"Battles are won by slaughter and maneuver. The greater the general, the more he contributes in maneuver, the less he demands in slaughter."
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"And when we are writing the life of a woman, we may, it is agreed, waive our demand for action, and substitute love instead. Love, the poet has said, is a woman's whole existence."
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"If the spirit has passed through a great many sensations, possibly it can no longer be sated with them, but grows more excited, and demands more sensations, and stronger and stronger ones, until at length it falls exhausted."
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"Art demands of us that we shall not stand still."
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"Ultimate truth, if there be such a thing, demands the concert of many voices."
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"A true gentleman makes demands upon himself but not upon others."
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"The Gothic cathedral is a blossoming in stone subdued by the insatiable demand of harmony in man."
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"If you know that you are not sure, you have a chance to improve the situation. I want to demand this freedom for future generations."
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"Christianity demands the crucifixion of the intellect."
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"The great Way is all-pervading. It reaches to the left and to the right. All things depend on it with their existence. Still it demands no obedience."
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"There is very little in civilized life that demands everything you got intellectually, physically, and emotionally. Driving is living. It's aggressive instead of passive living."
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"There are always a few such people who demand the utmost of life and yet cannot come to terms with its stupidity and crudeness."
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"The poor Palestinians who today kill Jews with explosives and firebombs and stones are part of the same people who when they had all the territories they now demand be given to them for their state -attempted to drive the Jewish state into the sea."
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"The Lord only demands of us what is within our capabilities."
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"All creations demand greenery of spirt."
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"Be yourself on stage. Nobody else can be you and you have the law of supply and demand covered."
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"Every consession gives rise to further concessions, we cannot back down, because behind us there is only an abyss, we must keep our promises and demand that they be kept."
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"To allow oneself to be carried away by a multitude of conflicting concerns, to surrender to too many demands, to commit oneself to too many projects, to want to help everyone in everything, is to succumb to the violence of our times."
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"Creating demand is hard. Filling demand is easier. Don't create a product, then seek someone to sell it to. Find a market - define your customers - then find or develop a product for them."
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"Sometimes the magnetism of a song is impossible to ignore, and it demands that it be sung in a certain way."
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