Indispensable Quotes - Page 10

• In America, it is indispensable that every well wisher of true liberty should understand that acts of tyranny can only proceed from the publick. The publick, then, is to be watched, in this country, as, in other countries kings and aristocrats are to be watched.

  James F. Cooper

  Country, Kings, America

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• It is possible to be at the top of Christian service, respected and admired, and not have that indispensable ingredient by which God has chosen to work in His world today - the absolute sacrificial agape love of the Eternal God.

  David Jeremiah

  Christian, World, Today

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• Fourier's theorem is not only one of the most beautiful results of modern analysis, but it may be said to furnish an indispensable instrument in the treatment of nearly every recondite question in modern physics.

  Lord Kelvin

  Beautiful, Analysis, May

  Lord Kelvin, LL.D., D.C.L., F.R.S. and Peter Guthrie Tait, M.A. (1912). “Elements of Natural Philosophy”

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• The Normal is the good smile in a child's eyes- all right. It is also the dead stare in a million adults. It both sustains and kills- like a God. It is the Ordinary made beautiful; it is also the Average made leathal. The Normal is the indispensable, murderous God of Health.

  Peter Shaffer

  Beautiful, Children, Eye

  'Equus' (1973) act 1, sc. 19

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• Research students are numbered in the hundreds of thousands-soon to be millions -and they are no longer distributed superficially and at random over the globe, but are functionally linked together in a vast organic system that will remain in the future indispensable to the life of the community.

  Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

  Community, Together, Research

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• Your ability to negotiate, communicate, influence, and persuade others to do things is absolutely indispensable to everything you accomplish in life.

  Brian Tracy

  Influence, Accomplish, Ability

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• Wine from long habit has become an indispensable for my health

  Thomas Jefferson

  Food, Wine, Long

  Thomas Jefferson, J. Jefferson Looney (2004). “The Papers of Thomas Jefferson, Retirement Series, Volume 9: 1 September 1815 to 30 April 1816”, p.263, Princeton University Press

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• In the same way that plants will not grow on soil that lacks some substance indispensable to their growth, so microbes, these microscopic plants which cause infectious disease, are unable to grow in an organism which does not give them all the substances they need.

  Elie Metchnikoff

  Giving, Growth, Way

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• In the history of the world the Vedas fill a gap which no literary work in any other language could fill. I maintain that to everybody who cares for himself for his ancestors for his intellectual development a study of the Vedic literature is indeed indispensable.

  Max Muller

  Intellectual, Vedas, Who Cares

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• Some empirical feelings, such as sympathy, are indispensable parts of certain moral virtues.

  Allen W. Wood

  Feelings, Moral, Virtue

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• Most pastors have a hard time grasping a vision. But vision is the indispensable quality of a leader.

  John C. Maxwell

  Hard Times, Leader, Vision

  Source: enrichmentjournal.ag.org

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• The indispensability argument says (roughly) that if you have ample reason to accept an empirical scientific theory that makes indispensable use of mathematics, and that theory entails that numbers exist, then you have ample reason to accept that numbers exist. The argument affirms the antecedent of this conditional, and concludes that you have ample reason to believe that numbers exist. What is striking about this argument is that it seems to show that the empirical reasons that suffice for accepting a scientific theory also suffice for accepting a metaphysical claim.

  Elliott Sober

  Believe, Numbers, Use

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• Faith is an indispensable part of work, whether that work is paid or unpaid.

  David Kim

  Paid

  Source: www.biblegateway.com

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• If opponents of all important truths do not exist, it is indispensable to imagine them and supply them with the strongest arguments which the most skillful devil's advocate can conjure up.

  John Stuart Mill

  Important, Devil, Opponents

  Source: www.usconstitution.net

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• All I can tell you is that Israel's position in the Arab world has changed because they no longer see Israel as their enemy, but as their ally, in their indispensable battle against the forces of militant Islam, either those led by Iran, the Shiites, or - and those led by Daesh - by ISIS, the militant Sunnis.

  Benjamin Netanyahu

  Iran, Israel, Isis

  Source: www.cbsnews.com

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• I don't have a crystal ball, but if you can ever put yourself in a situation where you are indispensable - where you aren't part of what looks like a fad, but you actually are a company, a brand that people trust and go to - at this point, you could put some of the mainstays of tech on anything, right?

  Alexis Ohanian

  People, Balls, Looks

  Source: www.fool.com

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• After many years of thinking, reading and writing and looking, I came to believe that there are two basic, essential values which are indispensable for humane, decent, dignified life: one is freedom, and the other is security.

  Zygmunt Bauman

  Believe, Reading, Writing

  Interview with Marcelo Dimentstein, Alberto Senderey, Andy Spokoiny and Shira Shnitzer, leatid.org. February 2009.

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• There is enormous continuity beneath the day-to-day news that makes America that indispensable nation when it comes to maintaining order and promoting prosperity around the world.

  Barack Obama

  Order, America, News

  Source: time.com

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• I think the United States is still the indispensable force for positive change and for rule of law and for order and structure.

  John F. Kerry

  Thinking, Law, Order

  Source: www.wbur.org

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• When I first started writing, I had a very difficult time switching between projects, but now it's not only second-nature, it's indispensable: If I stall on one project, I can switch to another and stay productive.

  Marc Guggenheim

  Writing, Firsts, Difficult Times

  "I'm Marc Guggenheim, Writer and Executive Producer of Arrow, and This Is How I Work". Interview with Andy Orin, lifehacker.com. August 31, 2016.

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• A being connected with other beings cannot perform his own activities without taking the activities of others into account. For they are the indispensable conditions of the realization of his tendencies. When he moves he stirs them and reciprocally.

  John Dewey

  Moving, Realization, Tendencies

  John Dewey (2012). “Democracy and Education”, p.17, Courier Corporation

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• [It] is indispensable that some provision should be made for defending the Community agst [against] the incapicity, negligence or perfidy of the chief Magistrate.

  James Madison

  Community, Made, Should

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• If our spiritual past is somber and painful, let us try to simplify it, by acquiring true dedications that will assist us through the harsh climb of redemption. If we do not, today, have a determined bond with the wealth of injustice, we had it yesterday, and it becomes indispensable that we take advantage of time for our own individual readjustment before the Divine Justice.

  Chico Xavier

  Spiritual, Dedication, Past

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• I don't think human affection and compassion are just religious concerns; they're indispensable factors in our day-to-day lives.

  Dalai Lama

  Religious, Thinking, Compassion

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• Planning is useless... but the process itself is indispensable.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Useless, Planning, Process

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