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It is characteristic of science that the full explanations are often seized in their essence by the percipient scientist long in advance of any possible proof. ↗

— John Desmond Bernal

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In its famous paradox, the equation of money and excrement, psychoanalysis becomes the first science to state what common sense and the poets have long known - that the essence of money is in its absolute worthlessness. ↗

— Norman O. Brown

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It is better to create than to learn! Creating is the essence of life. ↗

— Julius Caesar

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She represented the distilled essence of the battle between the sexes. ↗

— Anne Edwards

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Do you have any idea how mad you sound?’ ‘Indeed I do. I have in moments of doubt considered the question of my sanity.’ (...) ‘And?’ ‘Then I consider what a piece of work is man. How defective in reason, how mean his facilities, how ugly in form and movement, in action how like a devil, in apprehension how like a cow. The beauty of the world? The paragon of animals? To me the quintessence of dust. ↗

— Paul Hoffman

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Nature is a collective idea, and, though its essence exist in each individual of the species, can never in its perfection inhabit a single object. ↗

— Henry Fuseli

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I love spring flowers: daffodils and hyacinths are the ultimate flower for me. They are the essence of spring. ↗

— Kirsty Gallacher

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The best way is to say that as a Christian for me the essence of Christian faith is that you treat others as if you wish to be treated. ↗

— Mike Huckabee

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Pretending to be other people is my game and that to me is the essence of the whole business of acting. ↗

— John Hurt

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In essence, I'm a sophisticated cotton picker. ↗

— Eartha Kitt

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