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“Altruism demands that an individual serve others, but doesn’t stipulate whether those others should be one’s family, or the homeless, or society as a whole. Collectivism states that, in politics, society comes first and the individual must obey. Collectivism is the application of the altruist ethics to politics.”

Should Firsts States Whole Individual Demand Ethics Application Altruism Homeless Collectivism

Author:Andrew Bernstein

“There is no better example of the weakness of our dominant medicine than its clearly ineffective War On Cancer. By the same token, there is no better example of the superiority of complementary, alternative medicine than its management of this dread disease. We are equally concerned about whether mainstream medicine's demand for proof works to maintain it at its current level of ineptitude.”

“We must wake up to the insane reality of our time. We are all irresponsible, unless we demand from the responsible decision makers that modern armaments must no longer be made available to people whose former battle axes and swords our ancestors condemned.”

People Made Reality Decision Modern Battle Demand Wake Up Responsible Available Insane Former Our Time Makers Ancestor Irresponsible Axes Armament Decision Makers

Author:Thor Heyerdahl

“Because he treats the world as rather empty and ignores the interrelatedness of all things (so stupefying to thought and action), administrative man can make decisions with relatively simple rules of thumb that do not make impossible demands upon his capacity for thought.”

Men World Action Simple Decision Impossible Demand Capacity All Things Empty Treats Thumbs Administrative Thoughts And Actions Interrelatedness

Author:Herbert Simon

“God set the standard for giving love that demands nothing in return.”

Giving Return Demand Standards Giving Love

Book:Face to Face with God

Source: Face to Face with God

“You would not ask someone with a broken arm to swim the English Channel, so you cannot demand that the broken to live as if they were whole.”

Ifs Whole Asks Broken Arms Demand Swim

Author:John Eldredge

“The Inexhaustible Resource of Spirit is equal to every demand. There is no reality in lack. Abundance is here and now manifest.”

Reality Spirit Demand Equal Resources Abundance Manifest Here And Now

Author:Charles Fillmore

“The universe is bigger than our egos and can supply more than our demand.”

Universe Demand Ego Bigger

Author:Joe Vitale

“God doesn't tell us to care for the less fortunate, He demands it.”

Care Demand Fortunate Less Fortunate

Author:Katie Davis

“Adolescence and early youth...the fires are burning fastest, right? And your energy level is highest. It demands...and rock is screaming type music.”

Energy Levels Fire Rocks Youth Type Demand Highest Burning Adolescence Energy Levels

Author:Jim Morrison

“The problem of human suffering is never too much rational thinking, or too high a demand for evidence. But the solutions are. ... Reason is nothing less than the guardian of love.”

Thinking Humans Reason Problem Suffering Too Much Demand Solutions Evidence Rational Guardian Rational Thinking Human Suffering

Author:Sam Harris

“If God were not just, there would be no demand for his Son to suffer and die. And if God were not loving, there would be no willingness for his Son to suffer and die. But God is both just and loving. Therefore his love is willing to meet the demands of his justice.”

Ifs Would Be Suffering Dies Justice Love Is Willing Son Demand Willingness His Love

Book:For Your Joy

Source: For Your Joy

“Love is always freely given. Love cannot be demanded. We can request things of each other, but we must never demand anything. Requests give direction to love, but demands stop the flow of love.”

Giving Given Love Is Demand Flow Request

Book:The 5 Love Languages/Things I Wish I'd Known Before We Got Married Set

Source: The 5 Love Languages/Things I Wish I'd Known Before We Got Married Set

“Don’t hide love. If you feel it, express it-not to demand that others love you back, but simply to live outwardly the best of what you feel inwardly. The worst that can happen to your heart is not rejection by another person but failure to act on the love you feel.”

Ifs Feels Heart Persons Happens Worst Love You Demand Rejection Failure To Act Hide Love

Author:Martha Beck

“The people of Canada have worked hard to build a country that opens its doors to include all, regardless of their differences; a country that respects all, regardless of their differences; a country that demands equality for all, regardless of their differences.”

