Revolution as an ideal concept always preserves the essential content of the original thought: sudden and lasting betterment.
But which is the State's essential function, aggression or defence, few seem to know or care.
We keep, in science, getting a more and more sophisticated view of our essential ignorance.
Babies choose to lackadaisically notice the quirkiest of details - unlike us grown ups, who choose instead to focus on what we believe is most essential to us. As a result, babies have a greater expanded consciousness than us grown-ups!
My essential identity is that of a writer.
That metre itself forms an essential part of all true poetry is a principle which not even the assertions of an Aristotle or the pronouncements of a Plato can disestablish.
Are two eyes, four appendages and an upright posture really essential for any creature that can ace the galactic SAT's? Maybe not. In fact, I'd venture that any aliens we ever detect or (less likely) encounter will look quite different than this self-referential stereotype.
The Christian ethic played an essential part in my upbringing.
I started taking piano lessons from the age of six years old. It's such an essential part of what I do in the production process. I wouldn't be Kygo today without those piano lessons.
The cultural decoding that many American writers require has become an even harder task in the age of globalisation. The experience they describe has grown more private; its essential background, the busy larger world, has receded.
I like to feel the butterflies in the stomach, I like to go home and have a restless night and wonder how I'm going to be able to accomplish this feat, get jittery. That hunger and those butterflies in the stomach are very essential for all creative people.
However, the Bible is called the Word of God because the whole transcript is an inspired, faithful, and infallible record of what God determined essential for us to know about Himself, the cosmos in which we live, our spiritual allies and adversaries, and our fellow man.
So I have cultivated the vast garden of human experience which is history, without troubling myself overmuch about laws, essential first causes, or how it is all coming out.
Each of us has come to share the same point of view, that a global e-marketplace is absolutely essential if we are to drive new levels of efficiency for the industry.
If you want to get to know somebody you don't ask other people: 'How is she?' You talk to the person herself. And then you don't ask about facts like 'date of birth' or 'profession of parents.' but you talk about essential questions and themes in life.
A university's essential character is that of being a center of free inquiry and criticism - a thing not to be sacrificed for anything else.
The great philosophers and the great works are standards for the selection of what is essential. Everything that we do in studying the history of philosophy ultimately serves their better understanding.
A lot of people criticize the primaries, but I think they are absolutely essential to the education of the President of the United States.
The ingenuity and creativity of the private sector is essential to meeting American's needs for a skilled work force.
Most importantly, nothing has happened to change my conviction that freedom and the love of liberty remain the essential defining attributes of our national character as a people.
In my experience it's not essential to get on with the person that you're acting opposite.
Etiquette means behaving yourself a little better than is absolutely essential.
As far as the filmmaking process is concerned, stars are essentially worthless - and absolutely essential.
This is what I think is very essential... moderation can be good for you.
Wisdom, prudence, forethought, these are essential. But not second to these that noble courage which adventures the right, and leaves the consequences to God.
The benefits of education and of useful knowledge, generally diffused through a community, are essential to the preservation of a free government.
Freedom from the desire for an answer is essential to the understanding of a problem.
I would have thought it possible to choose delegates for these larger conferences who, even if they could not speak the principal languages, could at least understand them or could have friends seated beside them who could keep them informed on essential points.
I think it is absolutely essential in a democracy to have competition in the media, a lot of competition, and we seem to be moving away from that.
I admire companies that give back to communities. It is an absolute essential for organizations to watch, mitigate, and improve their impact on the environment, people, communities, their health and overall well-being. But this is a necessary condition, not a sufficient condition.
Secret operations are essential in war; upon them the army relies to make its every move.
A more effective international disease surveillance system is essential for global security both against a bioterrorist attack or a naturally occurring disease.
Accuracy in the genetic field will be essential. Errors in testing could be disastrous.
Believe it or not, I'm a big fan of patchouli oil. I know it's not a universally liked fragrance. I usually combine it with other essential oils - I have many mixtures I like.
Touch seems to be as essential as sunlight.
A person who is gifted sees the essential point and leaves the rest as surplus.
