Every single Act either weakeneth or improveth our Credit with other Men and as an habit of being just to our Word will confirm, so an habit of too freely dispensing with it must necessarily destroy it. George Savile, 1st Marquess of Halifax
The real alternative to being Number One is not being Number Two; it is dispensing with rankings altogether. Alfie Kohn
Dispensing with confrontation because testimony is obviously reliable is akin to dispensing with jury trial because a defendant is obviously guilty. Antonin Scalia
Elvis transcends his talent to the point of dispensing with it altogether. Greil Marcus
It is one of the consolations of philosophy that the benefit of showing how to dispense with a concept does not hinge on dispensing with it. Willard van Orman Quine
[T]he mental probabilistic map in one's mind is so geared toward the sensational that one would realize informational gains by dispensing with the news. Nassim Nicholas Taleb