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• Do not let your fire go out ... Do not let the Hero in your soul perish ... Check your road and the nature of your battle. The world you desired can be won. It exists, it is real, it is possible, it is yours.

  Ayn Rand

  Real, Hero, Recovery

  Ayn Rand (2011). “Ayn Rand Novel Collection”, p.2269, Penguin

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• We work so hard to get somewhere, to realize a dream, to arrive at some destination, that we often forget that though some satisfaction may be waiting at the end of our endurance and effort, there is great and irreplaceable aliveness in the steps along the way.

  Mark Nepo

  Dream, Effort, Waiting

  "Approaching Integrity" by Mark Nepo, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 12, 2013.

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• Do not let the hero in your soul perish.

  Ayn Rand

  Inspirational, Hero, Recovery

  Ayn Rand (2011). “Ayn Rand Novel Collection”, p.2269, Penguin

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• Art is an irreplaceable way of understanding and expressing the world.

  Dana Gioia

  Art, Understanding, World

  Dana Gioia's commencement address at Stanford University, news.stanford.edu. June 17, 2007.

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• We are living beyond our means. As a people we have developed a life-style that is draining the earth of its priceless and irreplaceable resources without regard for the future of our children and people all around the world.

  Margaret Mead

  Inspirational, Children, Future

  "The Energy Crisis - Why Our World Will Never Again Be the Same". Margaret Mead, "Redbook", 1974, later quoted in Hugh Nash "Progress As If Survival Mattered: A Handbook For A Conserver Society" (p. 166), 1977.

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• The loss of life will be irreplaceable.

  Dan Quayle

  Silly, Loss, Dumb

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• Do not let the hero in your soul perish in lonely frustration for the life you deserved and have never been able to reach.

  Ayn Rand

  Lonely, Hero, Recovery

  Ayn Rand (2016). “Atlas Shrugged”, p.817, Hamilton Books

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• If people destroy something replaceable made by mankind, they are called vandals; if they destroy something irreplaceable made by God, they are called developers.

  Joseph Wood Krutch

  Nature, People, Environmental

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• I didn't want to get attached to one guitar; I didn't want to have an instrument that was irreplaceable.

  Robin Trower

  Guitar, Want, Instruments

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• Nobody's irreplaceable, including me. I think for too long we've had a cult of personality in this company and in this industry, and frankly, I'd like to see that diminish.

  Bill Ford

  Thinking, Cult Of Personality, Long

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• Why pay $20 million to Harrison Ford? I dont even understand that. They think they have to do it... If someone puts a price on himself, that suggests he is irreplaceable, then he better find somewhere else to work.

  Michael Lewis

  Thinking, Somewhere Else, Pay

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• I do not believe in pure idioms. I think there is naturally a desire, for whoever speaks or writes, to sign in an idiomatic, irreplaceable manner.

  Jacques Derrida

  Believe, Writing, Thinking

  Jacques Derrida (1995). “Points . .: Interviews, 1974-1994”, p.200, Stanford University Press

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• Old friends die on you, and they're irreplaceable. You become dependent.

  Lionel Blue

  Old Friends, Dependent, Dies

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• Such prosperity as we have known it up to the present is the consequence of rapidly spending the planet's irreplaceable capital.

  Aldous Huxley

  Nature, Environment, Prosperity

  Aldous Huxley (2002). “Complete Essays: 1939-1956”, Ivan R Dee

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• Only men of considerable vanity write books; consistently therewith, I worried lest the world were exchanging an irreplaceable author for a more easily purchased diplomat.

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  Book, Writing, Men

  "The New Industrial State". Foreword to the book by John Kenneth Galbraith, p. 7, 1967.

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• Family is always irreplaceable, even when they’re also irreconcilable.

  Jeaniene Frost

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• People say they 'find' love, as if it were an object hidden by a rock. But love takes many forms, and it is never the same for any man and woman. What people find then is a certain love. And [he] found a certain love with [her], a grateful love, a deep but quiet love, one that he knew, above all else, was irreplaceable.

  Mitch Albom

  Grateful, Men, Rocks

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• Time is totally perishable and cannot be stored. Yesterday's time is gone forever, and will never come back. Time is always in short supply. There is no substitute for time. Everything requires time.

  Peter Drucker

  Time, Yesterday, Forever

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• A good mother is irreplaceable.

  Adriana Trigiani

  Mom, Mother, Good Mother

  Adriana Trigiani (2012). “The Wisdom of My Grandmothers: Lessons to live by, from one generation of remarkable women to the next”, p.117, Simon and Schuster

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• Each of your breaths is a priceless jewel, since each of them is irreplaceable and once gone, can never be retrieved.

  Al-Ghazali

  Islamic, Jewels, Gone

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• Nothing else, perhaps, distinguishes effective executives as much as their tender loving care of time.

  Peter Drucker

  Care, Time Management, Making Time

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• The muscles you flex in theater are muscles that you really need. I must always find a way to get back there. It's irreplaceable.

  Lupita Nyong'o

  Needs, Way, Theater

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• Time is the only commodity we deal with which cannot be counterfeited, stolen or placed in inventory.   Remember, time is irreplaceable.

  Zig Ziglar

  Inventory, Remember, Commodity

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• [N]othing about a book is so unmistakable and so irreplaceable as the stamp of the cultured mind. I don't care what the story is about or what may be the momentary craze for books that appear to have been hammered out by the village blacksmith in a state of intoxication; the minute you get the easy touch of the real craftsman with centuries of civilisation behind him, you get literature.

  Dorothy L. Sayers

  Real, Book, Mind

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• If your house is on fire and you can only escape with your life and one thing, what one thing would you take out of your house? I got to think my laptop is the one thing that is totally irreplaceable. Either that or my son. Laptop. I'll go laptop.

  Anthony Jeselnik

  Son, Thinking, Fire

  "Anthony Jeselnik on Sharon Stone, thankless open mics, and his evil plan". Interview with Marah Eakin, www.avclub.com. October 16, 2015.

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