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Back through the ages of barbarism and civilization, in all tongues, we find this instinctive pleasure in the imitative action that is the very essence of all drama. ↗

— George P. Baker

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All the efforts of the human mind cannot exhaust the essence of a single fly. ↗

— Thomas Aquinas

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Freedom of expression - in particular, freedom of the press - guarantees popular participation in the decisions and actions of government, and popular participation is the essence of our democracy. ↗

— Corazon Aquino

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The energy of the mind is the essence of life. ↗

— Aristotle

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This is a big deal. My wife and I sat in our home and we watched those young men get slaughtered on the streets of Mogadishu in the absence of a plan. It broke our heart. ↗

— Dick Armey

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It is not opium which makes me work but its absence, and in order for me to feel its absence it must from time to time be present. ↗

— Antonin Artaud

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The essence of life is statistical improbability on a colossal scale. ↗

— Richard Dawkins

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Individual science fiction stories may seem as trivial as ever to the blinder critics and philosophers of today - but the core of science fiction, its essence has become crucial to our salvation if we are to be saved at all. ↗

— Isaac Asimov

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If a man went simply by what he saw, he might be tempted to affirm that the essence of democracy is melodrama. ↗

— Irving Babbitt

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Inasmuch as society cannot go on without discipline of some kind, men were constrained, in the absence of any other form of discipline, to turn to discipline of the military type. ↗

— Irving Babbitt

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