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For all right judgment of any man or things it is useful, nay, essential, to see his good qualities before pronouncing on his bad. ↗

— Thomas Carlyle

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A person who is gifted sees the essential point and leaves the rest as surplus. ↗

— Thomas Carlyle

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Too often, they play to whatever group is the loudest down at City Hall, and they buy them off, essentially. ↗

— Steve Chabot

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I think we need a very, very serious effort, primarily through tax policy to provide incentives and encouragement for people to save and invest and expand their businesses and to create more jobs. The kind of thing we did in the early Reagan years, 30 years ago. I think that's essential. ↗

— Dick Cheney

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You and I are essentially infinite choice-makers. In every moment of our existence, we are in that field of all possibilities where we have access to an infinity of choices. ↗

— Deepak Chopra

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Virginia Woolf came along in the early part of the century and essentially said through her writing, yes, big books can be written about the traditional big subjects. There is war. There is the search for God. These are all very important things. ↗

— Michael Cunningham

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After all, science is essentially international, and it is only through lack of the historical sense that national qualities have been attributed to it. ↗

— Marie Curie

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Everything has been said yet few have taken advantage of it. Since all our knowledge is essentially banal, it can only be of value to minds that are not. ↗

— Raoul Vaneigem

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When I was 18 I went to college for two years and didn't work for a year which was essential for me, because my identity had been so influenced by my being an actor and I think I just needed to discover what it was to be myself, divorced from all that responsibility. ↗

— Claire Danes

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It is clear that this essential Christian doctrine gives a new value to human nature, to human history and to human life which is not to be found in the other great oriental religions. ↗

— Christopher Dawson

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