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The thing about democracy, beloveds, is that it is not neat, orderly, or quiet. It requires a certain relish for confusion.

Our parents and grandparents understood this truth deeply. They believed - as we do - that to create jobs, a modern economy requires modern investments: educating, innovating and rebuilding for our children's future. Building an economy to last, from the middle class up, not from the billionaires down.

The spirit of democracy is not a mechanical thing to be adjusted by abolition of forms. It requires change of heart.

To achieve some depth in your field requires a lot of sacrifices. Want to or not, you're thinking about what you're doing in life-in my case, dancing.

I am careful about my conduct because I know this cause requires clean men.

There is no short cut to achievement. Life requires thorough preparation - veneer isn't worth anything.

You have to edit the material. That assumes that some kind of a mind is operating in relation to the material. Not all minds are the same. Every aspect of filmmaking requires choice. The selection of the subject, the shooting, editing and length are all aspects of choice.

'No Child Left Behind' requires states and school districts to ensure that all students are learning and are reaching their highest potential. Special education students should not be left out of these accountability mechanisms.

Consistency requires you to be as ignorant today as you were a year ago.

To declaim freedom verses seems like a poem within a poem; freedom requires guns, it requires arms, but no feet.

It requires a very unusual mind to undertake the analysis of the obvious.

Leadership consists not in degrees of technique but in traits of character; it requires moral rather than athletic or intellectual effort, and it imposes on both leader and follower alike the burdens of self-restraint.

The reward of eternal life requires effort.

A living cell requires energy not only for all its functions, but also for the maintenance of its structure.

Postfix keeps running even if one Postfix process dies; Windows requires that someone restarts the service.

The condition every art requires is, not so much freedom from restriction, as freedom from adulteration and from the intrusion of foreign matter.

Salesmanship, too, is an art; the perfection of its technique requires study and practice.

Football is like life - it requires perseverance, self-denial, hard work, sacrifice, dedication and respect for authority.

What office is there which involves more responsibility, which requires more qualifications, and which ought, therefore, to be more honorable, than that of teaching?

I'm a scientist, not a theologian. I don't know if there is a God or not. Religion requires certainty.

We don't focus as much in schools on educational knowledge which requires thinking and application, as we do on acquiring facts.

In general, mankind, since the improvement of cookery, eats twice as much as nature requires.

French is, in many ways, more difficult for an English-speaking person to sing. It is so full of complex and trying vowels. It requires the utmost subtlety.

Then I realized that to be really good at this requires a lot of energy and concentration and skill.

To be successful in struggle requires remembrance of the Creator and the doing of good deeds. This is important because successful struggle demands that there be a kind of social consciousness.

A functioning, robust democracy requires a healthy educated, participatory followership, and an educated, morally grounded leadership.

The intellectual property situation is bad and getting worse. To be a programmer, it requires that you understand as much law as you do technology.

Just as the performance of the vilest and most wicked deeds requires spirit and talent, so even the greatest demand a certain insensitivity which under other circumstances we would call stupidity.

Now the first step has to be taken, the step towards democracy. This step is full of risks, and requires trust on all sides. We don't know where it will lead. But if we just stand still, we will have no chance of escaping the violence.

Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers. It may not be difficult to store up in the mind a vast quantity of face within a comparatively short time, but the ability to form judgments requires the severe discipline of hard work and the tempering heat of experience and maturity.