#essentials

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

— Philipp Melanchthon

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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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So much of art-making is about reducing things to the essentials, so I don't feel particularly crippled by this. I don't want it to look natural because then I would be making a documentary film. ↗

— Jenny Holzer

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Beneath all differences of doctrine or discipline there exists a fundamental agreement as to the simple, absolute essentials in religion. ↗

— Julia Ward Howe

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A sudden silence in the middle of a conversation suddenly brings us back to essentials: it reveals how dearly we must pay for the invention of speech. ↗

— Emile M. Cioran

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Singleness of purpose is one of the chief essentials for success in life, no matter what may be one's aim. ↗

— John D. Rockefeller

#chief #essentials #life #matter #may

Motherhood has a very humanizing effect. Everything gets reduced to essentials. ↗

— Meryl Streep

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Be first, different & daring ↗

— James D. Roumeliotis

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Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for. ↗

— Joseph Addison

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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