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• I will demand a commitment to excellence and to victory, and that is what life is all about.

  Vince Lombardi

  Motivational, Sports, Commitment

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• Power at its best is love implementing the demand of justice.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Power, Justice, Polar Opposites

  Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (2013). “The Essential Martin Luther King, Jr.: "I Have a Dream" and Other Great Writings”, p.200, Beacon Press

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• We should demand that (Customs and Border Protection) focus on the true priority that we face on the war on terror... Stripping small amounts of prescription drugs from the hands of seniors... that should not be a priority.

  David Vitter

  Senior, War, Hands

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• The Palestinian people does not exist. The creation of a Palestinian state is only a means for continuing our struggle against the state of Israel for our Arab unity. In reality today there is no difference between Jordanians, Palestinians, Syrians and Lebanese. Only for political and tactical reasons do we speak today about the existence of a Palestinian people, since Arab national interests demand that we posit the existence of a distinct 'Palestinian people' to oppose Zionism.

  Zuheir Mohsen

  Struggle, Islamic, Mean

  "Wij zijn alleen Palestijn om politieke reden". "Trouw", March 31, 1977.

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• A balance is necessary in life. To achieve this we must move away from broad definitions of workplaces as functional and households as emotional. Similarly, home, the haven in a heartless world, as defined by men, cannot be used by them as an antidote to the workplace's discomforts and demands, if this means having the wife as a servicer.

  Eva Cox

  Leadership, Moving, Home

  Eva Cox (1996). “Leading Women”

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• Leaders who fail to appreciate this fundamental precept of accountability must also fail to muster the profound commitment true leadership demands.

  Peter Cosgrove

  Leadership, Commitment, Appreciate

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• It is the misfortune of contemporary leaders, across the whole spectrum of Australian life, that the community's demand for strong leadership is growing in direct proportion to our lack of confidence in ourselves. The end of this century is an unusually difficult time to be a leader in Australia.

  Hugh Mackay

  Leadership, Strong, Australia

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• Trouble no one about their religion; respect others in their view and demand that they respect yours.

  Tecumseh

  Native American, Views, Trouble

  "A Sourcebook for Earth's Community of Religions". Book by Joel Diederik Beversluis, 1993.

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• The problems are our lives. In the "developed" countries, at least, the large problems occur because all of us are living either partly wrong or almost entirely wrong. It was not just the greed of corporate shareholders and the hubris of corporate executives that put the fate of Prince William Sound into one ship; it was also our demand that energy be cheap and plentiful.

  Wendell Berry

  Country, Fate, Greed

  Wendell Berry (2010). “What Are People For?: Essays”, p.198, Counterpoint Press

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• We simply must balance our demand for energy with our rapidly shrinking resources. By acting now we can control our future instead of letting the future control us.

  Jimmy Carter

  Balance, Acting, Energy

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• Tax the rich. End the wars. Break the power of lobbies in Washington. These are the demands of Occupy Wall Street. They are very important. The US corporations dominate Washington. The big oil companies, Wall Street banks and the military-industrial complex - they rule this country and their influence and power has to be broken.

  Jeffrey Sachs

  Country, Wall, Military

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• Life takes its own turns, makes its own demands, writes its own story, and along the way, we start to realize we are not the author.

  Barack Obama

  Inspirational Life, Writing, Stories

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• You cannot demand military service of Christians any more than you can of priests. We do not go forth as soldiers with the Emperor even if he demands this.

  Origen

  Christian, Military, Soldier

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• It is a good thing to demand liberty for ourselves and for those who agree with us, but it is a better thing and a rarer thing to give liberty to others who do not agree with us.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Giving, Justice, President

  Roosevelt, Franklin D. (1938). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: F.D. Roosevelt, 1933, Volume 2”, p.497, Best Books on

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• Writing ought either to be the manufacture of stories for which there is a market demand - a business as safe and commendable as making soap or breakfast foods - or it should be an art, which is always a search for something for which there is no market demand, something new and untried, where the values are intrinsic and have nothing to do with standardized values.

  Willa Cather

  Art, Writing, Breakfast Food

  Willa Cather (1988). “Willa Cather on Writing: Critical Studies on Writing as an Art”, p.103, U of Nebraska Press

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• Yes sir. You can be more careless, you can put more trash in [a novel] and be excused for it. In a short story that's next to the poem, almost every word has got to be almost exactly right. In the novel you can be careless but in the short story you can't. I mean by that the good short stories like Chekhov wrote. That's why I rate that second - it's because it demands a nearer absolute exactitude. You have less room to be slovenly and careless. There's less room in it for trash.

  William Faulkner

  Mean, Stories, Crafts

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• The adoption of the required attitude of mind towards ideas that seem to emerge "of their own free will" and the abandonment of the critical function that is normally in operation against them seem to be hard of achievement for some people. The "involuntary thoughts" are liable to release a most violent resistance, which seeks to prevent their emergence. If we may trust that great poet and philosopher Friedrich Schiller, however, poetic creation must demand an exactly similar attitude.

  Sigmund Freud

  Attitude, Ideas, People

  Sigmund Freud, Angela Richards (1953). “The Standard Edition of the Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund Freud”

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• Fans, true fans, are hard to find and precious. Just a few can change everything. What they demand, though, is generosity and bravery.

  Seth Godin

  Generosity, Bravery, Fans

  Seth Godin (2008). “Tribes: We Need You to Lead Us”, p.34, Penguin

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• Only by being permitted to experience the consequences of his actions will the child acquire a sense of responsibility; and within the limits marked by the demands of his safety this must be done.

  Robert M. Lindner

  Children, Father, Responsibility

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• The point is to develop the childlike inclination for play and the childlike desire for recognition and to guide the child over to important fields for society. Such a school demands from the teacher that he be a kind of artist in his province.

  Albert Einstein

  Education, Teacher, Children

  Albert Einstein (2010). “Ideas And Opinions”, p.63, Broadway Books

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• Each individual woman's body demands to be accepted on its own terms.

  Gloria Steinem

  Inspiring, Body, Individual

  Gloria Steinem (1986). “Outrageous acts and everyday rebellions”, New Amer Library

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• Whenever a single definite object is made the supreme end of the State, be it the advantage of a class, the safety of the power of the country, the greatest happiness of the greatest number, or the support of any speculative idea, the State becomes for the time inevitably absolute. Liberty alone demands for its realization the limitation of the public authority, for liberty is the only object which benefits all alike, and provokes no sincere opposition.

  Lord Acton

  Country, Class, Ideas

  Lord Acton (2016). “The History of Freedom: Great Event”, p.239, VM eBooks

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• Chess demands total concentration

  Bobby Fischer

  Success, Chess, Concentration

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• There's a difference between a mystery and a question. Questions demand answers, but a mystery demands something more valuable-explanation.

  Robert Cialdini

  Teaching, Differences, Answers

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• To demand 'sense' is the hallmark of nonsense. Nature does not make sense. Nothing makes sense.

  Ayn Rand

  Nature, Doe, Nonsense

  Ayn Rand (2016). “Atlas Shrugged”, p.260, Hamilton Books

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