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• Justice is not Healing. Healing cometh only by suffering and patience, and maketh no demand, not even for Justice. Justice worketh only within the bonds of things as they are... and therefore though Justice is itself good and desireth no further evil, it can but perpetuate the evil that was, and doth not prevent it from the bearing of fruit in sorrow.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Healing, Evil, Justice

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• When you love someone you do not love them, all the time, in the exact same way, from moment to moment. It is an impossibility. It is a lie to pretend to. And yet this is exactly what most of us demand. We have so little faith in the ebb and flow of life, of love, of relationships.

  Anne Morrow Lindbergh

  Lying, Ebb And Flow, When You Love Someone

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• It is significant that, as innocent babies are killed, and capital punishment is withheld from their murderers, the same men who plead for the murderer's life also demand the “right” to abortion. Usually, the same picketers that carry a sign one day, “Abolish Capital Punishment,” also carry “Legalize Abortion” another day. When this is called to their attention, their answer is, “There is no contradiction involved.” They are right: the thesis is “condemn the innocent and free the guilty.

  R.J. Rushdoony

  Baby, Men, Abortion

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• In face of this modern nihilism, Christians are often lacking in courage. We tend to give the impression that we will hold on to the outward forms whatever happens, even if God really is not there. But the opposite ought to be true of us, so that people can see that we demand the truth of what is there and that we are not dealing merely with platitudes. In other words, it should be understood that we take this question of truth and personality so seriously that if God were not there we would be among the first of those who had the courage to step out of the queue.

  Francis Schaeffer

  Christian, Opposites, People

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• Families aren't easy to join. They're like an exclusive country club where membership makes impossible demands and the dues for an outsider are exorbitant.

  Erma Bombeck

  Family, Country, Clubs

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• Well, it seems a bit silly, looking there,” said Will. “It’s not like Mortmain’s going to lodge a complaint against the Shadow-hunters through official channels. ‘Very upset Shadowhunters refused to all die when I wanted them to. Demand recompense. Please mail cheque to A. Mortmain, 18 Kensington Road—

  Cassandra Clare

  Silly, Upset, Shadow

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• Here's what I want from a book, what I demand, what I pray for when I take up a novel and begin to read the first sentence: I want everything and nothing less, the full measure of a writer's heart. I want a novel so poetic that I do not have to turn to the standby anthologies of poetry to satisfy that itch for music, for perfection and economy of phrasing, for exactness of tone. Then, too, I want a book so filled with story and character that I read page after page without thinking of food or drink because a writer has possessed me, crazed with an unappeasable thirst to know what happens next.

  Pat Conroy

  Book, Heart, Character

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• Like children, dogs want discipline and are most secure when they have rules to live by. The happiest dogs are those with gentle masters who quietly but firmly demand respect.

  Dean Koontz

  Dog, Children, Rules To Live By

  Dean Koontz (2007). “The Darkest Evening of the Year: A Novel”, p.78, Bantam

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• Life consists with Wildness. The most alive is the wildest. Not yet subdued to man, its presence refreshes him. One who pressed forward incessantly and never rested from his labors, who grew fast and made infinite demands on life, would always find himself in a new country or wilderness, and surrounded by the raw material of life. He would be climbing over the prostrate stems of primitive forest trees.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Country, Men, Climbing

  Henry David Thoreau (2015). “Walking: Top Essays”, p.11, 谷月社

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• Loneliness doesn’t exist on any single plane of consciousness. It’s generally a low throb, barely audible, like the hum of a Mercedes engine in park, but every so often the demands of the highway call for a burst of acceleration, and the hum becomes a thunderous, elemental roar, and once again you’re reminded of what this baby’s carrying under the hood.

  Jonathan Tropper

  Baby, Loneliness, Parks

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• When you play the field selfishly everything works against you: one can’t insist on love or demand affection. you’re finally left with whatever you have been willing to give which often is: nothing.

