#require

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. ↗

— Walter Bagehot

#exacts #follow #habits #influence #itself

One way we gave small businesses more money to invest was by extending tax provisions on expensing. This allows businesses to immediately write off things like equipment, without being burdened by depreciation requirements. ↗

— Dennis Hastert

#being #burdened #businesses #depreciation #equipment

All the reasons which require the subjection of a believer to the brethren of a particular church, require his subjection to all his brethren in the Lord. ↗

— Charles Hodge

#brethren #church #his #lord #particular

It would require more hands to manage a stock of sheep, gather them from the hills, force them into houses and folds, and drive them to markets, than the profits of the whole stock were capable of maintaining. ↗

— James Hogg

#drive #folds #force #gather #hands

The British system had requirements, including Latin. I'm not positive you ever had to know Greek, but there are certainly kinds of curricula where you had to know Greek too. I think in Britain there was the most mindless, repetitive sort of learning. ↗

— William Scott

#british #certainly #ever #greek #had

Good humor isn't a trait of character, it is an art which requires practice. ↗

— David Seabury

#character #good #humor #practice #requires

The beginning of a friendship, the fact that two people out of the thousands around them can meet and connect and become friends, seems like a kind of magic to me. But maintaining a friendship requires work. I don't mean that as a bad thing. Good art requires work as well. ↗

— Charles de Lint

#art #bad #bad thing #become #beginning

Africans require, want, the franchise on the basis of one man one vote. They want political independence. ↗

— Nelson Mandela

#franchise #independence #man #political #political independence

The transponder requirements have three major sections, namely the chip; the antenna; and the assembly of the chip and the antenna onto the goods being labelled. ↗

— Mike Marsh

#assembly #being #chip #goods #labelled

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

— Michel de Montaigne

#lie #massacre #men #public #requires