Best Demands Quotations
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What then is your duty? What the day demands.
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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When life demands more of people than they demand of life - as is ordinarily the case - what results is a resentment of life…
— Tom Robbins
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Every effort under compulsion demands a sacrifice of energy. I never paid such a price.
— Nikola Tesla
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And truly it demands something godlike in him who cast off the common motives of humanity and ventured to trust himself for a taskmaster.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Human envy is certainly not one of the sources of discontent that a free society can eliminate. It is probably one of the essential conditions…
— Friedrich August von Hayek
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Every movement that seeks to enslave a country, every dictatorship or potential dictatorship, needs some minority group as a scapegoat which it can blame for…
— Ayn Rand
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The times call for courage. The times call for hard work. But if the demands are high, it is because the stakes are even higher.…
— Henry Hazlitt
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Geology, perhaps more than any other department of natural philosophy, is a science of contemplation. It requires no experience or complicated apparatus, no minute processes…
— Humphry Davy
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As is well known the principle of virtual velocities transforms all statics into a mathematical assignment, and by D'Alembert's principle for dynamics, the latter is…
— Carl Friedrich Gauss
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Philosophers and theologians have yet to learn that a physical fact is as sacred as a moral principle. Our own nature demands from us this…
— Louis Agassiz
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A way has to be found to enable everyone to benefit from the fruits of the earth, and not simply to close the gap between…
— Pope Francis
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To exercise power costs effort and demands courage. That is why so many fail to assert rights to which they are perfectly entitled - because…
— Oscar Wilde
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Now you shall consider My love in the Blessed Sacrament. Here, I am entirely yours, soul, body and divinity, as your Bridegroom. You know what…
— Mary Faustina Kowalska
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The Devil's strategy for our times is to trivialize human existence and isolate us from one another while creating the delusion that the reasons are…
— Philip Zimbardo
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While the primary function of formal Buddhist meditation is to create the possibility of the experience of "being," my work as a therapist has shown…
— Mark Epstein
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Climbing to the top demands strength, whether it is to the top of Mount Everest or to the top of your career.
— Abdul Kalam
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For women... bras, panties, bathing suits, and other stereotypical gear are visual reminders of a commercial, idealized feminine image that our real and diverse female…
— Gloria Steinem
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Hollywood is tied hand and foot to the demands for artificiality of the masses all over the world.
— Lionel Barrymore
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Kaizen and innovation are the two major strategies people use to create change. Where innovation demands shocking and radical reform, all kaizen asks is that…
— Robert D. Maurer
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One very important difference between color and monochromatic photography is this: in black and white you suggest; in color you state. Much can be implied…
— Paul Outerbridge
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Leaders have to give time for relationships. But more demands will be placed on their time as they become more successful. So if a person's…
— Mike Krzyzewski
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If any earthly institution or custom conflicts with God's will, it is your Christian duty to oppose it. You must never allow the transitory, evanescent…
— Martin Luther
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Our progress as a nation can be no swifter than our progress in education. Our requirements for world leadership, our hopes for economic growth, and…
— John F. Kennedy
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Pessimism is a losing strategy. Leadership demands both confidence and optimism in abundance.
— Toyotomi Hideyoshi
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There is an important difference between love and friendship. While the former delights in extremes and opposites, the latter demands equality.
— Francoise d'Aubigne, Marquise de Maintenon
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