Quotes 101 till 120 of 136.
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The man of genius whether as artist or thinker requires a mass of accidental variations to select from and a rigidly selective process of attention.
The Foundations of Normal and Abnormal Psychology (1914) -
The mind of man is like a clock that is always running down, and requires to be constantly wound up.
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The mother-child relationship is paradoxical and, in a sense, tragic. It requires the most intense love on the mother's side, yet this very love must help the child grow away from the mother, and to become fully independent.
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The only privilege literature deserves - and this privilege it requires in order to exist - is the privilege of being in the arena of discourse, the place where the struggle of our languages can be acted out.
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The People's Republic of China has not yet reached the military might of the Soviet Empire. It requires a little more time and a little more infusion of Western aid, loans, technology and the hard currency of our tourists.
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The possibility of stepping into a higher plane is quite real for everyone. It requires no force or effort or sacrifice. It involves little more than changing our ideas about what is normal.
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The printed page conveys information and commitment, and requires active involvement. Television conveys emotion and experience, and it's very limited in what it can do logically. It's an existential experience - there and then gone.
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The pursuit of peace resembles the building of a great cathedral. It is the work of a generation. In concept it requires a master-architect; in execution, the labors of many.
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The Republican form of government is the highest form of government; but because of this it requires the highest type of human nature - a type nowhere at present existing.
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The right thing to do never requires any subterfuge, it is always simple and direct.
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The wealth and prosperity of the country are only the comeliness of the body, the fullness of the flesh and fat; but the spirit is independent of them; it requires only muscle, bone and nerve for the true exercise of its functions. We cannot lose our liberty, because we cannot cease to think.
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The work requires a moderately large investment in technological and theoretical developments and long periods of time to carry them out, without the pressure to achieve quick or short term results.
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To appreciate nonsense requires a serious interest in life.
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To be champion requires more than simply being a strong player; one has to be a strong human being as well.
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To be good, according to the vulgar standard of goodness, is obviously quite easy. It merely requires a certain amount of sordid terror, a certain lack of imaginative thought, and a certain low passion for middle-class respectability.
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To climb steep hills requires slow pace at first.
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To conflict journalists, a tiny, tight-knit tribe, tragedy is practically an occupational requirement: our work requires us to seek it out, measure it, contextualize it, and chronicle it.
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To map out a course of action and follow it to an end requires some of the same courage that a soldier needs.
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To profit from good advice requires more wisdom than to give it.
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