#essentials

In the Middle Ages, cathendrals and convents burned like tinder; imagining a medieval story without a fire is like imagining a World War II movie in the Pacific without a fighter plane shot down in flames. ↗

— Umberto Eco

#fire #imagination #middle-ages #obviousness #writing

History is, in its essentials, the science of change. It knows and it teaches that it is impossible to find two events that are ever exactly alike, because the conditions from which they spring are never identical. ↗

— Marc Bloch

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To me, business isn't about wearing suits or pleasing stockholders. It's about being true to yourself, your ideas and focusing on the essentials. ↗

— Richard Branson

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A good sermon should be like a woman's skirt: short enough to arouse interest but long enough to cover the essentials. ↗

— Ronald Knox

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In essentials, unity; in differences, liberty; in all things, charity. ↗

— Philipp Melanchthon

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The three great essentials to achieve anything worth while are: Hard work, Stick-to-itiveness, and Common sense. ↗

— Thomas A. Edison

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The first essentials, of course, is to know what you want. ↗

— Robert Collier

#essentials #first #know #want #you

Gates is the ultimate programming machine. He believes everything can be defined, examined, reduced to essentials, and rearranged into a logical sequence that will achieve a particular goal. ↗

— Stewart Alsop

#achieve #believes #defined #essentials #everything

The main essentials of a successful prime minister are sleep and a sense of history. ↗

— Harold Wilson

#history #main #minister #prime #prime minister

One of the first essentials is a policy of unreserved political cooperation with all the nations of the world. ↗

— Arthur Henderson

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