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Quote:People demand freedom of speech to make up for the freedom of thought, which they avoid.[Soren Aabye Kierkegaard]

Quote:American business long ago gave up on demanding that prospective employees be honest and hardworking. It has even stopped hoping for employees who are educated enough that they can tell the difference between the men's room and the women's room without having little pictures on the doors.[Dave Barry]

Quote:Over the next hundred years or so football saw a great many major innovations and refinements that are too boring to even think about. Along the way professional football came into being so that the largest and most violent college players would have a way to earn money other than simply demanding it from innocent civilians.[Dave Barry]

Quote:Many books require no thought from those who read them, and for a very simple reason; they made no such demand upon those who wrote them.[Charles Caleb Colton]

Quote:Have a vision. Be demanding.[Colin Powell]

Quote:We demand that big business give the people a square deal; in return we must insist that when anyone engaged in big business honestly endeavors to do right he shall himself be given a square deal.[Theodore Roosevelt]

Quote:Ability will never catch up with the demand for it.[Confucius]

Quote:Freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed.[Martin Luther King Jr.]

Quote:As scarce as truth is, the supply has always been in excess of the demand.[Josh Billings]

Quote:I worship God as Truth only. I have not yet found Him, but I am seeking after Him. I am prepared to sacrifice the things dearest to me in pursuit of this quest. Even if the sacrifice demanded my very life, I hope I may be prepared to give it.[Mahatma Gandhi]

Quote:The world is full of women blindsided by the unceasing demands of motherhood, still flabbergasted by how a job can be terrific and torturous. [Anna Quindlen]

Quote:Ability will never catch up with the demand for it. [Malcolm Forbes]

Quote:Many books require no thought from those who read them, and for a very simple reason; they made no such demand upon those who wrote them. [Charles Caleb Colton]



Definitions of: demand

Definition: To ask or call for with authority; to claim or seek from, as by authority or right; to claim, as something due; to call for urgently or peremptorily; as, to demand a debt; to demand obedience.

Definition: To inquire authoritatively or earnestly; to ask, esp. in a peremptory manner; to question.

Definition: To require as necessary or useful; to be in urgent need of; hence, to call for; as, the case demands care.

Definition: To call into court; to summon.

Definition: The act of demanding; an asking with authority; a peremptory urging of a claim; a claiming or challenging as due; requisition; as, the demand of a creditor; a note payable on demand.

Definition: Earnest inquiry; question; query.

Definition: A diligent seeking or search; manifested want; desire to possess; request; as, a demand for certain goods; a person's company is in great demand.

Definition: That which one demands or has a right to demand; thing claimed as due; claim; as, demands on an estate.

Definition: The asking or seeking for what is due or claimed as due.

Definition: The right or title in virtue of which anything may be claimed; as, to hold a demand against a person.

Definition: A thing or amount claimed to be due.

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