  Charles Bukowski

  Play, Often Is, Giving

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• Perhaps if the future existed, concretely and individually, as something that could be discerned by a better brain, the past would not be so seductive: its demands would be balanced by those of the future.

  Vladimir Nabokov

  Past, Seductive, Brain

  Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov (1996). “Novels, 1969-1974”

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• You want him to walk?" Caleb demands. "Are you insane?" "Did I shoot him in the leg?" I say. "No. He walks. Where do we go, Peter?

  Veronica Roth

  Insane, Legs, Want

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• Real people had real agendas, real demands, real expectations about how other people should behave.

  Nicholas Sparks

  Real, People, Expectations

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• There was no one to call me to bed, no one to demand that the rhythms of my life operate in a duet.

  Nicole Krauss

  Bed, Duets, Call Me

  Nicole Krauss (2011). “Great House”, p.22, Penguin UK

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• Do we behave out of fear of punishment, or out of the demands of our heart? For me, it is the latter, as I would hope is true for all adults, thought I know from bitter experience that such is not often the case. To act in a manner designed to catapult you into heaven would seem transparent to a god, any god,for if ones heart is not in allignment with the creator of that heaven, then... what is the point?

  R. A. Salvatore

  Heart, Punishment, Heaven

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• …What our age needs, what it demands, what it will create for itself, is—terror.

  Thomas Mann

  Age, Needs, Terror

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• GRAPESHOT, n. An argument which the future is preparing in answer to the demands of American Socialism.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Answers, Argument, Socialism

  Ambrose Bierce (2001). “The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary”, p.99, University of Georgia Press

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• Love demands patience, desire is restless; What color shall I paint the heart, until you savage it? You shall not ignore me when the time comes, I know, but I may turn to dust before the news reaches you.

  Mirza Asadullah Khan Ghalib

  Heart, Dust, Color

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• The market ... demands a signal from you that you're serious, powerful, accepted, and safe.

  Seth Godin

  Powerful, Safe, Serious

  Seth Godin (2007). “The Dip: A Little Book That Teaches You When to Quit (and When to Stick)”, p.48, Penguin

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• Chater: You dare to call me that. I demand satisfaction! Septimus: Mrs Chater demanded satisfaction and now you are demanding satisfaction. I cannot spend my time day and night satisfying the demands of the Chater family.

  Tom Stoppard

  Night, Satisfaction, Dare

  Tom Stoppard (2013). “Arcadia”, p.15, Faber & Faber

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• It is a mistake to talk about the artist looking for his subject. In fact, the subject grows within him like a fruit and begins to demand expression. It is like childbirth. The poet has nothing to be proud of. He is not master of the situation, but a servant. Creative work is his only possible form of existence, and his every work is like a deed he has no power to annul. For him to be aware that the sequence of such deeds is due and ripe, that it lies in the very nature of things, he has to have faith in the idea; for only faith interlocks the system of images for which read system of life.

  Andrei Tarkovsky

  Mistake, Lying, Artist

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• A country that demands moral perfection in its foreign policy will achieve neither perfection nor security.

  Henry A. Kissinger

  Country, Perfection, Moral

  "Reflections on Containment". Foreign Affairs, Vol. 73, No. 3, p. 130, June 1994.

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• When you love someone you do not love them all the time, in exactly the same way, from moment to moment. It is an impossibility. It is even a lie to pretend to. And yet this is exactly what most of us demand. We have so little faith in the ebb and flow of life, of love, of relationships. We leap at the flow of the tide and resist in terror its ebb. We are afraid it will never return. We insist on permanency, on duration, on continuity; when the only continuity possible, in life as in love, is in growth, in fluidity - in freedom

  Leo Buscaglia

  Lying, Love Is, Ebb And Flow

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• And sometimes, if you want the truth, you have to demand it.

  Veronica Roth

  Want, Sometimes, Ifs

  Veronica Roth (2013). “Insurgent (Divergent Trilogy, Book 2)”, p.31, HarperCollins UK

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