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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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• Oh, Will Henry. After all we have been through, how could I send you away now, at our most critical hour? You are indispensable to me.

  Rick Yancey

  Hours, Critical, Has Beens

  Rick Yancey (2010). “The Monstrumologist: The Terror Beneath”, p.260, Simon and Schuster

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• Consequently, citizen legislators, rotating back to their communities after a short period of public service—considered an indispensable and routine characteristic and design of representative government at the time of the founding, and for a century thereafter—have been replaced with a professional ruling class led by governing masterminds. For the most part, they are isolated from the communities from which they hail and are consumed with the daily jockeying for position and power within their ranks. Moreover, they both pander to and lord over their constituents.

  Mark Levin

  Government, Class, Design

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• How do we create a harmonious society out of so many kinds of people? The key is tolerance -- the one value that is indispensable in creating community.

  Barbara Jordan

  Equality, Keys, Creating

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• Faith is indispensable, and the world at times does not seem to have quite enough of it. It can and has accomplished what seems to be the impossible. Wars have been started and men and nations lost for the lack of it. Faith starts from the individual and builds men and nations. America was built by and on the faith of our ancestors.

  Carl Sandburg

  Faith, War, Men

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• Fear is an emotion indispensable for survival.

  Hannah Arendt

  Fear, Survival, Emotion

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• History is an indispensable even though not the highest form of intellectual endeavor.

  Carl L. Becker

  History, Intellectual, Form

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• The leader personifies the certitude of the creed and the defiance and grandeur of power. He articulates and justifies the resentment damned up in the souls of the frustrated. He kindles the vision of a breath-taking future so as to justify the sacrifice of a transitory present. He stages a world of make-believe so indispensable for the realization of self-sacrifice and united action.

  Eric Hoffer

  Leadership, Believe, Sacrifice

  "The True Believer: Thoughts On The Nature Of Mass Movements" by Eric Hoffer, (p. 111), 1951.

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• A good stack of examples, as large as possible, is indispensable for a thorough understanding of any concept,and when I want to learn something new, I make it my first job to build one.

  Paul Halmos

  Education, Jobs, Math

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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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• Isolation is the indispensable component of human happiness.

  Glenn Gould

  Isolation, Humans, Human Happiness

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• God uses his Word, people and circumstances to mold us. All three are indispensable for character development. God's word provides the truth we need to grow, God's people provide the support we need to grow, and circumstances provide the environment we need to grow.

  Rick Warren

  Character, People, Support

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• I want to be in a place where I have to have God in everything I do . . . where God is indispensable to me.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Want

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• To be faithful in prayer it is indispensable that we arrange all the activities of the day with a regularity that nothing can disturb

  Francois Fenelon

  Prayer, Faithful, Regularity

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• The vocation, whether it be that of the farmer or the architect, is a function; the exercise of this function as regards the man himself is the most indispensable means of spiritual development, and as regards his relation to society the measure of his worth.

  Ananda Coomaraswamy

  Spiritual, Mean, Exercise

  Ananda K. Coomaraswamy (2017). “Christian and Oriental Philosophy of Art”, p.105, Pickle Partners Publishing

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• If we would have civilization and the exertion indispensable to its success, we must have property; if we have property, we must have its rights; if we have the rights of property, we must take those consequences of the rights of property which are inseparable from the rights themselves.

  James F. Cooper

  Rights, Civilization, Inseparable

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• To those who are engaged in commercial dealings, justice is indispensable for the conduct of business.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Business, Justice, Age

  Marcus Tullius Cicero (2014). “Delphi Complete Works of Cicero (Illustrated)”, p.3124, Delphi Classics

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• Labor, if it were not necessary for existence, would be indispensable for the happiness of man.

  Samuel Johnson

  Happiness, Men, Would Be

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• The Negro has no room to make any substantial compromises because his store of advantages is too small. He must press unrelentingly for quality, integrated education or his whole drive for freedom will be undermined by the absence of a most vital and indispensable element - learning.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Liberty, Quality, Elements

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• And the principle which distinguishes democracy from all other forms of government is that in a democracy the opposition not only is tolerated as constitutional but must be maintained because it is in fact indispensable.

  Walter Lippmann

  Government, Democracy, Liberty

  "The Essential Lippmann: A Political Philosophy for Liberal Democracy".

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• We live surrounded by a systematic appeal to a dream world which all mature, scientific reality would reject. We, quite literally, advertise our commitment to immaturity, mendacity and profound gullibility. It is as the hallmark of the culture. And it is justified as being economically indispensable.

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  Dream, Commitment, Reality

  John Kenneth Galbraith (2001). “The Essential Galbraith”, p.104, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I have observed that religious practice is not a precondition either of ethical conduct or of happiness itself. I have also suggested that, whether a person practices religion or not, the spiritual qualities of love and compassion, patience, tolerance, forgiveness, humility and so on are indispensable.

  Dalai Lama

  Spiritual, Religious, Humility

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• Passion is the salt of life, and that at the times when we are under its spell this salt is indispensable to us, even if we have got along very well without it before.

  Francoise Sagan

  Passion, Salt, Wells

  "Those Without Shadows". Book by Françoise Sagan, 1957.

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• Instead of recognizing the State as ‘the common enemy of all well-disposed, industrious and decent men,’ the run of mankind, with rare exceptions, regards it not only as a final and indispensable entity, but also as, in the main, beneficent. The mass-man, ignorant of its history, regards its character and intentions as social rather than anti-social; and in that faith he is willing to put at its disposal an indefinite credit of knavery, mendacity and chicane, upon which its administrators may draw at will.

  Albert J. Nock

  Running, Character, Men

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• Of the three sorts of knowledge proper to a child, the knowledge of God, of man, and of the universe,--the knowledge of God ranks first in importance, is indispensable, and most happy-making.

  Charlotte Mason

  Children, Men, Three

  Charlotte M. Mason (2012). “An Essay Towards a Philosophy of Education: A Liberal Education for All”, p.158, Routledge

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