Indispensable Quotes - Page 11

• Science is better paid than at any time in the past. The results of this pay have been to attract into science many of those for whom the pay is the first consideration, and who scorn to sacrifice immediate profit for the freedom of development of their own concept. Moreover, this inner development, important and indispensable as it may be to the world of science in the future, generally does not have the tendency to put a single cent into the pockets of their employers.

  Norbert Wiener

  Sacrifice, Past, Important

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• You say fate is almost indispensable to literature - I think it's completely indispensable, at least in a novel, because a novel always has a plot. Even if nothing happens, even if someone just spends a day walking around Dublin, or whatever, there's still something going on.

  Daniel Kehlmann

  Fate, Thinking, Plot

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• Competition between women is good only if it does not prevail; that is to say if it coexists with affinity, affection, with a real sense of being mutually indispensable, with sudden peaks of solidarity in spite of envy, jealousy and the whole inevitable cohort of bad feelings.

  Elena Ferrante

  Real, Envy, Feelings

  Elena Ferrante (2016). “Frantumaglia: A Writer's Journey”, p.304, Penguin

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• I believe that the arts make indispensable contributions to our understanding.

  Philip Kitcher

  Art, Believe, Understanding

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• Gifford Pinchot points out that in colonial and pioneer days the forest was a foe and an obstacle to the settler. It had to be cleared away... But [now] as a nation we have not yet come to have a proper respect for the forest and to regard it as an indispensable part of our resources-one which is easily destroyed but difficult to replace; one which confers great benefits while it endures, but whose disappearance is accompanied by a train of evil consequences not readily foreseen and positively irreparable.

  Richard E. Blackwelder

  Evil, Forests, Pioneers

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• If you lose, it's the coach's fault and if you win, the players are credible, they are indispensable, so whatever happens it's going to be the coach.

  Stephen Keshi

  Winning, Player, Faults

  Source: www.sl10.ng

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• The United Kingdom and the European Union will remain indispensable partners of the United States even as they begin negotiating their ongoing relationship to ensure continued stability, security and prosperity for Europe, Great Britain and Northern Ireland, and the world.

  Barack Obama

  Europe, United States, Ongoing

  Source: www.mirror.co.uk

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• In times of great necessity, violence is indispensable.

  Bhagat Singh

  Violence

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• To build a mass movement, nonviolence is indispensable.

  Vijay Prashad

  Movement, Mass, Nonviolence

  "“Exiles From the Future”: An Interview with Vijay Prashad". Interview with Andrew Stewart, www.counterpunch.org. August 17, 2016.

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• I guess I am doomed to remain an outsider to the end, lacking as I am the indispensable qualities of an academic insider: school loyalty, conformity to the procedure, and readiness to obey by the school-endorsed criteria of cohesion and consistency.

  Zygmunt Bauman

  Loyalty, School, Consistency

  Source: www.theoryculturesociety.org

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• Genius may be for an hour or a thousand years; its indispensable quality is continuity with the life-push.

  Mary Hunter Austin

  Years, Quality, Genius

  Mary Hunter Austin, Maxwell Aley (1925). “Everyman's genius”

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• Justice is peculiarly indispensable to nations.

  Albert Pike

  Justice, Nations

  Albert Pike “Morals and Dogma : Scottish Rite in Freemasonry”, Lulu.com

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• Where unity and self-sacrifice are indispensable for the normal functioning of society, everyday life is likely to be either religiofied (common tasks turned into holy causes) or militarized.

  Eric Hoffer

  Sacrifice, Self, Unity

  Source: www.psychologytoday.com

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• Fashion is the art of making the unimportant indispensable.

  Perry Brass

  Fashion, Art, Unimportant

  Perry Brass (1998). “The Lover of My Soul: A Search for Ecstasy and Wisdom”, p.29, Perry Brass

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• Honesty, capacity, and industry are nowhere more indispensable than in public employment.

  William McKinley

  Honesty, Employment, Capacity

  William McKinley (2012). “A Supplement to A Compilation of the Messages and Papers of the Presidents”, p.290, tredition

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• From earliest times, water has always been acknowledged as a primary human good and an indispensable natural resource. Around the great rivers of the world, like the Mississippi, great cultures have developed, while over the course of the centuries the prosperity of countless societies has been linked to these waterways. Today, however, the great fluvial systems of every continent are exposed to serious threats, often as a result of man's activity and decisions.

  Pope Benedict XVI

  Men, Rivers, Water

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• Few characters in history are indispensable.

  Albert Bushnell Hart

  Character

  Albert Bushnell Hart, Ph.D. (1909). “Epochs of American History”

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• People once considered that religions were obsolete and that material science would solve all human problems. Then they have become disillusioned with materialism and machinery and have realized that spiritual sciences are also indispensable for human welfare.

  Dalai Lama

  Spiritual, People, Problem

  Interview with Robert Thurman, www.motherjones.com. November/December 1997.

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• Unity among the different races and the different religions of India is indispensable to the birth of national life.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Race, Unity, India

  Mahatma Gandhi (1967). “Collected Works of Mahatma Gandhi”

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• I hold no man to be indispensable for the welfare of the country.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Country, Men, Welfare

  Mahatma Gandhi (1927). “Young India, 1924-1926”

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• The time is fast coming when politicians will cease to fear the religion of humanity and humanitarians will find entrance into political life indispensable for full service.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Political, Humanity, Politician

  Mahatma Gandhi (1967). “Collected Works”

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• We mustn't romanticize suffering. It can turn people bitter and hard, although it does seem to have been almost indispensable in making people into the kind of leaders that we admire.

  Desmond Tutu

  People, Leader, Suffering

  Source: www.egonzehnder.com

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• It is easy to see how after receiving this adoration for a term or two most members become convinced they are indispensable.

  Tom Coburn

  Two, Political, Receiving

  Senator Tom Coburn, John Hart (2013). “Breach of Trust: How Washington Turns Outsiders Into Insiders”, p.33, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• Perfume is the indispensable complement to the personality of women, the finishing touch on a dress.

  Christian Dior

  Personality, Finishing, Dresses

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• An indispensable anthology of hope and inspiration. Put away your Prozac, and pick up The Impossible Will Take a Little While.

  Arianna Huffington

  Inspiration, Littles, Impossible

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