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spens Quotes and Quotations
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The world has not been in existence from eternity nor could it have been according to the present dispensation and ordering of things. William Ames | top
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So long as war is the main business of nations, temporary despotism - despotism during the campaign - is indispensable. Walter Bagehot | top
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Suspense is worse than disappointment. Robert Burns | top
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Necessity dispenseth with decorum. Thomas Carlyle | top
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Hard conditions of life are indispensable to bringing out the best in human personality. Alexis Carrel | top
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Elegance is not a dispensable luxury but a factor that decides between success and failure. Edsger Dijkstra | top
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'Charm' - which means the power to effect work without employing brute force - is indispensable to women. Charm is a woman's strength just as strength is a man's charm. Henry Ellis | top
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Everyone should unconditionally accept that Israel is an indispensable element of the Middle Eastern mosaic. Recep Tayyip Erdogan | top
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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 | top
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What another would have done as well as you, do not do it. What another would have said as well as you, do not say it; what another would have written as well, do not write it. Be faithful to that which exists nowhere but in yourself-and thus make yourself indispensable. Andre Gide | top
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Some folks can look so busy doing nothing that they seem indispensable. Kin Hubbard | top
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Like all revolutions, the surrealist revolution was a reversion, a restitution, an expression of vital and indispensable spiritual needs. Eugene Ionesco | top
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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 | top
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It wouldn't sit easily on one's conscience that you had been warned and there could be danger, but nevertheless you went ahead and said let's dispense these drugs. Thabo Mbeki | top
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People are so helpful. People will stop what they're doing to show you something, to walk with you through a section of the town, or explain how a suspension bridge really works. David McCullough | top
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Give us the luxuries of life, and we will dispense with its necessaries. John Lothrop Motley | top
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Nothing is more indispensable to true religiosity than a mediator that links us with divinity. Novalis | top
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Self-denial is indispensable to a strong character, and the highest kind comes from a religious stock. Theodore Parker | top
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I do try not to spend much time reading in the suspense genre. Thomas Perry | top
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To doubt everything, or, to believe everything, are two equally convenient solutions; both dispense with the necessity of reflection. Henri Poincare | top
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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 | top
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Musicals are, by nature, theatrical, meaning poetic, meaning having to move the audience's imagination and create a suspension of disbelief, by which I mean there's no fourth wall. Stephen Sondheim | top
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I stand for simple justice, equal opportunity and human rights. The indispensable elements in a democratic society - and well worth fighting for. Helen Suzman | top
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But quality of work can be expected only through personal satisfaction, dedication and enjoyment. In our profession, precision and perfection are not a dispensible luxury, but a simple necessity. Niklaus Wirth | top
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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 | top
