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The finest clothing made is a person's own skin, but, of course, society demands something more than this.
Sometimes the magnetism of a song is impossible to ignore, and it demands that it be sung in a certain way.
Mass media provides the essential link between the individual and the demands of the technological society.
The woman who thinks she is intelligent demands equal rights with men. A woman who is intelligent does not.
Climbing to the top demands strength, whether it is to the top of Mount Everest or to the top of your career.
Unless we abandon elements which resemble a police state, we can't meet the demands of being a modern society.
People who face too many demands - two careers, two children - often scale back somehow. The Obamas scaled up.
United is no longer just a football club; it is an institution. I feel the demands are beyond one human being.
Marriage always demands the greatest understanding of the art of insincerity possible between two human beings.
Innovation demands risk-taking - which, in turn, entails redefining failure, stripping away its power to inhibit.
A fast is not a hunger strike. Fasting submits to God's commands. A hunger strike makes God submit to our demands.
The more a general is accustomed to place heavy demands on his soldiers, the more he can depend on their response.
Political liberty, the peace of a nation, and science itself are gifts for which Fate demands a heavy tax in blood!
Solar power is going to be absolutely essential to meeting growing energy demands while staving off climate change.
Self-expression should not be a challenge that demands extraordinary talent but should be a right accessible to all.
It has nothing to do with the emotional demands of a role; I've done comedies that are as draining to me as any drama.
The Adequate Protest demands far more than protests. It calls for Great and Daring Leaps of Integrity and Courage to See.
Secular societies establish tolerance by being equally non-accommodating toward all religious demands within the public sphere.
I think jazz is actually quite unforgiving in its disdain for nostalgia. It demands creativity and change at its highest level.
People tell me they open my e-mails first, because they aren't demands and you don't need to reply. They're simply for pleasure.
Because power corrupts, society's demands for moral authority and character increase as the importance of the position increases.
People confuse goodness with weakness. It is weak people, not good people (goodness demands strength), who are taken advantage of.
Like, I get along with everybody. I respect everybody, but at the same time, I carry myself with an aura that demands respect, too.
The law of sacrifice is uniform throughout the world. To be effective it demands the sacrifice of the bravest and the most spotless.
It's so easy to get caught up in the demands of life. And we all take refuge at times in routines and recliners and 'usual' anything!
Reasonable orders are easy enough to obey; it is capricious, bureaucratic or plain idiotic demands that form the habit of discipline.
Zionism demands a publicly recognized and legally secured homeland in Palestine for the Jewish people. This platform is unchangeable.
A man snatches the first kiss, pleads for the second, demands the third, takes the fourth, accepts the fifth - and endures all the rest.
Battles are won by slaughter and maneuver. The greater the general, the more he contributes in maneuver, the less he demands in slaughter.
The one who adapts his policy to the times prospers, and likewise that the one whose policy clashes with the demands of the times does not.
A writer of fiction lives in fear. Each new day demands new ideas and he can never be sure whether he is going to come up with them or not.
Attachment parenting demands not just certain actions you take with your baby but also certain emotional states to accompany those actions.
A writer of fiction lives in fear. Each new day demands new ideas, and he can never be sure whether he is going to come up with them or not.
String theory is not the only theory that can accommodate extra dimensions, but it certainly is the one that really demands and requires it.
A judge who likes every outcome he reaches is very likely a bad judge... stretching for results he prefers rather than those the law demands.
Marxism is the only doctrine that both satisfies the demands for progress and provides a safe outlet for moral expression in a skeptical age.
Yes, it's true that my mother has a go at me when I don't track back. We are very, very close, and she demands a lot from me, which is great.
Only one who devotes himself to a cause with his whole strength and soul can be a true master. For this reason mastery demands all of a person.
Meditation demands an astonishingly alert mind; it is the understanding of the totality of life in which every form of fragmentation has ceased.
Getting better from depression demands a lifelong commitment. I've made that commitment for my life's sake and for the sake of those who love me.
The presidency has made every man who occupied it, no matter how small, bigger than he was; and no matter how big, not big enough for its demands.
The rewards of freedom are always sweet, but its demands are stern, for at its heart is the paradox that the greatest enemy of freedom is freedom.
Sex pleasure in woman is a kind of magic spell; it demands complete abandon; if words or movements oppose the magic of caresses, the spell is broken.
The Internet has fashioned a new and complicated environment for an age-old dilemma that pits the demands of security against the desire for freedom.
Experience demands that man is the only animal which devours his own kind, for I can apply no milder term to the general prey of the rich on the poor.
Getting an audience is hard. Sustaining an audience is hard. It demands a consistency of thought, of purpose, and of action over a long period of time.
Architects work in two ways. One is to respond precisely to a client's needs or demands. Another is to look at what the client asks and reinterpret it.
Ideology... is indispensable in any society if men are to be formed, transformed and equipped to respond to the demands of their conditions of existence.
Over the last six years, airlines have experienced severe financial pressure to leave smaller communities, making demands on the EAS program even greater.
Our demands are simple, normal, and therefore they are difficult to satisfy. All we ask is that an actor on the stage live in accordance with natural laws.