#essential

Doubt, the essential preliminary of all improvement and discovery, must accompany the stages of man's onward progress. The faculty of doubting and questioning, without which those of comparison and judgment would be useless, is itself a divine prerogative of the reason. ↗

— Albert Pike

#comparison #discovery #divine #doubt #doubting

My father was the quintessential husband and dad. ↗

— Sidney Poitier

#father #husband #quintessential

The respect for human rights, essential if we are to use technology wisely, is not something alien that must be grafted onto science. On the contrary, it is integral to science, as also to scholarship in general. ↗

— John Charles Polanyi

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Well, there's no question that a good script is an absolutely essential, maybe the essential thing for a movie. ↗

— Sydney Pollack

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A diplomatic peace is not yet the real peace. It is an essential step in the peace process leading towards a real peace. ↗

— Yitzhak Rabin

#essential #leading #peace #peace process #process

I was accustomed to being in far, far riskier environments. So I thought going into that canyon was a walk in the park - there were no avalanches, it was a beautiful day and I was essentially just walking. ↗

— Aron Ralston

#beautiful #beautiful day #being #canyon #day

A free economy is as essential to society as democratic political institutions. A strong market-based economy is the fertile ground for democratic freedoms that we think are important. ↗

— Lee R. Raymond

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It is the potential for economic growth that provides the basis for the development of countries, for bringing to people essential goods and services, such as water to drink and facilities for healthcare. ↗

— Lee R. Raymond

#bringing #countries #development #drink #economic

My own early experiences in war led me to suspect the value of discipline, even in that sphere where it is so often regarded as the first essential for success. ↗

— Herbert Read

#early #essential #even #experiences #first

Secrecy is the first essential in affairs of the State. ↗

— Duc De Richelieu

#essential #first #secrecy #state