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• In a one-hour documentary, you can tell maybe ten stories. That's how the documentary is structured. I wrote to forty of the greatest historians of both African and African-American history, and hired them as consultants. I had them submit what they thought were the indispensable stories, the ones they felt this series absolutely had to include.

  Henry Louis Gates

  African American, Documentaries, Stories

  Source: pittsburghurbanmedia.com

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• America remains the one indispensable nation. And the world needs a strong America.

  Barack Obama

  Strong, America, Needs

  Source: genius.com

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• The way of God's grace becomes indispensable when we realize that the way of God's law is inflexible.

  Tullian Tchividjian

  Law, Grace, Way

  Twitter post from Feb 15, 2015

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• The State, of course, is absolutely indispensable to the preservation of law and order, and the promotion of peace and social cooperation. What is unnecessary and evil, what abridges the liberty and threatens the true welfare of the individual, is the State that has usurped excessive powers and grown beyond its legitimate function - the super-State, the socialist State, the redistributive State, in brief, the ironically misnamed 'Welfare State.'

  Henry Hazlitt

  Order, Law, Evil

  Henry Hazlitt (1971). “Man Vs. the Welfare State”, p.195, Ludwig von Mises Institute

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• I believe in corporations. They are indispensable instruments of our modern civilization. But I believe they should be so regulated that they shall act for the interests of the community as a whole.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Believe, Civilization, Community

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• It's indispensable to fully understand the basis and modus operandi of the Law of Karma to orientate the ship of our life in a positive and exemplary way.

  Samael Aun Weor

  Karma, Law, Way

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• I have always endeavored to acquire strict business habits; they are indispensable to every man. If your trade is with the Celestial Empire, then some small counting house on the coast, in some Salem harbor, will be fixture enough.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Men, House, Empires

  Henry David Thoreau (2004). “Walden: 150th Anniversary Illustrated Edition of the American Classic”, p.17, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The most successful stuff is sold to you as indispensable social information. The message in the music is, 'We are terribly, terribly slick and suave, and if you listen to us, you can probably get a leg up in society, too.'

  Iggy Pop

  Successful, Legs, Suave

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

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• Photography has become an outstanding and indispensable means of propaganda in the revolutionary struggle.

  Willi Munzenberg

  Photography, Struggle, Mean

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• I believe that my race will succeed in proportion as it learns to do a common thing in an uncommon manner; learns to do a thing so thoroughly that no one can improve upon what it has done; learns to make its services of indispensable value.

  Booker T. Washington

  Believe, Race, Done

  Booker T. Washington (2012). “Up from Slavery”, p.137, Courier Corporation

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• But young men have not only this frivolous ambition of being thought masters of execution, inciting them on the one hand, but also their natural sloth tempting them on the other. They are terrified at the prospect before them, of the toil required to attain exactness. The impetuosity of youth is disgusted at the slow approaches of a regular siege, and desires, from mere impatience of labour, to take the citadel by storm. They wish to find some shorter path to excellence, and hope to obtain the reward of eminence by other means, than those which the indispensable rules of art have prescribed.

  Joshua Reynolds

  Art, Ambition, Mean

  Sir Joshua Reynolds (1867). “The Works of Sir Joshua Reynolds: Containing His Discourses, Idlers, A Journey to Flanders and Holland, and His Commentary on Du Fresnoy's Art of Painting; to which is Prefixed an Account of the Life and Writings of the Author by Edward Malone”, p.12

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• Everyone receives spiritual formation, just as everyone gets an education. The only question is whether it is a good one or a bad one. We need to take a conscious, intentional hand in the developmental process. We need to understand what the formation of the human spirit is, and how it can best be done as Christ would have it done. This is an indispensable aspect of developing a psychology that is adequate to human life.

  Dallas Willard

  Spiritual, Hands, Psychology

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• I use non-fiction work written by Whites in my research. It's indispensable. That wasn't the problem. I said that "The Wire" was a cliché! It's like my writing a series about Jewish life and casting all of the characters as inside traders.

  Ishmael Reed

  Writing, Character, Wire

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• ... the core problem with Christians communicating faith: we do not always do so in love. That is an indispensable point to presenting faith in a grace-full way.

  Philip Yancey

  Christian, Grace, Way

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• Liberals believe and inexhaustible fund exists that can be tapped endlessly to pay for government social programs. Tax the rich and give it to a long line of moochers, pork barrel hustlers and ne'er-do-wells. These funds would otherwise have been employed as additional capital indispensable to economic progress.

  James Cook

  Believe, Government, Giving

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• The United Nations is an indispensable but deeply flawed organization. It is valuable to the United States, and the United States is invaluable to it. We need to reform it.

  Richard Holbrooke

  Organization, United States, Reform

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• You don't become indispensable merely because you are different. But the only way to become indispensable is to be different. That's because if you're the same, so are plenty of other people.

  Seth Godin

  People, Different, Way

  Seth Godin (2010). “Linchpin: Are You Indispensable?”, p.28, Penguin

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• If there is to be art, if there is to be any aesthetic doing and seeing, one physiological condition is indispensable: frenzy.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Art, Aesthetic, Physiological

  Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (1968). “The portable Nietzsche: selected and translated, with an introd., pref. and notes”, Viking Pr

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• Marching diverts man's thoughts. Marching kills thoughts. Marching makes an end of individuality. Marching is the indispensable magic stroke performed in order to accustom people to a mechanical, quasi-ritualistic activity until it becomes second nature.

  Adolf Hitler

  Men, Order, People

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• Faith is indispensable for success. Faith is induced and strengthened by the instructions you give your subconscious mind.

  Napoleon Hill

  Giving, Mind, Instruction

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• The hope of remaking the world is indispensable in the struggle of oppressed men and women.

  Paulo Freire

  Struggle, Men, World

  Paulo Freire (2014). “Pedagogy of Hope: Reliving Pedagogy of the Oppressed”, p.24, A&C Black

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• They must often change, who would be constant in happiness or wisdom. Those who continually search for happiness will never find it. Happiness is made, not found. To be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of happiness.

  Bertrand Russell

  Want, Would Be, Made

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• We know that service is indispensable for bringing us close to the Savior and letting us feel his Spirit. In nothing do we resemble the Savior more than in serving others. So in nothing should we feel greater love and joy than in service.

  Chieko N. Okazaki

  Joy, Spirit, Serving Others

  Chieko N. Okazaki (1995). “Aloha!”, Shadow Mountain

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• Many of the ugly pages of American history have been obscured and forgotten....America owes a debt of justice which it has only begun to pay. If it loses the will to finish or slackens in its determination, history will recall its crimes and the country that would be great will lack the most indispensable element of greatness-justice.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Country, Determination, Greatness

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• Practice is invaluable... honesty is indispensable.

  Stephen King

  Honesty, Practice, Invaluable

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