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• If you demand money from someone in exchange for your silence, it's called 'blackmail'. If your lawyer demands money from someone in exchange for your silence, it's called a settlement. If you do big things they print your face, and if you do little things they print only your thumbs.

  Arthur Baer

  Silence, Thumbs, Littles

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• Naturally, our own irrational demands strike us as having the force of needs, while other people's needs strike us as capricious indulgences.

  Daphne Merkin

  People, Needs, Force

  Daphne Merkin (2014). “The Fame Lunches: On Wounded Icons, Money, Sex, the Brontës, and the Importance of Handbags”, p.229, Macmillan

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• To be beautiful is enough! if a woman can do that well who should demand more from her? You don't want a rose to sing.

  William Makepeace Thackeray

  Beautiful, Rose, Want

  William Makepeace Thackeray (1854). “The Newcomes: Memoirs of a Most Respectable Family”, p.239

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• Nature does not demand that we be perfect. It requires only that we grow.

  Joshua L. Liebman

  Perfect, Doe, Grows

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• The public must retain control of the great waterways. It is essential that any permit to obstruct them for reasons and on conditions that seem good at the moment should be subject to revision when changed conditions demand.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Rafting, Essentials, Revision

  Theodore Roosevelt (1910). “Works: Presidential addresses and state papers, Dec. 3, 1901, June 1910, and European addresses. 8 v”

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• It is an irony that the more possessive you are, the more love you demand, the less you receive, while the more freedom you give, the less you demand, the more love you will receive.

  Harold H. Bloomfield

  Love You, Giving, Irony

  Harold H. Bloomfield, Natasha Josefowitz (1992). “Love Secrets for a Lasting Relationship”, Bantam Books

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• Sadly enough, my young friends, it is a characteristic of our age that if people want any gods at all, they want them to be gods who do not demand much, comfortable gods, smooth gods who not only don't rock the boat but don't even row it, gods who pat us on the head, make us giggle, then tell us to run along and pick marigolds.

  Jeffrey R. Holland

  Running, Rocks, Young Friends

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• True love does not demand a reward, but it deserves one.

  Bernard of Clairvaux

  Doe, Rewards, Deserve

  Saint Bernard (of Clairvaux) (2007). “Honey and Salt: Selected Spiritual Writings of Saint Bernard of Clairvaux”, Vintage

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• What history teaches us is that man does not change arbitrarily; he does not transform himself at will on hearing the voices of inspired prophets. The reason is that all change, in colliding with the inherited institutions of the past, is inevitably hard and laborious; consequently it only takes place in response to the demands of necessity. For change to be brought about it is not enough that it should be seen as desirable; it must be the product of changes within the whole network of diverse casual relationships which then determine the situation of man.

  Emile Durkheim

  Past, Men, Voice

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• There is no substitute for obedience to the commands and demands of the gospel, of doing what we are supposed to do as disciples of Jesus Christ. We can never truly be happy or have great hope unless we follow Heavenly Father's plan for our happiness.

  David S. Baxter

  Jesus, Father, Christ

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• Which demands a lot of himself and some others, will be free from hatred.

  Confucius

  Hatred

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• Republican democracy is overperfect and demands political virtues and talents far superior to our own.

  Simon Bolivar

  Political, Democracy, Talent

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• We who must die demand a miracle.
  How could the Eternal do a temporal act,
  The Infinite become a finite fact?
  Nothing can save us that is possible:
  We who must die demand a miracle.

  W. H. Auden

  Miracle, Facts, Infinite

  W. H. Auden (2013). “For the Time Being: A Christmas Oratorio”, p.8, Princeton University Press

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• Why do people think the spiritual life demands withdrawal from the ordinary? Because they've been taught, at least by implication, that the physical is a block to the spiritual. When we assume that the spiritual, unlike the physical, is impervious to corrosion, then we assume that all things material are not to be honored. But the fact of the matter is, the material is the vehicle of the spiritual.

  Joan D. Chittister

  Spiritual, Block, Thinking

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• Those who are most able to buy what you have to sell are those who most demand that you agree with them.

  Herschell Gordon Lewis

  Able, Agree, Sells

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• Many churches of all persuasions are hiring research agencies to poll neighborhoods, asking what kind of church they prefer. Then the local churches design themselves to fit the desires of the people. True faith in God that demands selflessness is being replaced by trendy religion that serves the selfish.

  Billy Graham

  Selfish, Agency, People

  Billy Graham (2013). “The Reason for My Hope: Salvation”, p.105, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• And when we are writing the life of a woman, we may, it is agreed, waive our demand for action, and substitute love instead. Love, the poet has said, is a woman's whole existence.

  Virginia Woolf

  Writing, May, Action

  Virginia Woolf (2005). “Selected Works of Virginia Woolf”, p.530, Wordsworth Editions

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• The unwillingness of most leaders to set standards, to administer feedback when standards are not met, to praise clearly when standards are met, stands in the way of the development of excellence. The leader who makes no demands of his disciples cannot really lead them at all. The sense of new excitement and new challenge generated by the gospel will be blunted by leaders who shield followers from the full demands of fellowship.

  Neal A. Maxwell

  Leader, Challenges, Excellence

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• No less characteristic in a democracy is social justice. This demands a solution to the frightening indexes of infant mortality, of malnutrition, lack of education illiteracy, wages not sufficient to sustain life

  Rigoberta Menchu

  Justice, Democracy, Wages

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• Today's challenge for women: to value ourselves and demand that others do, too.

  Gloria Feldt

  Challenges, Today, Values

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• Despite our very recent appearance on the planet, humanity combines arrogance with increasing material demands, even as we become more numerous. Our toughness is a delusion. Have we the intelligence and discipline to vigilantly guard against our tendency to grow without limit?

  Lynn Margulis

  Discipline, Humanity, Arrogance

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• [I]t's impossible to evade the fact that Endless War will inevitably degrade the citizenry of the country that engages in it. A country which venerates its military above all other institutions, which demands that its soldiers be spoken of only with religious-like worship, and which continuously indoctrinates its population to believe that endless violence against numerous countries is necessary and just - all by instilling intense fear of the minorities who are the target of that endless violence - will be a country filled with citizens convinced of the virtues and nobility of aggression.

  Glenn Greenwald

  Country, Religious, Military

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• Reality is a harsh mistress. She demands our honesty. She demands our work. She demands that we give up comforts, that we let ourselves feel pain, that we accept how small we are and how little control we have over our lives. And she demands that we make her our top priority. But she is more beautiful, and more powerful, and more surprising, and more fascinating, and more endlessly rewarding, than anything we could ever make up about her.

  Greta Christina

  Beautiful, Giving Up, Honesty

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• God's holiness demands that sin be punished - but God's love has provided the way of redemption through Christ.

  Billy Graham

  Redemption, Holiness, Way

  Billy Graham (2007). “The Journey: Living by Faith in an Uncertain World”, p.22, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• Deep down in the Christian's life, always and all the time, there is to be a "no" to every demand that the flesh may make for recognition, and every demand that the flesh may make for approval, and every demand that the flesh may make for vindication. Always the Christian must bear about in his body the marks of the Lord Jesus.

  Alan Redpath

  Christian, Jesus, Body

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