#dispensable

I say it is indispensable to look ahead of and behind oneself in the present. If there is such a thing as tradition, and I believe there is, it can only exist in the sense of the most profound movements of culture. ↗

— Robert Delaunay

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In the Federal Government, electronic records are as indispensable as their paper counterparts for documenting citizens' rights, the actions for which officials are accountable, and the nation's history. ↗

— Allen Weinstein

#actions #citizens #counterparts #documenting #electronic

Most problems are best solved privately, not through government. There's a problem of discourtesy in the world, which is best handled through social norms, which are indispensable. But you wouldn't want the government to be mandating courtesy. ↗

— Cass Sunstein

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The New York Quarterly is an amazing, intelligent, crazy, creative, strange, and indispensable magazine. ↗

— James Dickey

#crazy #creative #indispensable #intelligent #magazine

'Charm' - which means the power to effect work without employing brute force - is indispensable to women. Charm is a woman's strength just as strength is a man's charm. ↗

— Havelock Ellis

#brute force #charm #effect #employing #force

Charlatanism of some degree is indispensable to effective leadership. ↗

— Eric Hoffer

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So long as war is the main business of nations, temporary despotism - despotism during the campaign - is indispensable. ↗

— Walter Bagehot

#campaign #despotism #during #indispensable #long

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

— Winston Churchill

#elections #fighting #indispensable #more #part

A pretty little collection of weaknesses and a terror of spiders are our indispensable stock-in-trade with the men. ↗