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I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived.Henry David Thoreau
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Sacrifice, discipline and prayer are essential. We gain strength through God's word. We receive grace from the sacrament. And when we fumble due to sin - and it's gonna happen - confession puts us back on the field.Lou Holtz
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I do not think that there is any other quality so essential to success of any kind as the quality of perseverance. It overcomes almost everything, even nature.John D. Rockefeller
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There are many things that are essential to arriving at true peace of mind, and one of the most important is faith, which cannot be acquired without prayer.John Wooden
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Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own... Jealousy is a disease, love is a healthy condition. The immature mind often mistakes one for the other, or assumes that the greater the love, the greater the jealousy.Robert A. Heinlein
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Housing is absolutely essential to human flourishing. Without stable shelter, it all falls apart.Matthew Desmond
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Optimism is essential to achievement and it is also the foundation of courage and true progress.Nicholas M. Butler
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When all the world appears to be in a tumult, and nature itself is feeling the assault of climate change, the seasons retain their essential rhythm. Yes, fall gives us a premonition of winter, but then, winter, will be forced to relent, once again, to the new beginnings of soft greens, longer light, and the sweet air of spring.Madeleine M. Kunin
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Yoga is the settling of the mind into silence. When the mind has settled, we are established in our essential nature, which is unbounded Consciousness. Our essential nature is usually overshadowed by the activity of the mind.Patanjali
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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.Napoleon Hill
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Journalism still, in a democracy, is the essential force to get the public educated and mobilized to take action on behalf of our ancient ideals.Doris Kearns Goodwin
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What is essential in love is what the French call 'amour fou.' What is that in English? Crazy love? That doesn't sound as beautiful. It's a total kind of love that not only embraces feelings, actions, but a kind of understanding of the world from the perspective of love.Mario Vargas Llosa
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Frustration, although quite painful at times, is a very positive and essential part of success.Bo Bennett
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If there is one realm in which it is essential to be sublime, it is in wickedness. You spit on a petty thief, but you can't deny a kind of respect for the great criminal.Denis Diderot
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If the universal is the essential, then it is the basis of all life and art. Recognizing and uniting with the universal therefore gives us the greatest aesthetic satisfaction, the greatest emotion of beauty.Piet Mondrian
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The pain of losing my child was a cleansing experience. I had to throw overboard all excess baggage and keep only what is essential.Isabel Allende
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Trust is the glue of life. It's the most essential ingredient in effective communication. It's the foundational principle that holds all relationships.Stephen Covey
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Nothing brings me more happiness than trying to help the most vulnerable people in society. It is a goal and an essential part of my life - a kind of destiny. Whoever is in distress can call on me. I will come running wherever they are.Princess Diana
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The Hebrews have done more to civilize men than any other nation. If I were an atheist, and believed blind eternal fate, I should still believe that fate had ordained the Jews to be the most essential instrument for civilizing the nations.John Adams
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The essential dilemma of my life is between my deep desire to belong and my suspicion of belonging.Jhumpa Lahiri
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The art of effective listening is essential to clear communication, and clear communication is necessary to management success.James Cash Penney
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If you're not changing, you're not growing; you're not being present. Change is essential.Maggie Rogers
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The problem of Islam as a political force is an essential one for our time and for the years to come, and we cannot approach it with a modicum of intelligence if we start out from a position of hatred.Michel Foucault
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The essential elements of giving are power and love - activity and affection - and the consciousness of the race testifies that in the high and appropriate exercise of these is a blessedness greater than any other.Mark Hopkins
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Secret operations are essential in war; upon them the army relies to make its every move.Sun Tzu
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I think life teaches you the most valuable lessons. Learning from everything, every day. That's the most essential and most valuable thing to a person. Without scholarship and learning and climbing - without any of that, there's no growth.Jalen Hurts
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The essential truth is that sometimes you're worried that they'll find out it's a fluke, that you don't really have it. You've lost the muse or - the worst dread - you never had it at all. I went through all that madness early on.Robin Williams
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Some emotions are essential to law and to public principles of justice: anger at wrongdoing, fear for our safety, compassion for the pain of others, all these are good reasons to make laws that protect people in their rights.Martha Nussbaum
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The essential lesson I've learned in life is to just be yourself. Treasure the magnificent being that you are and recognize first and foremost you're not here as a human being only. You're a spiritual being having a human experience.Wayne Dyer
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I'm originally from Victorville, California, I grew up there. You know, it was a journey, because in Victorville, you know, it's tough out there. It's not like, the easiest place to grow up, so I had just faith in God that if I keep working hard, I could make a way for myself, so my faith in God is something I need, it's essential.Ryan Garcia
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Half an hour's meditation each day is essential, except when you are busy. Then a full hour is needed.Saint Francis de Sales
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I believe in God, who made of one blood all nations that on earth do dwell. I believe that all men, black and brown and white, are brothers, varying through time and opportunity, in form and gift and feature, but differing in no essential particular, and alike in soul and the possibility of infinite development.W. E. B. Du Bois
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Lies are essential to humanity. They are perhaps as important as the pursuit of pleasure and moreover are dictated by that pursuit.Marcel Proust
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The fundamental aspect of video is not the image, even though you can stand in amazement at what can be done electronically, how images can be manipulated and the really extraordinary creative possibilities. For me the essential basis of video is the movement - something that exists at the moment and changes in the next moment.Bill Viola
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The most important thing in the Olympic Games is not winning but taking part; the essential thing in life is not conquering but fighting well.Pierre de Coubertin
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They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.Benjamin Franklin
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Now, as a nation, we don't promise equal outcomes, but we were founded on the idea everybody should have an equal opportunity to succeed. No matter who you are, what you look like, where you come from, you can make it. That's an essential promise of America. Where you start should not determine where you end up.Barack Obama
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If religion has given birth to all that is essential in society, it is because the idea of society is the soul of religion.Emile Durkheim
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Everywhere on Earth, at this moment, in the new spiritual atmosphere created by the appearance of the idea of evolution, there float, in a state of extreme mutual sensitivity, love of God and faith in the world: the two essential components of the Ultra-human.Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
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After a natural disaster, safe drinking water is a priority. Humans can live longer without food than water, so communication about clean water is essential to help avoid the risk of cholera, dysentery, malnutrition, famine, and death.Tae Yoo
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Consistency of performance is essential. You don't have to be exceptional every week but as a minimum you need to be at a level that even on a bad day you get points on the board.Sean Dyche
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It is essential that there should be organization of labor. This is an era of organization. Capital organizes and therefore labor must organize.Theodore Roosevelt
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My aim is to create a happy society with genuine friendship. Friendship between Tibetan and Chinese peoples is very essential.Dalai Lama
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Political theatre presents an entirely different set of problems. Sermonising has to be avoided at all cost. Objectivity is essential. The characters must be allowed to breathe their own air. The author cannot confine and constrict them to satisfy his own taste or disposition or prejudice.Harold Pinter
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