#indispensable

Nothing is more indispensable to true religiosity than a mediator that links us with divinity. ↗

— Novalis

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World-wide practice of Conservation and the fair and continued access by all nations to the resources they need are the two indispensable foundations of continuous plenty and of permanent peace. ↗

— Gifford Pinchot

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After all, the universe required ten billion years of evolution before life was even possible; the evolution of the stars and the evolving of new chemical elements in the nuclear furnaces of the stars were indispensable prerequisites for the generation of life. ↗

— John Polkinghorne

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Joint-stock companies are yet in their infancy, and incorporated capital, instead of being a thing which can be overturned, is a thing which is becoming more and more indispensable. ↗

— William Graham Sumner

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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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Direct observation of the luminous essence of nature is for me indispensable. ↗

— Robert Delaunay

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

— James Dickey

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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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Charlatanism of some degree is indispensable to effective leadership. ↗

— Eric Hoffer

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Some folks can look so busy doing nothing that they seem indispensable. ↗

— Kin Hubbard

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