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• No one is indispensable to anyone else. You imagine you're necessary to him or that he will be very unhappy if you leave him, but I'm sure that if you do, within three months he will have fitted another face into your role and you'll see that no one is suffering because of your absence. You must feel free to do whatever feels best to you. Being someone's nurse is no way to live unless you're unable to do anything else. You have to say something on your own and you ought to be thinking, first and foremost, about that.

  Francoise Gilot

  Thinking, Nurse, Suffering

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• Hoffmeier furnishes a sophisticated fresh approach to the Biblical Exodus traditions filled with detailed Egyptological background, and utterly indispensable because of its basis in recent, and in many cases as yet unpublished, archaeological data. This is a virtual encyclopedia of the Exodus.

  Baruch Halpern

  Biblical, Data, Tradition

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• As a teacher with over thirty years of experience, I've found that students are hungry for material that goes beyond simply learning tune after tune. In fact, my students suggested a good portion of the material presented here. This lesson should be an indispensable aid to the aspiring bluegrass banjoist.

  Tony Trischka

  Teacher, Years, Facts

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• Good works are indispensable to salvation - not as its ground or means, however, but as its consequence and evidence.

  John Stott

  Mean, Good Work, Salvation

  John Stott (2014). “The Message of Ephesians”, p.1, InterVarsity Press

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• Opportunity is important but exertion is indispensable.

  Frederick Douglass

  Opportunity, Important, Self Made

  Frederick Douglass (2016). “The Essential Douglass: Selected Writings and Speeches”, p.338, Hackett Publishing

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• I consider an intimate knowledge of the Bible an indispensable quality of a well educated man.

  Robert Andrews Millikan

  Men, Quality, Intimate

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• Setting aside the issue of gender while highlighting the symmetry of bodies seemed indispensable in order to focus on the narrative of human beings in the making.

  Alante Kavaite

  Order, Issues, Focus

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• A militia law, requiring all men, or with very few exceptions besides cases of conscience, to be provided with arms and ammunition... is always a wise institution, and, in the present circumstances of our country, indispensable.

  John Adams

  Wise, Country, Men

  John Adams (1851). “The Works of John Adams, Second President of the United States: With a Life of the Author, Notes and Illustrations”, p.199

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• Many Christians backslide...They are unable to stand against the temptations of the world, or of their old nature. They strive to do their best to fight against sin, and to serve God, but they have no strength. They have never really grasped the secret: The Lord Jesus will every day from heaven continue His work in me. But on one condition-the soul must give Him time each day to impart His love and his grace. Time alone with the Lord Jesus each day is the indispensable condition of growth and power.

  Andy Murray

  Christian, Jesus, Prayer

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• Public confidence in the integrity of the Government is indispensable to faith in democracy; and when we lose faith in the system, we have lost faith in everything we fight and spend for.

  Adlai E. Stevenson

  Confidence, Integrity, Fighting

  "Speeches of Adlai Stevenson", (p. 31), 1952.

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• The linchpin is an individual who can walk into chaos and create order, someone who can invent, connect, create, and make things happen. Every worthwhile institution has indispensable people who make differences like these.

  Seth

  Order, Differences, People

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• There are three indispensable requirements for a missionary: 1. Patience 2. Patience 3. Patience.

  Hudson Taylor

  Missionary, Three, Requirements

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• Industry is not only the instrument of improvement, but the foundation of pleasure. He who is a stranger to it may possess, but cannot enjoy, for it is labor only which gives relish to pleasure. It is the indispensable condition of possessing a sound mind in a sound body, and it is the appointed vehicle of every good to man.

  Robert Blair

  Men, Giving, Mind

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• A solemn and religious regard to spiritual and eternal things is an indispensable element of all true greatness.

  Daniel Webster

  Spiritual, Religious, Greatness

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, (p. 292), 1895.

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• Paraphrase, in the sense of summary, is as indispensable to the novel-critic as close analysis is to the critic of lyric poetry. The natural deduction is that novels are paraphrasable whereas poems are not. But this is a false deduction because close analysis is itself a disguised form of paraphrase.

  David Lodge

  Lyric Poetry, Analysis, Literature

  David Lodge (2002). “Language of Fiction: Essays in Criticism and Verbal Analysis of the English Novel”, p.37, Psychology Press

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• Raising the minimum wage a lot across the board would make a big difference. It's not the only thing, but it's an indispensable part of solving the problem.

  Nick Hanauer

  Differences, Boards, Minimum Wage

  "'Shit's Gonna Hit the Fan': Talking to a Billionaire About Class War". Interview with Hamilton Nolan, gawker.com. June 16, 2015.

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• Keep at it! The one talent that's indispensable to a writer is persistence. You must write the book, else there is no book. It will not finish itself. Do not try to commit art. Just tell the damned story.

  Tom Clancy

  Art, Book, Writing

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• The cemetery is full of indispensable people.

  Winston Churchill

  People, Cemetery

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• The role of a trainer or consultant is to empower the customer, not to make himself indispensable

  Bertrand Meyer

  Empowering, Roles, Trainers

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• As it is, plain reasoning assures me I am not indispensable to the universe: but with this reasoning, somehow, does not travel my belief.

  James Branch Cabell

  Doe, Belief, Reasoning

  James Branch Cabell (2013). “The Essential James Branch Cabell Collection”, eBookIt.com

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• Your Majesty, I am like you. I do no work. I do nothing, but I am indispensable.

  Sergei Diaghilev

  Majesty, Like You

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• Hypotheses are the scaffolds which are erected in front of a building and removedd when the building is completed. They are indispensable to the worker; but the worker must not mistake the scaffolding for the building.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Mistake, Science, Building

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• For too long the development debate has ignored the fact that poverty tends to be characterized not only by material insufficiency but also by denial of rights. What is needed is a rights-based approach to development. Ensuring essential political, economic and social entitlements and human dignity for all people provides the rationale for policy. These are not a luxury affordable only to the rich and powerful but an indispensable component of national development efforts.

  Kofi Annan

  Powerful, Rights, Luxury

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• Applaud us when we prevail, correct us when we fail; but, above all, do not let this indispensable, irreplaceable institution wither, languish or perish as a result of Member States' indifference, inattention or financial starvation.

  Kofi Annan

  Inattention, Financial, Indifference

  Kofi Atta Annan (1998). “The quotable Kofi Annan: selections from speeches and statements by the Secretary-General”, United Nations

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• Knowledge is indispensable to Christian life and service. If we do not use the mind that God has given us, we condemn ourselves to spiritual superficiality and cut ourselves off from many of the riches of God’s grace.

  John Stott

  Christian, Spiritual, Cutting

  John Stott (2013). “Your Mind Matters: The Place of the Mind in the Christian Life”, p.84, InterVarsity Press

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