#dispensable

Democracy is indispensable to socialism. ↗

— Vladimir Lenin

#indispensable #socialism

The opposition is indispensable. A good statesman, like any other sensible human being, always learns more from his opposition than from his fervent supporters. ↗

— Walter Lippmann

#any #being #fervent #good #his

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

— Franz Liszt

#indispensable #initiative #performances #receives #recognition

I said, yet again, for Germany, Europe is not only indispensable, it is part and parcel of our identity. We've always said German unity, European unity and integration, that's two parts of one and the same coin. But we want, obviously, to boost our competitiveness. ↗

— Angela Merkel

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Generality is, indeed, an indispensable ingredient of reality; for mere individual existence or actuality without any regularity whatever is a nullity. Chaos is pure nothing. ↗

— Charles Sanders Peirce

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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

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Don't think of yourself as indispensable or infallible. As Charles De Gaulle said, the cemeteries of the world are full of indispensable men. ↗

— Donald Rumsfeld

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In complex trains of thought signs are indispensable. ↗

— George Henry Lewes

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The business of a scientific school is the dissemination of useful knowledge, and this is a noble enterprise and indispensable withal; society can not exist unless it goes on. ↗

— Albert J. Nock

#dissemination #enterprise #exist #goes #indispensable

The blues is like a planet. It's an enormous topic. You can't ignore the impact that it has had and continues to have on the whole musical culture. It's a tree that everyone is swinging from. Without it, I don't know where I would be. It's indelible and indispensable. ↗

— Tom Waits

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