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Among the notable things about fire is that it also requires oxygen to burn - exactly like its enemy, life. Thereby are life and flames so often compared.

We believe, as our founders did, that 'the pursuit of happiness' depends upon individual liberty; and individual liberty requires limited government.

The People's Republic of China has not yet reached the military might of the Soviet Empire. It requires a little more time and a little more infusion of Western aid, loans, technology and the hard currency of our tourists.

In terms of work I've always had a Bad Attitude in that I won't work anywhere which requires me to work strict hours or follow a dress code. I don't know if that's an Asperger's thing or not, I think it's just being reasonable.

For me it's always about first impressions. I trust my instincts. I love to prepare if it's something that requires training. But I don't like to prepare the psychology too much. I enjoy the psychology of the character but I work better from a first impression.

Hydraulic fracturing requires massive amounts of water. Disposing of the toxic wastewater, as well as accidental spills, can contaminate drinking water and harm human health.

Mediocrity requires aloofness to preserve its dignity.

Social peace requires reciprocity.

We must have courage to bet on our ideas, to take the calculated risk, and to act. Everyday living requires courage if life is to be effective and bring happiness.

Felicity, the companion of content, is rather found in our own breasts than in the enjoyment of external things; and I firmly believe it requires but a little philosophy to make a man happy in whatever state he is.

Producing fuel cells and solar panels requires high tech facilities and produces high paying jobs. The industry is booming in Arizona. The state already has about 100 firms in the solar industry and has grown 20% since 2003.

It requires greater courage to preserve inner freedom, to move on in one's inward journey into new realms, than to stand defiantly for outer freedom. It is often easier to play the martyr, as it is to be rash in battle.

Leadership in today's world requires far more than a large stock of gunboats and a hard fist at the conference table.

Archery requires very sensitive muscles.

It had not occurred to me that marriage requires the same effort as a career. And unlike a career, marriage requires a joint effort.

The act of writing requires a constant plunging back into the shadow of the past where time hovers ghostlike.

To be a preacher requires two apparently contradictory qualities: confidence and humility.

Reconciliation requires changes of heart and spirit, as well as social and economic change. It requires symbolic as well as practical action.

We should distrust any enterprise that requires new clothes.

Art requires philosophy, just as philosophy requires art. Otherwise, what would become of beauty?

Power is not of a man. Wealth does not center in the person of the wealthy. Celebrity is not inherent in any personality. To be celebrated, to be wealthy, to have power requires access to major institutions.

It is astonishing what force, purity, and wisdom it requires for a human being to keep clear of falsehoods.

What the world requires of the Christians is that they should continue to be Christians.

Clear thinking requires courage rather than intelligence.

Whereas fiction is a continual discovery of what one wants to say, what one feels, what one means, and is, in that sense, a performance art, biography requires different skills - research and organization.

For evil to flourish, it only requires good men to do nothing.

Acted drama requires surrender of one's self, sympathetic absorption in the play as it develops.

Success in business today requires real-time, mobile access to business opportunities.

Trying to negotiate getting a couple of kids to watch the same TV show requires serious diplomacy.

That U.N. Security Council resolution requires getting Syrian troops and intelligence officials out of Lebanon so that the Lebanese can have elections here this spring that are free and fair and free of outside influence.