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• She was seriously in love, but she never made demands.

  Haruki Murakami

  Made

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• Truth carries with it confrontation. Truth demands confrontation; loving confrontation, but confrontation nevertheless.

  Francis Schaeffer

  Confrontation, Nevertheless, Carrie

  Francis August Schaeffer (1982). “The Complete Works of Francis A. Schaeffer: A Christian view of the church”

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• there must be a way. surely there must be a way that we have not yet thought of. who put this brain inside of me? it cries it demands it says that there is a chance. it will not say "no.

  Charles Bukowski

  Brain, Way, Chance

  Charles Bukowski, “The Crunch”

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• To understand a profound thought is to have, at the moment one understands it, a profound thought oneself; and this demands some effort, a genuine descent to the heart of oneself . . . Only desire and love give us the strength to make this effort. The only books that we truly absorb are those we read with real appetite, after having worked hard to get them, so great had been our need of them.

  Marcel Proust

  Real, Book, Heart

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• Styles may change, details may come and go, but the broad demands of aesthetic judgement are permanent.

  Roger Scruton

  Judgement, Style, Details

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• The world demands I make good choices on no information, and then blames my maidenhood for my mistakes, as if my maidenhood were responsible for my ignorance. Ignorance is not stupidity, but it might as well be. And I do not like feeling stupid.

  Lois McMaster Bujold

  Stupid, Mistake, Ignorance

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• You seek a false comfort when you demand that I define myself for you with words. Words do not contain or define any person. A heart can, if it is willing.

  Robin Hobb

  Heart, Comfort, Willing

  Robin Hobb (2014). “The Tawny Man Trilogy 3-Book Bundle: Fool's Errand, Golden Fool, Fool's Fate”, p.1574, Del Rey

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• When you love someone, that love has no limit, no measure, because you know in your deepest being that when that love demands sacrifice, you will give it without question. You will not look for reasons, for justification - the act of giving, of sacrificing, is a natural compulsion, like breathing, and it will, in the end, surprise you because you did it without second thoughts.

  F. Sionil José

  Sacrifice, Breathing, Giving

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• Love makes requests, not demands.

  Gary Chapman

  Request

  Gary Chapman, Ross Campbell (2010). “The 5 Love Languages/The 5 Love Languages Men's Edition/The 5 Love Languages of Teenagers/The 5 Love Lan”, p.30, Moody Publishers

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• In patriarchal culture men are especially inclined to see love as something they should receive without expending effort. More often than not they do not want to do the work that love demands. When the practice of love invites us to enter a place of potential bliss that is at the same time a place of critical awakening and pain, many of us turn our backs on love.

  Bell Hooks

  Pain, Men, Practice

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• Do you still love me, Janie?' Janie stares at him, incredulous. 'Yes, of course! I don't say it lightly.' 'Say it lightly in my ear,' he demands. She smiles, rests her soft cheek on his scratchy one, and whispers it. 'I love you, Cabe.

  Lisa McMann

  Love You, Ears, Janie

  Lisa McMann (2010). “Fade”, p.136, Simon and Schuster

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• A moment comes in war when the last line must be crossed. The line that separates what you hold dear from what total war demands. If he couldn't cross that line, the battle was over, and he was lost. His heart, the war. Her face, the battlefield. With a cry only he could hear, the hunter turned. And ran.

  Rick Yancey

  War, Heart, Battle

  Rick Yancey (2013). “The 5th Wave”, p.135, Penguin

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• Calvin: Dear Santa, before I submit life to your scrutiny, I demand to know who made YOU the matter of my fate?! Who are YOU to question my behavior, HUH??? What gives you the right?! Hobbes: Santa makes the toys, so he gets to decide who to give them to. Calvin: Oh.

  Bill Watterson

  Fate, Giving, Santa

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• I have very few rules in life, but one of them is to never decline an adventure. The others are: to avoid becoming romantically entangled with sea creatures; to always ask for what you want, because the worst thing that can happen is embarrassment but the best thing that can happen is nudity; to demand ready money up front; and to never play cards with Catarina Loss.

  Cassandra Clare

  Adventure, Loss, Sea

  Cassandra Clare, Sarah Rees Brennan, Maureen Johnson (2015). “The Bane Chronicles”, p.113, Simon and Schuster

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• The royal hound's belly demands rubbing. Step lively, humans, neglect me not." ~Oberon

  Kevin Hearne

  Royal, Steps, Neglect

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• She let him go once. Every day demands that she release him over and over again.

  Julianna Baggott

  Let Him Go, Release

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• Love is no game! It is no flowery softness! It is hard work- It demands everything from you- especially the truth. Only then does it yield results.

  Rick Riordan

  Hard Work, Love Is, Yield

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• The demands that a great man makes are on himself; those of a petty man are upon others.

  Confucius

  Positive, Men, Petty

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• No art, however minor, demands less than total dedication if you want to excel in it.

  Leon Battista Alberti

  Inspirational, Art, Dedication

  Leon Battista Alberti, Renée Neu Watkins (1999). “The use and abuse of books”, Waveland Pr Inc

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• Beauty can be consoling, disturbing, sacred, profane; it can be exhilarating, appealing, inspiring, chilling. It can affect us in an unlimited variety of ways. Yet it is never viewed with indifference: beauty demands to be noticed; it speaks to us directly like the voice of an intimate friend. If there are people who are indifferent to beauty, then it is surely because they do not perceive it.

  Roger Scruton

  Beauty, Voice, People

  Roger Scruton (2011). “Beauty: A Very Short Introduction”, p.11, Oxford University Press

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• Applying creative thinking to our clients' business strategy-this should be our industry's new core competency. And-in what is very good news for our industry-this kind of creativity, creativity that goes to the heart of business, is more in-demand than ever.

  Bob Schmetterer

  Business, Heart, Creativity

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• The Dance is an art because it demands vocation, knowledge, and ability.

  August Bournonville

  Dance, Art, Vocation

  August Bournonville (1979). “My theatre life”, Wesleyan

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• Sometimes one has simply to endure a period of depression for what it may hold of illumination if one can live through it, attentive to what it exposes or demands.

  May Sarton

  Sad, Depression, Illumination

  May Sarton (2014). “Journal of a Solitude”, p.8, Open Road Media

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• The legacy of women's war work is our present post-industrial employment structure. It was the war that created the demand for a technologically advanced, de-skilled, low-paid, non-unionized female workforce and paved the way for making part-time work the norm for married women now. A generation later, it was the daughters of wartime women workers who completed their mothers' campaign for equal pay.

  Linda Grant

  Daughter, Mother, War

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• Cooking demands attention, patience, and above all, a respect for the gifts of the earth. It is a form of worship, a way of giving thanks.

  Judith Jones

  Food, Giving, Cooking

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