"What does reason demand of a man? A very easy thing-to live in accord with his own nature."
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"Be sure to have friends who demand more of you rather than tell you why you cannot do what you want to do."
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"Make no mistake, abortion-on-demand is not a right granted by the Constitution. No serious scholar, including one disposed to agree with the Court's result, has argued that the framers of the Constitution intended to create such a right."
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"As you become known, the demands on you are such that you get less and less time to do the things you want to do. But if there are no demands, then that means nobody wants to read what you're doing anyway, so you're stuck."
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"It is in the nature of all party systems that the authentically political talents can assert themselves only in rare cases, and it is even rarer that the specifically political qualifications survive the petty maneuvers of party politics with its demands for plain salesmanship."
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"The conditions conducive to deep thought have become increasingly rare in our highly mediated lives... Now we live in an attention economy, where the most in-demand commodity is 'eyeballs."
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"Presently it appears that people are mainly concerned with being well rested. Those capable of uninterrupted sleep are much admired. Unconsciousness is in great demand. This is the day of the milligram."
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"Prosperity demands of us more prudence and moderation than adversity."
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"Some men make a womanish complaint that it is a great misfortune to die before our time. I would ask what time? Is it that of Nature? But she, indeed, has lent us life, as we do a sum of money, only no certain day is fixed for payment. What reason then to complain if she demands it at pleasure, since it was on this condition that you received it."
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"It was not that she was out of temper, but that the world was not equal to the demands of her fine organism."
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"Praying is no easy matter. It demands a relationship in which you allow someone other than yourself to enter into the very center of your person, to see there what you would rather leave in darkness, and to touch there what you would rather leave untouched."
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"The strong demand, contend, prevail; the beggar is a fool."
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"The demand that I make of my reader is that he should devote his whole Life to reading my works."
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"While the womanly god demands our veneration, the godlike woman kindles our love; but while we allow ourselves to melt in the celestial loveliness, the celestial self-sufficiency holds us back in awe."
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"A citizen should render to the state all the services he can as soon as the sovereign demands them."
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"The demand for digital textbooks has increased since its introduction to the marketplace. As students become more familiar with them and computers get faster, larger and more portable, this product will gain in popularity."
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"You must not demand the failure of your peers, because the more good things that are around in film, in television, in theater - why the better it is for all of us."
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"What then is your duty? What the day demands."
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"But what is your duty? What the day demands. [Ger., Was aber ist deine Pflicht? Die Forderung des Tages.]"
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"Duty is the demand of the hour."
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