#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

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To profit from good advice requires more wisdom than to give it. ↗

— Wilson Mizner

#give #good #good advice #more #profit

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

— Michel de Montaigne

#lie #massacre #men #public #requires

And what it depends on, of course, is whether the story itself is worth the ethical compromise it requires and whether the competition is onto the story. ↗

— Roger Mudd

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The final wisdom of life requires not the annulment of incongruity but the achievement of serenity within and above it. ↗

— Reinhold Niebuhr

#achievement #final #incongruity #life #requires

As you say, the way string theory requires all these extra dimensions and this comes from certain consistency requirements about how string should behave and so on. ↗

— Roger Penrose

#behave #certain #comes #consistency #dimensions

Perfection is attained by slow degrees; it requires the hand of time. ↗

— Voltaire

#degrees #hand #perfection #requires #slow

One of the best things in the world to be is a boy; it requires no experience, but needs some practice to be a good one. ↗

— Charles Dudley Warner

#boy #experience #good #needs #practice

Short-story writing requires an exquisite sense of balance. Novelists, frankly, can get away with more. A novel can have a dull spot or two, because the reader has made a different commitment. ↗

— Lynn Abbey

#balance #because #commitment #different #dull

Bringing democratic control to the conduct of foreign policy requires a struggle merely to force the issue onto the public agenda. ↗

— Eric Alterman

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