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«Climbing to the top demands strength, whether it is to the top of Mount Everest or to the top of your career.»
«Cafeteria-style education, combined with the unwillingness of our schools to place demands on students, has resulted in a steady diminishment of commonly shared information between generations and between young people themselves.»
Author: E. D. Hirsch, Jr.
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Keywords:
cafeteria,
cafeterias,
combined,
combines,
commonly,
demands,
generations,
information,
resulted,
schools,
shared,
steadies,
steady,
students,
style,
unwillingness
«Everyone has his own specific vocation or mission in life; everyone must carry out a concrete assignment that demands fulfillment. Therein he cannot be replaced, nor can his life be repeated, thus, everyone's task is unique as his specific opportunity.»
Author: Viktor Frankl
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About:
Goals
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Keywords:
assignment,
carry out,
concrete,
demands,
fulfillment,
mission,
repeated,
replaced,
specific,
specifics,
therein,
thus,
unique,
vocation,
vocations
«For women... bras, panties, bathing suits, and other stereotypical gear are visual reminders of a commercial, idealized feminine image that our real and diverse female bodies can't possibly fit. Without these visual references, each individual woman's body demands to be accepted on its own terms. We stop being comparatives. We begin to be unique.»
Author: Gloria Steinem
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Activist,
Writer)
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Keywords:
accepted,
bathed,
bathes,
bathing,
bathing suit,
bodies,
bras,
commercial,
comparative,
demands,
diverse,
female,
female body,
feminine,
gear,
geared,
gearing,
gears,
idealize,
idealized,
idealizing,
in gear,
possibly,
references,
reminders,
stereotypical,
suits,
unique,
visual,
visual image,
with reference to
«A man snatches the first kiss, pleads for the second, demands the third, takes the fourth, accepts the fifth - and endures all the rest.»
Author: Helen Rowland
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Keywords:
accepts,
demands,
endures,
fifth,
fifths,
fourth,
pleaded,
pleading,
pleads,
second,
snatches,
snatching,
The First Kiss,
The Second,
The Third,
third
«Boys and girls in America have such a sad time together; sophistication demands that they submit to sex immediately without proper preliminary talk. Not courting talk- real straight talk about souls, for life is holy and every moment is precious.»
«Can there be a love which does not make demands on its object?»
«Declare today ?sacred time??off-limits to everyone, unless invited by you. Take care of your personal wants and needs. Say no, graciously but firmly, to others? demands.»
Author: Oprah Winfrey
(
Actress,
Producer)
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Keywords:
Care of,
declare,
demands,
firmly,
graciously,
invited,
in demand,
limits,
needs,
off-limits,
off,
personal,
sacred,
take care,
take time off,
Taking Off,
time off
«As long as I live under the capitalistic system I expect to have my life influenced by the demands of moneyed people. But I will be damned if I propose the be at the beck and call of every itinerant scoundrel. . . .»
Author: William Faulkner
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Novelist,
Writer)
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Keywords:
beck,
Call of,
capitalistic,
damned,
demands,
influenced,
itinerant,
moneyed,
propose,
proposing,
scoundrel,
The Be
«Battles are won by slaughter and maneuver. The greater the general, the more he contributes in maneuver, the less he demands in slaughter.»
Author: Winston Churchill
(
Author,
Orator,
Prime Minister)
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Keywords:
battles,
contributed,
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contributing,
demands,
general,
General A,
General of the,
General The,
maneuver,
maneuvers,
slaughter,
slaughtered,
slaughtering,
slaughters,
The General,
The Less,
won