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"Some hats can only be worn if you're willing to be jaunty, to set them at an angle and to walk beneath them with a spring in your stride as if you're only a step away from dancing. They demand a lot of you."
"The cucumber is bitter? Then throw it out. There are brambles in the path? Then go around them. That's all you need to know. Nothing more. Don't demand to know "why such things exist." Anyone who understands the world will laugh at you, just as a carpenter would if you seemed shocked at finding sawdust in his workshop, or a shoemaker at scraps of leather left over from work."
"Sometimes, occasions occur in life which demand you to be a little foolish in order to skillfully extricate yourself."
"When the truth get's buried deep beneath a thousand years of sleep, time demands a turnaround.. And once again the truth is found."
"As more consumers demand less sugar, the food and beverage manufacturers will eventually come into line with what the consumers want."
"Science demands objective factual evidence - proof; spiritual experience is subjective and leads to faith."
"Chaos demands to be recognized and experienced before letting itself be converted into a new order."
"We demand that sex speak the truth and we demand that it tell us our truth, or rather, the deeply buried truth of that truth about ourselves wich we think we possess in our immediate consciousness."
"Love, in its own nature, demands the perfecting of the beloved."
"And he writhed inside at what seemed the cruelty and unfairness of the demand. He had not yet learned that if you do one good deed your reward usually is to do another and harder and better one."
"Knowing demands the organ fitted to the object."
"If proper in their own conduct, what difficulty would they have in governing? But if not able to be proper in their own conduct, how can they demand such conduct from others?"
"God's holiness demands that sin be punished - but God's love has provided the way of redemption through Christ."
"What pleases the public is lively and vivid delineation which makes no demands on the intellect; but passionate and absolutist youth can only be enthralled by a problem."
"The impossible is the least that one can demand."
"Power concedes nothing without demand. It never has and never will. Show me the exact amount of wrong and injustices that are visited upon a person and I will show you the exact amount of words endured by these people."
"Love descends upon our souls by the will of God and not by the demand or the plea of the individual."
"And to know how to demand - with all one's might - what one wants"
"Skepticism has become a virtue. Cynicism and demand for proof has become enlightened thought. Is it any wonder that humans now feel more depressed and defeated than they have at any point in human history?"
"Mass demand has been created almost entirely through the development of advertising."
