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• Good teachers are to education what education is to all other professions—the indispensable element, the sunlight and oxygen, the foundation on which everything else is built.

  Lowell Milken

  Motivational, Teacher, Oxygen

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• Deliver more than you are getting paid to do. The victory of success will be half won when you learn the secret of putting out more than is expected in all that you do. Make yourself so valuable in your work that eventually you will become indispensable. Exercise your privilege to go the extra mile, and enjoy all the rewards you receive.

  Og Mandino

  Success, Exercise, Excellence

  Og Mandino (2010). “A Better Way to Live: Og Mandino's Own Personal Story of Success Featuring 17 Rules to Live By”, p.56, Bantam

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• The first maxim of a man who loves liberty, should be never to grant to rulers an atom of power that is not most clearly and indispensably necessary for the safety and well being of society.

  Richard Henry Lee

  Freedom, Men, Power

  Richard Henry Lee (1825). “Memoir of the Life of Richard H. Lee, and His Correspondence with the Most Distinguished Men in America and Europe”, p.61

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• The joy of learning is as indispensable in study as breathing is in running. Where it is lacking there are no real students, but only poor caricatures of apprentices who, at the end of their apprenticeship, will not even have a trade.

  Simone Weil

  Running, Real, Teaching

  Simone Weil (2009). “Waiting on God (Routledge Revivals)”, p.34, Routledge

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• Judaism boasts of no exclusive revelation of eternal truths that are indispensable to salvation, of no revealed religion in the sense in which that term is usually understood.

  Moses Mendelssohn

  Revelations, Salvation, Judaism

  Moses Mendelssohn (2011). “Moses Mendelssohn: Writings on Judaism, Christianity, and the Bible”, p.87, UPNE

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• An easy-going husband is the one indispensable comfort of life.

  Ouida

  Husband, Comfort, Easy

  Ouida (2016). “Wisdom, Wit and Pathos of Ouida”, p.388, Ouida

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• Be faithful to that which exists nowhere but in yourself- and thus make yourself indispensable.

  Andre Gide

  Success, Faithful, Being Faithful

  "The Fruits of the Earth". Book by André Gide, 1897.

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• Co-operation between governments still plays an important role and will remain indispensable.

  Lionel Jospin

  Government, Play, Important

  "Jospin rejects German Europe plan", www.cnn.com. May 28, 2001.

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• Charm" — which means the power to effect work without employing brute force — is indispensable to women. Charm is a woman's strength just as strength is a man's charm.

  Havelock Ellis

  Mean, Men, Charm

  Havelock Ellis (1912). “The Task of Social Hygiene”

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• Freedom of expression is the matrix, the indispensable condition, of nearly every other form of freedom.

  Benjamin Cardozo

  Freedom, Expression, Form

  Benjamin Nathan Cardozo, Abraham Lawrence Sainer (1999). “Law is Justice: Notable Opinions of Mr. Justice Cardozo”, p.417, The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd.

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• Hard conditions of life are indispensable to bringing out the best in human personality.

  Alexis Carrel

  Character, Personality, Humans

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• A pretty little collection of weaknesses and a terror of spiders are our indispensable stock-in-trade with the men...

  Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

  Business, Men, Littles

  "Gigi". Book by Sidonie Gabrielle Colette, 1945.

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• The employer class is less indispensable in the modern organization of industries because the laboring men themselves possess sufficient intelligence to organize into co-operative relation and enjoy the entire benefits of their own labor.

  Leland Stanford

  Men, Class, Organization

  Leland Stanford (1887). “Co-operation of Labor: Views of Senator Leland Stanford of California. An Interview ...”

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• You cannot sift out the poor from the community. The poor are indispensable to the rich.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Community, Rich, Poor

  Henry Ward Beecher, Truman Jeremiah Ellinwood (1872). “The Original Plymouth Pulpit: Sermons of Henry Ward Beecher in Plymouth Church, Brooklyn”, p.386

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• Direct observation of the luminous essence of nature is for me indispensable

  Robert Delaunay

  Essence, Observation, Luminous

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• Purity of personal life is the one indispensable condition for building up a sound education.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Education, Building Up, Religion

  Mahatma Gandhi (1962). “True Education”

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• To have a man who can flirt is next thing to indispensable to a leader of society.

  Margaret Oliphant

  Flirty, Flirting, Men

  Margaret Oliphant (2014). “Miss Marjoribanks”, p.131, The Floating Press

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• In complex trains of thought signs are indispensable.

  George Henry Lewes

  Train Of Thought, Complexes, Train

  George Henry Lewes (1891). “The Principles of Success in Literature”

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• Everyone should unconditionally accept that Israel is an indispensable element of the Middle Eastern mosaic.

  Recep Tayyip Erdogan

  Israel, Mosaics, Elements

  "Democracy in the Middle East, PluralIism in Europe: Turkish View". The Turkish Weekly, October 12, 2004.

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• The opposition is indispensable. A good statesman, like any other sensible human being, always learns more from his opponents than from his fervent supporters. For his supporters will push him to disaster unless his opponents show him where the dangers are. So if he is wise he will often pray to be delivered from his friends, because they will ruin him. But though it hurts, he ought also to pray never to be left without opponents; for they keep him on the path of reason and good sense.

  Walter Lippmann

  Wise, Hurt, Opponents

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• In the Federal Government, electronic records are as indispensable as their paper counterparts for documenting citizens' rights, the actions for which officials are accountable, and the nation's history.

  Allen Weinstein

  Rights, Government, Citizens

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• An enlightened citizenry is indispensable for the proper functioning of a republic. Self-government is not possible unless the citizens are educated sufficiently to enable them to exercise oversight. It is therefore imperative that the nation see to it that a suitable education be provided for all its citizens.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Exercise, Government, Self

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• The inevitableness, the idealism, and the blessing of war, as an indispensable and stimulating law of development, must be repeatedly emphasized.

  Friedrich von Bernhardi

  War, Blessing, Law

  Friedrich von Bernhardi (1914). “Germany and the Next War”

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• Eroticism is one of the basic means of self-knowledge, as indispensable as poetry.

  Anais Nin

  Mean, Self, Self Knowledge

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• Hope is both the earliest and the most indispensable virtue inherent in the state of being alive. Others have called this deepest quality confidence, and I have referred to trust as the earliest positive psychosocial attitude, but if life is to be sustained hope must remain, even where confidence is wounded, trust impaired.

  Erik Erikson

  Life, Hope, Insightful

  "Insight and Responsibility".

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