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Only useless things are indispensable.
Francis Picabia

If you combat an international phenomenon, it is indispensable to share information internationally.
Gijs de Vries

Share, Phenomenon, Combat

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

Society, Knowledge, Decision

I stand for simple justice, equal opportunity and human rights. The indispensable elements in a democratic society - and well worth fighting for.
Helen Suzman

Society, Simple, Justice

America's highways, roads, bridges, are an indispensable part of our lives. They link one end of our nation to the other. We use them each and every day, for every conceivable purpose.
Christopher Dodd

End, America, Nation

Firefighters are indispensable foot soldiers here at home.
Christopher Dodd

Home, Here, Soldiers

Generality is, indeed, an indispensable ingredient of reality; for mere individual existence or actuality without any regularity whatever is a nullity. Chaos is pure nothing.
Charles Sanders Peirce

Nothing, Reality, Whatever

She became so important to them that they wondered how they had ever managed without her in the past. And the longer she stayed with them the more indispensable she became, so indispensable in fact that their one fear was that she might some day move on.
Michael Ende

Fear, Past, Important

Few characters in history are indispensable.
Albert Bushnell Hart

History, Few, Characters

The business of a scientific school is the dissemination of useful knowledge, and this is a noble enterprise and indispensable withal; society can not exist unless it goes on.
Albert J. Nock

Business, Society, Knowledge

The university's business is the conservation of useless knowledge; and what the university itself apparently fails to see is that this enterprise is not only noble but indispensable as well, that society can not exist unless it goes on.
Albert J. Nock

Business, Society, Knowledge

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

Best, Government, Through

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

Peace, Two, Fair

The United Nations is an indispensable but deeply flawed organization. It is valuable to the United States, and the United States is invaluable to it. We need to reform it.
Richard Holbrooke

United, Valuable, Nations

Patriotism is an indispensable weapon in the defense of civilization against barbarism.
Bill Kristol

Patriotism, Against, Defense

Hence, even in the domain of natural science the aid of the experimental method becomes indispensable whenever the problem set is the analysis of transient and impermanent phenomena, and not merely the observation of persistent and relatively constant objects.
Wilhelm Wundt

Science, Problem, Natural

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

Amazing, Crazy, Strange

So if a college education is indispensable, the challenge as I see it is how to make it more accessible.
Gordon Gee

Education, Challenge, College

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

Religion, Sense, Understood

India has indeed a great and free future before her, in which she can make her special contribution to the well-being of mankind. The first and indispensable part of that contribution is to work with the United Nations for the defeat of fascism and of brutal aggression.
Stafford Cripps

Work, Great, Future

In fact, effective solidarity with the poor, both individual persons and entire nations, is indispensable for the construction of peace.
Claudio Hummes

Peace, Poor, Fact

Co-operation between governments still plays an important role and will remain indispensable.
Lionel Jospin

Important, Between, Role

In the Federal Government, electronic records are as indispensable as their paper counterparts for documenting citizens' rights, the actions for which officials are accountable, and the nation's history.
Allen Weinstein

History, Government, Nation

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

Life, Husband, Comfort

Enterprise search is becoming an indispensable tool to businesses of all sizes, helping people to find, use and share critical business information quickly.
Jeff Raikes

Business, Find, Share

Curiosity is idle only to those who fail to realize that it may be a very rare and indispensable thing.
James Harvey Robinson

May, Realize, Fail

As a bureaucracy becomes more established, it develops its own career structure. It is less dependent, and should be less dependent, on individual personalities. Absolutely no one is indispensable.
John Scarlett

Career, Less, Individual

We also learn that this country and the Western world have no monopoly of goodness and truth and scholarship, we begin to appreciate the ingredients that are indispensable to making a better world. In a life of learning that is, perhaps, the greatest lesson of all.
John Hope Franklin

Life, Truth, Learning

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