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• I have drawn my whole life. My parents were in the tapestry restoration business, and as a young girl, I would draw in the missing parts of the tapestry that needed to be re-woven. My ability to draw made me indispensable to my parents.

  Louise Bourgeois

  Girl, Drawing, Parent

  "Louise Bourgeois: a web of emotions" by Adrian Searle, www.theguardian.com. June 1, 2010.

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• Painting took on a fabulous strength and splendor; the object was discredited as an indispensable element of the picture.

  Wassily Kandinsky

  Elements, Fabulous, Splendor

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• Complete knowledge of the nature of an analytic function must also include insight into its behavior for imaginary values of the arguments. Often the latter is indispensable even for a proper appreciation of the behavior of the function for real arguments. It is therefore essential that the original determination of the function concept be broadened to a domain of magnitudes which includes both the real and the imaginary quantities, on an equal footing, under the single designation complex numbers.

  Carl Friedrich Gauss

  Appreciation, Determination, Real

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• Enterprise search is becoming an indispensable tool to businesses of all sizes, helping people to find, use and share critical business information quickly.

  Jeff Raikes

  People, Tools, Use

  "Microsoft buys in Norwegian know-how" by Andrew Clark, www.theguardian.com. January 08, 2008.

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• Let This Voice Be Heard fulfills the mandate of biography at its best because Maurice Jackson has captured the history of a great moral movement's origins in a single, extraordinary life. An indispensable addition to the antislavery bibliography.

  David Levering Lewis

  Voice, Movement, Biographies

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• Sure to prove indispensable for the study of Black Power.

  Herb Boyd

  Black, Study, Prove

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• The genuine creator creates something that has a life of its own, something that can exist and function without him. This is true not only of the writer, artist and scientist, but of creators in other fields.With the noncreative it is the other way around: in whatever they do, they arrange things so that they themselves become indispensable.

  Eric Hoffer

  Artist, Way, Fields

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• I know that poetry is indispensable, but to what I could not say.

  Jean Cocteau

  Poetry, Poetry Is, Knows

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• What has to be given up is not the I, as most mystics suppose: this I is indispensable for any relationship, including the highest, which always presupposes an I and You.

  Martin Buber

  Ego, Given, Including

  Rivka Horwitz, Martin Buber (1988). “Buber's way to "I and thou": the development of Martin Buber's thought and his "Religion as presence" lectures”, Jewish Pubn Society

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• A certain strangeness, something of the blossoming of the aloe, is indeed an element in all true works of art: that they shall excite or surprise us is indispensable.

  Walter Pater

  Art, Elements, Blossoming

  Walter Pater (2013). “The Renaissance”, p.43, Simon and Schuster

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• It would take me years of reading, thought, and experience to learn again that in this world limits are not only inescapable but indispensable.

  Wendell Berry

  Reading, Years, World

  Wendell Berry (2010). “Bringing It to the Table: On Farming and Food (Large Print 16pt)”, p.113, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• The advertising media in this country continuously informs the American male of his need for indispensable signs of his virility.

  Frances M. Beal

  Country, Media, Males

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• In the critics' vocabulary, the work 'precursor' is indispensable, but it should be cleansed of all connotations of polemics or rivalry.

  Jorge Luis Borges

  Vocabulary, Rivalry, Connotation

  "Kafka and His Precursors" (1951) (translation by James E. Irby)

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• Time is inelastic and inflexible. Time is indispensable. No achievement is possible without time.

  Brian Tracy

  Achievement

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• A certain amount of contempt for the material employed to express an idea is indispensable to the purest realization of this idea.

  Man Ray

  Ideas, Realization, Certain

  Man Ray (1934). “Photographs by Man Ray: 105 Works, 1920-1934”, p.11, Courier Corporation

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• You need to make sure that you are where you think you are indispensable. And dedicate your task to that.

  Carlos Ghosn

  Thinking, Tasks, Needs

  "Nissan CEO Explains How He Runs 3 Companies At The Same Time" by Richard Feloni, www.businessinsider.com. November 6, 2014.

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• The Forsytes were resentful of something, not individually, but as a family; this resentment expressed itself in an added perfection of raiment, an exuberance of family cordiality, an exaggeration of family importance, and the sniff. Danger so indispensable in bringing out the fundamental quality of any society, group, or individual was what the Forsytes scented; the premonition of danger put a burnish on their armour. For the first time, as a family, they appeared to have an instinct of being in contact, with some strange and unsafe thing.

  John Galsworthy

  Perfection, Quality, Fundamentals

  John Galsworthy (2016). “The Forsyte Saga, Complete: England Literature”, p.9, 谷月社

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• The history of the development of mechanics is quite indispensable to a full comprehension of the science in its present condition. It also affords a simple and instructive example or the processes by which natural science generally is developed.

  Ernst Mach

  Simple, Example, Development

  Ernst Mach (2013). “The Science of Mechanics”, p.1, Cambridge University Press

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• Life is more than thought: what a man feels, and what his senses awaken in him, are more indispensable to his life's fullness than subsequent reflection on their significance. Both Stirner and Nietzsche have elaborated Faust's opening speech in which he bemoans his wasted years in academia: this speech is Goethe's own impeachment of Kant and Hegel . Philosophy proceeds always under the risk of making a fetish of thinking.

  John Carroll

  Philosophy, Reflection, Men

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• irony is an indispensable ingredient of the critical vision; it is the safest antidote to sentimental decay.

  Ellen Glasgow

  Vision, Decay, Ingredients

  Ellen Anderson Gholson Glasgow (1938). “Works”

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• Death. An instantaneous state, without past or future. Indispensable for entering eternity.

  Simone Weil

  Past, Entering, Eternity

  Simone Weil (2002). “Gravity and Grace”, p.37, Psychology Press

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• Order is not goodness; but perhaps it is the indispensable road to arrive at it.

  Maria Montessori

  Order, Goodness

  MARIA MONTESSORI “HER LIFE AND WORK”

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• Art is the indispensable medium for the communication of a moral ideal.

  Ayn Rand

  Art, Communication, Moral

  Ayn Rand (1988). “The Ayn Rand Lexicon: Objectivism from A to Z”, p.62, Penguin

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• Sincerity is the indispensable ground of all conscientiousness, and by consequence of all heartfelt religion.

  Immanuel Kant

  Heartfelt, Religion, Sincerity

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• Pork - no animal is more used for nourishment and none more indispensable in the kitchen; employed either fresh or salt, all is useful, even to its bristles and its blood; it is the superfluous riches of the farmer, and helps to pay the rent of the cottager.

  Alexis Soyer

  Food, Animal, Blood

  Alexis Soyer (1851). “The Modern Housewife: Or, Ménagère. Comprising Nearly One Thousand Receipts, for the Economic and Judicious Preparation of Every Meal of the Day, and Those for the Nursery and Sick Room; and Minute Directions for Family Management in All Its Branches. Illustrated with Engravings Including the Modern Housewife's Unique Kitchen, and Magic Stove”, p.198

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