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• For every hour a mother gets to herself, a father will demand five times that amount for drinking with friends and acting like an immature dipshit.

  Drew Magary

  Mother, Father, Drinking

  Drew Magary (2013). “Someone Could Get Hurt: A Memoir of Twenty-First-Century Parenthood”, p.23, Penguin

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• Education to independence demands that young people should be accustomed early to consult their own sense of propriety and their own reason. To regard study as mere receptivity and memory work is to have a most incomplete view of what instruction means.

  Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

  Memories, Mean, Views

  "How to teach ... philosophy" by Emily Drabble, www.theguardian.com. July 29, 2013.

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• All democracies demand common public education because nothing makes people so much alike as the same education.

  Karl Jaspers

  People, Democracy, Common

  Karl Jaspers (1965). “The idea of the university”

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• Why is there still so much pain and suffering being produced when there's so little demand for it?

  Ashleigh Brilliant

  Pain, Suffering, Littles

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• Why is my autograph so little in demand, except on checks?

  Ashleigh Brilliant

  Littles, Checks, Autographs

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• Love is the merchandise which all the world demands; if you store it in your heart, every soul will become your customer.

  Hazrat Inayat Khan

  Heart, Love Is, Soul

  Hazrat Inayat Khan (1996). “Bowl of Saki”, p.20, Motilal Banarsidass Publishe

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• If they do not give you work, demand bread. If they deny you both, take bread. It is your sacred right!

  Emma Goldman

  Giving, Sacred, Bread

  Emma Goldman (2011). “Living My Life (Two Volumes in One)”, p.123, Cosimo, Inc.

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• It's not really the job of a public servant to inspire, but to get the job that the people demand done. The Democrats think that if they have hope and are inspired, things will get better, but they actually won't.

  Roseanne Barr

  Jobs, Thinking, People

  "Experience vs. Inspiration" by Roseanne Barr, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 22, 2008.

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• Even if we were to sign peace today, the economic conditions in our country would not improve automatically because it will take some time to reach the level of oil production before the war and the oil prices are likely to remain low for some time as the supply of oil in the world is high and demand is low.

  Salva Kiir Mayardit

  Country, Peace, War

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• Satanism demands study, not worship!

  Anton Szandor LaVey

  Study, Worship, Satanism

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• I'm dramatically underexposed. I demand more attention!

  Steven Morrissey

  Attention

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• LOVE is to stop making demands on people and give them room to grow.

  Jacque Fresco

  Love Is, People, Giving

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• We demand too much of life, too little of ourselves.

  Christopher Lasch

  Littles, Too Much

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• Escape the safety of the small by taking the risks to become part of something bigger. Your true self demands it. Listen for the timer on the oven to sound-that's when the memory curtain parts, flashing moments that really mattered.

  Kirby Wright

  Memories, Self, Safety

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• There are those who believe that a new modernity demands a new morality. What they fail to consider is the harsh reality that there is no such thing as a new morality. There is only one morality . All else is immorality.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Believe, Reality, Morality

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• The great multinationals are unwilling to face the moral and economic contradictions of their own behavior - producing in low-wage dictatorships and selling to high-wage democracies. Indeed, the striking quality about global enterprises is how easily free-market capitalism puts aside its supposed values in order to do business. The conditions of human freedom do not matter to them so long as the market demand is robust. The absence of freedom, if anything, lends order and efficiency to their operations.

  William Greider

  Order, Long, Democracy

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• To demand the portrait that will be a complete portrait of a person is as futile as to demand that a motion picture be condensed into a single still.

  Alfred Stieglitz

  Portraits, Motion Pictures, Persons

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• Fundamentally not to waste energy. If we were all to reduce our demands for energy, it would make an enormous amount of difference.

  David Attenborough

  Differences, Energy, Waste

  Source: www.lagoonsociety.com

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• It's not hard work that wears you out, but the repression of your true personality, and I've found a way of working that does not demand that.

  Frances Hesselbein

  Hard Work, Personality, Doe

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• Always underdress. The goal is not to look as if you made an effort for the particular event. If you can dress for a different party (i.e., wear black tie to a cocktail party, or tennis clothes for lunch), so much the better. You give the impression of being much in demand.

  Lisa Birnbach

  Party, Lunch, Clothes

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• Survival in more primitive ages required constant alertness, but survival in today's mechanized world almost demands that we turn off our senses. In urban life especially, there is too much to see, hear and smell.

  Carole Katchen

  Smell, Survival, Age

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• A major danger in using highly abstractive methods in political philosophy is that one will succeed merely in generalizing one's own local prejudices and repackaging them as demands of reason. The study of history can help to counteract this natural human bias.

  Raymond Geuss

  Philosophy, Political, Prejudice

  "Outside Ethics". Book by Raymond Geuss, 2005.

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• The moral improvement demands an evolution leading to a higher consciousness.

  African Spir

  Moral, Evolution, Improvement

  "Paroles d'un sage: Choix de pensées d'African Spir" ("Words of a Sage : Selected thoughts of African Spir") by Hélène Claparède-Spir, (p. 60), 1937.

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• The well understood equity as well as interest of society demand that we work on much more to prevent crime and offenses than to punish them.

  African Spir

  Crime, Interest, Equity

  "Paroles d'un sage: Choix de pensées d'African Spir" ("Words of a Sage : Selected thoughts of African Spir") by Hélène Claparède-Spir, (p. 52), 1937.

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• Writers in Latin America live in a reality that is extraordinarily demanding. Surprisingly, our answer to these demands protects and develops our individuality. I feel I am not alone in trying to give their voice to those who don't have it.

  Elena Poniatowska

  Latin, Reality, America

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