#essential

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

#along #big #books #came #century

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

#attributed #been #essentially #historical #international

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

#banal #been #essentially #everything #few

But which is the State's essential function, aggression or defence, few seem to know or care. ↗

— Benjamin Tucker

#care #defence #essential #few #function

In intelligence work, there are limits to the amount of information one can share. Confidentiality is essential. ↗

— Gijs de Vries

#confidentiality #essential #information #intelligence #limits

An essential idea is that if you give to some person or endeavor in life, you will make that more important. ↗

— George Weinberg

#essential #give #idea #important #life

The problem is essentially that of communications to an army in action. After a rapid advance communications become disorganized, and there is a temporary halting until they are again in working order. ↗

— John Desmond Bernal

#advance #after #again #army #become

I assure this committee that, if I am confirmed, I will be strictly independent of all political influences... essential to that institution's ability to function effectively and achieve its mandated objectives. ↗

— Ben Bernanke

#achieve #am #assure #committee #confirmed

Status anxiety definitely exists at a political level. Many Iraqis were annoyed with the US essentially for reasons of status: for not showing them respect, for humiliating them. ↗

— Alain de Botton

#anxiety #definitely #essentially #exists #humiliating

It is essential to seek out enemy agents who have come to conduct espionage against you and to bribe them to serve you. Give them instructions and care for them. Thus doubled agents are recruited and used. ↗

— Sun Tzu

#agents #bribe #care #come #conduct