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«The essence of teaching is to make learning contagious, to have one idea spark another.»
Author: Marva Collins
(Educator)
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«Writing is the most demanding of callings, more harrowing than a warrior's, more lonely than a whaling captain's-that, in essence, is the modern writer's message.»
Author: Melvin Maddocks
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Writing
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«To hide a passion totally (or even to hide, more simply, its excess) is inconceivable: not because the human subject is too weak, but because passion is in essence made to be seen: the hiding must be seen: I want you to know that I am hiding something from you, that is the active paradox I must resolve: at one and the same time it must be known and not known: I want you to know that I don't want to show my feelings: that is the message I address to the other.»
Author: Roland Barthes
(Critic)
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«The essence of philosophy is that a man should so live that his happiness shall depend as little as possible on external things.»
Author: Epictetus
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Philosophy
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«Those who are slow to know suppose that slowness is the essence of knowledge»
Author: Friedrich Nietzsche
(Critic, Philosopher, Scholar)
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«The worst sin toward our fellow creatures is not to hate them, but to be indifferent to them; that's the essence of inhumanity»
Author: George Bernard Shaw
(Critic, Essayist, Playwright)
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Sin
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