#essential

Restoring responsibility and accountability is essential to the economic and fiscal health of our nation. ↗

— Carl Levin

#economic #essential #fiscal #health #nation

It isn't just that Obama's policies have failed; it's that he has essentially given up and is asking us to accept a lesser America going forward, as if resigned to the fatalistic belief that America has begun an inevitable and unavoidable decline. ↗

— David Limbaugh

#america #asking #begun #belief #decline

The road leading to a goal does not separate you from the destination; it is essentially a part of it. ↗

— Charles de Lint

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The moon is essentially gray, no color. It looks like plaster of Paris, like dirty beach sand with lots of footprints in it. ↗

— James A. Lovell

#color #dirty #essentially #footprints #gray

So the idea that there is nothing essential, in the sense that there are no human universals, is dogma. Ask most anyone who is going to be shot at dawn. ↗

— Catharine MacKinnon

#ask #dawn #dogma #essential #going

Its easy to view politicians as corrupt and voting essentially an act of picking the lesser of two evils. I understand that perspective and feel it's valid. ↗

— Macklemore

#corrupt #easy #essentially #evils #feel

The essential quality of an animal is that it seeks its own living, whereas a vegetable has its living brought to it. ↗

— Henry Mayhew

#brought #essential #living #own #quality

A car is useless in New York, essential everywhere else. The same with good manners. ↗

— Mignon McLaughlin

#else #essential #everywhere #good #good manners

A commercial society whose members are essentially ascetic and indifferent in social ritual has to be provided with blueprints and specifications for evoking the right tone for every occasion. ↗

— Marshall McLuhan

#blueprints #commercial #essentially #every #evoking

One of the jewels in the crown of Labour's time in office was the rescue of the National Health Service. As the Commonwealth Fund, the London School of Economics and the Nuffield Foundation have all shown, health reforms as well as additional investment were essential to improved outcomes, especially for poorer patients. ↗

— David Miliband

#commonwealth #crown #economics #especially #essential