“ We should so provide for old age that it may have no urgent wants of this world to absorb it from meditation on the next. It is awful to see the lean hands of dotage making a coffer of the grave. ”
- Pearl S. Buck- Copy
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“ Mexico doesn't deserve what has happened to us. A democratic change is urgent, a change that will permit us to stop being a loser country. ”
- Vicente Fox- Copy
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“ Every time a student walks past a really urgent, expressive piece of architecture that belongs to his college, it can help reassure him that he does have that mind, does have that soul. ”
- Louis Kahn- Copy
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“ So begins a question which has of late become more and more urgent: what is the relation of aesthetics to politics? ”
- Mark Poster- Copy
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“ Life's most urgent question is: What are you doing for others? ”
- Martin Luther King Jr.- Copy
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“ Life's most persistent and urgent question is: What are you doing for others? Living is a form of not being sure, not knowing what next or how. The moment you know how, you begin to die a little. ”
- Martin Luther King Jr.- Copy
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“ Life's most persistant and urgent question is: What are you doing for others? ”
- Martin Luther King Jr.- Copy
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“ What's invisible to us is also crucial for our own well-being. ”
- Jeanette Winterson- Copy
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“ Many people want the government to protect the consumer. A much more urgent problem is to protect the consumer from the government. ”
- Milton Friedman- Copy
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“ In certain trying circumstances, urgent circumstances, desperate circumstances, profanity furnishes a relief denied even to prayer. ”
- Mark Twain- Copy
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“ Giving is a necessity sometimes… more urgent, indeed, than having. ”
- Margaret Lee Runbeck- Copy
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“ Sometimes the most urgent and vital thing you can possibly do is take a complete rest. ”
- Ashleigh Brilliant- Copy
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“ The release of atomic energy has not created a new problem. It has merely made more urgent the necessity of solving an existing one. ”
- Albert Einstein- Copy
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“ Shy and unready men are great betrayers of secrets; for there are few wants more urgent for the moment than the want of something to say. ”
- Sir Henry Taylor- Copy
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“ The most urgent necessity in human life is to be able to face life victoriously. For many are living mentally, physically, morally and spiritually defeated. ”
- F. A. Wickett- Copy
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“ Keep in mind that you are always saying "no" to something. If it isn't to the apparent, urgent things in your life, it is probably to the most fundamental, highly important things. Even when the urgent is good, the good can keep you from your best, keep you from your unique contribution, if you let it. ”
- Stephen Covey- Copy
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“ Keep in mind that you are always saying 'no' to something. If it isn't to the apparent, urgent things in your life, it is probably to the most fundamental, highly important things. Even when the urgent is good, the good can keep you from your best, keep you from your unique contribution, if you let it. ”
- Stephen R. Covey- Copy
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“ When a sixth of the population of a nation which has undertaken to be the refuge of liberty are slaves, and a whole country is unjustly overrun and conquered by a foreign army, and subjected to military law, I think that it is not too soon for honest men to rebel and revolutionize… ”
- Henry David Thoreau- Copy
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“ The very fact of its finding itself in agreement with other minds perturbs it, so that it hunts for points of divergence, feeling the urgent need to make it clear that at least it reached the same conclusions by a different route. ”
- Herbert Butterfield- Copy
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“ I'm only 50, but I certainly feel time is running out for me in an urgent sense. It is not that I will not be alive soon-hopefully-but I realise my abilities might not be there beyond a certain age, and I might become like one of these novelists who are treated respectfully for work they did when they were much younger… ”
- Kazuo Ishiguro- Copy
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“ The hardest thing is to go to sleep at night, when there are so many urgent things needing to be done. A huge gap exists between what we know is possible with today's machines and what we have so far been able to finish. ”
- Donald Knuth- Copy
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“ We embark unhesitatingly on the path, in a direction that is absolutely right and urgent, supported by everyone, in the knowledge that this path is but a learning process e have to keep on learning, creating, applying, by-passing, touching upon, refining and clarifying a number of notions and details that need to be improvised and applied and which, thank God, we cannot foresee… ”
- Yehudi Menuhin- Copy
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“ Imagine a world without Darwin. Imagine a world in which Charles Darwin and Alfred Russel Wallace had not transformed our understanding of living things. What… would become baffling and puzzling…, in urgent need of explanation? The answer is: practically everything about living things… ”
- Helena Cronin- Copy
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“ A man's labor is not only his capital but his life. When it passes it returns never more. To utilize it, to prevent its wasteful squandering, to enable the poor man to bank it up for use hereafter, this surely is one of the most urgent tasks before civilization. ”
- William Booth- Copy
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