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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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• Last night I had rinsed out my sari strip and briefs in the sea. I walked down naked to where they hung in the branches of the silvery leafed tree beside the creek. Underneath the lazy sensuality of a luxurious stretch from toes to nose I felt the strong unequivocal demand of my blood. I hugged myself for a moment watching the grey light yield to dawn through half-closed eyes.

  Lucy Irvine

  Strong, Eye, Night

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• An opponent is entitled to the same regard for his principles as we would expect others to have for ours. Non-violence demands that we should see every opportunity to win over opponents.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Struggle, Winning, Opportunity

  Mahatma Gandhi (194?). “Gandhi's Wisdom Box”

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• Mark my word, if and when these preachers get control of the [Republican] party, and they're sure trying to do so, it's going to be a terrible damn problem. Frankly, these people frighten me. Politics and governing demand compromise. But these Christians believe they are acting in the name of God, so they can't and won't compromise. I know, I've tried to deal with them.

  Barry Goldwater

  Christian, Religious, Party

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• At some point in this death-penalty debate, the sanctity of innocent life demands that men and women of conservative conscience have to say: Enough.

  Rod Dreher

  Men, Death Penalty, Conservative

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• Excellence demands that you be better than yourself.

  Theodore Wilhelm Engstrom

  Excellence

  Theodore Wilhelm Engstrom, Robert C. Larson (1988). “The best of Ted Engstrom on personal excellence and leadership”, Here's Life Pub

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• A colleague saw the same model-calibrating the elasticity of demand facing a Cournot oligopolist as a function of the number of firms in the industry--described at the University of Chicago and at M.I.T. A Chicago economist derived the formula and said, "Look at how few firms you need to get close to infinite elasticities and perfect competition." An M.I.T. economist derived the same formula and said, "Look at how large n has to be before you get anywhere close to an infinite elasticity and perfect competition."

  Matthew Rabin

  Numbers, Perfect, Competition

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• We might as well reasonably dispute whether it is the upper or the under blade of a pair of scissors that cuts a piece of paper, as whether value is governed by demand or supply.

  Alfred Marshall

  Cutting, Pieces, Paper

  Alfred Marshall (2009). “Principles of Economics: Unabridged Eighth Edition”, p.290, Cosimo, Inc.

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• What an English King has no right to demand, an English subject has a right to refuse

  John Hampden

  Kings, Economics, Refuse

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• Socialism has never and nowhere been at first a working-class movement. It is by no means an obvious remedy for the obvious evil which the interests of that class will necessarily demand. It is a construction of theorists.

  Friedrich August von Hayek

  Philosophy, Mean, Class

  "Studies in Philosophy, Politics and Economics". Book by Friedrich Hayek, The Intellectuals and Socialism (ch. 12), 1967.

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• It should be possible to emphasize to students that the level of employment is a macroeconomic issue, depending in the short run on aggregate demand and depending in the long run on the natural rate of unemployment, with microeconomic policies like tariffs having little net effect. Trade policy should be debated in terms of its impact on efficiency, not in terms of phoney numbers about jobs created or lost.

  Paul Krugman

  Running, Jobs, Philosophy

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• A tax is always a sacrifice which the government demands of individuals.While it only lessens every one's personal enjoyments, it only shifts expenses from one to another.But when it encroaches on productive consumption it diminishes public riches.

  Antoine Destutt de Tracy

  Philosophy, Sacrifice, Government

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• The sources of deflation are not a mystery. Deflation is in almost all cases a side effect of a collapse of aggregate demand.. a drop in spending so severe that producers must cut prices on an ongoing basis in order to find buyers.

  Ben Bernanke

  Cutting, Order, Ongoing

  "Helicopter Money" by Richard Duncan, www.businessinsider.com. July 1, 2011.

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• America has much to gain in terms of jobs and trade by meeting the growing world demand for advanced, environmentally sound technologies.

  John McCain

  Jobs, Technology, America

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• That's the thing about pain, it demands to be felt.

  John Green

  Inspirational, Stars, Pain

  "The Fault in Our Stars". Book by John Green, January 10, 2012.

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• Global climate change is real and we have a limited time to change our behavior or live with the consequences. We can all help by making small changes in our lives to letting our voice be heard by our governing bodies. As has always been the case in this country, if the people demand change, it will come.

  Kyra Sedgwick

  Country, Time, Real

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• All scientific work is incomplete - whether it be observational or experimental. All scientific work is liable to be upset or modified by advancing knowledge. That does not confer upon us a freedom to ignore the knowledge we already have, to postpone action that it appears to demand at a given time. Who knows, asks Robert Browning, but the world may end tonight? True, but on available evidence most of us make ready to commute on the 8:30 next day.

  Austin Bradford Hill

  Next Day, Upset, Doe

  "The Environment and Disease: Association or Causation?" by Austin Bradford Hill, 1965.

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• To make the future demands courage. It demands work. But it also demands faith.

  Peter Drucker

  Goal

  Peter Drucker (2012). “Managing For Results”, p.179, Routledge

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• Democracy in the contemporary world demands, among other things, an educated and informed people.

  Elizabeth Bishop

  Women, People, Democracy

  Elizabeth Bishop (1962). “LIFE WORLD LIBRARY BRAZIL”

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• The climate crisis requires a bottom-up, grassroots demand for solutions because the elites in many parts of the world are under the influence of old industry.

  Al Gore

  Climate, World, Influence

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• Awake, my soul! Stretch every nerve, And press with vigor on; A heavenly race demands thy zeal, And an immortal crown.

  Philip Doddridge

  Race, Soul, Vigor

  Philip Doddridge, John Doddridge HUMPHREYS (1839). “Scriptural Hymns ... New and corrected edition, containing many hymns never before printed. Edited ... by ... J. D. Humphreys, etc”, p.232

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• One can see from space how the human race has changed the Earth. Nearly all of the available land has been cleared of forest and is now used for agriculture or urban development. The polar icecaps are shrinking and the desert areas are increasing. At night, the Earth is no longer dark, but large areas are lit up. All of this is evidence that human exploitation of the planet is reaching a critical limit. But human demands and expectations are ever-increasing. We cannot continue to pollute the atmosphere, poison the ocean and exhaust the land. There isn't any more available.

  Stephen Hawking

  Ocean, Dark, Night

  "The 11th Hour". Documentary, www.imdb.com. 2007.

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• First, we must stop wasting energy. A quarter of the UK's carbon emissions come from the home. Our housing stock - the oldest in Europe - is costing us the earth... After transport, heating is the second biggest driver of energy demand in Britain. British Gas research suggests that householders who put in energy efficiency measures cut their gas consumption by 44%. Better insulated buildings will do much of the work for us.

  Chris Huhne

  Home, Cutting, Europe

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• But we must also look at renewable heat technology. More combined heat and power schemes, putting waste heat to better use. More district heating schemes. And more electric air and ground-source heat pumps, drawing warmth from the outside world to heat the indoors. Better insulation, smarter homes, and more efficient heating can help us cut our energy demand.

  Chris Huhne

  Home, Cutting, Technology

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