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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.

  Carl Schmitt

  Decision, Forever, Battle

  Carl Schmitt (2010). “Political Theology: Four Chapters on the Concept of Sovereignty”, p.63, University of Chicago Press

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• Competition is pretty much the essence of everything, it gives humans drive.

  Ashton Eaton

  Giving, Competition, Humans

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• So, the path of the co-creator is to be awakened spiritually within, which then turns into your own deeper life purpose, which then makes you want to reach out and touch others in a way that expresses self and really evolves our communities and our world. Certainly, we can't do that unless we activate ourselves first. That's why, for me, emergence is the shift from ego to essence. That is so important.

  Barbara Marx Hubbard

  Our World, Self, Community

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• I dare to imagine a country where every child I hold in my hands, are all God's children, regardless of the color of their skin, regardless of whether they're boy or girl, regardless of religion, regardless of rich or poor, that every child I hold in my hands, will have the same chance to reach her full potential or his full potential. That is the goodness of our country. That is the essence of the American dream.

  Paul Wellstone

  Girl, Dream, Country

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• All government is, in its essence, organized exploitation, and in virtually all of its existing forms it is the implacable enemy of every industrious and well-disposed man.

  H. L. Mencken

  Men, Voting, Enemy

  "The Constitution". Baltimore Evening Sun, August 19, 1935.

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• La esencia de la inteligencia parece estar en saber cuándo pensar y actuar con rapidez y cuándo pensar y actuar con lentitud.

  Robert Sternberg

  Thinking, Knowing, Seems

  "It Will Be Hard To ‘Save Time’ In The New Year" by Richard C. Senelick, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 28, 2011.

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• Although the content of consciousness depends in large measure on neuronal activity, awareness itself does not.To me, it seems more and more reasonable to suggest that the mind may be a distinct and different essence.

  Wilder Penfield

  Mind, Doe, Different

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• Having begun my life in science searching for the equation beyond time, I now believe that the deepest secret of the universe is that its essence rests in how it unfolds moment by moment in time.

  Lee Smolin

  Believe, Secret, Moments

  Lee Smolin (2013). “Time Reborn: From the Crisis in Physics to the Future of the Universe”, p.13, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• It is said Somerset Maugham traveled the world with a notebook to learn the essence of life and Kafka sat in a room for the same objective. Yet Kafka came out with a better world-view.

  U. R. Ananthamurthy

  Notebook, Views, World

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• In fact, a sense of essence is, in essence, the essence of sense, in effect.

  Douglas Hofstadter

  Facts, Effects

  Douglas Hofstadter (2008). “Metamagical Themas: Questing For The Essence Of Mind And Pattern”, p.489, Hachette UK

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• As animals, we walk the earth. As bearers of divine essence, we are among the stars. As human beings, we are caught in the middle, seeking to reconcile the paradox of how to make our way upon earth while striving for something more permanent and more profound.

  B.K.S. Iyengar

  Stars, Animal, Profound

  "Light on Life: The Yoga Journey to Wholeness, Inner Peace, and Ultimate Freedom". Book by B.K.S. Iyengar (p. 8), September 19, 2006.

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• The essence of independence is to be able to do something for one’s self.

  María Montessori

  Self, Independence, Able

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• The purposeful destruction of information is the essence of intelligent work.

  Ray Kurzweil

  Intelligent, Information, Destruction

  Ray Kurzweil (2000). “The Age of Spiritual Machines: When Computers Exceed Human Intelligence”, p.99, Penguin

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• Our Essence of Mind is intrinsically pure,
  and if we knew our mind and realized what our nature is, all of us would
  attain Buddhahood.

  Huineng

  Mind, Pure, Ifs

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• Sharing is the essence of teaching. It is, I have come to believe, the essence of civilization...Without it, the imagination is but the echo of the self, trapped in a soundproof chamber, reverberating upon itself until it is spent in exhaustion or futility.

  Bill Moyers

  Believe, Teaching, Echoes

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• The most important aspect of freedom of speech is freedom to learn. All education is a continuous dialogue - questions and answers that pursue every problem on the horizon. That is the essence of academic freedom.

  William O. Douglas

  Graduation, Academic Freedom, Freedom Of Speech

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• Do we, as humans, having an ability to reason and to communicate abstract ideas verbally and in writing, and to form ethical and moral judgments using the accumulated knowledge of the ages, have the right to take the lives of other sentient organisms, particularly when we are not forced to do so by hunger or dietary need, but rather do so for the somewhat frivolous reason that we like the taste of meat? In essence, should we know better?

  Peter Cheeke

  Writing, Ideas, Age

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• La esencia de la independencia ha sido pensar y actuar según normas de dentro, no de fuera.

  Aleister Crowley

  Inspiración, Vida, Filosofía

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• The premises being thus settled, I proceed to observe that the concatenation of self-existence, proceeding in a reciprocal duplicate ratio, naturally produces a problematical dialogism, which in some measure proves that the essence of spirituality may be referred to the second predicable.

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Self, May, Ratios

  Oliver Goldsmith, Carl Theodor von KERSTEN (1857). “Goldsmith's Vicar of Wakefield employed as a means of reading made easy without any alteration of orthography ... By Charles Theodor von Kersten”, p.69

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• Considerar lo fundamental como la esencia, considerar las cosas como burdas, considerar la acumulación como deficiencia, y morar tranquilamente a solas con lo espiritual y lo inteligente - aquí residen las técnicas del Tao de los antiguos.

  Zhuangzi

  Spiritual, Lying, Intelligent

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• La forma femenina proporciona la solución en la que se sostiene la esencia misma; ella es passio, y actuada, el varón es actio, el movedor.

  Marina Warner

  Males, Female, Form

  Marina Warner (2000). “Monuments & Maidens: The Allegory of the Female Form”, p.69, Univ of California Press

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• If you're not electing Christians, then in essence you are going to legislate sin.

  Katherine Harris

  Christian, Sin, Ifs

  "Rep. Harris: Church-State Separation a 'Lie'". www.foxnews.com. August 27, 2006.

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• La esencia de la independencia es ser capaz de hacer algo por uno mismo. Los adultos trabajan para terminar una tarea, pero el niño trabaja para crecer, y está trabajando para crear al adulto, a la persona que va a ser. Esa experiencia no es sólo un juego... es un trabajo que debe hacer para crecer.

  María Montessori

  Children, Growing Up, Self

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• The essence of dramatic tragedy is not unhappiness. It resides in the solemnity of the remorseless working of things.

  Garrett Hardin

  Tragedy, Dramatic, Unhappiness

  Garrett James Hardin (1995). “The Immigration Dilemma: Avoiding the Tragedy of the Commons”, F A I R-Federation for American Immigration Reform

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• Tradition, in its essence, is something simultaneously meta-historical and dynamic: it is an overall ordering force in the service of principles that have the chrism of a superior legitimacy (we may even call them 'principles from above').

  Julius Evola

  Historical, Principles, May

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