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Normal social behavior requires that we be able to recognize identities in spite of change. Unless we can do so, there can be no human society as we know it.

If the machine of government is of such a nature that it requires you to be the agent of injustice to another, then, I say, break the law.

By competent evidence, is meant such as the nature of the thing to be proved requires; and by satisfactory evidence, is meant that amount of proof, which ordinarily satisfies an unprejudiced mind, beyond any reasonable doubt.

In some cases non-violence requires more militancy than violence.

We must think differently, look at things in a different way. Peace requires a world of new concepts, new definitions.

Becoming the new feminine ideal requires just the right combination of insecurity, exercise, bulimia and surgery.

Bringing democratic control to the conduct of foreign policy requires a struggle merely to force the issue onto the public agenda.

Well, a deficit reflects an imbalance between spending and revenue, and so narrowing it requires acting on one, the other or both.

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.

So the only way we're going to improve fuel economy or appliance efficiency swiftly and to the maximum extent practicable is if the government requires it.

I could have easily been too afraid to say 'yes' to Chicago, because it requires so much I haven't done before. If I am a flop at singing and dancing, maybe my love for it will carry me through.

No man is lonely eating spaghetti; it requires so much attention.

Continuing economic growth requires both recruitment of new companies and expansion of existing businesses.

Happiness is a choice that requires effort at times.

And what it depends on, of course, is whether the story itself is worth the ethical compromise it requires and whether the competition is onto the story.

I think it requires a bit of honesty, Swan Lake.

In addition to contributing to erosion, pollution, food poisoning, and the dead zone, corn requires huge amounts of fossil fuel - it takes a half gallon of fossil fuel to produce a bushel of corn.

There is also a perfection of degrees, by which a person performs all the commands of God, with the full exertion of all his powers, without the least defect. This is what the law of God requires, but what the saints cannot attain to in this life.

The public weal requires that men should betray, and lie, and massacre.

I know pretty well in the broad sense what I'm going to do, because I have to know that when we shoot the live-action, so that it'll synchronize. Then I know pretty well when I get to the animation stage, what that scene requires.

I just completed a tour in Europe. I played every night. This requires traveling some days for six hours in a van or a train or a car. After six weeks of that, I checked into the hotel and just fell apart.

Real worth requires no interpreter: its everyday deeds form its emblem.

Art requires neither complaisance nor politeness; nothing but faith, faith and freedom.

Success requires first expending ten units of effort to produce one unit of results. Your momentum will then produce ten units of results with each unit of effort.

On the other hand, when I give it closer thought, I realize I'm not enough of a dictator to conduct an orchestra because it requires a pretty awful person. When you read these biographies of famous conductors, they are all awful people who fail in their private relationships.

To put yourself in another's place requires real imagination, but by doing so each Girl Scout will be able to love among others happily.

Furniture manufacturing in plastics requires very costly machinery, which the Danish market is not big enough to justify. Or so they say. But show me a plastics manufacturer who dares to take on the experiment.

Public opinion is a permeating influence, and it exacts obedience to itself; it requires us to drink other men's thoughts, to speak other men's words, to follow other men's habits.

It is not patriotic to commit young Americans to war unless our national security clearly requires it.

I think so. I can't think of anything that requires more finesse than comedy, both from a verbal and visual point of view.