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A ransom was demanded for the stolen and now-recovered body of Cyprus ex-President Papadopoulos, a minister says.

Actually, I can't imagine anything more tedious than a perfect person, especially if it was someone who also demanded perfection from me.
Hugh Mackay

All was well, until I reached the port of Havre. Three officers with the rank of lieutenant, whom afterwards I knew to be Scotland Yard men, came aboard and demanded to see my papers which they took away from me.
Philip Gibbs

At the time I attempted to purchase the rights back for the 3 Homestead records, but the owner demanded an outrageous sum in the neighborhood of $10,000, about 10 times more money than I could get my hands on at the time.
Mark Edwards

Every possession and every happiness is but lent by chance for an uncertain time, and may therefore be demanded back the next hour.
Arthur Schopenhauer

First and last, what is demanded of genius is love of truth.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

For a man to achieve all that is demanded of him he must regard himself as greater than he is.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

For precocity some great price is always demanded sooner or later in life.
Margaret Fuller

Freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed.
Martin Luther King, Jr.

Happiness does not come from doing easy work but from the afterglow of satisfaction that comes after the achievement of a difficult task that demanded our best.
Theodore Isaac Rubin

I am involved in a freedom ride protesting the loss of the minority rights belonging to the few remaining earthbound stars. All we demanded was our right to twinkle.
Marilyn Monroe

I demanded more rights for women because I know what women had to put up with.
Evita Peron

I demanded two weeks of rehearsal because to me as an actor, that's the most important time.
Christine Lahti

I did not know at first that it would be a series; I discovered after the first novel that I had more to say about it, so I did another. And another, and then the readers demanded yet more.
Piers Anthony

I fear my enthusiasm flags when real work is demanded of me.
H. P. Lovecraft

I looked on child rearing not only as a work of love and duty but as a profession that was fully as interesting and challenging as any honorable profession in the world and one that demanded the best that I could bring to it.
Rose Kennedy

I may have aimed too high sometimes, asked too much of myself and demanded too little from those around me.
Agnetha Faltskog

I mean the word proof not in the sense of the lawyers, who set two half proofs equal to a whole one, but in the sense of a mathematician, where half proof = 0, and it is demanded for proof that every doubt becomes impossible.
Carl Friedrich Gauss

I mean, I didn't - I should have demanded attention of the boss maybe, or something like that that might have backfired. This I would just take as it came.
James Stockdale

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