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Transcendentalism Quotes

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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.
Authors on Transcendentalism Quotes: Henry David Thoreau Ralph Waldo Emerson Jurgen Habermas Kathleen Sebelius Anton Chekhov Michael Porter Gustave Courbet Arlen Specter Mike Myers Henry A. Kissinger Avicenna Morris Raphael Cohen Willard Van Orman Quine Mary Anne Radmacher Eleanor Roosevelt Herman Melville Lyman Abbott Benjamin Tucker
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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

4.
There is an optical illusion about every person we meet.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

5.
As if you could kill time without injuring eternity.
Henry David Thoreau

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The essence of good government is trust.
Kathleen Sebelius

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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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In wildness is the preservation of the world.
Henry David Thoreau

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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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I wanted to live deep and suck out all the marrow of life.
Henry David Thoreau

12.
The uncertainty of the danger belongs to the essence of terrorism.
Jurgen Habermas

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Advertising is the very essence of democracy.
Anton Chekhov

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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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As for Doing-good, that is one of the professions which are full.
Henry David Thoreau

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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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The essence of Richard Nixon is loneliness.
Henry A. Kissinger

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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

21.
Things are in the saddle. And ride mankind.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

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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

24.
Society acquires new arts, and loses old instincts.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Everything may serve a lower as well as a higher use.
Henry David Thoreau

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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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We do not enjoy poetry unless we know it to be poetry.
Henry David Thoreau

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Even from the darkest night songs of beauty can be born.
Mary Anne Radmacher

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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