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Virtue rejects facility to be her companion. She requires a craggy, rough and thorny way.
Michel de Montaigne

Her, She, Virtue

Traditional Islam is a mixture of all obedience to Allah, and if that requires militancy, so be it.
Deepak Chopra

Islam, Allah, Obedience

Getting ahead in a difficult profession requires avid faith in yourself. That is why some people with mediocre talent, but with great inner drive, go so much further than people with vastly superior talent.
Sophia Loren

Faith, Great, Yourself

The thing about democracy, beloveds, is that it is not neat, orderly, or quiet. It requires a certain relish for confusion.
Molly Ivins

Democracy, Confusion, Quiet

The beginning of a friendship, the fact that two people out of the thousands around them can meet and connect and become friends, seems like a kind of magic to me. But maintaining a friendship requires work. I don't mean that as a bad thing. Good art requires work as well.
Charles de Lint

Friendship, Work, Good

We believe, as our founders did, that 'the pursuit of happiness' depends upon individual liberty; and individual liberty requires limited government.
Paul Ryan

Happiness, Government, Liberty

Clear thinking requires courage rather than intelligence.
Thomas Szasz

Courage, Thinking, Rather

The mind of man is like a clock that is always running down, and requires to be constantly wound up.
William Hazlitt

Mind, Down, Running

It is clear that he does not pray, who, far from uplifting himself to God, requires that God shall lower Himself to him, and who resorts to prayer not to stir the man in us to will what God wills, but only to persuade God to will what the man in us wills.
Thomas Aquinas

God, Him, Prayer

To profit from good advice requires more wisdom than to give it.
Wilson Mizner

Good, Wisdom, Give

Enjoying success requires the ability to adapt. Only by being open to change will you have a true opportunity to get the most from your talent.
Nolan Ryan

Success, Change, True

Film editing is now something almost everyone can do at a simple level and enjoy it, but to take it to a higher level requires the same dedication and persistence that any art form does.
Walter Murch

Art, Simple, Enjoy

At the dawn of his administration, President Obama opined: 'A democracy requires accountability, and accountability requires transparency.' Magical rays of white-hot sunlight emanated from his media-manufactured halo. And then bureaucratically engineered darkness settled over the land.
Michelle Malkin

Democracy, Darkness, President

Listening is such a simple act. It requires us to be present, and that takes practice, but we don't have to do anything else. We don't have to advise, or coach, or sound wise. We just have to be willing to sit there and listen.
Margaret J. Wheatley

Wise, Simple, Else

Each one of us requires the spur of insecurity to force us to do our best.
Harold W. Dodds

Best, Insecurity, Force

No man is lonely eating spaghetti; it requires so much attention.
Christopher Morley

Lonely, Attention, Eating

Action, reaction, motivation, emotion, all have to come from the characters. Writing a love scene requires the same elements from the writer as any other.
Nora Roberts

Love, Writing, Same

It is impossible to make people understand their ignorance, for it requires knowledge to perceive it; and, therefore, he that can perceive it hath it not.
Jeremy Taylor

Knowledge, Ignorance, Understand

Just as the performance of the vilest and most wicked deeds requires spirit and talent, so even the greatest demand a certain insensitivity which under other circumstances we would call stupidity.
Georg C. Lichtenberg

Greatest, Stupidity, Talent

Prayer requires more of the heart than of the tongue.
Adam Clarke

Heart, Prayer, Tongue

Making a movie requires 20 to 500 people to make and a lot of money and the stakes are a lot higher.
Alanis Morissette

Money, Making, Movie

Art requires neither complaisance nor politeness; nothing but faith, faith and freedom.
Gustave Flaubert

Faith, Art, Freedom

It had not occurred to me that marriage requires the same effort as a career. And unlike a career, marriage requires a joint effort.
Jessica Savitch

Marriage, Career, Same

To stand up on a stage alone with an acoustic guitar requires bravery bordering on heroism. Bordering on insanity.
Richard Thompson

Alone, Guitar, Stand

Anyone can negatively criticize - it is the cheapest of all comment because it requires not a modicum of the effort that suggestion requires.
Chuck Jones

Effort, Anyone, Criticize

A good word is an easy obligation; but not to speak ill requires only our silence, which costs us nothing.
John Tillotson

Good, Nothing, Silence

I'll take my clothes off - whatever the job requires.
Tom Felton

Job, Off, Whatever

Reconciliation requires changes of heart and spirit, as well as social and economic change. It requires symbolic as well as practical action.
Malcolm Fraser

Change, Heart, Social

Creating a better world requires teamwork, partnerships, and collaboration, as we need an entire army of companies to work together to build a better world within the next few decades. This means corporations must embrace the benefits of cooperating with one another.
Simon Mainwaring

Work, Together, Another

Nature, who for the perfect maintenance of the laws of her general equilibrium, has sometimes need of vices and sometimes of virtues, inspires now this impulse, now that one, in accordance with what she requires.
Marquis de Sade

Nature, Perfect, Sometimes

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