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Emile Zola Novelist
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"Art for me...is a negation of society, an affirmation of the individual, outside of all the rules and all the demands of society."

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"I don't make demands. I don't tell you how it should be. I'll give you options, and it's up to you to select or throw 'em away. That should be the headline: If you're insecure, don't call."

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Nelson Mandela Political Leader
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"When I went to jail, I was a trained lawyer. And when the wardens received letters of demands or summonses, they didn't have the resources to go to an attorney to help them. I would help them settle their cases, so they became attached to me and the other prisoners."

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Mark Twain Writer, Humorist
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"The finest clothing made is a person's own skin, but, of course, society demands something more than this."

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Bell Hooks Author, Feminist, Social Activist
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"The world demands that you work for it, make families, provide, take no time to listen to your own heart beating."

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Denis Waitley Author, Motivational Speaker
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"You are an uncut gemstone of priceless value. Cut and polish your potential with knowledge, skills and service and you will be in great demand throughout your life."

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Andrew Carnegie Industrialist, Philanthropist
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"I demand riches in definite terms; I have a definite plan for acquiring riches;I am engaged in carrying out my plan, and I am giving an equivalent,in useful service, of the value of those riches I demand."

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Thomas Carlyle Essayist, Historian, Novelist
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"Laissez-faire, supply and demand-one begins to be weary of all that. Leave all to egotism, to ravenous greed of money, of pleasure, of applause-it is the gospel of despair."

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C. S. Lewis Writer, Scholar
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"Repentance is not something God demands of you before He will take you back and which He could let you off if He chose; it is simply a description of what going back is like."

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Benjamin Graham Investor, Author
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"Nearly everyone interested in common stocks wants to be told by someone else what he thinks the market is going to do. The demand being there, it must be supplied."

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