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The essence of the beautiful is unity in variety. -- W. Somerset Maugham
The essence of all beautiful art, all great art, is gratitude. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
The essence of true friendship is to make allowance for another's little lapses. -- David Storey
It is better to create than to learn! Creating is the essence of life. -- Julius Caesar
The essence of childhood, of course, is play, which my friends and I did endlessly on streets that we reluctantly shared with traffic. -- Bill Cosby
In essence, if we want to direct our lives, we must take control of our consistent actions. It's not what we do once in a while that shapes our lives, but what we do consistently. -- Tony Robbins
Essence of humility is unity. -- Radhanath Swami
Concentrate on the Essence, concentrate on the Light. -- Rumi
The Essence of Knowledge is, having it, to use it. -- Confucius
The Universe is the periodical manifestation of this unknown Absolute Essence. -- H. P. Blavatsky
If you look too closely at the form, you miss the Essence. -- Rumi
Existence precedes and rules essence. -- Jean-Paul Sartre
Ingratitude is the essence of vileness. -- Immanuel Kant
Love in its essence is spiritual fire. -- Lucius Annaeus Seneca
The essence of Richard Nixon is loneliness. -- Henry A. Kissinger
The essence of the Way is detachment. -- Bodhidharma
Fairness through leveling is the essence of Obamaism. -- Charles Krauthammer
The essence of greatness is neglect of the self. -- James Anthony Froude
The essence of the beautiful is unity in variety. -- W. Somerset Maugham
The energy of the mind is the essence of life. -- Aristotle
The essence of genius is to know what to overlook. -- William James
I had an essence in my life that I was nothing. -- Demi Moore
Man would be "otherwise." That's the essence of the specifically human. -- Antonio Machado
The essence of immorality is the tendency to make an exception of myself. -- Jane Addams
We still by no means think decisively enough about the essence of action. -- Martin Heidegger
You're always a little disappointing in person because you can't be the edited essence of yourself. -- Mel Brooks
The essence of strategy is that you must set limits on what you're trying to accomplish. -- Michael Porter
Painting is the representation of visible forms. The essence of realism is its negation of the ideal. -- Gustave Courbet
The essence of life is the smile of round female bottoms, under the shadow of cosmic boredom. -- Guy de Maupassant
Every act of rebellion expresses a nostalgia for innocence and an appeal to the essence of being. -- Albert Camus
The very essence of the creative is its novelty, and hence we have no standard by which to judge it. -- Carl Rogers
Though someday we may become as eloquent as Sahban, but we might also miss the essence of the Forgiving One. -- Saadi
The real glory is being knocked to your knees and then coming back. That's real glory. That's the essence of it. -- Vince Lombardi
The essence of global health equity is the idea that something so precious as health might be viewed as a right. -- Paul Farmer
Nature is a collective idea, and, though its essence exist in each individual of the species, can never in its perfection inhabit a single object. -- Henry Fuseli
The keystone of the Fascist doctrine is its conception of the State, of its essence, its functions, and its aims. For Fascism the State is absolute, individuals and groups relative. -- Benito Mussolini
The essence of competitiveness is liberated when we make people believe that what they think and do is important - and then get out of their way while they do it. -- Jack Welch
Nature is so powerful, so strong. Capturing its essence is not easy - your work becomes a dance with light and the weather. It takes you to a place within yourself. -- Annie Leibovitz
For books are more than books, they are the life, the very heart and core of ages past, the reason why men worked and died, the essence and quintessence of their lives. -- Amy Lowell
Everything that's created comes out of silence. Your thoughts emerge from the nothingness of silence. Your words come out of this void. Your very essence emerged from emptiness. All creativity requires some stillness. -- Wayne Dyer
Our mind is like a cloudy sky: in essence clear and pure, but overcast by clouds of delusions. Just as the thickest clouds can disperse, so, too, even the heaviest delusions can be removed from our mind. -- Kelsang Gyatso
The very essence of civil liberty certainly consists in the right of every individual to claim the protection of the laws, whenever he receives an injury. One of the first duties of government is to afford that protection. -- John Marshall
The essence of America - that which really unites us - is not ethnicity, or nationality or religion - it is an idea - and what an idea it is: That you can come from humble circumstances and do great things. -- Condoleezza Rice
A good team, like a good show, comes into being when the separate individuals working together create, in essence, another separate higher entity - the team - the show - which is better than any of those individuals can ever be on their own. -- Gary David Goldberg
Agriculture is now a motorized food industry, the same thing in its essence as the production of corpses in the gas chambers and the extermination camps, the same thing as blockades and the reduction of countries to famine, the same thing as the manufacture of hydrogen bombs. -- Martin Heidegger
