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The essence of strategy is choosing what not to do.
Michael Porter
The crux of strategy is deciding what to leave undone.
2.
As to the mental essence, we find it in infants devoid of every mental form.
Avicenna
3.
The essence of a democracy is a free electorate.
Arlen Specter
7.
Cruel persecutions and intolerance are not accidents, but grow out of the very essence of religion, namely, its absolute claims.
Morris Raphael Cohen
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Painting is the representation of visible forms. The essence of realism is its negation of the ideal.
Gustave Courbet
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You can never really live anyone else's life, not even your child's. The influence you exert is through your own life, and what you've become yourself.
Eleanor Roosevelt
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The uncertainty of the danger belongs to the essence of terrorism.
Jurgen Habermas
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Canada is the essence of not being. Not English, not American, it is the mathematic of not being. And a subtle flavour - we're more like celery as a flavour.
Mike Myers
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I heartily accept the motto, "That government is best which governs least"; and I should like to see it acted up to more rapidly and systematically.
Henry David Thoreau
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The essence of government is control, or the attempt to control.
Benjamin Tucker
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Meaning is what essence becomes when it is divorced from the object of reference and wedded to the word.
Willard Van Orman Quine
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Surely, we are provided with senses as well fitted to penetrate the spaces of the real, the substantial, the eternal, as these outward are to penetrate the material universe. Veias, Menu, Zoroaster, Socrates, Christ, Shakespeare, Swedenborg,--these are some of our astronomers.
Henry David Thoreau
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I did not wish to live what was not life, living is so dear; nor did I wish to practice resignation, unless it was quite necessary.
Henry David Thoreau
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The very essence of rationalism is that it assumes that the reason is the highest faculty in man and the lord of all the rest.
Lyman Abbott
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Every man is entitled to come to Cattle-Show, even a transcendentalist; and for my part I am more interested in the men than in the cattle.
Henry David Thoreau
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The so-called Transcendentalists are not the only people who deal in Transcendentals. On the contrary, we seem to see that the Utilitarians,--the every-day world's people themselves, far transcend those inferior Transcendentalists by their own incomprehensible worldly maxims.
Herman Melville