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The critical principle demanded an examination, for instance, of the contribution of different periods, thus to some extent embarking on historical linguistics. ↗

— Ferdinand de Saussure

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This assumes an upward revision of the European Budget, which is precisely what Jacques Chirac refuses to do. On the contrary, he has demanded a reduction. ↗

— Laurent Fabius

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I may have aimed too high sometimes, asked too much of myself and demanded too little from those around me. ↗

— Agnetha Faltskog

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I demanded two weeks of rehearsal because to me as an actor, that's the most important time. ↗

— Christine Lahti

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They demanded a monopoly of the coasting trade, in order to get higher freights than they could get in open competition with the carriers of the world. ↗

— Robert Toombs

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When we acquired California and New- Mexico this party, scorning all compromises and all concessions, demanded that slavery should be forever excluded from them, and all other acquisitions of the Republic, either by purchase or conquest, forever. ↗

— Robert Toombs

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First and last, what is demanded of genius is love of truth. ↗

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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

— John Lennon

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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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I mean, I didn't - I should have demanded attention of the boss maybe, or something like that that might have backfired. This I would just take as it came. ↗

— James Stockdale

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