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What a surprise it is to discover that you have never needed to strive to survive and be happy after all. Like Dorothy in The Wizard of Oz, who discovered that she always had the means for going home, you already have what you need to be happy and safe. You have never really left Home. However, if you don't believe you already have what you need to be happy and safe, it is as if it isn't true: If we don't know the ruby slippers will take us home, it's like not having them. The ego keeps us from seeing the truth about those ruby slippers- it keeps us from seeing the truth about life. Home is right here, right now, but we may not realize it and there for not experience Home, or Essence as much as we might. ↗

— Gina Lake

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In essence, I owe my career to Garry Marshall. There was no known reason for him to hire me for 'Pretty Woman.' ↗

— Julia Roberts

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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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Freedom. Freedom of religion. Freedom to speak their mind. Freedom to build a life. And yes, freedom to build a business. With their own hands. This is the essence of the American experience. ↗

— Mitt Romney

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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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The essence of paint ball is the fact that when you get hit by a ball full of paint, it hurts just enough to say, 'Ow, I gotta get out of the way,' but not enough to say, 'I quit.' ↗

— William Shatner

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The worst sin toward our fellow creatures is not to hate them, but to be indifferent to them: that's the essence of inhumanity. ↗

— George Bernard Shaw

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I would be willing to do almost anything to make Art happy. I care about our friendship. The only thing I won't do is change the essence of my work. ↗

— Paul Simon

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They are imbeciles who call my work abstract. That which they call abstract is the most realistic, because what is real is not the exterior but the idea, the essence of things. ↗

— Constantin Brancusi

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The essence of philosophy is that a man should so live that his happiness shall depend as little as possible on external things. ↗

— Epictetus

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