Quotes with essence

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  • Cyril Northcote Parkinson It is the essence of grantsmanship to persuade the Foundation executives that it was they who suggested the research project and that you were a belated convert, agreeing reluctantly to all they had proposed.
    Parkinsons Laws in Medical Research, Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, November 1962
    Cyril Northcote Parkinson
    British naval historian (1909 - 1993)
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  • Bill Sienkiewicz It's interesting, because in the corporate stuff there's a dichotomy there, depending on the creator. Even what, in essence, may be a very safe corporate approach, there is some stuff that is allowed to be pushed.
    Bill Sienkiewicz
    American artist (1958 - )
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  • Boethius It's my belief that history is a wheel. 'Inconstancy is my very essence,' says the wheel. Rise up on my spokes if you like but don't complain when you're cast back down into the depths. Good time pass away, but then so do the bad. Mutability is our tragedy, but it's also our hope. The worst of time, like the best, are always passing away.
    Boethius
    Roman senator, consul, magister officiorum, and philosopher (480 - 524)
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  • Adrian Cronauer It's not written in the Constitution or anything else.... Congress, just out of the clear blue sky, said the airwaves belong to the people, which means, in essence, that it belongs to Congress.
    Adrian Cronauer
    American air force radio personality during Vietnam War (1938 - 2018)
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  • Vincent Van Gogh Love is something eternal; the aspect may change, but not the essence.
    Vincent Van Gogh
    Dutch painter (1853 - 1890)
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  • Antonio Machado Man would be otherwise. That is the essence of the specifically human.
    Antonio Machado
    Spanish writer and poet (1875 - 1939)
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  • William Shakespeare Man, proud man, drest in a little brief authority, most ignorant of what he's most assur d, glassy essence, like an angry ape, plays such fantastic tricks before high heaven, as make the angels weep.
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • Henry Fuseli 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.
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  • Annie Leibovitz 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
    American portrait photographer (1949 - )
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  • Charles Caleb Colton Posthumous charities are the very essence of selfishness, when bequeathed by those who. When alive, would not have contributed.
    Charles Caleb Colton
    English writer (1777 - 1832)
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  • Camille Paglia Pursuit and seduction are the essence of sexuality. It's part of the sizzle.
    Camille Paglia
    American academic and social critic (1947 - )
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  • Anne Edwards She represented the distilled essence of the battle between the sexes.
    Anne Edwards
    American author (1927 - )
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  • Vladimir Nabokov Style and Structure are the essence of a book; great ideas are hogwash.
    Vladimir Nabokov
    American writer and poet (1899 - 1977)
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  • Howard Whitman Success is no exclusive club. It is open to each individual who has the courage to choose his own goal and go after it. It is from this forward motion that human growth springs, and out of it comes the human essence known as character.
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  • Charles Dickens Such is hope, heaven's own gift to struggling mortals, pervading, like some subtle essence from the skies, all things both good and bad.
    Charles Dickens
    English writer (1812 - 1870)
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  • Bergen Evans That is the essence of a witch-hunt, that any questioning of the evidence or the procedures in itself constitutes proof of complicity.
    Bergen Evans
    American professor and television host
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  • Jacob Bronowski That is the essence of science: ask an impertinent question, and you are on the way to a pertinent answer.
    Jacob Bronowski
    British Scientist, Author (1908 - 1974)
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  • Avicenna That whose existence is necessary must necessarily be one essence.
    Avicenna
    Persian polymath (0 - 1037)
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  • Barbara Boxer The American people need to know the truth. The American people need to see the truth. In a democracy, letting the people know the truth is the essence of what it means to be free.
    Barbara Boxer
    American politician (1940 - )
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  • Arlen Specter The essence of a democracy is a free electorate.
    Arlen Specter
    American lawyer, author, and politician (1930 - 2012)
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