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Requires Quotes by Virginia Postrel
- The intimate contest for self-command never ends, and lifetime happiness requires finding the right balance between present impulses and future well-being.
- We are material creatures who spend much of our lives on material pursuits (even building a cathedral or writing a novel requires stone and mortar…
- The theater itself is a lie. Its deaths are mere special effects. Its tales never happened. Even the histories are distorted for dramatic effect. The…
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- For though we love both the truth and our friends, piety requires us to honor the truth first. — Aristotle
- A functioning, robust democracy requires a healthy educated, participatory followership, and an educated, morally grounded leadership. — Chinua Achebe
- Where youth and diffidence are united, it requires uncommon steadiness of reason to resist the attraction of being called the most charming… — Jane Austen
- All science requires mathematics. The knowledge of mathematical things is almost innate in us. This is the easiest of sciences, a fact… — Roger Bacon
- A garden requires patient labor and attention. Plants do not grow merely to satisfy ambitions or to fulfill good intentions. They thrive… — Liberty Hyde Bailey
- Religion which requires persecution to sustain, it is of the devil's propagation. — Hosea Ballou
- Old maids, having never bent their temper or their lives to other lives and other tempers, as woman's destiny requires, have for… — Honore de Balzac
- It does not require great learning to be a Christian and be convinced of the truth of the Bible. It requires only… — Albert Barnes