Quotes with essentially

  • Essentially, you become a top tweet because so many people are engaging with that tweet. They're either retweeting it, or they're favoriting it; they're doing one of many things to indicate to us that that tweet is interesting and engaging to users.
  • Twentieth-century art may start with nothing, but it flourishes by virtue of its belief in itself, in the possibility of control over what seems essentially uncontrollable, in the coherence of the inchoate, and in its ability to create its own values.
  • The work that must be done for each woman to reconnect with her psyche and to give herself a chance to live her own life is essentially the same. The realization of the equality of all races, the equality of all beings is essential.
  • All causes are essentially mental, and whosoever comes into daily contact with a high order of thinking must take on some of it.
  • The public good is in nothing more essentially interested, than in the protection of every individual's private rights.
  • The historian, essentially, wants more documents than he can really use; the dramatist only wants more liberties than he can really take.
  • The wisdom of others remains dull till it is writ over with our own blood. We are essentially apart from the world; it bursts into our consciousness only when it sinks its teeth and nails into us.
  • Many progressive economists insist that gold is now in essentially the same position as silver and that the arguments the simon-pure gold advocates use against the white metal can be directed with equal effect against their own fetish.
  • The traditional Christian attitude toward human personality was that human nature was essentially good and that it was formed and modified by social pressures and training.
  • The process of getting regulations right is described publicly as far more political than in fact it is. It's essentially a legal and technical enterprise.
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  • Aristotle Friendship is essentially a partnership.
    Aristotle
    Greek philosopher (384 - 322)
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  • David Mamet A dramatic experience concerned with the mundane may inform but it cannot release; and one concerned essentially with the aesthetic politics of its creators may divert or anger, but it cannot enlighten.
    David Mamet
    American Playwright (1947 - )
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  • Joseph Addison Self discipline is that which, next to virtue, truly and essentially raises one man above another.
    Joseph Addison
    English politician, writer and poet (1672 - 1719)
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  • Armstrong Williams A belief in God helps provide a foundation to arbitrate our decisions. Without this foundation, we are condemned to live essentially formless lives.
    Armstrong Williams
    American political commentator, entrepreneur and author (1962 - )
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  • Marshall Mcluhan A commercial society whose members are essentially ascetic and indifferent in social ritual has to be provided with blueprints and specifications for evoking the right tone for every occasion.
    Marshall Mcluhan
    Canadian professor and philosopher (1911 - 1980)
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  • Bjorn Lomborg A review was published in Nature, very scathing, essentially calling me incompetent, though they didn't use that word. I am putting a reply on my Web site in a few days, where I go through their arguments, paragraph by paragraph.
    Bjorn Lomborg
    Danish author (1965 - )
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  • Charles J. Fillmore All causes are essentially mental, and whosoever comes into daily contact with a high order of thinking must take on some of it.
    Charles J. Fillmore
    American linguist and Professor of Linguistics (1929 - 2014)
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  • Marshall Mcluhan Appetite is essentially insatiable, and where it operates as a criterion of both action and enjoyment (that is, everywhere in the Western world since the sixteenth century) it will infallibly discover congenial agencies (mechanical and political) of expression.
    Marshall Mcluhan
    Canadian professor and philosopher (1911 - 1980)
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  • Neil deGrasse Tyson As a citizen, as a public scientist, I can tell you that Einstein essentially overturned a so strongly established paradigm of science, whereas Darwin didn't really overturn a science paradigm.
    Neil deGrasse Tyson
    American astrophysicist, planetary scientist and author (1958 - )
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  • William Goldman As far as the filmmaking process is concerned, stars are essentially worthless - and absolutely essential.
    William Goldman
    American novelist, playwright, and screenwriter (1931 - 2018)
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  • Barney Frank Before this learning experience, I had assumed that with regard to programs that sought to help people out of poverty, the political world was essentially divided into two camps: conservatives who opposed these for a variety of reasons, and liberals who supported them.
    Barney Frank
    American politician (1940 - )
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  • Michel Foucault Chance does not speak essentially through words nor can it be seen in their convolution. It is the eruption of language, its sudden appearance. It's not a night twinkle with stars, an illuminated sleep, nor a drowsy vigil. It is the very edge of consciousness.
    Michel Foucault
    French essayist and philosopher (1926 - 1984)
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  • Will Durant Destroy it. There may be a redistribution of the land, but the natural inequality of men soon re-creates an inequality of possessions and privileges, and raises to power a new minority with essentially the same instincts as the old.
    Will Durant
    American writer, historian, and philosopher (1885 - 1981)
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  • Aldous Huxley Don't try to behave as though you were essentially sane and naturally good. We're all demented sinners in the same cosmic boat - and the boat is perpetually sinking.
    Aldous Huxley
    English writer (1894 - 1963)
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  • Michel Leiris Dream is not a revelation. If a dream affords the dreamer some light on himself, it is not the person with closed eyes who makes the discovery but the person with open eyes lucid enough to fit thoughts together. Dream - a scintillating mirage surrounded by shadows - is essentially poetry.
    Michel Leiris
    French ethnologist, poet and writer (1901 - 1990)
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  • Alec Guinness Essentially, I'm a small-part actor who's been lucky enough to play leading roles for most of his life.
    Alec Guinness
    English actor (1914 - 2000)
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  • Biz Stone Essentially, you become a top tweet because so many people are engaging with that tweet. They're either retweeting it, or they're favoriting it; they're doing one of many things to indicate to us that that tweet is interesting and engaging to users.
    Biz Stone
    American entrepreneur (1974 - )
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  • Raoul Vaneigem Everything has been said yet few have taken advantage of it. Since all our knowledge is essentially banal, it can only be of value to minds that are not.
    Raoul Vaneigem
    Belgian philosopher (1934 - )
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  • Benjamin Bratt Film and television essentially feel the same when you're doing it, because it's the same technical approach.
    Benjamin Bratt
    American actor, producer, and activist (1963 - )
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  • Albert Ellis For that again, is what all manner of religion essentially is: childish dependency.
    Albert Ellis
    American psychologist (1913 - 2007)
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