Demand Quotes - Page 6

• As scarce as truth is, the supply has always been in excess of the demand.

  Josh Billings

  Funny, Trust, Truth

  Quoted in Evan Esar, The Dictionary of Humorous Quotations (1949)

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• Love demands infinitely less than friendship.

  George Jean Nathan

  Love, Friendship, Relationship

  George Jean Nathan (1952). “The world of George Jean Nathan”

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• If all our happiness is bound up entirely in our personal circumstances it is difficult not to demand of life more than it has to give.

  Bertrand Russell

  Change, Happiness, Success

  Bertrand Russell (2015). “The Conquest of Happiness”, p.90, Lulu Press, Inc

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• There exists an unmistakable demand in the Middle East and in the wider Muslim world for democratization

  Recep Tayyip Erdogan

  Middle East, World, Democratization

  "Recep Tayyip Erdogan: The Road to Middle East Democracy". Address at Harvard University, www.independent.co.uk. February 09, 2004.

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• The expert in battle seeks his victory from strategic advantage and does not demand it from his men.

  Sun Tzu

  Leadership, Business, Art Of War

  "The Art of War". Book by Sun Tzu, Chapter V · Forces, 2003.

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• 'Til the infallibility of human judgements shall have been proved to me, I shall demand the abolition of the penalty of death.

  Marquis de Sade

  Judgement, Penalties, Infallibility

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• It is not viable for one country to demand a right to increase and upgrade its nuclear weapons capabilities while asking others to eliminate theirs.

  John Bruton

  Country, Nuclear, Asking

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• There is always a heavy demand for fresh mediocrity. In every generation the least cultivated taste has the largest appetite.

  Paul Gauguin

  Fashion, Art, Clothes

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• With rising incomes, the share of expenditures for food products declines. The resulting shift in expenditures affects demand patterns and employment structures.

  Ernst Engel

  Patterns, Income, Employment

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• Is there any wonder why we are in such big trouble? Any question why the people don't trust their government anymore, and demand a change?

  Chris Christie

  Government, People, Wonder

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• We should demand his blood not from the Arabs of Gaza but from ourselves... Let us make our reckoning today.

  Moshe Dayan

  Blood, Gaza Strip, Today

  "The Iron Wall: Israel and the Arab World". Book by Avi Shlaim, 2000.

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• I was not the kind of a principal player that was so in demand that eight or 10 or 12 scripts came per month.

  Sidney Poitier

  Player, Eight, Scripts

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• Perfect love casts out fear. Where there is love there are no demands, no expectations, no dependency. I do not demand that you make me happy; my happiness does not lie in you. If you were to leave me, I will not feel sorry for myself; I enjoy your company immensely, but I do not cling.

  Anthony de Mello

  Happiness, Sorry, Fear

  Anthony De Mello (2011). “Awareness: Conversations with the Masters”, p.54, Image

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• Down in the south, it's how we find the brownfield sites without taking too much land take to meet the tremendous demand for housing, and that's what I've done.

  John Prescott

  Land, Done, Too Much

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• It's not hard work that wears you out, but the repression of your true personality, and I've found a way of working that does not demand that.

  Frances Hesselbein

  Hard Work, Personality, Doe

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• Always underdress. The goal is not to look as if you made an effort for the particular event. If you can dress for a different party (i.e., wear black tie to a cocktail party, or tennis clothes for lunch), so much the better. You give the impression of being much in demand.

  Lisa Birnbach

  Party, Lunch, Clothes

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• The gravitation constant is the same always. But the economic constants-these elasticities of demand and supply-depending, as they do, upon human consciousness, are liable to vary. The constitution of the atom, as it were, and not merely its position, changes under the influence of environment.

  Arthur Cecil Pigou

  Strong, Men, Emotional

  "The Economics of Welfare". Book by Arthur Cecil Pigou (4th edition, 1932), Ch. 1 : Welfare and Economic Welfare, § 4, 1920.

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• Even if the constants which economists wish to determine were less numerous, and the method of experiment more accessible, we should still be faced with the fact that the constants themselves are different at different times. The gravitation constant is the same always. But the economic constants-these elasticities of demand and supply-depending, as they do, upon human consciousness, are liable to vary. The constitution of the atom, as it were, and not merely its position, changes under the influence of environment.

  Arthur Cecil Pigou

  Wish, Facts, Different

  "The Economics of Welfare". Book by Arthur Cecil Pigou (4th edition, 1932), Ch. 1 : Welfare and Economic Welfare, § 4, 1920.

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• Inner resources are like natural resources; they both dry up eventually when the demands on them are heavy.

  Sheila Ballantyne

  Dry Up, Natural, Resources

  Sheila Ballantyne (1975). “Norma Jean, the termite queen”, Doubleday Books

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• Survival in more primitive ages required constant alertness, but survival in today's mechanized world almost demands that we turn off our senses. In urban life especially, there is too much to see, hear and smell.

  Carole Katchen

  Smell, Survival, Age

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• A major danger in using highly abstractive methods in political philosophy is that one will succeed merely in generalizing one's own local prejudices and repackaging them as demands of reason. The study of history can help to counteract this natural human bias.

  Raymond Geuss

  Philosophy, Political, Prejudice

  "Outside Ethics". Book by Raymond Geuss, 2005.

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• We still have many shortcomings and failures to fulfill the Party's demands, especially as regards the liquidation in some of our people of survivals of the accursed past in consciousness and conduct and the fulfillment of the demands of our Soviet ethics and military discipline.

  Filipp Golikov

  Military, Party, Past

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• The moral improvement demands an evolution leading to a higher consciousness.

  African Spir

  Moral, Evolution, Improvement

  "Paroles d'un sage: Choix de pensées d'African Spir" ("Words of a Sage : Selected thoughts of African Spir") by Hélène Claparède-Spir, (p. 60), 1937.

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• The well understood equity as well as interest of society demand that we work on much more to prevent crime and offenses than to punish them.

  African Spir

  Crime, Interest, Equity

  "Paroles d'un sage: Choix de pensées d'African Spir" ("Words of a Sage : Selected thoughts of African Spir") by Hélène Claparède-Spir, (p. 52), 1937.

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• the time to grant anybody a favor is the day the favor is asked, for that day is the one psychological moment of the world when supply and demand are keyed exacty to each other's limits, and can be mated beatifically to grow old, or die young, together. But after that day -- !

  Eleanor Hallowell Abbott

  Together, World, Favors

  Eleanor Hallowell Abbott (1911). “The Sick-a-bed Lady: And Also Hickory Dock, The Very Tired Girl, The Happy-day, The Runaway Road, Something that Happened in October, The Amateur Lover, Heart of the City, The Pink Sash, Woman's Only Business”

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