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When two people are under the influence of the most violent, most insane, most delusive, and most transient of passions, they are required to swear… — George Bernard Shaw
The wealth required by nature is limited and is easy to procure; but the wealth required by vain ideals extends to infinity. — Epicurus
Work is not always required. There is such a thing as sacred idleness. — George MacDonald
...If he failed the first time he took his driver's licence test, it was mainly because he started an argument with the examiner in an… — Vladimir Nabokov
she was oppressed, she was overcome by her own felicity; and happily disposed as is the human mind to be easily familiarized with any change… — Jane Austen
You will be required to do wrong no matter where you go. It is the basic condition of life, to be required to violate your… — Philip K. Dick
It would perhaps not be amiss to point out that he had always tried to be a good dog. He had tried to do all… — Stephen King
It is not enough that we do our best; sometimes we must do what is required. — Winston Churchill
Thou shalt not commit adultry is a command which makes no distinction between the following persons. They are all required to obey it: children at… — Mark Twain
To have compassion for those who suffer is a human quality which everyone should possess, especially those who have required comfort themselves in the past… — Giovanni Boccaccio
Any fatherâ€¦must finally give his child up to the wilderness and trust to the providence of God. It seems almost a cruelty for one generation… — Marilynne Robinson
If even rock was interesting, if even this ugliness was worth whole shelves at the library, required sophisticated tools to study, and inspired grown men… — Annie Dillard
Still, no one finally knows what a poet is supposed either to be or to do. Especially in this country, one takes on the jobâ€”because… — Robert Creeley
Perhaps the less we have, the more we are required to brag. — John Steinbeck
It was miraculous. It was almost no trick at all, he saw, to turn vice into virtue and slander into truth, impotence into abstinence, arrogance… — Joseph Heller
There are a dozen different ways of delivering destruction in impersonal wholesale, via ships and missiles of one sort or another, catastrophes so widespread, so… — Robert A. Heinlein
What would Kathy say if she knew I let the whole crew eat those Oreos when they never did eat their carrot sticks (which I… — Dean Hughes
I cannot project the degree of hatred required to make those women run around in crusades against abortion. Hatred is what they certainly project, not… — Ayn Rand
He believed that life, true life, was something that was stored in music. True life was kept safe in the lines of Tchaikovsky's Eugene Onegin… — Ann Patchett
I canâ€™t imagine anything worse than being required to have fun. — Scott Westerfeld

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