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The washing of dishes does seem to me the most absurd and unsatisfactory business that I ever undertook. If, when once washed, they would remain…
— Nathaniel Hawthorne
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Self-government requires qualities of self-denial and restraint.
— John F. Kennedy
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I just couldn't make the grade as a hack-that, like everything else, requires a certain practiced excellence.
— F. Scott Fitzgerald
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Our daily existence requires both closeness and distance, the wholeness of self, the wholeness of intimacy.
— Judith Viorst
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The path of least resistance and least trouble is a mental rut already made. It requires troublesome work to undertake the alternation of old beliefs.…
— John Dewey
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Personal beauty requires that one should be tall; little people may have charm and elegance, but beauty-no.
— Aristotle
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Freedom of the mind requires not only, or not even especially the absence of legal constraints but the presence of alternative thoughts.
— Allan Bloom
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No matter what these terrorists do, I refuse to be terrorized. All this requires is just a few alterations in our day to day lives.…
— Margaret Cho
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I know this world is ruled by Infinite Intelligence. It required Infinite Intelligence to create it and it requires Infinite Intelligence to keep it on…
— Thomas A. Edison
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I don't see how poetry can ever be easy... Real poetry, the thick, dense, intense, complicated stuff that lives and endures, requires blood sweat; blood…
— Edward Abbey
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Joy requires one to be awake, Adjusting the heart's ambience to bright. Some prefer the dark, as is their right, On grounds of agony, and…
— Nick Gordon
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I have no statistics to prove it, but I'm sure the American workplace will be adversely affected on Monday, the day after XXIV. The game…
— Robert Klein
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Positive health requires a knowledge of man's primary constitution and of the powers of various foods, both those natural to them and those resulting from…
— Hippocrates
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Theology is simply that part of religion that requires brains.
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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It requires a serious mind and a determined heart to pray past the ordinary into the unusual.
— Aiden Wilson Tozer
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For dreams to come true, it requires diligence. Believing is the most important thing!
— Yunho
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Change requires leaving our comfort zones and plunging headfirst into uncomfortable situations. It's true this causes some pain and discomfort for a moment, but it's…
— Yehuda Berg
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Two friendships in two breasts requires The same aversions and desires.
— Jonathan Swift
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The truth is that no horizon is especially interesting by itself, by virtue of its peculiar content, and that any horizon, wide or narrow, brilliant…
— Jose Ortega y Gasset
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I would like the events never to be told directly by the author, but rather to be introduced (and several times, from various angles) by…
— Andre Gide
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That virtue which requires to be ever guarded is scarce worth the sentinel.
— Oliver Goldsmith
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Wisdom requires no form; her beauty must vary, as varies the beauty of flame. She is no motionless goddess, for ever couched on her throne.
— Maurice Maeterlinck
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The flesh believes that pleasure is limitless and that it requires unlimited time; but the mind, understanding the end and limit of the flesh and…
— Epicurus
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Poetry is a whim of Nature in her lighter moods; it requires nothing but its own madness and, lacking that, it becomes a soundless cymbal,…
— Pietro Aretino
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Labor is work that leaves no trace behind it when it is finished, or if it does, as in the case of the tilled field,…
— Mary McCarthy
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