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• Like all revolutions, the surrealist revolution was a reversion, a restitution, an expression of vital and indispensable spiritual needs.

  Eugene Ionesco

  Spiritual, Expression, Needs

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• Curiosity is idle only to those who fail to realize that it may be a very rare and indispensable thing.

  James Harvey Robinson

  Curiosity, May, Realizing

  James Harvey Robinson (1939). “The Mind in the Making”

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• Shall I give you my recipe for happiness? I find everything useful and nothing indispensable. I find everything wonderful and nothing miraculous. I reverence the body. I avoid first causes like the plague.

  Norman Douglas

  Happiness, Laughter, Giving

  Norman Douglas (1982). “South Wind”, p.164, Courier Corporation

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• Charlatanism of some degree is indispensable to effective leadership.

  Eric Hoffer

  Leadership, Work, Degrees

  Eric Hoffer (1980). “The True Believer”

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• Honesty first; then courage; then brains - and all are indispensable.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Inspirational, Honesty, Brain

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• Poets are the only people to whom love is not only a crucial, but an indispensable experience, which entitles them to mistake it for a universal one.

  Hannah Arendt

  Mistake, Love Is, People

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• Democracy is indispensable to socialism.

  Vladimir Lenin

  Historical, Democracy, Liberty

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• Meetings are a great trap. Soon you find yourself trying to get agreement and then the people who disagree come to think they have a right to be persuaded. However, they are indispensable when you don't want to do anything.

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  Thinking, Agreement, People

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• A doctrine serves no purpose in itself, but it is indispensable to have one if only to avoid being deceived by false doctrines.

  Simone Weil

  Fake People, Doctrine, Purpose

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• A theatre receives recognition through its initiative, which is indispensable for first-rate performances.

  Franz Liszt

  Theatre, Firsts, Recognition

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• So long as war is the main business of nations, temporary despotism - despotism during the campaign - is indispensable.

  Walter Bagehot

  Business, War, Tyrants

  Walter Bagehot (1873). “Physics and Politics: Or, Thoughts on the Application of the Principles of "natural Selection" and "inheritance" to Political Society”, p.65

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• For art to exist, for any sort of aesthetic activity to exist, a certain physiological precondition is indispensable: intoxication.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Art, Drinking, Intoxication

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• If we have to use force, it is because we are America. We are the indispensable nation. We stand tall. We see further into the future.

  Madeleine Albright

  America, Use, Force

  "Pathocracy: the global order". www.pathocracy.net.

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• Some folks can look so busy doing nothing that they seem indispensable.

  Kin Hubbard

  Funny, Business, Looks

  Saturday Review (p. 19), March 18, 1944.

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• Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.

  John F. Kennedy

  Inspirational, Leadership, Educational

  Undelivered Speech to the Dallas Citizens Council, delivered 22 November 1963, Trade Mart, Dallas, Texas

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• Poetry is indispensable - if I only knew what for.

  Jean Cocteau

  Art, Poetry, Ifs

  "The Necessity of Art". Book by Ernst Fischer, 1959.

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• America's highways, roads, bridges, are an indispensable part of our lives. They link one end of our nation to the other. We use them each and every day, for every conceivable purpose.

  Christopher Dodd

  Bridges, America, Purpose

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• I stand for simple justice, equal opportunity and human rights. The indispensable elements in a democratic society - and well worth fighting for.

  Helen Suzman

  Inspirational, Fighting, Opportunity

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• After all, the universe required ten billion years of evolution before life was even possible; the evolution of the stars and the evolving of new chemical elements in the nuclear furnaces of the stars were indispensable prerequisites for the generation of life.

  John Polkinghorne

  Stars, Years, Generations

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• Women are not pals enough with men, so we must make ourselves indispensable. After all, we have the greatest weapon in our hands by just being women.

  Maria Callas

  Men, Hands, Pals

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• Hence, even in the domain of natural science the aid of the experimental method becomes indispensable whenever the problem set is the analysis of transient and impermanent phenomena, and not merely the observation of persistent and relatively constant objects.

  Wilhelm Wundt

  Science, Psychology, Analysis

  Wilhelm Max Wundt (1904). “Principles of Physiological Psychology”

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• One can decide that the principal role of knowledge is as an indispensable element in the functioning of society, and act in accordance with that decision, only if one has already decided that society is a giant machine

  Jean-Francois Lyotard

  Decision, Giants, Roles

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• Everything I eat has been proved by some doctor or other to be a deadly poison, and everything I don't eat has been proved to be indispensable for life. But I go marching on.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Food, Doctors, Marching On

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• Patriotism is an indispensable weapon in the defense of civilization against barbarism.

  William Kristol

  Civilization, Patriotism, Defense

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• A really companionable and indispensable dog is an accident of nature. You can't get it by breeding for it, and you can't buy it with money. It just happens along.

  E. B. White

  Dog, Silly, Canine

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