#essence

The essence of faith is being satisfied with all that God is for us in Jesus. ↗

— John Piper

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How can you consider flower power outdated? The essence of my lyrics is the desire for peace and harmony. That's all anyone has ever wanted. How could it become outdated? ↗

— Robert Plant

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The very essence of the creative is its novelty, and hence we have no standard by which to judge it. ↗

— Carl Rogers

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The essence of genius is to know what to overlook. ↗

— William James

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Design is the fundamental soul of a man-made creation that ends up expressing itself in successive outer layers of the product or service. The iMac is not just the color or translucence or the shape of the shell. The essence of the iMac is to be the finest possible consumer computer in which each element plays together. ↗

— Steve Jobs

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However, if the religions in essence merely repeat statements from the United Nations Human Rights Declaration, such a Declaration becomes superfluous; an ethic is more than rights. ↗

— Hans Kung

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The freedom to be an individual is the essence of America. ↗

— Marilyn vos Savant

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Women do not have as great a need for poetry because their own essence is poetry. ↗

— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

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Virtues, like essences, lose their fragrance when exposed. ↗

— William Shenstone

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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. ↗

— Isaac Bashevis Singer

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