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A university's essential character is that of being a center of free inquiry and criticism - a thing not to be sacrificed for anything else. ↗

— Richard Hofstadter

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It is my deliberate opinion that the one essential requisite of human welfare in all ways is scientific knowledge of human nature. ↗

— Harriet Martineau

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The most essential thing for us was to get the business model right, then put the world-class technology under it to support it. At Merrill, that meant not doing what people expected. ↗

— John McKinley

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Direct access to sea is an essential part of foreign policy. ↗

— Carlos Mesa

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I have three degrees in history and only one in law, but since I came back to specialize in constitutional law where history is so essentially a part and an explanation of much that exists, the two disciplines blended very well. ↗

— Frank Scott

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A line has to be drawn somewhere between what is essential and what is peripheral. ↗

— Sargent Shriver

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Be first, different & daring ↗

— James D. Roumeliotis

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Water and air, the two essential fluids on which all life depends, have become global garbage cans. ↗

— Jacques Yves Cousteau

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I don't know where Bush is going - yet. But, Sharon obviously - I wrote somewhere in the last several months, that Sharon has adopted, essentially, the position of the Labor Party: that the Palestinians are here to stay. ↗

— Arthur Hertzberg

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The relation between parents and children is essentially based on teaching. ↗

— Gilbert Highet

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