviction Convinced Scripture Practicals Doctrine Secure Sinner Destroying Repent

Author:Charles Hodge

“... in nine out of ten cases the original wish to write is the wish to make oneself felt[ellipsis in source] the non-essential writer never gets past that wish.”

Writing Past Wish Felt Cases Source Ten Essentials Originals Oneself Nine

Author:Elizabeth Bowen

“For me, it always comes back to the land, respecting the land, the wildlife, the plants, the rivers, mountains, and deserts, the absolute essential bedrock of our lives. This is the source of where my power lies, the source of where all our power lies.”

Lying Our Lives Land Source Mountain Essentials Rivers Absolutes Plant Desert Wildlife Bedrock

Author:Terry Tempest Williams

“Energy security based on clean & reliable sources is essential for India's future. Nuclear energy has a key role in India's energy strategy.”

Motivation Energy Roles Security Source Keys Essentials India Strategy Clean Nuclear Nuclear Energy Energy Security Reliable Sources

Author:Narendra Modi

“Every person who wins in any undertaking must be willing to cut all sources of retreat. Only by doing so can one be sure of maintaining that state of mind known as a burning desire to win - essential to success.”

Source: Think and grow rich: Brazilian edition

“Oil is essential for a modern, industrial society. It's unique, first of all, because it's the primary source, at 40 percent, of the world's entire supply of energy, and it's irreplaceable in the transportation field; it provides 98 percent of world transportation energy.”

World Firsts Energy Modern Fields Source Essentials Unique Percent Oil Primaries Transportation Irreplaceable Primary Source

Author:Michael Klare

“If you understand liberals at all, you know that they'll never agree to market-based solutions for ideological reasons and because an expanding dependency class is their most essential power source.”

Ifs Knows Reason Class Source Essentials Solutions Agree Expanding Ideological Dependency

Author:David Limbaugh

“Such exceptional suffering and calamity, then, affecting the hero, and-we must now add-generally extending far and wide beyond him, so as to make the whole scene a scene of woe, are an essential ingredient in tragedy and a chief source of the tragic emotions, and especially of pity. But the proportions of this ingredient, and the direction taken by tragic pity, will naturally vary greatly.”

Whole Suffering Emotion Taken Source Hero Scene Essentials Tragedy Add Wide Pity Chiefs Proportion Tragic Ingredients Woe Exceptional Calamity Vary Extending

Author:A. C. Bradley

“It's naive and even irresponsible for a grownup today to get her or his information about foreign policy and war and peace exclusively from the administration in power. It's essential to have other sources of information, to check those against one's own common sense, and to form your own judgment as to whether we ought to go to or persist in war.”

War Today Form Common Information Policy Source Ought Essentials Judgment Checks Common Sense Administration Foreign Policy Persist Naive Irresponsible Grownups

Author:Daniel Ellsberg

“Our essential nature is pure consciousness, the infinite source of everything that exists in the physical world.”

World Consciousness Source Pure Essentials Infinite

Author:Deepak Chopra

“Humility is essential to the acquiring of spiritual knowledge. To be humble is to be teachable. Humility permits you to be tutored by the Spirit and to be taught from sources inspired by the Lord, such as the scriptures. The seeds of personal growth and understanding germinate and flourish in the fertile soil of humility. Their fruit is spiritual knowledge to guide you here and hereafter.”

“The closer you get to the source, the more you begin to understand its essential nature.”

Source Essentials

Author:Justin Adams

“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