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Cleanliness is not next to godliness nowadays, for cleanliness is made an essential and godliness is regarded as an offence.
The quest of the truth had been born in me - the most tragic and incomplete, as well as the most essential, of man's quests.
Socialist democracy is not a luxury but an absolute, essential necessity for overthrowing capitalism and building socialism.
We live in the kind of world where courage is the most essential of virtues; without courage, the other virtues are useless.
As a traveler, I've often found that the more a culture differs from my own, the more I am struck by its essential humanity.
The ability to choose is at the essential core of our grandeur. Even evil exists because God respects our ability to choose.
The practise of an art is essential to the whole man, not because of what art is but because of what art does to the artist.
The three essentials of Hinduism are belief in God, in the Vedas as revelation, in the doctrine of Karma and transmigration.
Progress is built, in effect, upon the foundations of necessary failure. That is the essential paradox of expert performance.
Time in nature is not leisure time; it's an essential investment in our chidlren's health (and also, by the way, in our own).
In the continuing debate over the morality of enhanced interrogation, an essential consideration is often overlooked: intent.
The essential trait in the moral consciousness, is the control of some feeling or feelings by some other feeling or feelings.
No matter how confused or deluded we may be at the moment, the underlying and essential nature of our being is clear and pure
What is essential is not the answer but the questions; the answers indeed are the death of the life that is in the questions.
Revolution as an ideal concept always preserves the essential content of the original thought: sudden and lasting betterment.
You start like a white blanket and you have to preserve that, and each year that you live chips away at your essential value.
Love is a very ancient force, which served its purpose in its day but no longer is essential for the survival of the species.
There are no wise few. Every aristocracy that has ever existed has behaved, in all essential points, exactly like a small mob.
I expect that essential oils may some day prove a vital weapon in the fight against strains of antibiotic-resi stant bacteria.
Everybody has to know where they're coming from, what they're doing, why they're doing it, who they are. These are essentials.
Power is the ability to take one's place in whatever discourse is essential to action and the right to have one's part matter.
Conflict in close relationships is not only inevitable, it's essential. Intimacy connects people who are inevitably different.
My aim is to create a happy society with genuine friendship. Friendship between Tibetan and Chinese peoples is very essential.
I get travel-sized versions of all of my essentials. That way, I can stay on the same routine whether I'm home or on the road.
I love doing things quietly. I love being with friends. I love my parents and my brother Guglielmo. They are essentials to me.
I honestly don’t know whether I am describing something essential about the way we know God or merely my own weakness of mind.
The home is the basis of a righteous life and no other instrumentality can take its place nor fulfill its essential functions.
The essential quality of life is living' the essential quality of living is change; change is evolution; and we are part of it.
What is termed Sin is an essential element of progress. Without it the world would stagnate, or grow old, or become colourless.
It is our task-our essential, central, crucial task-to transform ourselves from mere social creatures into community creatures.
Artillery is more essential to cavalry than to infantry, because cavalry has no fire for its defence, but depends on the sabre.
Tolerance is the one essential ingredient ... You can take it from me that the Queen has the quality of tolerance in abundance.
You need, as a historian, essential triangulation from your subject and the only way you get that triangulation is through time.
Every cure of obesity must begin with these three essential precepts:discretion in eating, moderation in sleeping, and exercise.
The contraction of theological influence has been at once the best measure, and the essential condition of intellectual advance.
The path is focus. The power of focus is absolutely essential. To stop all thoughts, you have to have tremendous power of focus.
We've imposed a hiring freeze on non-essential federal workers. We've imposed a temporary moratorium on new federal regulations.
All professions, all work, all activity in the human world finds its essential meaning in the context of a people's cosmic story.
Knowing the future is difficult, controlling the future is impossible. Knowing today is essential; controlling today is possible.
Meditating everyday is essential. If you meditate every day and learn to control and stop your thoughts, you will become psychic.
Being successful as a creative person is a crapshoot, but it's essential if you feel drawn to being creative that you express it.
The essential thing is to run period! And to do it for a long time and consistently and then everything will take care of itself.
The thing that I champion is sustainability. My terror is that suddenly we see it as a luxury, not an essential. That's a danger.
I am a firm believer in the importance of democracy, not only as the ultimate goal, but also as an essential part of the process.
I contend that not only can you laugh at adversity, but it is essential to do so if you are to deal with setbacks without defeat.
Getting the pretty back is about getting back in touch with your essential self: the part of you that knows what you really want.
It is my deliberate opinion that the one essential requisite of human welfare in all ways is scientific knowledge of human nature.
We Americans are trained to think big, talk big, act big, love big, admire bigness but then the essential mystery is in the small.
Formal learning can teach you a great deal, but many of the essential skills in life are the ones you have to develop on your own.
It is essential for the good of criticism that both the critic and the public face the fact that a review is not the voice of God.