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The decisive step in evolution, the first step toward macroevolution, the step from one species to another, requires another evolutionary method than that of sheer… — Richard Goldschmidt
It requires only two things to win credit for a miracle: a mountebank and a number of silly women. — Marquis de Sade
We godless lack that certainty, and we know the world is a complex place that requires compromise and is not ruled by a moral force… — PZ Myers
Appreciation of works of art requires organized effort and systematic study. Art appreciation can no more be absorbed by aimless wandering in galleries than can… — Albert Barnes
To appreciate nonsense requires a serious interest in life. — Gelett Burgess
Someone has written, Love is a verb. It requires doing -not just saying and thinking. The test is in what one does, how one acts,… — David B. Haight
Americans, both politicians and voters, may have become corrupted by big government beyond redemption. A virtuous government requires a virtuous people. A frugal government requires… — Charley Reese
Non-violent resistance implies the very opposite of weakness. Defiance combined with non-retaliatory acceptance of repression from one's opponents is active, not passive. It requires strength,… — Mahatma Gandhi
Prayer is not appointed for the furnishing of God with the knowledge of what we need, but it is designed as a confession to Him… — Arthur W. Pink
Notice carefully every word here. It is not our prayer which draws Jesus into our hearts. Nor is it our prayer which moves Jesus to… — Ole Hallesby
Some who attempt prayer never have the sense of anyone listening on the other end. They blame themselves for doing it wrong.... Prayer requires the… — Philip Yancey
The only privilege literature deserves - and this privilege it requires in order to exist - is the privilege of being in the arena of… — Salman Rushdie
Anybody can write a three-volume novel. It merely requires a complete ignorance of both life and literature. — Oscar Wilde
Peace requires us to surrender our illusions of control. — Jack Kornfield
People tell me, "I'm glad you said that." But this is not a spectator sport. This is an activity that requires daily moral awakening as… — Bill Bradley
Human nature is not a machine to be built after a model, and set to do exactly the work prescribed for it, but a tree,… — John Stuart Mill
You ask whether a woman should be paid the same wages as man when she does the same work? To this, there can be but… — John Peter Altgeld
World peace, like community peace, does not require that each man love his neighbor - it requires only that they live together with mutual tolerance,… — John F. Kennedy
Great wine requires a mad man to grow the vine, a wise man to watch over it, a lucid poet to make it, and a… — Salvador Dali
Disappointment requires adequate planning. — Richard Bandler

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