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I have not been that wise. Health I have taken for granted. Love I have demanded, perhaps too much and too often. As for money, I have only realized its true worth when I didn't have it. ↗

— Hedy Lamarr

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Too much is demanded by the critic, attempted by the poet. ↗

— John C. Ransom

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Obedience of the law is demanded; not asked as a favor. ↗

— Theodore Roosevelt

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Imagine if the pension funds and endowments that own much of the equity in our financial services companies demanded that those companies revisit the way mortgages were marketed to those without adequate skills to understand the products they were being sold. Management would have to change the way things were done. ↗

— Eliot Spitzer

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In the economic sphere, the program demanded thorough decentralization and managerial independence of enterprises, as well as legalization of small-scale private enterprise, especially in the service sector. ↗

— Alexander Dubcek

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If everyone demanded peace instead of another television set, then there'd be peace. ↗

— John Lennon

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At the time I attempted to purchase the rights back for the 3 Homestead records, but the owner demanded an outrageous sum in the neighborhood of $10,000, about 10 times more money than I could get my hands on at the time. ↗

— Mark Edwards

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I fear my enthusiasm flags when real work is demanded of me. ↗

— H. P. Lovecraft

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Actually, I can't imagine anything more tedious than a perfect person, especially if it was someone who also demanded perfection from me. ↗

— Hugh Mackay

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When I first ran for public office, it was with the passion and idealism of a young man who believed that government could help make our lives better, that public service was a calling and that citizenship demanded responsibilities. There was a greater good. ↗

— James McGreevey

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