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Marriage requires a special talent, like acting. Monogamy...

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

Quote by Warren Beatty about marriage, genius, talent

Art requires philosophy, just as philosophy requires art....

Art requires philosophy, just as philosophy requires art. Otherwise, what would become of beauty?

Quote by Paul Gauguin about philosophy, art, magic, beauty

All great achievements require time.

All great achievements require time.

Quote by Maya Angelou about philosophy, time

Actual evil probably requires much more creativity, ...

Actual evil probably requires much more creativity, passion and political ideology than anyone at or near the top of Microsoft seems to posses.

Quote by Jonathan Katz about computers, ideology, creativity

Informed by our sad experience of history, we require...

Informed by our sad experience of history, we require nothing short of a foundation for lasting democracy.

Quote by Ibrahim Babangida about democracy, experience, history, nothing

Some kinds of nails, such as those used for defending the soles of coarse shoes, called hobnails, require a particular form of the head, which is made by the stroke of a die.

Quote by Charles Babbage about heads, death

That the state of knowledge in any country will exert a directive influence on the general system of instruction adopted in it, is a principle too obvious to require investigation.

Quote by Charles Babbage about influence, principle, knowledge, state, country

I'm a writer first and an editor second... or maybe third or even fourth. Successful editing requires a very specific set of skills, and I don't claim to have all of them at my command.

Quote by Lynn Abbey about writers

Short-story writing requires an exquisite sense of balance. Novelists, frankly, can get away with more. A novel can have a dull spot or two, because the reader has made a different commitment.

Quote by Lynn Abbey about love, writing, common sense, sense

Our troops will do what they need to do to include...

Our troops will do what they need to do to include stepping in between warring factions if that's what's required.

Quote by John Abizaid about need

So the skills required of our translators, interrogators, ...

So the skills required of our translators, interrogators, and human intelligence operators in Iraq are enormously demanding.

Quote by John Abizaid about intelligence, human imperfections

The first requirement of a statesman is that he be dull....

The first requirement of a statesman is that he be dull. This is not always easy to achieve.

Quote by Dean Acheson about politics

There are many members of parliament present here who know as well as I do that, if a man has not already been converted, it will require a great deal more than a letter of appeal to achieve conversion.

Quote by Fredrik Bajer about present, man

The only thing I was fit for was to be a writer, and this notion rested solely on my suspicion that I would never be fit for real work, and that writing didn't require any.

Quote by Russell Baker about suspicion, writers, writing, real estate, work, things

Usually, terrible things that are done with the excuse...

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

Quote by Russell Baker about progress, things

To be an atheist requires an indefinitely greater measure...

To be an atheist requires an indefinitely greater measure of faith than to recieve all the great truths which atheism would deny.

Quote by Joseph Addison about atheism, measure, faith

Happiness is a choice that requires effort at times.

Happiness is a choice that requires effort at times.

Quote by Aeschylus about happiness

It requires more courage to suffer than to die.

It requires more courage to suffer than to die.

Quote by Napoleon Bonaparte about suffering, courage, death

Piety requires us to honor truth above our friends.

Piety requires us to honor truth above our friends.

Quote by Aristotel about truth

What the world requires of the Christians is that they...

What the world requires of the Christians is that they should continue to be Christians.

Quote by Albert Camus about religion, christianity, world

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