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Anyone can be a barbarian; it requires a terrible effort to remain a civilized man.
Leonard Woolf

Effort, Anyone, Terrible

I am endlessly fascinated that playing football is considered a training ground for leadership, but raising children isn't. Hey, it made me a better leader: you have to take a lot of people's needs into account; you have to look down the road. Trying to negotiate getting a couple of kids to watch the same TV show requires serious diplomacy.
Dee Dee Myers

Leadership, Children, Football

Trying to negotiate getting a couple of kids to watch the same TV show requires serious diplomacy.
Dee Dee Myers

Trying, Same, Serious

To think Being itself explicitly requires disregarding Being to the extent that it is only grounded and interpreted in terms of beings and for beings as their ground, as in all metaphysics.
Martin Heidegger

Ground, Grounded, Terms

To be sure, we should all eat right, brush our teeth, and cut down on sweets, but that will hardly help us if we're born with a condition that requires expensive treatment.
Thomas Frank

Help, Down, Sure

The condition every art requires is, not so much freedom from restriction, as freedom from adulteration and from the intrusion of foreign matter.
Willa Cather

Art, Freedom, Matter

The world is not going into concentric blocs of power. It is actually going into a diffusion of power with more centres of decision-making than ever in human civilisation. That requires you to place yourself in far more hubs of power than ever before.
William Hague

Power, Yourself, Human

It is not patriotic to commit young Americans to war unless our national security clearly requires it.
George McGovern

War, Young, Security

Justice requires that everyone should have enough to eat. But it also requires that everyone should contribute to the production of food.
Elias Canetti

Food, Justice, Enough

It requires a very unusual mind to undertake the analysis of the obvious.
Alfred North Whitehead

Mind, Obvious, Analysis

The American Dream may be slipping away. We have overcome such challenges before. To recover the Dream requires knowing where it came from, how it lasted so long and why it matters so much.
Jon Meacham

Long, May, Before

We don't focus as much in schools on educational knowledge which requires thinking and application, as we do on acquiring facts.
William Glasser

Knowledge, Focus, Thinking

Nothing requires a greater effort of thought than arguments to justify the rule of non-thought.
Milan Kundera

Nothing, Thought, Effort

But, you know, I'm sorry, I think democracy requires participation. I mean, I don't want to proselytize but I do feel some sort of duty to participate in the process in some way other than just blindly getting behind a political party.
John Cusack

Sorry, Political, Mean

Living on a planet of fixed size requires compromise, and while we are the only party capable of negotiating, we are not the only party at the table. We've never claimed more, and we've never had less.
Jonathan Safran Foer

Living, While, Less

Normal social behavior requires that we be able to recognize identities in spite of change. Unless we can do so, there can be no human society as we know it.
Kenneth L. Pike

Change, Society, Human

Marriage requires a special talent, like acting. Monogamy requires genius.
Warren Beatty

Marriage, Special, Acting

Hydraulic fracturing requires massive amounts of water. Disposing of the toxic wastewater, as well as accidental spills, can contaminate drinking water and harm human health.
David Suzuki

Health, Human, Water

Today a celebrity sex video isn't a stigma that requires penance and smarm removal; it's a branding device, a platform enhancer, a show reel.
James Wolcott

Today, Sex, Show

What office is there which involves more responsibility, which requires more qualifications, and which ought, therefore, to be more honorable, than that of teaching?
Harriet Martineau

Office, Teaching, Honorable

To err is human but to really foul up requires a computer.
Dan Rather

Human, Computer, Err

Usually, terrible things that are done with the excuse that progress requires them are not really progress at all, but just terrible things.
Russell Baker

Done, Progress, Terrible

Freedom requires no effort to enjoy but requires heroic efforts to preserve.
Richard G. Scott

Freedom, Enjoy, Effort

I'm a scientist, not a theologian. I don't know if there is a God or not. Religion requires certainty.
James Lovelock

Religion, God, Scientist

I'm a scientist, not a theologian. I don't know if there is a God or not. Religion requires certainty. Revere and respect Gaia. Have trust in Gaia. But not faith.
James Lovelock

Faith, Trust, Religion

To put yourself in another's place requires real imagination, but by doing so each Girl Scout will be able to love among others happily.
Juliette Gordon Low

Love, Yourself, Girl

There are two ways to extend a business. Take inventory of what you're good at and extend out from your skills. Or determine what your customers need and work backward, even if it requires learning new skills. Kindle is an example of working backward.
Jeff Bezos

Work, Good, Business

Parents need all the help they can get. The strongest as well as the most fragile family requires a vital network of social supports.
Bernice Weissbourd

Family, Parents, Help

Becoming the new feminine ideal requires just the right combination of insecurity, exercise, bulimia and surgery.
Garry Trudeau

Insecurity, Exercise, Ideal

Success on any major scale requires you to accept responsibility... in the final analysis, the one quality that all successful people have... is the ability to take on responsibility.
Michael Korda

Success, Successful, Accept

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