#require

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

— Chinua Achebe

#educated #functioning #grounded #healthy #leadership

Whether people care enough about local news to pay for it is, sadly, an entirely different question than whether our democracy requires a strong watchdog function at the local level to ensure safeguards against abuse, chicanery, and outright dishonesty. ↗

— Eric Alterman

#abuse #against #care #chicanery #democracy

For a successful revolution it is not enough that there is discontent. What is required is a profound and thorough conviction of the justice, necessity and importance of political and social rights. ↗

— B. R. Ambedkar

#discontent #enough #importance #justice #necessity

All great achievements require time. ↗

— Maya Angelou

#great #great achievements #require #time

There is more to folklore research than fieldwork. This is why in all of my other upper-division courses I require a term paper involving original research. ↗

— Alan Dundes

#fieldwork #folklore #i #involving #more

The Way is basically perfect. It doesn't require perfecting. ↗

— Bodhidharma

#perfect #perfecting #require #way

And autos are not the only product that could be made more energy efficient if we just put in place sensible requirements. This is also true of many appliances and even of entire buildings. ↗

— Sherwood Boehlert

#appliances #autos #buildings #could #efficient

My suggestion is that at each state the proper order of operation of the mind requires an overall grasp of what is generally known, not only in formal logical, mathematical terms, but also intuitively, in images, feelings, poetic usage of language, etc. ↗

— David Bohm

#each #etc #feelings #formal #generally

To be able to detect the outbreak of avian flu anywhere in the world is going to require a partnership of several countries that will share information and samples, but it is important to remember a threat anywhere is a threat everywhere. ↗

— Michael Burgess

#anywhere #avian #countries #detect #everywhere

I didn't care too much for ballet, because you had to be more disciplined, and you sort of looked like everyone else. It required a certain kind of conformity that I didn't feel like I wanted to do. ↗

— Suzanne Farrell

#because #care #certain #conformity #disciplined