#sence

Society has arisen out of the works of peace; the essence of society is peacemaking. ↗

— Ludwig von Mises

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I used to say of Napoleon that his presence on the field made the difference of forty thousand men. ↗

— Duke of Wellington

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The heart may think it knows better: the senses know that absence blots people out. We really have no absent friends. ↗

— Elizabeth Bowen

#absent #better #blots #friends #heart

The essence of strategy is that you must set limits on what you're trying to accomplish. ↗

— Michael Porter

#essence #limits #must #set #strategy

Germany is an economic giant but a political midget, and with the end of the Cold War she has started to muscle her presence throughout Europe and the world. ↗

— Christo

#cold war #economic #end #europe #germany

The essence of our effort to see that every child has a chance must be to assure each an equal opportunity, not to become equal, but to become different-to realize whatever unique potential of body, mind and spirit he or she possesses. ↗

— John Fischer

#become #body #chance #child #each

In 1916 I was discharged from military service, or rather, given a sort of leave of absence on the understanding that I might be recalled within a few months. And so I was a free man, at least for a while. ↗

— George Grosz

#discharged #few #free #free man #given

The greatest threat to freedom is the absence of criticism. ↗

— Wole Soyinka

#criticism #freedom #greatest #greatest threat #threat

The essence of morality is a questioning about morality; and the decisive move of human life is to use ceaselessly all light to look for the origin of the opposition between good and evil. ↗

— Georges Bataille

#between #ceaselessly #decisive #essence #evil

The essence of the beautiful is unity in variety. ↗

— Felix Mendelssohn

#essence #unity #variety