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Unlike the phone system, which is engineered around an application, the Internet layered model allows you to, in essence, separate applications from infrastructure.
Michael K. Powell

Around, System, Internet

For books are more than books, they are the life, the very heart and core of ages past, the reason why men lived and worked and died, the essence and quintessence of their lives.
Gene Fowler

Life, Men, Heart

In essence the Renaissance was simply the green end of one of civilization's hardest winters.
John Fowles

End, Simply, Green

The essence of a government health care system - for people who have never lived under it and don't know - is waiting, waiting, waiting. You wait for everything. You wait for years for operations that are routine in America.
Mark Steyn

Health, Government, Waiting

Performance art is the ultimate in creativity. Since it has so many possibilities at creativity, it's essence tends to become creativity.
Jack Bowman

Art, Creativity, Become

I want to be defined by my own essence.
Kathy Bates

The cartoons which I enjoy have caused some kind of out rage, but they have got people talking about these issues out in the open and in essence that's what its all about.
Jonathan Shapiro

Enjoy, Talking, Open

Our invisibility is the essence of our oppression. And until we eliminate that invisibility, people are going to be able to perpetuate the lies and myths about gay people.
Jean O'Leary

Gay, Able, Until

I maintain also that substances, whether material or immaterial, cannot be conceived in their bare essence without any activity, activity being of the essence of substance in general.
Gottfried Leibniz

Cannot, Whether, General

The essence of parenthood is to make children think that they are the most handsome, intelligent, brilliant person in the world.
Maurice Saatchi

Children, Person, Handsome

At the end of the day, the position is just a position, a title is just a title, and those things come and go. It's really your essence and your values that are important.
Queen Rania of Jordan

End, Important, Values

In essence, the science of agronomy is inseparable from biology.
Trofim Lysenko

Science, Biology

A lyric, it is true, is the expression of personal emotion, but then so is all poetry, and to suppose that there are several kinds of poetry, differing from each other in essence, is to be deceived by wholly artificial divisions which have no real being.
John Drinkwater

Poetry, True, Real

The settlement of the Land of Israel is the essence of Zionism. Without settlement, we will not fulfill Zionism. It's that simple.
Yitzhak Shamir

Simple, Land, Israel

The essence of morality is a questioning about morality; and the decisive move of human life is to use ceaselessly all light to look for the origin of the opposition between good and evil.
Georges Bataille

Life, Good, Evil

The essence of a man is found in his faults.
Francis Picabia

I don't see a benefit in accepting every single little morsel of work that comes along because I think, in essence, what you're doing is you're raping yourself really.
Karl Urban

Work, Yourself, Single

When it's working, what acting is really about is getting into the essence of a moment in a creative, joyous way - through whatever frees you up.
Lili Taylor

Through, Working, Moment

If you are interested in ideas, radio is way more pure than television. You're not distracted by somebody's nose or hair or posture. You can really see how someone thinks and penetrate to the essence of who that person is.
Terry Gross

Someone, Person, Hair

The risk of a terrorist victory is greater when in fighting terror, democracy betrays its own essence.
Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero

Democracy, Fighting, Victory

Pretending to be other people is my game and that to me is the essence of the whole business of acting.
John Hurt

Business, Game, Acting

Paul's the writer. Yeah, I wrote a little of that stuff, but that's just technically true. In spirit, and in essence of the truth, it doesn't matter. So I don't know, maybe I'm being foolish for not being technical. Yeah, I wrote a certain portion of the things.
Art Garfunkel

Truth, True, Matter

These humiliations are the essence of the game.
Alistair Cooke

Your surroundings may change but your essence and your personality pretty much stay the same.
Jenna Dewan

Change, May, Pretty

If you're not electing Christians, then in essence you are going to legislate sin.
Katherine Harris

Sin, Christians, Legislate

Fortunes are made, and disappear, over the lifetime of a single generation. Today, a person in essence takes his wealth from society just for the duration of his or her lifetime. The next generation has to create it anew.
Mikhail Khodorkovsky

Society, Today, Single

The right of election is the very essence of the constitution.
Junius

Sony could have $50 million and a sound stage and A-list actors and never make the same film. The constraints on this film became the essence of this film, became the power of this film.
Joshua Leonard

Power, Same, Film

Nature is a collective idea, and, though its essence exist in each individual of the species, can never in its perfection inhabit a single object.
Henry Fuseli

Nature, Single, Idea

Painting is the representation of visible forms. The essence of realism is its negation of the ideal.
Gustave Courbet

Painting, Ideal, Visible

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