Indispensable Quotes - Page 17

• Speech is highly elliptical. It would scarcely be endurable otherwise. Ellipsis is indispensable to the writer or speaker who wants to be brief and pithy, but it can easily cause confusion and obscurity and must be used with skill.

  Bergen Evans

  Writing, Skills, Confusion

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• How can I be an educator if I do not develop in myself a caring and loving attitude toward the student, which is indispensable on the part of one who is committed to teaching and to the education process itself.

  Paulo Freire

  Attitude, Teaching, Caring

  Paulo Freire (2000). “Pedagogy of Freedom: Ethics, Democracy, and Civic Courage”, p.65, Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

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• To those who are engaged in commercial dealings, justice is indispensable for the conduct of business.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Business, Justice, Age

  Marcus Tullius Cicero (2014). “Delphi Complete Works of Cicero (Illustrated)”, p.3124, Delphi Classics

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• The leader personifies the certitude of the creed and the defiance and grandeur of power. He articulates and justifies the resentment damned up in the souls of the frustrated. He kindles the vision of a breath-taking future so as to justify the sacrifice of a transitory present. He stages a world of make-believe so indispensable for the realization of self-sacrifice and united action.

  Eric Hoffer

  Leadership, Believe, Sacrifice

  "The True Believer: Thoughts On The Nature Of Mass Movements" by Eric Hoffer, (p. 111), 1951.

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• History is an indispensable even though not the highest form of intellectual endeavor.

  Carl L. Becker

  History, Intellectual, Form

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• I knew of no instruction manual for reaching a higher level of humanity and a greater wisdom. But I felt intuitively that laughter was the beginning of wisdom, as is was indispensable for survival.

  Ingrid Betancourt

  Laughter, Humanity, Survival

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• Knowledge exists in two forms - lifeless, stored in books, and alive, in the consciousness of men. The second form of existence is after all the essential one; the first, indispensable as it may be, occupies only an inferior position.

  Albert Einstein

  Book, Men, Two

  Albert Einstein (2010). “The Ultimate Quotable Einstein”, p.439, Princeton University Press

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• Sleep is a daily reminder from God that we are not God. Once a day God sends us to bed like patients with a sickness. The sickness is a chronic tendency to think we are in control and that our work is indispensable. To cure us of this disease God turns us into helpless sacks of sand once a day.

  John Piper

  Sleep, Thinking, Bed

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• It made him feel indispensable and needed - even if the fact that Jocelyn didn't appear to care wheather he slept in her daughter's bed or not did underscore that Clary's mother apparently regarded him as about sexually threatening as a goldfish.

  Cassandra Clare

  Daughter, Mother, Bed

  Cassandra Clare (2014). “City of Lost Souls”, p.154, Simon and Schuster

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• Oh, Will Henry. After all we have been through, how could I send you away now, at our most critical hour? You are indispensable to me.

  Rick Yancey

  Hours, Critical, Has Beens

  Rick Yancey (2010). “The Monstrumologist: The Terror Beneath”, p.260, Simon and Schuster

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• Consequently, citizen legislators, rotating back to their communities after a short period of public service—considered an indispensable and routine characteristic and design of representative government at the time of the founding, and for a century thereafter—have been replaced with a professional ruling class led by governing masterminds. For the most part, they are isolated from the communities from which they hail and are consumed with the daily jockeying for position and power within their ranks. Moreover, they both pander to and lord over their constituents.

  Mark Levin

  Government, Class, Design

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• How do we create a harmonious society out of so many kinds of people? The key is tolerance -- the one value that is indispensable in creating community.

  Barbara Jordan

  Equality, Keys, Creating

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• Faith is indispensable, and the world at times does not seem to have quite enough of it. It can and has accomplished what seems to be the impossible. Wars have been started and men and nations lost for the lack of it. Faith starts from the individual and builds men and nations. America was built by and on the faith of our ancestors.

  Carl Sandburg

  Faith, War, Men

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• Fear is an emotion indispensable for survival.

  Hannah Arendt

  Fear, Survival, Emotion

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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. The most effective men and women in every area are those who can quite competently organize the cooperation and assistance of other people toward the accomplishment of important goals and objectives.

  Brian Tracy

  Leadership, Men, People

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• Indignation and compassion form a powerful combination. They are indispensable to vision, and therefore to leadership.

  John Stott

  Powerful, Compassion, Vision

  John R. W. Stott (1999). “Our Social and Sexual Revolution: Major Issues for a New Century”, Baker Publishing Group

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• The mere understanding, however useful and indispensable, is the meanest faculty in the human mind and the most to be distrusted.

  Thomas de Quincey

  Understanding, Mind, Faculty

  Thomas De Quincey, James Thomas Fields (1851). “De Quincey's Writings: Miscellaneous essays. 1851”, p.9

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• Probably no branch of mathematics has experienced a more surprising growth than has... topology... Considered as a most specialized and abstract subject in the early 1920's, it is today [1938] an indispensable equipment for the investigation of modern mathematical theories.

  Raymond Louis Wilder

  Growth, Experience, Branches

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• Intense interest in any subject is indispensable if you're really going to excel in it.

  Charlie Munger

  Intense, Interest, Subjects

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• A city's art must give the impression that art is as indispensable a thing as water, or food.

  Pier Giorgio Di Cicco

  Art, Cities, Giving

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• Every state begins in compulsion; but the habits of obedience become the content of conscience, and soon every citizen thrills with loyalty to the flag. The citizen is right; for however the state begins, it soon becomes an indispensable prop to order.

  Will Durant

  Loyalty, Order, Society

  Will Durant (2011). “Our Oriental Heritage: The Story of Civilization”, p.81, Simon and Schuster

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• ...when seeking material light, remember the spiritual light which is indispensable for the soul, and without which it remains in the darkness of the passions, in the darkness of spiritual death. 'I am come as a light into the world,' says the Lord, 'that whosoever believeth on Me, should not abide in darkness' (Jn. 12:46).

  John of Kronstadt

  Christian, Spiritual, Passion

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• Far more indispensable then food for the physical body is spiritual nourishment for the soul. One can do without food for a considerable time, but a man of the spirit cannot exist for a single second without spiritual nourishment.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Spiritual, Men, Soul

  Mahatma Gandhi, Jawaharlal Nehru, Rabindranath Tagore (1968). “Wit and Wisdom of Gandhi, Nehru, Tagore: Being a Treasury of Over Ten Thousand Invaluable and Inspiring Thoughts, Views, and Obervations on about Eight Hundred Subjects of Popular Interest, Collected from the Speeches and Writings of These Three Great Leaders of Modern India”

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• The constant habit of perusing devout books is so indispensable, that it has been termed the oil of the lamp of prayer. Too much reading, however, and too little meditation, may produce the effect of a lamp inverted; which is extinguished by the very excess of that ailment, whose property is to feed it.

  Hannah More

  Prayer, Book, Reading

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• Generalization is necessary to the advancement of knowledge; but particularity is indispensable to the creations of the imagination.

  Thomas B. Macaulay

  Imagination, Advancement, Creation

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