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Poetry is indispensable - if I only knew what for. ↗

— Jean Cocteau

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Shall I give you my recipe for happiness? I find everything useful and nothing indispensable. I find everything wonderful and nothing miraculous. I reverence the body. I avoid first causes like the plague. ↗

— Norman Douglas

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A doctrine serves no purpose in itself, but it is indispensable to have one if only to avoid being deceived by false doctrines. ↗

— Simone Weil

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Also see how many quarters of corn you will spend in a week in dispensable bread, how much in alms. ↗

— Robert Grosseteste

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No part of the education of a politician is more indispensable than the fighting of elections. ↗

— Winston Churchill

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Firefighters are indispensable foot soldiers here at home. ↗

— Christopher Dodd

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America's highways, roads, bridges, are an indispensable part of our lives. They link one end of our nation to the other. We use them each and every day, for every conceivable purpose. ↗

— Christopher Dodd

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The graveyards are full of indispensable men. ↗

— Charles de Gaulle

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Democracy is indispensable to socialism. ↗

— Vladimir Lenin

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One can decide that the principal role of knowledge is as an indispensable element in the functioning of society, and act in accordance with that decision, only if one has already decided that society is a giant machine. ↗

— Jean-Francois Lyotard

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