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Requisite Quotes by Henry David Thoreau
- When I hear the hypercritical quarreling about grammar and style, the position of the particles, etc., etc., stretching or contracting every speaker to certain rules…
- When I hear the hypercritical quarreling about grammar and style, the position of the particles, etc., etc... I see that they forget that the first…
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- Persistent questioning and healthy inquisitiveness are the first requisite for acquiring learning of any kind. — Mahatma Gandhi
- We are unreasonably desirous to separate the goods of life from those evils which Providence has connected with them, and to catch… — Samuel Johnson
- The first requisite for success is to develop the ability to focus and apply your mental and physical energies to the problem… — Thomas A. Edison
- People are beginning to see that the first requisite to success in life is to be a good animal. — Herbert Spencer
- Ignorance is the first requisite of the historian - ignorance, which simplifies and clarifies, which selects and omits, with a placid perfection… — Lytton Strachey
- ...to support the Constitution, which is the cement of the Union, as well in its limitations as in its authorities; to respect… — James Madison
- As for your doctrines I am prepared to go to the Stake if requisite ... I trust you will not allow yourself… — Thomas Huxley
- The photographer's problem is to see clearly the limitations and at the same time the potential qualities of his medium, for it… — Paul Strand