"I talk a lot about photography. It's cheap becuase my supply always exceeds demand."
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"I am not a Jew in the sense that I would demand the preservation of the Jewish or any other nationality as an end in itself. Rather, I see Jewish nationality as a fact and I believe that every Jew must draw the consequences from this fact."
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"It takes place, by and large, with the same sort of necessity as a tree brings forth fruit, and demands of the world no more than a soil on which the individual can flourish."
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"Errors of knowledge are not breaches of morality; no proper moral code can demand infallibility or omniscience."
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"She was incapable of love for any object not of her own choice and she resented anyone's demand for it."
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"Enlightenment demands that you take responsibility for your way of life."
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"Demand me nothing: what you know, you know."
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"This is the moment when something once more begins visibly to happen, something truly new and unique... something truly historical, in the sense that history again demands to be heard."
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"A dangerous book will always be in danger from those it threatens with the demand that they question their assumptions. They'd rather hang on to the assumptions and ban the book."
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"We will ensure that nobody is above the law and demand an end to the instability and armed chaos."
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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?"
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"... when demand is being destroyed by expensive oil just as expensive oil is incentivising increased production - it should come as no surprise that at some point the markets would react."
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"Brigands will demand your money or your life, but a woman will demand both"
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"Personal rights, universally the same, demand a government framed on the ratio of the census: property demands a government framedon the ratio of owners and of owning."
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"Art is jealous, and demands our whole strength ... ."
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"Painting demands an intelligent model."
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"Chess problems demand from the composer the same virtues that characterize all worthwhile art: originality, invention, conciseness, harmony, complexity, and splendid insincerity"
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"The public must retain control of the great waterways. It is essential that any permit to obstruct them for reasons and on conditions that seem good at the moment should be subject to revision when changed conditions demand."
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"A fair day's wage for a fair day's work": it is as just a demand as governed men ever made of governing. It is the everlasting right of man."
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"We have no paupers ... The great mass of our [United States] population is of laborers; our rich, who can live without labor, either manual or professional, being few, and of moderate wealth. Most of the laboring class possess property, cultivate their own lands, have families, and from the demand for their labor are enabled to exact from the rich and the competent such prices as enable them to be fed abundantly, clothed above mere decency, to labor moderately and raise their families. ... Can any condition of society be more desirable than this?"
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