People Country Hard Differences Doors Demand Equality Canada Equality For All

Author:Paul Martin

“I'm not a frustrated concert composer, and the concert pieces I've done have been a small part of my work. What I've sought there is instruction, variation from the demands of film and relief from its restrictions.”

Has Beens Done Film Pieces Demand Relief Concerts Instruction Composer Frustrated Restriction Variation Small Parts

Author:John Towner Williams

“Men have prayed in prison, men have prayed in slums and concentration camps. It's only the middle class who demand to pray in suitable surroundings.”

Men Prayer Class Middle Praying Demand Prison Middle Class Concentration Camps Surroundings Suitable Slums Concentration Camp

Book:A Burnt-Out Case

Source: A Burnt-Out Case

“Demand the ballot as the undeniable right of every man who is called to the poll, and take special care that the old constitutional rule and principle, by which majorities alone shall decide in Parliamentary elections, shall not be violated.”

Men Care Principles Special Demand Election Majority Every Man Polls Ballots Parliamentary Parliamentary System

Book:The Public Letters of John Bright

Source: The Public Letters of John Bright

“Our democratic values also include - and our national security demands - open and transparent government. Some information obviously needs to be protected. And since his first days in office, President Obama has worked to strike the proper balance between the security the American people deserve and the openness our democratic society expects.”

“One of the differences between HBO and other television is that they demand the same coverage that you would have in a feature film. We need to have all the shots in order to make it as rich and as stunning as it looks. We can't cut any corners.”

Needs Looks Film Order Differences Rich Cutting Television Demand Shots Corners Features Coverage Stunning Hbo

Author:Mark Addy

“Kickback is a police thriller which I wrote. I'm very proud of it. I did it in two parts for France because when I wrote it, there wasn't the audience demand for crime stuff that there is now.”

Two Stuff Audience Crime Proud Demand Police France Thrillers

Author:David Lloyd

“But every fool describes, in these bright days, His wondrous journey to some foreign court, And spawns his quarto, and demands your praise,-- Death to his publisher, to him 'tis sport.”

Sports Journey Fool Demand Praise Court Publishers Wondrous Authorship Spawn Bright Days

Book:DON JUAN

Source: DON JUAN

“At River Belle we don't just listen to our customers, we also try to anticipate their demands and be the first to market with the features that become industry standards. This extended variety of games is a huge step toward creating a one-stop gaming experience that makes a world of difference for our players.”

World Trying Firsts Games Differences Steps Player Huge Industry Demand Creating Standards Rivers Customers Variety Features Bells Anticipate Just Listen Gaming Belle

Author:Tim Johnson

“The charge is prepared; the lawyers are met; The judges all ranged (a terrible show!) I go, undismay'd. For death is a debt, A debt on demand. So take what I owe.”

Shows Judging Terrible Mets Demand Prepared Debt Lawyer

Book:The beggar's opera. Oxberry's ed

Source: The beggar's opera. Oxberry's ed

“Mental or spiritual health, which is rationality, makes for progress, and the future demands greater and greater mental or spiritual health, greater and greater rationality. The brain must dominate and direct both the individual and society in the time to come, not the belly and the heart.”

Heart Spiritual Individual Brain Greater Progress Demand Direct Rationality Belly Spiritual Health Individuals And Society

Book:The Kempton-Wase Letters

Source: The Kempton-Wase Letters

“Every time is a time for comedy in a world of tension that would languish without it. But I cannot confine myself to lightness in a period of human life that demands light. We all know that, as the old adage has it, "It is later than you think." But I also say occasionally: "It is lighter than you think." In this light let's not look back in anger, or forward in fear, but around in awareness.”

Thinking Knows World Humans Looks Light Comedy Awareness Periods Demand Human Life Tension Adages Lighters Lightness Languish

Author:James Thurber

“A very poor man may be said in some sense to have a demand for a coach and six; he might like to have it; but his demand is not an effectual demand, as the commodity can never be brought to market in order to satisfy it.”

