#required

In government offices which are sensitive to the vehemence and passion of mass sentiment public men have no sure tenure. They are in effect perpetual office seekers, always on trial for their political lives, always required to court their restless constituents. ↗

— Walter Lippmann

#constituents #court #effect #government #government offices

Similarly, many a young man, hearing for the first time of the refraction of stellar light, has thought that doubt was cast on the whole of astronomy, whereas nothing is required but an easily effected and unimportant correction to put everything right again. ↗

— Ernst Mach

#astronomy #cast #correction #doubt #easily

It is common to distinguish necessaries, comforts, and luxuries; the first class including all things required to meet wants which must be satisfied, while the latter consist of things that meet wants of a less urgent character. ↗

— Alfred Marshall

#character #class #comforts #common #consist

Extraordinary measures were required and I realize that not all of these steps were popular. ↗

— Tom McCall

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We could live at the present day without a Plato, but a double number of Newtons is required to discover the secrets of nature, and to bring life into harmony with the laws of nature. ↗

— Dmitri Mendeleev

#could #day #discover #double #harmony

We decided that the environment was an integral part of our policies and the political thrust of our government. We gave it the priority and we sustained it with the money required to make it happen. ↗

— Brian Mulroney

#environment #gave #government #happen #integral

Life is the only art that we are required to practice without preparation, and without being allowed the preliminary trials, the failures and botches, that are essential for training. ↗

— Lewis Mumford

#art #being #essential #failures #life

Involvement in the arts engages kids in their community, improves self-esteem, reclaims at-risk youth, and builds the creative skills that are required of a 21st century workforce. ↗

— Gavin Newsom

#arts #at-risk #builds #century #community

I think there are steps that can be taken that haven't been required or energy to make that fight more secure and we are going to continue to push the federal government to do that. ↗

— George Pataki

#continue #energy #federal #federal government #fight

This required the development of a view which allowed one to integrate research with belief, thing with person, fact with aesthetics, knowledge with application of knowledge. ↗

— Kenneth L. Pike

#application #belief #development #fact #integrate