"The condition-of-England question is a practical one. The condition of England demands a hero, not a poet."
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"It is the black poet who bridges the gap in tradition, who modifies tradition when experience demands it, who translates experience into meaning and meaning into belief."
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"Insofar as we, critics of the black tradition, master our craft, we serve both to preserve our own traditions and to shape their direction. All great writers demand great critics."
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"We are seeing a steady improvement in corporate demand. I think it's going to be steady, not explosive, throughout the year."
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"What does a philosopher demand of himself, first and last? To overcome his time in himself, to become "timeless."
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"Great things demand that we either remain silent about them or speak in a great manner: in a great manner, that is-cynically and with innocence."
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"To demand of strength that it should not express itself as strength, that it should not be a desire to overcome, a desire to throw down, a desire to become master, a thirst for enemies and resistances and triumphs, is just as absurd as to demand of weakness that it should express itself as strength."
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"This demand follows from an insight that I was the first to articulate: that there are no moral facts."
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"When we demand liberty of a person as a constitutional right, we are taking away from the officials their liberty to chop off people's heads."
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"Fortunately for those who pay their court through such foibles, a fond mother, though, in pursuit of praise for her children, the most rapacious of human beings, is likewise the most credulous; her demands are exorbitant; but she will swallow any thing."
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"Every day Big Government heaps demands and restrictions upon businesses that sink some enterprises, cause others to direct resources away from serving customers and instead toward jumping through hoops of lawyers and regulators, and prevent other operations from ever getting off the ground."
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"If you are to accomplish all that one demands of you, you must overestimate your own worth."
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"Truth is contrary to our nature, not so error, and this for a very simple reason: truth demands that we should recognize ourselves as limited, error flatters us that, in one way or another, we are unlimited."
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"We are all entitled to our little harmless habits, but we are not entitled to demand approval for them."
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"Perfectionists demand perfection from themselves first and foremost."
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"I demand my right to a private life, just as I respect that right for everybody else."
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"I like to pretend that I'm a tough guy. It's kind of an admission of defeat if I have to ask for help - or even kindness. But if it doesn't come, at some point I snap and demand it."
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"The easy, gentle, and sloping path . . . is not the path of true virtue. It demands a rough and thorny road."
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"Virtue shuns ease as a companion. It demands a rough and thorny path."
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"Nothing is more valuable to people than health care, and by paying, they feel less like beggars and more like 'customers' who can and should demand quality care."
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