#require

Cruelty, like every other vice, requires no motive outside of itself; it only requires opportunity. ↗

— George Eliot

#every #itself #like #motive #only

Postfix keeps running even if one Postfix process dies; Windows requires that someone restarts the service. ↗

— Wietse Venema

#even #keeps #postfix #process #requires

We have not sought this conflict; we have sought too long to avoid it; our forbearance has been construed into weakness, our magnanimity into fear, until the vindication of our manhood, as well as the defence of our rights, is required at our hands. ↗

— Robert Toombs

#been #conflict #construed #defence #fear

The Children's Safety Act will help protect children from the perpetrators of these vile crimes by strengthening notification requirements for sex offenders and increasing criminal penalties. ↗

— James T. Walsh

#children #crimes #criminal #criminal penalties #help

I sometimes read about authors who say they require a perfectly silent room maintained at precisely 68 degrees, with trash bags taped over the windows and a white-noise machine in the corner to write, and I think, 'Who are these people, and do any of them have kids?' ↗

— Jennifer Weiner

#any #authors #bags #corner #degrees

Sticking to a diet required me to have a permanently low self-esteem. But happily, I developed other skills beyond a fluctuating weight, eventually building up a different source of self-worth. ↗

— Arabella Weir

#building #developed #diet #different #eventually

Financial crises require governments. ↗

— Timothy Geithner

#financial #financial crises #governments #require

Listening is such a simple act. It requires us to be present, and that takes practice, but we don't have to do anything else. We don't have to advise, or coach, or sound wise. We just have to be willing to sit there and listen. ↗

— Margaret J. Wheatley

#advise #anything #coach #else #just

But it required a disastrous, internecine war to bring this question of human freedom to a crisis, and the process of striking the shackles from the slave was accomplished in a single hour. ↗

— Wendell Willkie

#bring #crisis #disastrous #freedom #hour

What you say about this world I do not quite agree with; I think it a very good world, and only requires a person to be reasonable in his expectations, and not to trust too much to others. ↗

— William John Wills

#agree #expectations #good #his #i