Anyone can be a barbarian; it requires a terrible effort to remain a civilized man.
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Man...is a tame or civilized animal; never the less, he requires proper instruction and a fortunate nature, and then of all animals he becomes the most divine and most civilized; but if he be insufficiently or ill- educated he is the most savage of earthly creatures.
Man...is a tame or civilized animal never the less, he requires proper instruction and a fortunate nature, and then of all animals he becomes the most divine and most civilized but if he be insufficiently or ill- educated he is the most savage of earthly creatures.
It had not occurred to me that marriage requires the same effort as a career. And unlike a career, marriage requires a joint effort.
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Military people have a heavy investment in rules against torture, not only because we want to protect our own POWs from reciprocal brutalities… but also because war is so terrible that it desperately requires any limits anyone can agree on, any gesture toward dignity, any mitigation suggesting civilized scruple. There isn’t even persuasive evidence that torture makes its victims tell their secrets, instead of saying whatever we want to hear.
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Freedom requires no effort to enjoy but requires heroic efforts to preserve.
quote by Richard G. Scott
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Anyone can negatively criticize - it is the cheapest of all comment because it requires not a modicum of the effort that suggestion requires.
quote by Chuck Jones
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History teaches us that when a barbarian race confronts a sleeping culture, the barbarian always wins.
quote by Arnold Toynbee
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Happiness is a choice that requires effort at times.
If you were an ancient barbarian, I bet a real embarrassing thing would be if you were sacking Rome and your cape got caught on something and you couldn't get it unhooked, and you had to ask another barbarian to unhook it for you.
Jack Handey in Deep Thoughts
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Understand from top to bottom what the effort requires.
quote by Bill Toomey
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Someone has said that it requires less mental effort to condemn than to think.
quote by Emma Goldman
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Even pulling a fish out of the pond requires some effort.
It is always the start that requires the greatest effort.
quote by James Cash Penney
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The reward of eternal life requires effort.
quote by Thomas S. Monson
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Usually, terrible things that are done with the excuse that progress requires them are not really progress at all, but just terrible things.
quote by Russell Baker
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Success requires first expending ten units of effort to produce one unit of results. Your momentum will then produce ten units of results with each unit of effort.
quote by Charles J. Givens
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On occasion we need to make a second effort - and a third effort, and a fourth effort, and as many degrees of effort as may be required to accomplish what we strive to achieve.
quote by Thomas S. Monson
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Toleration is the greatest gift of mind, it requires that same effort of the brain that it takes to balance oneself on a bicycle.
quote by Helen Keller
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Toleration is the greatest gift of the mind; it requires the same effort of the brain that it takes to balance oneself on a bicycle.
quote by Helen Keller
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Justice, sir, is the great interest of man on earth. It is the ligament which holds civilized beings and civilized nations together.
quote by Daniel Webster
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