#vital

Poetry is nearer to vital truth than history. ↗

— Plato

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Connecting people to jobs and to each other is absolutely vital to a city's economy (and to the wider economy). ↗

— Lucy Powell

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It is vitally important that we implement immigration reform. We need a bill that strengthens our borders and protects this nation, but that also makes it simpler for good people to become Americans. ↗

— Dave Reichert

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What I did was take the Jesus of the Gospels, the Son of God, the Son of the Virgin Mary, and sought to make Him utterly believable, a vital breathing character. ↗

— Anne Rice

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Failure and its accompanying misery is for the artist his most vital source of creative energy. ↗

— Montgomery Clift

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It is vital that the entire international system is ready to meet the challenges of future disasters. ↗

— Andrew Mitchell

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Force is the vital principle and immediate parent of despotism. ↗

— Thomas Jefferson

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I can only say that one's individual situation is more real and important to oneself than the devastations of fates and empires especially when they do not vitally affect oneself. ↗

— Isaac Rosenberg

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From the middle of life onward, only he remains vitally alive who is ready to die with life. ↗

— Samuel Johnson

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The restriction of religion to private life therefore does not necessarily threaten the vital interests of the majority religion, if there is one, and it protects minority religions from tyranny of the majority. ↗

— Phillip E. Johnson

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