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2232 Requires quotes by 1539 unique authors
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The possibility of stepping into a higher plane is quite real for everyone. It requires no force or effort or sacrifice. It involves little more…
— Deepak Chopra
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Justice demands integrity. It’s to have a moral universe — not only know what is right or wrong but to put things in perspective, weigh…
— Bell Hooks
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Who will deny that true religion consists, in a great measure, in vigorous and lively actings of the inclination and will of the soul, or…
— Jonathan Edwards
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Being a writer requires an intoxication with language.
— Jim Harrison
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The book, if you would see anything in it, requires to be read in the clear, brown, twilight atmosphere in which it was written; if…
— Nathaniel Hawthorne
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Forgiveness must be immediate, whether or not a person asks for it. Trust must be rebuilt over time. Trust requires a track record.
— Rick Warren
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Doubt requires more courage than conviction does, and more energy; because conviction is a resting place and doubt is infinite – it is a passionate…
— John Patrick Shanley
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Creativity requires faith. Faith requires that we relinquish control.
— Julia Cameron
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While archetypes may emanate through us for short periods of time, in what we call numinous experience, no woman can emanate an archetype continuously. Only…
— Clarissa Pinkola Estes
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We have lived our lives by the assumption that what was good for us would be good for the world. We have been wrong. We…
— Wendell Berry
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Good leadership requires you to surround yourself with people of diverse perspectives who can disagree with you without fear of retaliation.
— Doris Kearns Goodwin
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It isn't the desire to abide by the law that makes everyone behave as society requires, but the fear of punishment. Each one of us…
— Paulo Coelho
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Death is the end of the fear of death. [...] To avoid it we must not stop fearing it and so life is fear. Death…
— Tao Lin
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It requires twenty years for a man to rise from the vegetable state in which he is within his mother's womb, and from the pure…
— Voltaire
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What is it with science these days? Everyone is so quick to believe in it, in all these new scientific discoveries, new pills for this,…
— Cecelia Ahern
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An isolated person requires correspondence as a means of seeing his ideas as others see them, and thus guarding against the dogmatisms and extravagances of…
— H P Lovecraft
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For writing a first draft requires from the writer a peculiar internal state which ordinary life does not induce. ... how to set yourself spinning?
— Annie Dillard
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To be good, according to the vulgar standard of goodness, is obviously quite easy. It merely requires a certain amount of sordid terror, a certain…
— Oscar Wilde
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I've learned that no matter how serious your life requires you to be, everyone needs a friend to act goofy with.
— Andy Rooney
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Cross a man and you struggle, one of you wins, you adjust and go on - or you lie there dead. Cross a woman and…
— Gregory Maguire
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After another ten minutes, the gates of thievery would open just a crack, and Liesel Meminger would widen them a little further and squeeze through.…
— Markus Zusak
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We always hope for the easy fix: the one simple change that will erase a problem in a stroke. But few things in life work…
— Atul Gawande
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On the Bigotry of Culture: : it presented us with culture, with thought as something justified in itself, that is, which requires no justification but…
— Jose Ortega y Gasset
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Whenever I find myself growing grim about the mouth; whenever it is a damp, drizzly November in my soul; whenever I find myself involuntarily pausing…
— Herman Melville
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...quantum mechanics—the physics of our world—requires that you hold such pedestrian complaints in abeyance.
— Brian Greene
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