Mother Angelica
Nun, Television Personality
"Holiness is not for wimps and the cross is not negotiable, sweetheart, it's a requirement."
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Requirements
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Paulo Freire
Educator, Author
"Critical reflection on practice is a requirement of the relationship between theory and practice. Otherwise theory becomes simply "blah, blah, blah, " and practice, pure activism."
Theodor Herzl
Journalist, Writer, Political Activist
"Our first object is... the obtaining of sovereignty, assured by international law, over a portion of the globe sufficiently large to satisfy our just requirements."
Marcus Tullius Cicero
Politician, Philosopher, Orator
"Most happy is he who is entirely self-reliant, and who centers all his requirements in himself alone."
Aristotle
Philosopher
"With respect to the requirement of art, the probable impossible is always preferable to the improbable possible."
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"Confidence in nonsense is a requirement for the creative process."
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"Many transition states have a well-defined preferred geometrical requirement."
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"Let sovereignty be granted us over a portion of the earth's surface large enough to satisfy our rightful requirements as a nation. The rest we shall manage for ourselves."
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"There is no order in the world around us, we must adapt ourselves to the requirements of chaos instead."
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"Fairness is an across-the-board requirement for all our interactions with each other ...Fairness treats everbody the same."
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"My tactics were, by God's aid, to employ every means to make it clear what the requirement of Christianity truly is."
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"A requirement of creativity is that it contributes to change. Creativity keeps the creator alive."
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"Perhaps the chief requirement of [the conductor] is that he be humble before the composer; that he never interpose himself between the music and the audience; that all his efforts, however strenuous or glamorous, be made in the service of the composer's meaning - the music itself, which, after all, is the whole reason for the conductor's existence."
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"The inner world is the world of your requirements and your energies and your structure and your possibilities that meets the outer world. And the outer world is the field of your incarnation. That’s where you are. You’ve got to keep both going. As Novalis said, ‘The seat of the soul is there where the inner and outer worlds meet."
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"The thesis that the universe has an originating divine cause is logically inconsistent with all extant definitions of causality and with a logical requirement upon these and all possible valid definitions or theories of causality."
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"As far as your personal requirements are concerned, the ideal is to have fewer involvements, fewer obligations, and fewer affairs, business or whatever. However, so far as the interest of the larger community is concerned, you must have as many involvements as possible and as many activities as possible."
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"Faith in people is an a priori requirement for dialogue."
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"Most of the research which is done is determined by the requirement that it shall, in a fairly obvious and predictable way, reinforce the approved or fashionable theories."
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"Knowing how to deal with change effectively is a primary requirement for living successfully in perhaps the most exciting time in all of human history"
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"There is kind of a fundamental conformity, which is a virtual requirement to enter into the media."
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"Ministers must not be able to set rules governing solicitors on a whim, to suit their own requirements."
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"It is our nature to conform; it is a force which not many can successfully resist. What is its seat? The inborn requirement of self-approval."
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"One of the important requirements for learning how to cook is that you also learn how to eat."
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"As a poet and writer, I deeply love and I deeply hate words. I love the infinite evidence and change and requirements and possibilities of language."
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"The first requirement in using statistics is that the facts treated shall be reduced to comparable units."
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