#essence

The first essence of journalism is to know what you want to know, the second, is to find out who will tell you. ↗

— John Gunther

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We still by no means think decisively enough about the essence of action. ↗

— Martin Heidegger

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The earth is the very quintessence of the human condition. ↗

— Hannah Arendt

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The American people need to know the truth. The American people need to see the truth. In a democracy, letting the people know the truth is the essence of what it means to be free. ↗

— Barbara Boxer

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A lyric, it is true, is the expression of personal emotion, but then so is all poetry, and to suppose that there are several kinds of poetry, differing from each other in essence, is to be deceived by wholly artificial divisions which have no real being. ↗

— John Drinkwater

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The essence of all religions is one. Only their approaches are different. ↗

— Mahatma Gandhi

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For books are more than books, they are the life, the very heart and core of ages past, the reason why men lived and worked and died, the essence and quintessence of their lives. ↗

— Gene Fowler

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The essence of greatness is neglect of the self. ↗

— James Anthony Froude

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You heard it from the heart, you saw it in their eyes. Then I got used to the fact that I couldn't feel my fingers and my feet. That for me was the essence of the battle. ↗

— Jude Law

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I maintain also that substances, whether material or immaterial, cannot be conceived in their bare essence without any activity, activity being of the essence of substance in general. ↗

— Gottfried Leibniz

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