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Religion must mainly be a matter of principles only. It cannot be a matter of rules. The moment it degenerates into rules, it ceases to be a religion, as it kills responsibility which is an essence of the true religious act.
B. R. Ambedkar
Religion
Matter
Responsibility
Rules
Must
Religious
Only
Mainly
True
Principles
Ceases
Essence
Cannot
Which
Act
Moment
The essence of Government is power; and power, lodged as it must be in human hands, will ever be liable to abuse.
James Madison
Government
Will
Power
Liable
Lodged
Must
Abuse
Hands
Essence
Human
Graduation
Ever
Your surroundings may change but your essence and your personality pretty much stay the same.
Jenna Dewan
Change
Personality
Stay
Pretty
Surroundings
Same
Essence
May
Much
Your
The essence of a free government consists in an effectual control of rivalries.
John Adams
Government
Free
Control
Consists
Free Government
Rivalries
Effectual
Essence
Hypocrisy is the essence of snobbery, but all snobbery is about the problem of belonging.
Alexander Theroux
Problem
Hypocrisy
Snobbery
About
Essence
Belonging
If we had no hope - for a cure, for winning the lottery, for falling in love, for the end of war, for being free of abuse, or for having food, warmth, clothing, and shelter - we would have no reason to go on. What you hope for doesn't matter, but rather the essence of hope itself.
Bernie Siegel
Love
War
Hope
Food
You
Matter
Free
Would
No Hope
Rather
Having
No Reason
Winning
Had
Abuse
Shelter
Go
Falling
Falling In Love
Lottery
End
Itself
Cure
Essence
Being
Clothing
Warmth
Reason
Ingratitude is the essence of vileness.
Immanuel Kant
Essence
Ingratitude
Soon silence will have passed into legend. Man has turned his back on silence. Day after day he invents machines and devices that increase noise and distract humanity from the essence of life, contemplation, meditation.
Jean Arp
Life
Day
Silence
Technology
Man
Noise
Humanity
Will
Distract
Legend
Increase
Meditation
Back
Machines
He
Soon
Devices
Contemplation
Passed
His
Essence
After
Turned
The essence of America - that which really unites us - is not ethnicity, or nationality or religion - it is an idea - and what an idea it is: That you can come from humble circumstances and do great things.
Condoleezza Rice
Great
Religion
You
Humble
Great Things
Circumstances
Idea
Come
America
Essence
Nationality
Which
Us
Really
Ethnicity
Things
Unites
The essence of immorality is the tendency to make an exception of myself.
Jane Addams
Myself
Immorality
Tendency
Exception
Make
Essence
This is the essence of all sciences - that you should know who you will be when the Day of Reckoning arrives.
Rumi
Day
You
Will
Reckoning
Know
Sciences
Essence
Should
Who
No one can become fully aware of the very essence of another human being unless he loves him.
Viktor E. Frankl
Human Being
Become
Unless
No-One
He
Him
Another
Very
Essence
Human
Being
Loves
Fully
Aware
Certain springs are tapped only when we are alone. Women need solitude in order to find again the true essence of themselves; that firm strand which will be the indispensable center of a whole web of human relationships.
Anne Morrow Lindbergh
Alone
Women
Solitude
Will
Relationships
Find
Web
Only
Indispensable
Firm
True
Springs
Essence
Human
Order
Center
Which
Again
Themselves
Certain
Strand
Whole
Human Relationships
Need
The soul is your innermost being. The presence that you are beyond form. The consciousness that you are beyond form, that is the soul. That is who you are in essence.
Eckhart Tolle
You
Soul
Beyond
Essence
Being
Form
Your
Who
Presence
Consciousness
Innermost
The essence of statesmanship is not a rigid adherence to the past, but a prudent and probing concern for the future.
Hubert H. Humphrey
Future
Past
Statesmanship
Adherence
Rigid
Concern
Prudent
Essence
Probing
Like bones to the human body, the axle to the wheel, the wing to the bird, and the air to the wing, so is liberty the essence of life. Whatever is done without it is imperfect.
Jose Marti
Life
Liberty
Bird
Whatever
Air
Wing
Imperfect
Like
Without
Done
Essence
Wheel
Human
Human Body
Body
Bones
Agriculture is now a motorized food industry, the same thing in its essence as the production of corpses in the gas chambers and the extermination camps, the same thing as blockades and the reduction of countries to famine, the same thing as the manufacture of hydrogen bombs.
Martin Heidegger
Food
Agriculture
Same Thing
Corpses
Food Industry
Hydrogen
Countries
Industry
Reduction
Camps
Same
Essence
Famine
Production
Manufacture
Now
Chambers
Thing
Bombs
Gas
Gas Chambers
Extermination
The speed of decision making is the essence of good governance.
Piyush Goyal
Good
Decision
Speed
Making
Governance
Essence
Decision-Making
Good Governance
The very essence of leadership is that you have to have vision. You can't blow an uncertain trumpet.
Theodore Hesburgh
Leadership
You
Vision
Uncertain
Trumpet
Very
Blow
Essence
In essence, if we want to direct our lives, we must take control of our consistent actions. It's not what we do once in a while that shapes our lives, but what we do consistently.
Tony Robbins
Control
Our
Once
Our Lives
Consistent
Consistently
Must
Direct
Take
Shapes
Essence
Want
While
Actions
Lives
Childish egocentrism is, in its essence, an inability to differentiate between the ego and the social environment.
Jean Piaget
Ego
Childish
Environment
Between
Essence
Inability
Social
Differentiate
Design is the fundamental soul of a man-made creation that ends up expressing itself in successive outer layers of the product or service. The iMac is not just the color or translucence or the shape of the shell. The essence of the iMac is to be the finest possible consumer computer in which each element plays together.
Steve Jobs
Service
Soul
Together
Creation
Design
Possible
Outer
Finest
Color
Layers
Computer
Shape
Consumer
Computers
Shell
Up
Itself
Man-Made
Essence
Just
Ends
Which
Product
Successive
Each
Element
Expressing
Fundamental
Plays
The essence of romantic love is that wonderful beginning, after which sadness and impossibility may become the rule.
Anita Brookner
Love
Love Is
Wonderful
Sadness
Become
Beginning
Rule
Impossibility
Essence
May
Romantic
After
Romantic Love
Which
Advertising is the very essence of democracy.
Anton Chekhov
Democracy
Advertising
Very
Essence
Freedom of expression - in particular, freedom of the press - guarantees popular participation in the decisions and actions of government, and popular participation is the essence of our democracy.
Corazon Aquino
Government
Freedom
Democracy
Our
Press
Freedom Of Expression
Participation
Particular
Essence
Decisions
Popular
Actions
Expression
Guarantees
Real laughter is spontaneous. Like water from the spring it bubbles forth a creation of mingled action and spontaneity - two magic potions in themselves - the very essence of laughter - the unrestrained emotion within us!
Douglas Fairbanks
Water
Laughter
Spring
Creation
Action
Magic
Emotion
Bubbles
Like
Spontaneity
Spontaneous
Within
Real
Very
Essence
Forth
Themselves
Us
Two
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