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• Don't wrestle with pigs. You both get dirty and the pig likes it.

  Mark Twain

  Dirty, Pigs, Likes

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• Women need solitude in order to find again the true essence of themselves.

  Anne Morrow Lindbergh

  Women, Order, Essence

  Anne Morrow Lindbergh (2002). “Wisdom from Gift from the Sea”, p.28, Peter Pauper Press, Inc.

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• Just as we take for granted the need to acquire proficiency in the basic academic subjects, I am hopeful that a time will come when we can take it for granted that children will learn, as part of the curriculum, the indispensability of inner values: love, compassion, justice, and forgiveness.

  Dalai Lama

  Love, Forgiveness, Peace

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• Whatever job you take on, make yourself valuable, then indispensable.

  Brian Tracy

  Jobs, Valuable

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• The graveyards are full of indispensable men.

  Charles de Gaulle

  Leadership, Death, Witty

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• Only useless things are indispensable.

  Francis Picabia

  Useless Things, Useless, Uselessness

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• Self-denial is indispensable to a strong character, and the highest kind comes from a religious stock.

  Theodore Parker

  Religious, Strong, Business

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• Similarly, gender-equality, supremacy of law, political participation, civil society, and transparency are among the indispensable elements that are the imperatives of democratization.

  Recep Tayyip Erdogan

  Law, Political, Elements

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• There is no indispensable man.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Jobs, Men, Presidential

  Speech accepting Democratic presidential nomination, Seagirt, N.J., 7 Aug. 1912

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• Two qualities are indispensable: first, an intellect that, even in the darkest hour, retains some glimmerings of the inner light which leads to truth; and second, the courage to follow this faint light wherever it may lead.

  Carl von Clausewitz

  Inspirational, Courage, Light

  Carl von Clausewitz, Michael Howard, Peter Paret (1989). “On War”, p.102, Princeton University Press

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• If you combat an international phenomenon, it is indispensable to share information internationally.

  Gijs de Vries

  Information, Share, Combat

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• I don't think success is harmful, as so many people say. Rather, I believe it indispensable to talent, if for nothing else than to increase the talent.

  Jeanne Moreau

  Congratulations, Believe, Thinking

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• In fact, effective solidarity with the poor, both individual persons and entire nations, is indispensable for the construction of peace.

  Claudio Hummes

  Facts, Construction, Individual

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• I say it is indispensable to look ahead of and behind oneself in the present. If there is such a thing as tradition, and I believe there is, it can only exist in the sense of the most profound movements of culture.

  Robert Delaunay

  Believe, Profound, Culture

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• The business of a scientific school is the dissemination of useful knowledge, and this is a noble enterprise and indispensable withal; society can not exist unless it goes on.

  Albert J. Nock

  School, Noble, Goes On

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• Ideology... is indispensable in any society if men are to be formed, transformed and equipped to respond to the demands of their conditions of existence.

  Louis Althusser

  Men, Demand, Existence

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• World-wide practice of Conservation and the fair and continued access by all nations to the resources they need are the two indispensable foundations of continuous plenty and of permanent peace

  Gifford Pinchot

  Practice, Two, Foundation

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• Nothing is more indispensable to true religiosity than a mediator that links us with divinity.

  Novalis

  Literature, Links, Divinity

  "Blüthenstaub". Book by Novalis, 1798.

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• Fortunately, like most children, I had learned what is most valuable, most indispensable for life before school years began, taught by apple trees, by rain and sun, river and woods.

  Hermann Hesse

  Children, Rain, School

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• Peace appeals to the hearts; studies to the brain. Both are needed, indeed indispensable. But equally indispensable is a valid link between brain and heart. And that, in a nutshell, is what peace studies and peace practice are all about.

  Johan Galtung

  Heart, Practice, Brain

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• To be sure, man's search for meaning may arouse inner tension rather than inner equilibrium. However, precisely such tension is an indispensable prerequisite of mental health. There is nothing in the world, I venture to say, that would so effectively help one to survive even the worst conditions as the knowledge that there is a meaning in one's life. There is much wisdom in the words of Nietzsche: "He who has a why to live for can bear almost any how

  Viktor E. Frankl

  Men, World, May

  Viktor E. Frankl (2006). “Man's Search for Meaning”, p.91, Beacon Press

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• The satisfaction of physical needs is indeed the indispensable pre-condition of a satisfactory existence, but in itself it is not enough. In order to be content, men must also have the possibility of developing their intellectual and artistic powers to whatever extent accords with their personal characteristics and abilities.

  Albert Einstein

  Men, Order, Intellectual

  Albert Einstein (2011). “Out of My Later Years: The Scientist, Philosopher, and Man Portrayed Through His Own Words”, p.14, Open Road Media

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• Labor, being itself a commodity, is measured as such by the labor time needed to produce the labor-commodity. And what is needed to produce this labor-commodity? Just enough labor time to produce the objects indispensable to the constant maintenance of labor, that is, to keep the worker alive and in a condition to propagate his race. The natural price of labor is no other than the wage minimum.

  Karl Marx

  Race, Maintenance, Alive

  Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels (2016). “Delphi Collected Works of Karl Marx (Illustrated)”, p.326, Delphi Classics

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• I was depressed. I knew I was lost, but I had no idea how to find myself again. It was as though I was a different person, an infuriating, disappointing yet indispensable person whose body was my only home.

  Yasmina Khadra

  Home, Ideas, Different

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• The history of ancient and modern republics had taught them that many of the evils which those republics suffered arose from the want of a certain balance, and that mutual control indispensable to a wise administration. They were convinced that popular assemblies are frequently misguided by ignorance, by sudden impulses, and the intrigues of ambitious men; and that some firm barrier against these operations was necessary. They, therefore, instituted your Senate.

  Alexander Hamilton

  Wise, Ignorance, Men

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