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Winston Churchill quote: "Sometimes doing your best is not good enough. Sometimes you..."
Sometimes doing your best is not good enough. Sometimes you must do what is required. Winston Churchill
Maybe Shooter was a writer. He fulfilled both of the main requirements: he told a tale you wanted to hear to the end, even if you had a pretty good idea what the end was going to be, and he was so full of shit he squeaked. Stephen King
Rene Dubos quote: "Human diversity makes tolerance more than a virtue; it makes..."
Human diversity makes tolerance more than a virtue; it makes it a requirement for survival. Rene Dubos
Good leadership requires you to surround yourself with people of diverse perspectives who can disagree with you without fear of retaliation. Doris Kearns Goodwin
Conversion requires an alteration of the will, and an alteration which, in the last resort, does not occur without the intervention of the supernatural. C. S. Lewis
Henry Hazlitt quote: "need is not demand. Effective economic demand requires not..."
need is not demand. Effective economic demand requires not merely need but corresponding purchasing power. Henry Hazlitt
Modern cosmetic surgeons have a direct financial interest in a social role for women that requires them to feel ugly. They do not simply advertise for a share of a market that already exists: Their advertisements create new markets. It is a boom industry because it is influentially placed to create its own demand through the pairing of text with ads in women's magazines. The industry takes out ads and gets coverage; women get cut open. They pay their money and they takes their chances. As... Naomi Wolf
The most important experiences a man can have are those that take him to the very limit; that is the only way we learn, because it requires all our courage. Paulo Coelho
Anybody can sympathise with the sufferings of a friend, but it requires a very fine nature to sympathise with a friend's success. Oscar Wilde
Being female in this world means having been robbed of the potential for human choice by men who love to hate us. One does does not make choices in freedom. Instead, one conforms in body type and behavior and values to become an object of male sexual desire, which requires an abandonment of a wide-ranging capacity for choice...Men too make choices. When will they choose not to despise us? Andrea Dworkin
Norman Mailer quote: "Any war that requires the suspension of reason as a necessity..."
Any war that requires the suspension of reason as a necessity for support is a bad war. Norman Mailer
Christ said that illumination is found only by putting everything one has in jeopardy. Thou, of all humans, should understand the courage that is required to reject the secure blessings of society in order to woo the unpredictable ecstasies of the solitary soul. It is true that Christ had little enthusiasm for dance or copulation, that he took ’right’ and ’wrong’ too seriously and set himself apart from the natural world, Tom Robbins
What shuts you up is, I think, the sight you've had of perfection: why speak if you can't manage perfect thoughts, perfect sentences? It feels like a betrayal of what you've been through. But it fades; you accept that certain compromises, closures, are required if you're to continue. Salman Rushdie
to arrive at this flourishing condition had required years. He had undergone everything, in the shape of privation; he had done everything, except get into debt. Rather than borrow, he did not eat. Victor Hugo
All the same, I should like it all plain and clear," said he obstinately, putting on his business manner (usually reserved for people who tried to borrow money off him), and doing his best to appear wise and prudent and professional and live up to Gandalf's recommendation. "Also I should like to know about risks, out-of-pocket expenses, time required and remuneration, and so forth"--by which he meant: "What am I going to get out of it ? and am I going to come back alive? J. R. R. Tolkien

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