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To be idle requires a strong sense of personal identity.
Robert Louis Stevenson

Strong, Sense, Personal

The difference between science and the fuzzy subjects is that science requires reasoning while those other subjects merely require scholarship.
Robert A. Heinlein

Science, Between, While

Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers. It may not be difficult to store up in the mind a vast quantity of facts within a comparatively short time, but the ability to form judgments requires the severe discipline of hard work and the tempering heat of experience and maturity.
Calvin Coolidge

Work, Time, Experience

A garden requires patient labor and attention. Plants do not grow merely to satisfy ambitions or to fulfill good intentions. They thrive because someone expended effort on them.
Liberty Hyde Bailey

Good, Someone, Effort

For evil to flourish, it only requires good men to do nothing.
Simon Wiesenthal

Good, Men, Evil

Just as modern mass production requires the standardization of commodities, so the social process requires standardization of man, and this standardization is called equality.
Erich Fromm

Equality, Social, Process

It requires more courage to suffer than to die.
Napoleon Bonaparte

Courage, Die, Suffer

The challenges of change are always hard. It is important that we begin to unpack those challenges that confront this nation and realize that we each have a role that requires us to change and become more responsible for shaping our own future.
Hillary Clinton

Change, Future, Important

To be an atheist requires an indefinitely greater measure of faith than to recieve all the great truths which atheism would deny.
Joseph Addison

Faith, Great, Atheist

The basic problem with my love relationships with women is that my standards are so high - and they apply equally to both of us. I seek full-blast mutual intensity, fully fledged mutual acceptance, full-blown mutual flourishing, and fully felt peace and joy with each other. This requires a level of physical attraction, personal adoration, and moral admiration that is hard to find.
Cornel West

Love, Peace, Women

A functioning, robust democracy requires a healthy educated, participatory followership, and an educated, morally grounded leadership.
Chinua Achebe

Leadership, Democracy, Healthy

Every act of conscious learning requires the willingness to suffer an injury to one's self-esteem. That is why young children, before they are aware of their own self-importance, learn so easily.
Thomas Szasz

Learning, Children, Before

What nature requires is obtainable, and within easy reach. It is for the superfluous we sweat.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Nature, Easy, Within

Leadership in today's world requires far more than a large stock of gunboats and a hard fist at the conference table.
Hubert H. Humphrey

Leadership, Today, Hard

Cruelty, like every other vice, requires no motive outside of itself; it only requires opportunity.
George Eliot

Outside, Cruelty, Vice

I think it's fair to say that diplomacy today requires much more of that if you're the United States of America than it did 10, 20, 30, 40 years ago.
Hillary Clinton

Today, America, Fair

Just remaining quietly in the presence of God, listening to Him, being attentive to Him, requires a lot of courage and know-how.
Thomas Merton

God, Courage, Him

There is no short cut to achievement. Life requires thorough preparation - veneer isn't worth anything.
George Washington Carver

Life, Short, Worth

We must have courage to bet on our ideas, to take the calculated risk, and to act. Everyday living requires courage if life is to be effective and bring happiness.
Maxwell Maltz

Life, Happiness, Courage

The right thing to do never requires any subterfuge, it is always simple and direct.
Calvin Coolidge

Old maids, having never bent their temper or their lives to other lives and other tempers, as woman's destiny requires, have for the most part a mania for making everything about them bend to them.
Honore de Balzac

Woman, Everything, Destiny

Any fool can tell the truth, but it requires a man of some sense to know how to lie well.
Samuel Butler

Truth, Fool, Lie

The path of least resistance and least trouble is a mental rut already made. It requires troublesome work to undertake the alternation of old beliefs.
John Dewey

Work, Made, Path

Someone has said that it requires less mental effort to condemn than to think.
Emma Goldman

Someone, Said, Effort

Where youth and diffidence are united, it requires uncommon steadiness of reason to resist the attraction of being called the most charming girl in the world.
Jane Austen

Girl, Reason, Youth

Leadership consists not in degrees of technique but in traits of character; it requires moral rather than athletic or intellectual effort, and it imposes on both leader and follower alike the burdens of self-restraint.
Lewis H. Lapham

Leadership, Character, Leader

The final wisdom of life requires not the annulment of incongruity but the achievement of serenity within and above it.
Reinhold Niebuhr

Life, Wisdom, Serenity

Happiness is a choice that requires effort at times.
Aeschylus

Happiness, Choice, Effort

It does not require great learning to be a Christian and be convinced of the truth of the Bible. It requires only an honest heart and a willingness to obey God.
Albert Barnes

Great, God, Truth

The public weal requires that men should betray, and lie, and massacre.
Michel de Montaigne

Men, Lie, Betray

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