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If egotism means a terrific interest in one's self, egotism is absolutely essential to efficient living. ↗

— Arnold Bennett

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Let me tell you something - being thought of as a beautiful woman has spared me nothing in life. No heartache, no trouble. Love has been difficult. Beauty is essentially meaningless and it is always transitory. ↗

— Halle Berry

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If we turn our back on the people of this country who need to work for a living, we shouldn't be here, to be honest, because that has to be an essential part of what we do to protect the country, from the standpoint of defense, protect workers and make sure they have jobs. ↗

— Barbara Boxer

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The war project at Stanford was essentially completed, and I accepted an offer of an Assistant Professorship at the University of Minnesota, which had a good biochemistry department. ↗

— Paul D. Boyer

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Secret operations are essential in war; upon them the army relies to make its every move. ↗

— Sun Tzu

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Sigmund Freud was the apostle of disbelief. He was the one who made psychoanalysis a part of our culture, and in so doing he kicked out a flying buttress that had been essential for holding up our cathedral of faith. ↗

— Tony Campolo

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For all right judgment of any man or things it is useful, nay, essential, to see his good qualities before pronouncing on his bad. ↗

— Thomas Carlyle

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A person who is gifted sees the essential point and leaves the rest as surplus. ↗

— Thomas Carlyle

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Virginia Woolf came along in the early part of the century and essentially said through her writing, yes, big books can be written about the traditional big subjects. There is war. There is the search for God. These are all very important things. ↗

— Michael Cunningham

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After all, science is essentially international, and it is only through lack of the historical sense that national qualities have been attributed to it. ↗

— Marie Curie

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