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Letter "E" » essence
«The essence of true friendship is to make allowance for another's little lapses.»
Author: David Storey
(Novelist, Playwright, Poet)
| About:
Friendship
| Keywords:
allowance, allowances, essence, lapsed, lapses, lapsing
«The liberty of a democracy is not safe if the people tolerate the growth of private power to a point where it comes stronger than their democratic state itself. That, in its essence, is fascism - ownership of government by an individual, by a group,»
Author: Franklin D. Roosevelt
(President)
| About:
Democracy,
Government,
Liberty
| Keywords:
democratic, democratic government, democratic state, essence, fascism, group, groups of people, group of people, individual liberty, ownership, private, private ownership, strong point, tolerate
«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»
«The essence of teaching is to make learning contagious, to have one idea spark another.»
Author: Marva Collins
(Educator)
| Keywords:
another, contagious, essence, essences, idea, in essence, learning, of the essence, spark, sparking, teaching
«The essence of mathematics is not to make simple things complicated, but to make complicated things simple.»
«The very essence of literature is the war between emotion and intellect, between life and death. When literature becomes too intellectual - when it begins to ignore the passions, the emotions - it becomes sterile, silly, and actually without substance.»
Author: Isaac Bashevis Singer
| Keywords:
essence, ignore, intellect, intellectual, literature, silly, sterile, substance, substances, The Passions, The War
«The real glory is being knocked to your knees and then coming back. That's real glory. That's the essence of it.»
Author: Vince Lombardi
(Coach)
| Keywords:
coming, coming back, essence, glory, knees, knocked| Occasions:
Olympic
«The essence of the Liberal outlook lies not in what opinions are held, but in how they are held: instead of being held dogmatically, they are held tentatively, and with a consciousness that new evidence may at any moment lead to their abandonment.»
Author: Bertrand Russell
(Logician, Philosopher)
| Keywords:
abandonment, consciousness, Consciousness only, dogmatically, essence, evidence, evidences, held, instead, in evidence, lead, liberal, lies, opinions, outlook, tentatively
«The essence of philosophy is that a man should so live that his happiness shall depend as little as possible on external things.»
Author: Epictetus
| About:
Philosophy
| Keywords:
depend, essence, external, externals, in essence, philosophy, possible, shall
«The worst sin toward our fellow creatures is not to hate them, but to be indifferent to them; that's the essence of inhumanity»
Author: George Bernard Shaw
(Critic, Essayist, Playwright)
| About:
Sin
| Keywords:
creatures, essence, essences, fellow, Fellow Creature, hate, indifferent, inhumanity, in essence, like sin, of the essence, sin, The Fellows, worst
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