#essential

Life is essentially a question of values. ↗

— Meir Kahane

#life #question #values

In the Middle Ages, cathendrals and convents burned like tinder; imagining a medieval story without a fire is like imagining a World War II movie in the Pacific without a fighter plane shot down in flames. ↗

— Umberto Eco

#fire #imagination #middle-ages #obviousness #writing

And out of a desire essentially to imitate what I was reading, I began to write, like a clever monkey. ↗

— Russell Banks

#clever #desire #essentially #i #imitate

Community care is a fundamental, an essential, an enduring part of our aged care system. ↗

— Julie Bishop

#aged care #care #community #enduring #essential

Now, in the space of a year, we've spent 450 percent more for power than we did the year before, and bought essentially the same amount of power. This year, that number's likely to go up. That can't go on forever and have us continue to be the economic engine for America. ↗

— Gray Davis

#amount #before #bought #continue #did

In the present state of our knowledge, it would be useless to attempt to speculate on the remote cause of the electrical energy... its relation to chemical affinity is, however, sufficiently evident. May it not be identical with it, and an essential property of matter? ↗

— Humphry Davy

#attempt #cause #chemical #electrical #energy

If you're unable to catch it in time, the cancer can spread to the lymph nodes and at that point, the cancer is essentially incurable, but that doesn't mean your condition can't be improved. ↗

— Len Dawson

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The public good is in nothing more essentially interested, than in the protection of every individual's private rights. ↗

— William Blackstone

#every #good #individual #interested #more

The essential self is innocent, and when it tastes its own innocence knows that it lives for ever. ↗

— John Updike

#ever #innocence #innocent #knows #lives

The more I do, the more frightened I get. But that is essential. Otherwise why would I go on doing it? ↗

— Judi Dench

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