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Purity of personal life is the one indispensable condition for building up a sound education. ↗

— Mahatma Gandhi

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Democracy is indispensable to socialism. ↗

— Vladimir Lenin

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

— Franz Liszt

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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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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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Self-denial is indispensable to a strong character, and the highest kind comes from a religious stock. ↗

— Theodore Parker

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Only useless things are indispensable. ↗

— Francis Picabia

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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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Meetings are a great trap. Soon you find yourself trying to get agreement and then the people who disagree come to think they have a right to be persuaded. However, they are indispensable when you don't want to do anything. ↗

— John Kenneth Galbraith

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