#essential

Religious beliefs evolved by group-selection, tribe competing against tribe, and the illogic of religions is not a weakness but their essential strength. ↗

— E. O. Wilson

#beliefs #competing #essential #evolved #religions

The main essentials of a successful prime minister are sleep and a sense of history. ↗

— Harold Wilson

#history #main #minister #prime #prime minister

A guy may wear a suit and have a high-paying job and appear very mature, but essentially, he's a 14-year-old boy. ↗

— Rainn Wilson

#boy #essentially #guy #high-paying #job

It is essential that we realize once and for all that man is much more of a sex creature than a moral creature. The former is inherent, the other is grafted on. ↗

— Emma Goldman

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I think today that it is essential that the Rwandan tribunal continues to prosecute efficiently. And if the U.N. fails to do that, it is sending entirely the wrong message to people who are in the position to complete these atrocities again. ↗

— Tony Greig

#atrocities #complete #continues #efficiently #entirely

I don't like my hockey sticks touching other sticks, and I don't like them crossing one another, and I kind of have them hidden in the corner. I put baby powder on the ends. I think it's essentially a matter of taking care of what takes care of you. ↗

— Wayne Gretzky

#baby #care #corner #crossing #ends

The year I was born, 1956, was the peak year for babies being born, and there are more people essentially our age than anybody else. We could crush these new generations if we decided too. ↗

— Tom Hanks

#anybody #babies #being #born #could

Prime Minister, I see you've already mastered the essential craft of the European politician, namely, the ability to say one thing in this chamber and a very different thing to your home electorate. ↗

— Daniel Hannan

#already #chamber #craft #different #different thing

No art form points like poetry to this originality of language as to its essential and abiding concern. ↗

— Thomas Harrison

#art form #concern #essential #form #language

If we wish to preserve a free society, it is essential that we recognize that the desirability of a particular object is not sufficient justification for the use of coercion. ↗

— Friedrich August von Hayek

#desirability #essential #free #free society #justification