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They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.
Benjamin Franklin

Give, Liberty, Deserve

I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived.
Henry David Thoreau

Life, Live, Die

Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own... Jealousy is a disease, love is a healthy condition. The immature mind often mistakes one for the other, or assumes that the greater the love, the greater the jealousy.
Robert A. Heinlein

Love, Happiness, Jealousy

Frustration, although quite painful at times, is a very positive and essential part of success.
Bo Bennett

Success, Positive, Times

There are many things that are essential to arriving at true peace of mind, and one of the most important is faith, which cannot be acquired without prayer.
John Wooden

Faith, Peace, Mind

Honesty and integrity are absolutely essential for success in life - all areas of life. The really good news is that anyone can develop both honesty and integrity.
Zig Ziglar

Life, Success, Good

And now here is my secret, a very simple secret; it is only with the heart that one can see rightly, what is essential is invisible to the eye.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Heart, Simple, Here

It is essential that there should be organization of labor. This is an era of organization. Capital organizes and therefore labor must organize.
Theodore Roosevelt

Labor, Era, Organize

It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Heart, Eye, Invisible

The absurd is the essential concept and the first truth.
Albert Camus

Truth, Absurd, Concept

Every person who wins in any undertaking must be willing to cut all sources of retreat. Only by doing so can one be sure of maintaining that state of mind known as a burning desire to win - essential to success.
Napoleon Hill

Success, Mind, Person

Diplomats are just as essential to starting a war as soldiers are for finishing it... You take diplomacy out of war, and the thing would fall flat in a week.
Will Rogers

War, Soldiers, Week

The essential elements of giving are power and love - activity and affection - and the consciousness of the race testifies that in the high and appropriate exercise of these is a blessedness greater than any other.
Mark Hopkins

Love, Power, Giving

It is essential to seek out enemy agents who have come to conduct espionage against you and to bribe them to serve you. Give them instructions and care for them. Thus doubled agents are recruited and used.
Sun Tzu

Care, Enemy, Give

I do not think that there is any other quality so essential to success of any kind as the quality of perseverance. It overcomes almost everything, even nature.
John D. Rockefeller

Success, Nature, Everything

The Hebrews have done more to civilize men than any other nation. If I were an atheist, and believed blind eternal fate, I should still believe that fate had ordained the Jews to be the most essential instrument for civilizing the nations.
John Adams

Men, Done, Nation

Belladonna, n.: In Italian a beautiful lady; in English a deadly poison. A striking example of the essential identity of the two tongues.
Ambrose Bierce

Beautiful, Two, English

An essential aspect of creativity is not being afraid to fail.
Edwin Land

Creativity, Afraid, Fail

Secret operations are essential in war; upon them the army relies to make its every move.
Sun Tzu

War, Secret, Move

Nothing brings me more happiness than trying to help the most vulnerable people in society. It is a goal and an essential part of my life - a kind of destiny. Whoever is in distress can call on me. I will come running wherever they are.
Princess Diana

Life, Happiness, Society

Trust is the glue of life. It's the most essential ingredient in effective communication. It's the foundational principle that holds all relationships.
Stephen Covey

Life, Trust, Principle

The only way that has ever been discovered to have a lot of people cooperate together voluntarily is through the free market. And that's why it's so essential to preserving individual freedom.
Milton Friedman

Freedom, Together, Through

It seems essential, in relationships and all tasks, that we concentrate only on what is most significant and important.
Soren Kierkegaard

Important, Seems, Tasks

Honesty does not always bring a response of love, but it is absolutely essential to it.
Ray Blanton

Love, Honesty, Bring

Freedom from the desire for an answer is essential to the understanding of a problem.
Jiddu Krishnamurti

Freedom, Problem, Desire

For all right judgment of any man or things it is useful, nay, essential, to see his good qualities before pronouncing on his bad.
Thomas Carlyle

Good, Bad, Before

The family is the first essential cell of human society.
Pope John XXIII

Family, Society, Human

The essential act of war is destruction, not necessarily of human lives, but of the products of human labor.
George Orwell

War, Human, Lives

A person who is gifted sees the essential point and leaves the rest as surplus.
Thomas Carlyle

Person, Point, Rest

The ordinary scientific man is strictly a sentimentalist. He is a sentimentalist in this essential sense, that he is soaked and swept away by mere associations.
Gilbert K. Chesterton

Away, Sense, Scientific

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