Men May Said Might Order Poor Demand Six Coaches Commodity Poor Man

Book:An inquiry into the nature and causes of the wealth of nations

Source: An inquiry into the nature and causes of the wealth of nations

“Sometimes, just to give the impression that you have the strength and the vitality demands a lot. You can't always give that impression when you have heels and a wig on and it's 40 degrees outside.”

Giving Sometimes Demand Degrees Impression Heels Vitality Wigs

Author:Catherine Deneuve

“Depending on the story, I don't feel that the music is disappearing. I feel if the story demands songs, they'll have songs. If it doesn't demand songs, you'll have underscore.”

Ifs Feels Stories Song Demand Music Is Disappear

Author:Richard Sherman

“Most movies don't have the ability to find an audience. So the movie plays out very quickly in a lot of theaters to get the biggest gross. So that demands that we make things that are hits before they open. So they have to have the elements, they have to be franchises.”

Play Ability Audience Demand Elements Theater Gross

Author:Laura Ziskin

“I try to write every day. I don't beat myself up about word counts, or how many hours are ticking by on the clock before I'm allowed to go and do something else. I just try to keep a hand in and work every single day, even if there are other demands or I'm on a book tour or have the flu or something, because then I keep my unconscious engaged with the book. Then I'm always a little bit writing, no matter what else I'm doing.”

Ifs Writing Trying Littles Book Matter Hands Bits Hours Demand Little Bit Beats No Matter What Clock Engaged Unconscious Flu

Author:Jonathan Lethem

“We all have to announce our full solidarity with the struggle of those seeking freedom and justice in Syria, and translate this sympathy into a clear political vision that supports a peaceful transition to a democratic system of rule that reflects the demands of the Syrian people for freedom.”

People Political Justice Vision Support Struggle Clear Demand Democratic Seeking Peaceful Transition Sympathy Translate Syria Solidarity

Author:Mohammed Morsi

“The syndicates take the strip and sell it to newspapers and split the income with the cartoonists. Syndicates are essentially agents. Now, can you imagine a novelist giving his literary agent the ownership of his characters and all reprint, television, and movie rights before the agent takes the manuscript to a publisher? Obviously, an author would have to be a raving lunatic to agree to such a deal, but virtually every cartoonist does exactly that when a syndicate demands ownership before agreeing to sell the strip to newspapers.”

“There are consequences to our insatiable demands for energy and there are no easy answers for how to capture that energy safely. But even more pressing, since we are currently using nuclear power across the country and the globe, nuclear power plants must be regulated, and we need to be certain that our regulatory bodies are not compromised by their relationships with industry.”

Needs Country Body Certain Energy Easy Answers Industry Demand Consequence Plant Nuclear Capture Globes Insatiable Nuclear Power Power Plants Easy Answers

Author:Ivy Meeropol

“What we need to wake people up to now is the crisis in imagination and concern for the greater good. We have no idea what the next ten years, much less the next fifty years, will demand of the coming generation. What we do know is that unless we have a people prepared and eager to meet those crises creatively and compassionately, there is not much hope for this poor old planet of ours.”

People Knows Needs Years Ideas Next Imagination Poor Greater Generations Planets Ten Demand Concern Crisis Prepared No Idea Fifty Greater Good

Author:Katherine Paterson

“In my experience, writing a novel tends to create its own structure, its own demands, its own language, its own ending.”

Writing Language Novel Demand Structure

Author:Don DeLillo

“People can buy a bottle of gin and drink it at home for about a buck a drink, whereas they are willing to go to a bar and pay 12 bucks for the same cocktail. The difference is that man needs to be social. So I believe that there is a strong demand for games that are social.”

People Men Needs Believe Home Games Strong I Believe Social Differences Pay Willing Drink Demand Bars Bottles Bucks Cocktails Gin

Author:Nolan Bushnell

“And so, one of the reasons why I started my Charter for Compassion, was to bring the Golden Rule back to the center of religion and morality and not put other's secondary goals, less demand goals, into the forefront.”

