#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

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

#compromise #course #depends #ethical #itself

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

It is clear that he does not pray, who, far from uplifting himself to God, requires that God shall lower Himself to him, and who resorts to prayer not to stir the man in us to will what God wills, but only to persuade God to will what the man in us wills. ↗

— Thomas Aquinas

#does #far #god #him #himself

Where youth and diffidence are united, it requires uncommon steadiness of reason to resist the attraction of being called the most charming girl in the world. ↗

— Jane Austen

#being #called #charming #diffidence #girl

In fact, even the perception of a resurgence in crime can be enough to paralyze business momentum and destroy the sense of security that a vibrant and progressive city requires. ↗

— Alan Autry

#city #crime #destroy #enough #even

Creating a nation requires the will of the people! ↗

— Edmund Barton

#nation #people #requires #will

Marriage requires a special talent, like acting. Monogamy requires genius. ↗

— Warren Beatty

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