"Moral courage further demands that you assume the responsibility for your own acts."
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"It interrupts any doing, any ordinary activities, no matter what they happen to be. All thinking demands a stop-and-think."
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"Seeking is all very well, but holding requires greater talent: Seeking involves some luck; now the demand is for skill."
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"The trouble with everything, these days, for me, is time. There is only one me. There are a ridiculous number of demands on my time. There are so many things I'm trying to do. It's so much more about when I'm going to get time to do it, if I get time."
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"I just don't know that a TV show demands a movie ending."
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"The names of persons and living creatures demand respect, because when we speak to them we touch their heart and become a part of thier life force."
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"There was much in such a society that was primitive and insecure and it certainly could never measure up to the demands of the present epoch. But in such a society are contained the seeds of revolutionary democracy in which none will be held in slavery."
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"At a certain point, I got used to writing on demand. I developed a habit of writing like I hired myself! I also like to write about things that affect me emotionally."
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"I build the individual modules to meet a demand. If I need the music to change direction, I want to have the tools to be able to do that."
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"If you demand my authorities for this and that, I must reply that only those who have never hunted up the authorities as I have believe that there is any authority who is not contradicted flatly by some other authority."
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"Since every individual is accountable ultimately to the self, the formation of that self demands our utmost care and attention."
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"Hee that demands misseth not, unlesse his demands be foolish."
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"Art is the response to the demand for entertainment, for the stimulation of our senses and imagination, and truth enters into it only as it subserves these ends."
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"[Capitalism is] that commercial system in which supply immediately answers to demand, and in which everybody seems to be thoroughly dissatisfied and unable to get anything he wants."
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"There are two kinds of rebellion. The first is one in which the slave demands something that the tyrant has got. The second is one in which he demands something that the tyrant has not got."
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"For they (capitalists) hold as their chief heresy, in a coarser form, the fundamental falsehood that things are not made to be used but made to be sold. All the collapse of their commercial system in their own time has been due to that fallacy of forcing things on a market where there was no market; of continually increasing the power of supply without increasing the power of demand; of briefly, of always considering the man who sells the potato and never considering the man who eats it."
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"You're going to react to a painting in a way that the painting demands you react."
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"In 1962, war was avoided by Khrushchev's willingness to accept Kennedy's hegemonic demands."
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"Our circumstances answer to our expectations and the demand of our natures."
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"If to chaffer and higgle are bad in trade, they are much worse in Love. It demands directness as of an arrow."
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