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You seize your freedom in a spirit of rebelliousness, exuberance, defiant joy. But to live that choice -- over the weeks and months and years… — Brian Morton
I know because I read...Your mind is not a cage. It's a garden. And it requires cultivating. — Libba Bray
It isn't the big troubles in life that require character. Anybody can rise to a crisis and face a crushing tragedy with courage, but to… — Jean Webster
If the injustice is part of the necessary friction of the machine of government, let it go, let it go: perchance it will wear smooth--certainly… — Henry David Thoreau
And yet, just as our body would burst asunder if the pressure of the atmosphere were removed from it, so would the arrogance of men… — Arthur Schopenhauer
God must not engage in theology. The writer must not destroy by human reasonings the faith that art requires of us. — Jorge Luis Borges
The way of Jesus cannot be imposed or mapped — it requires an active participation in following Jesus as he leads us through sometimes strange… — Eugene H. Peterson
It is not easy to convey a sense of wonder, let alone resurrection wonder, to another. It’s the very nature of wonder to catch us… — Eugene H. Peterson
In order to deal with reality successfully - to pursue and achieve the values which his life requires - man needs self-esteem; he needs to… — Ayn Rand
Learning does not make one learned: there are those who have knowledge and those who have understanding. The first requires memory and the second philosophy — Alexandre Dumas
Science is based on experiment, on a willingness to challenge old dogma, on an openness to see the universe as it really is. Accordingly, science… — Carl Sagan
All good work requires self-revelation. — Sidney Lumet
This tremendous event is still on its way, still wandering; it has not yet reached the ears of men. Lightning and thunder require time; the… — Friedrich Nietzsche
Evil requires no reason. — Alberto Manguel
Peace requires us to surrender our illusions of control. We can love and care for others but we cannot possess our children, lovers, family, or… — Jack Kornfield
The time has come to tell the truth. Again. There is no love without justice. Men and women who cannot be just deny themselves and… — Bell Hooks
If somebody says "I love you" to me, I feel as though I had a pistol pointed at my head. What can anybody reply under… — Kurt Vonnegut
. . . freedom to creat and construct, to wonder and to venture. Such freedom requires that the individual be active and responsible, not a… — Erich Fromm
Todd? Are you still there?" "Yeah. I'm just trying to think of a good reason to continue our friendship." I grinned. "Jealousy is so unattractive… — Lisa Kleypas
To look at something as though we had never seen it before requires great courage. — Henri Matisse
Any war that requires the suspension of reason as a necessity for support is a bad war. — Norman Mailer
It requires the feminine temperament to repeat the same thing three times with unabated zest. — W. Somerset Maugham
Tolerance obviously requires a non-contentious manner of relating toward one another’s differences. But tolerance does not require abandoning one’s standards or one’s opinions on political… — Dallin H. Oaks
As Rilke observed, love requires a progressive shortening of the senses: I can see you for miles; I can hear you for blocks, I can… — William H. Gass
Cooking requires confident guesswork and improvisation-- experimentation and substitution, dealing with failure and uncertainty in a creative way — Paul Theroux

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