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For art to exist, for any sort of aesthetic activity to exist, a certain physiological precondition is indispensable: intoxication. ↗

— Friedrich Nietzsche

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An easy-going husband is the one indispensable comfort of life. ↗

— Ouida

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Only useless things are indispensable. ↗

— Francis Picabia

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Judaism boasts of no exclusive revelation of eternal truths that are indispensable to salvation, of no revealed religion in the sense in which that term is usually understood. ↗

— Moses Mendelssohn

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The welfare culture tells the man he is not a necessary part of the family; he feels dispensable, his wife knows he is dispensable, his children sense it. ↗

— George Gilder

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If we have to use force, it is because we are America. We are the indispensable nation. We stand tall. We see further into the future. ↗

— Madeleine Albright

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I think that there is never an indispensable leader, you know? I think that there is a time with dignity that one needs to leave. ↗

— Madeleine Albright

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

— Walter Bagehot

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

— Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

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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

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