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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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Meetings are indispensable when you don't want to do anything. ↗

— John Kenneth Galbraith

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Don't think of yourself as indispensable or infallible. As Charles De Gaulle said, the cemeteries of the world are full of indispensable men. ↗

— Donald Rumsfeld

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The employer class is less indispensable in the modern organization of industries because the laboring men themselves possess sufficient intelligence to organize into co-operative relation and enjoy the entire benefits of their own labor. ↗

— Leland Stanford

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I don't think that the permanence of the individual human soul is an indispensable part of religious thought. ↗

— Lewis Thomas

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In complex trains of thought signs are indispensable. ↗

— George Henry Lewes

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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

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To be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of happiness. ↗

— Bertrand Russell

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Which of us can resist the temptation of being thought indispensable? ↗

— Margaret Atwood

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Two qualities are indispensable: first, an intellect that, even in the darkest hour, retains some glimmerings of the inner light which leads to truth; and second, the courage to follow this faint light wherever it may lead. ↗

— Karl Von Clausewitz

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