I spend my life studying that book, and every book I've written has in some sense been a book about the Bible, and that's what I mean by reclaiming its value and its essence for a world that no longer treats it literally and no longer reads it traditionally. -- John Shelby Spong
Battle is the most magnificent competition in which a human being can indulge. It brings out all that is best; it removes all that is base. All men are afraid in battle. The coward is the one who lets his fear overcome his sense of duty. Duty is the essence of manhood. -- George S. Patton
If we had no hope - for a cure, for winning the lottery, for falling in love, for the end of war, for being free of abuse, or for having food, warmth, clothing, and shelter - we would have no reason to go on. What you hope for doesn't matter, but rather the essence of hope itself. -- Bernie Siegel
Vulnerability is the essence of romance. It's the art of being uncalculated, the willingness to look foolish, the courage to say, 'This is me, and I'm interested in you enough to show you my flaws with the hope that you may embrace me for all that I am but, more important, all that I am not.' -- Ashton Kutcher
Design is the fundamental soul of a man-made creation that ends up expressing itself in successive outer layers of the product or service. The iMac is not just the color or translucence or the shape of the shell. The essence of the iMac is to be the finest possible consumer computer in which each element plays together. -- Steve Jobs
Rhubarb: essence of stomach ache. -- Ambrose Bierce
Man's existence precedes his essence -- Jean-Paul Sartre
Talents constitute our very essence. -- Charles Rollin
Existence is prior to essence. -- Jean-Paul Sartre
Lilacs are May in essence. -- Jean Hersey
Love is our true essence. -- Mata Amritanandamayi
Change is the essence of life. -- Anatole France
The essence of jiu-jitsu is philosophy. -- David Mamet
Oppression is the essence of power. -- Ernst Kaltenbrunner
The essence of decay is inactivity. -- Jack LaLanne
Love is the essence of God.... -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Style is the essence of man -- Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon
Criticism is the essence of creation. -- Orson Welles
Listening is the essence of anything. -- David Lyons
Kindness is the essence of greatness. -- Joseph B. Wirthlin
suffering is the essence of success!!! -- Abdul Kalam
The essence of pleasure is spontaneity. -- Germaine Greer
Mystery is the essence of divinity -- Zora Neale Hurston
Existence without essence is very stressful. -- Brian Christian
Reminding is the essence of organizing. -- Fred Ross
The essence of your being reincarnates. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
The essence of knowledge is self-knowledge, -- Plato
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Simplicity is the essence of universality. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Congenial labor is essence of happiness. -- A. C. Benson
Indifference is the essence of inhumanity. -- George Bernard Shaw
Risk-taking is the essence of innovation. -- Herman Kahn
Trust is the essence of Leadership. -- Colin Powell
The essence of man is imperfection. -- Norman Cousins
Mirrors are the essence of movies. -- Nicolas Roeg
Caring is the essence of nursing. -- Jean Watson
Justice is the essence of peace -- Ali Abunimah
Duty is the essence of manhood. -- George S. Patton
The essence of love is concern. -- Nirmala Srivastava
Rapidity is the essence of war. -- Sun Tzu
Melody is the essence of music. -- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Movement is the essence of life. -- Bernd Heinrich
Adventure is the essence of life -- Dick Rutan
The essence of justice is mercy. -- Edwin Hubbel Chapin
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The essence of love is kindness. -- Robert Louis Stevenson
The essence of sport is courage. -- Thomas McGuane
Speed is the essence of war. -- Conor McGregor
The essence of cinema is editing. -- Francis Ford Coppola
Fenway is the essence of baseball -- Tom Seaver
Adventure is the essence of life. -- Dick Rutan
The essence of communication is intention. -- Werner Erhard
The very essence of romance is uncertainty. -- Oscar Wilde
Difference is of the essence of humanity. -- John Hume
Curiosity is the essence of our existence. -- Gene Cernan
Liberalization and democratization are in essence counter-revolution. -- Andrei Grechko
Contradiction is the essence of the universe. -- Fernando Pessoa
Everything is fresh, the essence of realization. -- Pema Chodron
Advertising is the very essence of democracy. -- Anton Chekhov
Confidentiality is the essence of being trusted. -- Billy Graham
The essence of American racism is disrespect. -- Ta-Nehisi Coates
Learning is the very essence of humility . . . -- Jiddu Krishnamurti
Integrity is the essence of everything successful. -- R. Buckminster Fuller
The essence of profound insight is simplicity. -- James C. Collins
Curiosity is the essence of human existence. -- Gene Cernan
History is the essence of innumerable biographies. -- Thomas Carlyle
In essence, I'm a sophisticated cotton picker. -- Eartha Kitt
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In essence, we are reconciled to reconcile. -- Matt Chandler
Finding patterns is the essence of wisdom -- Dennis Prager
The essence of health is inner balance. -- Andrew Weil
Quickness is the essence of the war. -- Sun Tzu
Desire is the very essence of man. -- Baruch Spinoza
In the essence of truth lies deceit. -- Dejan Stojanovic
Offense is the essence of air power. -- Henry H. Arnold

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