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One must be reasonable in one's demands on life. For myself, all that I ask is: (1) accurate information; (2) coherent knowledge; (3) deep understanding;… — Edward Abbey
People go to Africa and confirm what they already have in their heads and so they fail to see what is there in front of… — Chinua Achebe
Persons who have a strong sense of efficacy deploy their attention and effort to the demands of the situation and are spurred by obstacles to… — Albert Bandura
Since art is a virtue of the intellect, it demands to communicate with the entire universe of the intellect. Hence it is that the normal… — Jacques Maritain
Failure, then, failure! so the world stamps us at every turn. We strew it with our blunders, our misdeeds, our lost opportunities, with all the… — William James
We are wont to see friendship solely as a phenomenon of intimacy in which the friends open their hearts to each other unmolested by the… — Hannah Arendt
Ideology... is indispensable in any society if men are to be formed, transformed and equipped to respond to the demands of their conditions of existence. — Louis Althusser
I'm not afraid to be one of the martyrs people have offered in the struggle for their just demands. — Unknown Author
Poetry demands a different material than prose. It uses another facet of the same fact … the spontaneous conformation of language as it is heard. — William Carlos Williams
Of all the arts, abstract painting is the most difficult. It demands that you know how to draw well, that you have a heightened sensitivity… — Wassily Kandinsky
Chess is difficult, it demands work, serious reflection and zealous research. — Wilhelm Steinitz
Don’t join an easy crowd; you won’t grow. Go where the expectations and the demands to perform are high. — Jim Rohn
I love America more than any other country in the world, and, exactly for this reason, I insist on the right to criticize her perpetually.… — James A. Baldwin
The most practical teaching of the Gita, and one for which it is of abiding interest and value to the men of the world with… — Bal Gangadhar Tilak
The more one has suffered, the less one demands. To protest is a sign one has traversed no hell. — Emile M. Cioran
It is not larger, cleaner cages that justice demands...but empty cages; not traditional animal agriculture but a complete end to all commerce in the flesh… — Tom Regan
Let men not ask what the law requires, but give whatever freedom demands. — Jefferson Davis
I and some colleagues came to the conclusion that as violence in this country was inevitable, it would be wrong and unrealistic for African leaders… — Nelson Mandela
So we are continuing this policy in bleeding America to the point of bankruptcy. Rather, the policy of the White House that demands the opening… — Osama bin Laden
Do the story in the way it really demands to be done, which may mean using several different styles or only one style; but it's… — Bill Sienkiewicz
An infallible way to make your child miserable is to satisfy all his demands. — Henry Home, Lord Kames
It's impossible to translate Wall Street greed into one or two demands. — Cornel West
The state of the world today demands that women become less modest and dream/plan/act/risk on a larger scale. — Charlotte Bunch
The greatest trouble with most of us is that our demands upon ourselves are so feeble, the call upon the great within of us so… — Orison Swett Marden
One of the most important thing in families, both for children and spouses, is never to close off possibilities - particularly never to make demands… — Hazel Hawke

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