"Compassion is not helpless pity, but an awareness and determination that demands action."
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"Democracy demands that the religiously motivated translate their concerns into universal, rather than religion-specific, values."
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"I am personally against abortion on demand, but I believe it is very clear that there must be legislation brought in that will deal with what is becoming simply a mish-mash of approaches"
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"Music for me, it demands full concentration."
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"No, it is not because woman is lacking in responsibility, but because she has too much of the latter that she demands to know how to prevent conception."
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"When energy prices go up, the difficulty of projecting demand also goes up - uncertainty goes up."
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"Demands that you believe the impossible do not lead to peaceful outcomes."
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"Which demands a lot of himself and some others, will be free from hatred."
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"The demands that good people make are upon themselves; Those that bad people make are upon others."
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"Our notion of symmetry is derived form the human face. Hence, we demand symmetry horizontally and in breadth only, not vertically nor in depth."
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"Proper business planning demands that you focus on the self-interest of the customer at all times."
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"The best are led to make greater demands upon themselves. As for those who succumb, they did not deserve to survive."
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"Not to know of what things one should demand demonstration, and of what one should not, argues want of education."
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"If you want to bring an end to long-standing conflict, you have to be prepared to compromise. If either or both sides insist on getting everything that they want - that is to say 100 percent of their demands to be met, then there can never be a settlement."
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"And sometimes, if you want the truth, you have to demand it."
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"All professions are... filled with demands."
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"The condition which high friendship demands is ability to do without it."
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"Where necessity ends, desire and curiosity begin; and no sooner are we supplied with everything nature can demand than we sit down to contrive artificial appetites."
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"Fashion is harder than the film industry. You have to constantly be able to crank out hit after hit after hit on demand and on a very tight calendar. I've come back, I've lost it, I've come back again. It's really as good as your last collection."
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"When life demands more of people than they demand of life - as is ordinarily the case - what results is a resentment of life almost as deep-seated as the fear of death"
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