| "Writing ought either to be the manufacture of stories for which there is a market demand -- a business as safe and commendable as making soap or breakfast foods -- or it should be an art, which is always a search for something for which there is no market demand, something new and untried, where the values are intrinsic and have nothing to do with standardized values." »Willa Sibert Cather |
| "The more minimal the art, the more maximum the explanation." »Hilton Kramer |
| "A little inaccuracy sometimes saves tons of explanation." »Hector Hugh Munro |
| "explanation separates us from astonishment, which is the only gateway to the incomprehensible." »Eugene Ionesco |
| "A superstition is a premature explanation that overstays its time." »George Iles |
| "There is a great deal of unmapped country within us which would have to be taken into account in an explanation of our gusts and storms." »George Eliot |
| "There is no explanation for evil. It must be looked upon as a necessary part of the order of the universe. To ignore it is childish to bewail it senseless." »W. Somerset Maugham |
| "I demand more of myself than anyone else could ever expect." »Julius Irving |
| "Ability will never catch up with the demand for it." »Malcolm Forbes |
| "I am like any other man. All I do is supply a demand." »Al Capone |
| "There is a demand in these days for men who can make wrong appear right." »Terence |
| "As scarce as truth is, the supply has always been in excess of the demand." »Josh Billings |
| "Society has always seemed to demand a little more from human beings than it will get in practice." »George Orwell |
| "Advice is the only commodity on the market where the supply always exceeds the demand." »Unknown |
| "Dr. Evil I demand the sum... OF 1 MILLION DOLLARS." »Austin Powers International Man of Mystery |
| "Virtue does not always demand a heavy sacrifice only the willingness to make it when necessary." »Frederick Sherwood Dunn |
| "Scientists are the easiest to fool. They think in straight, predictable, directable, and therefore misdirectable, lines. The only world they know is the one where everything has a logical explanation and things are what they appear to be. Children and conjurors - they terrify me. Scientists are no problem against them I feel quite confident." »James P. Hogan |
| "I must tell you that the supply of words on the world market is plentiful, but the demand is falling." »Lech Walesa |
| "What does reason demand of a man A very easy thing--to live in accord with his nature." »Seneca |
| "If all our happiness is bound up entirely in our personal circumstances it is difficult not to demand of life more than it has to give." »Bertrand Russell |
| "Many books require no thought from those who read them, and for a very simple reason they made no such demand upon those who wrote them." »Charles Caleb Colton |
| "Most certification today is pure 'credentialism.' It must begin to reflect our demand for excellence, not our appreciation of parchment." »William John Bennett |
| "To receive applause for works which do not demand all our powers hinders our advance towards a perfecting of our spirit. It usually means that thereafter we stand still." »G. C. Lichtenberg |
| "There is nothing funny about Halloween. This sarcastic festival reflects, rather, an infernal demand for revenge by children on the adult world." »Jean Baudrillard |
| "I define comfort as self-acceptance. When we finally learn that self-care begins and ends with ourselves, we no longer demand sustenance and happiness from others." »Jennifer Louden |
| "Never... ever suggest they don't have to pay you. What they pay for, they'll value. What they get for free, they'll take for granted, and then demand as a right. Hold them up for all the market will bear." »Lois McMaster Bujold |
| "People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use." »Kierkegaard |
| "People demand freedom of speech to make up for the freedom of thought which they avoid." »Socrates |
| "Sometimes I think you have to march right in and demand your rights, even if you don't know what your rights are, or who the person is you're talking to. Then, on the way out, slam the door." »Jack Handey Deep Thoughts |
| "Should we feel at times disheartened and discouraged, a confiding thought, a simple movement of heart towards God will renew our powers. Whatever He may demand of us, He will give us at the moment the strength and the courage that we need." »Franois de Salignac de la Mothe Fenelon |
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