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Letter "D" » demanded
«I may have aimed too high sometimes, asked too much of myself and demanded too little from those around me.»
«If everyone demanded peace instead of another television set, then there'd be peace.»
«Happiness is always a by-product. It is probably a matter of temperament, and for anything I know it may be glandular. But it is not something that can be demanded from life, and if you are not happy you had better stop worrying about it and see what treasures you can pluck from your own brand of unhappiness.»
Author: Robertson Davies
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Author,
Journalist)
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Keywords:
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Branded,
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for anything,
glandular,
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pluck,
temperament,
temperaments,
treasures,
unhappiness,
worrying
«There are few things wholly evil or wholly good. Almost everything, especially of government policy, is an inseparable compound of the two, so that our best judgment of the preponderance between them is continually demanded.»
«Then the chief captain came near, and took him, and commanded him to be bound with two chains; and demanded who he was, and what he had done.»
«I know my fate. One day there will be associated with my name the recollection of something frightful / of a crisis like no other before on earth, of the profoundest collision of conscience, of a decision evoked against everything that until then had been believed in, demanded, sanctified. I am not a man I am dynamite.»
Author: Friedrich Nietzsche
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Critic,
Philosopher,
Scholar)
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Keywords:
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collision,
collisions,
crisis,
demanded,
dynamite,
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sanctified,
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sanctifying
«They could be made to accept the most flagrant violations of reality, because they never fully grasped the enormity of what was demanded of them, and were not sufficiently interested in public events to notice what was happening»
Author: George Orwell
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Essayist,
Novelist)
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Keywords:
demanded,
enormity,
flagrant,
grasped,
happening,
happenings,
interested,
in public,
notice,
sufficiently,
The Public Interest,
violations
«There are some experiences in life which should not be demanded twice from any man, and one of them is listening to the Brahms Requiem.»
«I worship God as Truth only. I have not yet found Him, but I am seeking after Him. I am prepared to sacrifice the things dearest to me in pursuit of this quest. Even if the sacrifice demanded my very life, I hope I may be prepared to give it.»
«Obedience of the law is demanded; not asked as a favor.»