Reason Goal Compassion Morality Demand Golden Reason Why Golden Rule Charter

Author:Karen Armstrong

“I want to create a rapid response team, right around the world, perhaps starting originally with our partners, similar to the one we have in the United Nations whereby, where there's a problem in our society which demands a compassionate response, an educated, informed, not just a splurgy emotional thing, but an informed compassionate response that puts yourself in the position of the other and sees all sides of the problem, not just your own, there'll be somebody poised in each society who can write to the media, write an op-ed piece, to go on TV or radio.”

“We're Catholics before we're Democrats. We're Catholics before we're Republicans. We're even Catholics before we're Americans, because we know that God has a demand on us prior to any government demand on us. And this has been the story of the martyrs through the centuries.”

Knows Has Beens Stories Government Century Republican Demand Catholic Democrat Martyr

Author:Charles J. Chaput

“The holidays often bring challenging conversations and situations. Sometimes holiness demands that we speak, other times it invites us to be silent. In all circumstances, though, we are called to love.”

Sometimes Speak Challenges Situation Circumstances Conversation Demand Silent Holiness Holiday Invites

Author:Mark Hart

“Practice has to be a process of endless disappointment. We have to see that everything we demand (and even get) eventually disappoints us. This discovery is our teacher.”

Process Practice Teacher Demand Discovery Disappointment Endless Disappoint

Author:Joko Beck

“We have no paupers ... The great mass of our [United States] population is of laborers; our rich, who can live without labor, either manual or professional, being few, and of moderate wealth. Most of the laboring class possess property, cultivate their own lands, have families, and from the demand for their labor are enabled to exact from the rich and the competent such prices as enable them to be fed abundantly, clothed above mere decency, to labor moderately and raise their families. ... Can any condition of society be more desirable than this?”

States Wealth United Class United States Rich Land Conditions Demand Mass Labor Raises Property Mere Population Feds Desirable Moderates Decency Competent Manuals Laborers

Author:Thomas Jefferson

“The claim of alternative practitioners to not treat disease labels but the whole patient...allows alternative practitioners to live in a fool's paradise of quackery where they believe themselves to be protected from any challenges and demands for evidence.”

Believe Whole Challenges Fool Demand Disease Evidence Treats Claims Patient Alternatives Labels Paradise Protected Quackery

Author:Edzard Ernst

“Fools are in great demand, especially on social occasions. They embarrass everyone but provide material for conversation. In their positive form, they become diplomats.”

Form Social Materials Fool Conversation Demand Occasions Diplomats

Book:Foucault's Pendulum

Source: Foucault's Pendulum

“No greater tragedy exists in modern civilization than the aged, worn-out worker who after a life of ceaseless effort and useful productivity must look forward for his declining years to a poorhouse. A modern social consciousness demands a more humane and efficient arrangement.”

Source: Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: F.D. Roosevelt, 1937, Volume 6

“Demand not that I am the equal of the greatest, only that I am better than the wicked.”

Demand Equal Wicked

Author:Seneca the Younger

“To confound the tyranny of man there should exist for a century a third sex, both male and female, and stronger than men. This new sex would prove with the lash that men as well as women are made for its pleasure; and then you would hear men protesting against the tyranny of the hermaphrodite sex and admitting that strength should not be the sole rule of right. Just why do they refuse to grant the women the independence which they would demand from the third sex?”

Men Should Wells Made Sex Pleasure Century Demand Prove Female Thirds Stronger Independence Males Refuse Tyranny Grants Sole Admitting Lashes Hermaphrodites

Author:Charles Fourier

“Faith is not limited to affirming the existence of God. No, faith tells us that God loves us and demands a loving response. This response is given through love for human beings, and that is what we mean by a commitment to God and to our neighbor.”

“Virtue shuns ease as a companion. It demands a rough and thorny path.”

Virtue Path Demand Ease Companion Rough

Author:Michel de Montaigne

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