Quotes with essence

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• The essence of a man is found in his faults.

  Francis Picabia
  French painter and poet (1879 - 1953)
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• The essence of a quote is the compression of a mass of thought and observation into a single saying.

  John Morley
  British journalist, statesman (1838 - 1923)
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• The essence of all art is to have pleasure in giving pleasure

  Mikhail Baryshnikov
   
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• The essence of all beautiful art, all great art, is gratitude.

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  German poet and philosopher (1844 - 1900)
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• The essence of all immorality and sin is making ourselves the center around which we subordinate all interest.

  Cecil J. Sharpe
   
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• The essence of being human is that one does not seek perfection.
  

  George Orwell
  English writer (ps. of Eric Blair) (1903 - 1950)
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• 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
  American actor, comedian, producer (1937 - )
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• The essence of democracy is its assurance that every human being should so respect himself and should be so respected in his own personality that he should have opportunity equal to that of every other human being to show what he was meant to become.

  Anna Garlin Spencer
  American educator and feminist (1851 - 1931)
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• The essence of greatness is neglect of the self.

  James A. Froude
  British Historian (1818 - 1894)
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• The essence of justice is mercy.

  Edwin Hubbel Chapin
  American author and clergyman (1814 - 1880)
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• The essence of knowledge is, having it, to apply it; not having it, to confess your ignorance.

  Confucius
  Chinese philosopher (551 - 479)
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• The essence of liberalism is negotiation, a cautious half measure, in the hope that the definitive dispute, the decisive bloody battle, can be transformed into a parliamentary debate and permit the decision to be suspended forever in an everlasting discussion.

  Political Theology (1922)

  Carl Schmitt
  German political philosopher and legal scholar (1888 - 1985)
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• The essence of life is finding something you really love and then making the daily experience worthwhile.

  Denis Waitley
  American motivational speaker, writer and consultant (1933 - )
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• The essence of man is, discontent, divine discontent; a sort of love without a beloved, the ache we feel in a member we no longer have.

  Jose Ortega Y Gasset
  Spanish writer and philosopher (1883 - 1955)
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• The essence of morality is a questioning about morality; and the decisive move of human life is to use ceaselessly all light to look for the origin of the opposition between good and evil.

  Georges Bataille
  French writer and critic (1897 - 1962)
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• The essence of our effort to see that every child has a chance must be to assure each an equal opportunity, not to become equal, but to become different- to realize whatever unique potential of body, mind and spirit he or she possesses.

  John Fischer
   
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• The essence of poetry is will and passion.

  William Hazlitt
  English writer (1778 - 1830)
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• The essence of romantic love is that wonderful beginning, after which sadness and impossibility may become the rule.

  Anita Brookner
  British Writer (1928 - 2016)
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• The essence of statesmanship is not a rigid adherence to the past, but a prudent and probing concern for the future.
  

  Hubert Humphrey
  American politician (1911 - 1978)
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• The essence of statesmanship is not a rigid adherence to the past, but a prudent and probing concern for the future.

  Hubert Humphrey
  American politician (1911 - 1978)
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Subjects in these quotes:

• parliamentary
• impossibility
• statesmanship
• reluctantly
• personality
• opportunity

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