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Old age and sickness bring out the essential characteristics of a man. ↗

— Felix Frankfurter

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What most people in our culture mean by being lovable is essentially a mixture between being popular and having sex appeal. ↗

— Erich Fromm

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What I've discovered is that in art, as in music, there's a lot of truth-and then there's a lie. The artist is essentially creating his work to make this lie a truth, but he slides it in amongst all the others. The tiny little lie is the moment I live for, my moment. It's the moment that the audience falls in love. ↗

— Lady Gaga

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Man's nature is not essentially evil. Brute nature has been know to yield to the influence of love. You must never despair of human nature. ↗

— Mahatma Gandhi

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I find out more about Jack every week. Essentially, I'm the same character, but I'm having more fun this season because I'm doing more aliases, you know. I like the surprise of not knowing. ↗

— Victor Garber

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Faith is not a notion, but a real strong essential hunger, an attracting or magnetic desire of Christ, which as it proceeds from a seed of the divine nature in us, so it attracts and unites with its like. ↗

— William Law

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The essential function of art is moral. But a passionate, implicit morality, not didactic. A morality which changes the blood, rather than the mind. ↗

— David Herbert Lawrence

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Restoring responsibility and accountability is essential to the economic and fiscal health of our nation. ↗

— Carl Levin

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No, I only like whether I like the story or not, essentially see something in it that isn't completely there. ↗

— Vincente Minnelli

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My father taught me to paint when I was young with watercolors and so I learned at a very young age the essential elements of the value of light and composition. ↗

— Matthew Modine

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