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Bullshit is unavoidable when circumstances require someone to talk without knowing what he is talking about. Thus, the production of bullshit is stimulated whenever a…
— Harry Frankfurt
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Any demanding high technology tends to develop influential and dedicated constituencies of those who link its commercial success with both the public welfare and their…
— Amory Lovins
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We know by now that if we make technology the predestined force in our lives, man will walk to the measure of its demands. We…
— William O. Douglas
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The deadliest foe of democracy is not autocracy but liberty frenzied. Liberty is not foolproof. For its beneficent working it demands self-restraint, a sane and…
— Otto Hermann Kahn
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When the conspiracy of lies surrounding me demands of me to silence the one word of truth given to me, that word becomes the one…
— André Brink
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The wonderful structure of the animal system will probably never permit us to look upon it as a merely physical apparatus, yet the demands of…
— John Gorrie
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Self-discipline is a form of freedom. Freedom from laziness and lethargy, freedom from the expectations and demands of others, freedom from weakness and fear-and doubt.…
— Harvey Dorfman
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Once in debt, interest is your companion every minute of the day and night; you cannot shun it or slip away from it; you cannot…
— J. Reuben Clark
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Remember, the essence of storytelling demands that we place our main characters on a path. A quest with something at stake, with something to do,…
— Larry Brooks
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The display of grief makes more demands than grief itself. How few men are sad in their own company.
— Seneca the Younger
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The creation of the world is not only a process which moves from God to humanity. God demands newness from humanity; God awaits the works…
— Nikolai Berdyaev
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... the ecological problem of our times demands a radical reevaluation of how we see the entire world; it demands a different interpretation of matter…
— Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew I of Constantinople
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A God who makes no demands, is the functional equivalent of a God who does not exist.
— D. Todd Christofferson
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I am a lazy man. Laziness keeps me from believing that enlightenment demands effort, discipline, strict diet, non-smoking, and other evidences of virtue. There is…
— Thaddeus Golas
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Materialistic success can be explained quite simply. Those who succeed focus their attention on success - not on their talent. Remember these words! All of…
— Brad Steiger
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According to the National Crime Survey administered by the Bureau of the Census and the National Institute of Justice, it was found that only 12…
— Gary Kleck
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Out of the darkness of my life, so much frustrated, I put before you the one great thing to love on earth: the Blessed Sacrament....There…
— J.R.R. Tolkien
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Our dreams disturb us because they refuse to pander to our fondest notions of ourselves. The closer one looks, the more they seem to insist…
— Marc Ian Barasch
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Most important of all, to be successful in life demands that a man make a personal commitment to excellence and to victory, even though the…
— Vince Lombardi
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A balance is necessary in life. To achieve this we must move away from broad definitions of workplaces as functional and households as emotional. Similarly,…
— Eva Cox
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Leaders who fail to appreciate this fundamental precept of accountability must also fail to muster the profound commitment true leadership demands.
— Peter Cosgrove
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Tax the rich. End the wars. Break the power of lobbies in Washington. These are the demands of Occupy Wall Street. They are very important.…
— Jeffrey Sachs
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Life takes its own turns, makes its own demands, writes its own story, and along the way, we start to realize we are not the…
— Barack Obama
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You cannot demand military service of Christians any more than you can of priests. We do not go forth as soldiers with the Emperor even…
— Origen
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Yes sir. You can be more careless, you can put more trash in [a novel] and be excused for it. In a short story that's…
— William Faulkner
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