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Apothegms are portable wisdom, the quintessential extracts of thought and feelings.
Quotations
William R. Alger

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Friendship is essentially a partnership.
Friends and Friendship
Aristotle

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Essential characteristic of the really great novelist: a Christ-like, all-embracing compassion.
Writers and Writing
Arnold Bennett

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The essential conditions of everything you do must be choice, love, passion.
Life and Living
Nadia Boulanger

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Change is difficult but often essential to survival.
Change
Les Brown

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To simplify complications is the first essential of success.
Simplicity
George Earle Buckle

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Mere parsimony is not economy. Expense, and great expense, may be an essential part in true economy.
Economy and Economics
Edmund Burke

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A person who is gifted sees the essential point and leaves the rest as surplus.
Focus
Thomas Carlyle

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The basic essential of a great actor is that he loves himself in acting.
Acting and Actors
Charlie Chaplin

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The first essentials, of course, is to know what you want.
Goals
Robert Collier

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Etiquette means behaving yourself a little better than is absolutely essential.
Manners
Will Cuppy

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Helping people in need is a good and essential part of my life, a kind of destiny.
Service
Princess of Wales Diana

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Of all great poems, love is the absolute and essential foundation.
Poetry and Poets
C. Fitzhugh

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In its function, the power to punish is not essentially different from that of curing or educating.
Punishment
Michel Foucault

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Old age and sickness bring out the essential characteristics of a man.
Character
Felix Frankfurter

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Employment is nature's physician, and is essential to human happiness.
Doctors
Claudius Galen

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Everybody needs one essential friend.
Friends and Friendship
Dr. William Glasser

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Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.
Love
Robert Heinlein

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The essential part of creativity is not being afraid to fail.
Creativity
Edwin H. Land

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Ours is essentially a tragic age, so we refuse to take it tragically.
Tragedies
D. H. Lawrence

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It's not the daily increase but daily decrease. Hack away at the unessential.
Simplicity
Bruce Lee

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Our self image, strongly held, essentially determines what we become
Self-image
Maxwell Maltz

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The secret to a happy marriage is to tell your spouse everything, but the essentials.
Marriage
Cynthia Nelms

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Humility is like underwear; essential, but indecent if it shows.
Humility
Helen Nielsen

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I believe that any single dream contains the essential message about our existence.
Dreams
Frederick Salomon Perls

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Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
[ Research ] Wernher Von Braun