#essential

A sudden silence in the middle of a conversation suddenly brings us back to essentials: it reveals how dearly we must pay for the invention of speech. ↗

— Emile M. Cioran

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The essential meaning of perestroika for Gorbachev and his supporters was creating and acting on alternatives to failed and dangerous policies at home and abroad. ↗

— Stephen Cohen

#acting #alternatives #creating #dangerous #essential

I said on the equality side of it, that it is essential to a woman's equality with man that she be the decision-maker, that her choice be controlling. ↗

— Ruth Bader Ginsburg

#controlling #equality #essential #her #i

I just spend my money on the essentials. Just basically food and shelter. ↗

— David Duchovny

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Most of the fundamental ideas of science are essentially simple, and may, as a rule, be expressed in a language comprehensible to everyone. ↗

— Albert Einstein

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Lighting is an essential way to change the mood of a room, especially if you can use dimmers. ↗

— Thom Filicia

#especially #essential #lighting #mood #room

These smugglers, many of them present in trafficking through my State of Arizona, create false Social Security cards, false green cards, visas and a variety of other fraudulent documents as an essential part of their smuggling activities. ↗

— John Shadegg

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Before this learning experience, I had assumed that with regard to programs that sought to help people out of poverty, the political world was essentially divided into two camps: conservatives who opposed these for a variety of reasons, and liberals who supported them. ↗

— Barney Frank

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It is because the fight against the harshest aspects of unrestricted capitalism is therefore a political problem and not an intellectual one that community action remains so essential. ↗

— Barney Frank

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The left and the right live in parallel universes. The right listens to talk radio, the left's on the Internet and they just reinforce one another. They have no sense of reality. I have now one ambition: to retire before it becomes essential to tweet. ↗

— Barney Frank

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