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“The most successful businessmen were often uneducated when measured by the scholastic standards of the teaching profession. But they were equal to their social function of adjusting production to the most urgent demand. Because of these merits the consumers chose them for business leadership.”

Source: Human action: a treatise on economics

“I came to poetry through the urgent need to denounce injustice, exploitation, humiliation. I know that's not enough to change the world. But to remain silent would have been a kind of intolerable complicity.”

Knows World Needs Kind Has Beens Enough Silent Injustice Changing The World Exploitation Humiliation Urgent Humiliated Complicity

Author:Tahar Ben Jelloun

“I have been reluctant to lobby on other issues I most care about - nuclear weapons (against), religion (atheist), capital punishment (anti), AIDS (fund-raiser) because I don't want to be forever spouting, diluting the impact of addressing my most urgent concern - legal and social equality for gay people worldwide.”

“No pecuniary consideration is more urgent, than the regular redemption and discharge of the public debt: on none can delay be more injurious, or an economy of time more valuable. ... Cherish public credit. One method of preserving it is to use it as sparingly as possible: avoiding occasions of expence (and) avoiding likewise the accumulation of debt ... not ungenerously throwing upon posterity the burthen which we ourselves ought to bear.”

Use Economy Bears Ought Method Valuable Credit Debt Redemption Occasions Consideration Cherish Throwing Avoiding Delay Urgent Posterity Accumulation Discharge

Author:George Washington

“These [religious ideas] are given out as teachings, are not precipitates of experience or end-results of thinking: they are illusions, fullfilments of the oldest, strongest and most urgent wishes of mankind.”

Thinking Ideas Ends Given Wish Religious Results Teaching Mankind Illusion Strongest Urgent End Results

Author:Sigmund Freud

“The urgent necessity is to make a decision - whether or not it is right.”

Decision Urgent

Author:David S. Broder

“The proposed liberal solution was always negotiation. Just as they believed in nuclear arms negotiations for their own sake, they believe in a "peace process" without regard to what its consequences might be....It was impossible for any peace plan to fail in their eyes, since lack of progress was nearly always interpreted as evidence that new talks were now "urgent".”

Believe Might Eye Process Progress Plans Impossible Failing Arms Solutions Evidence Consequence Regard Sake Nuclear Negotiation Urgent Nuclear Arms

Author:Mona Charen

“Religion is something people do together to face urgent problems and to resolve them by appealing to truths that seem self-evident to them.”

People Self Problem Seems Together Faces Resolve Evident Urgent

Author:Jacob Neusner

“The American middle class, it seems to me, is looking to politicians now to satisfy a pretty basic - and urgent - level of need. Yet people in the upper middle class - with their excellent health benefits, schools, salaries, retirement plans, nannies and private afterschool programs - have journeyed so far from that level of need that, it often seems to me, they literally cannot hear what resonates with the middle class. That creates a problematic blind spot for those who write, edit or produce what comes to be known about our politicians and their policies.”

“As the refugee crisis unfolds across Europe, another is looming in our backyard. The number of children crossing the southwest border unaccompanied has quietly surged more than a year after President [Barack] Obama referred to the problem as a quote "urgent humanitarian situation."”

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Author:Joy-Ann Reid

“Speaking of people I had to exclude: Hank Williams. which is to say, songs are part of lyric poetry in my book, my thinking. In fact they are the urgent element of poetry in our time, they carry the most emotion for the most people in our culture. everyone LOVES poetry, because we all love (one form or another) of rock and roll (be it folk to emo to rap). It's all rock and roll and all lyric poetry.”

People Thinking Book Facts Form Song Culture Emotion Rocks Elements Folks Rap Our Time Poetry Is Rock And Roll One Love Urgent Love Poetry Emo Lyric Poetry Hank Williams

Author:Gregory Orr

“Rhyme as an echo not a closing off of sound. Love it. I don't know where the rhymes came from. Or the puns like "no/know" and so on. Just a way my mind start moving toward what seemed urgent to it. I'd like to claim complete rational intent for it all, but it wasn't that way. if you asked me about rhyme thirty years ago, I'd have said: not me, never. And now I done it.”

Ifs Knows Way Years Mind Said Done Moving Sound Years Ago Claims Rational Thirty Echoes Rhyme Urgent Closing Thirty Years Pun Closing Off

Author:Gregory Orr

“One sad consequence of this is that people don't feel permitted to try understand Internet infrastructure, so I'm really grateful to groups like Free Press and other nonprofits who are trying to make the issue urgent and comprehensible. And Andre Blum's book Tubes is great on this topic.”

People Feels Trying Book Issues Groups Internet Consequence Grateful Presses Topics Infrastructure Urgent Tubes Free Press Nonprofits

Author:Astra Taylor

“The spoken word community was significant in making me want to write accessible and urgent poems. Bob Holman, in particular, was an impressive figure.”

Want Writing Community Figures Particular Significant Bob Urgent Impressive Spoken Word

Author:Denise Duhamel

“The less people present in an urgent situation that a moderately high stakes recording session can create - the less people there are in the room - the more openness there can be. These songs share that as well, in addition to just the obvious, basic starkness.”

People Wells Song Rooms Situation Share Obvious Openness Stakes Session Urgent

Author:Will Oldham

“In brief, I regard love as a more decisive focus of meaning than death. In terms of Heidegger's argument, this is because I think he misdescribes the importance of the deaths of others and focuses exclusively on my relation to my own death. But, in reality, the deaths of others have a more urgent and immediate impact on our lives than the purely notional knowledge that I too will one day die.”

Thinking Reality Dies Term My Own Focus Our Lives One Day Argument Importance Relation Regard Impact Urgent Heidegger

Author:George Pattison

“I'm quite pessimistic about climate change. This is an urgent problem, and much of the world is only now waking up to the easiest part of solving - the realization that anthropogenic global warming is real.”

World Real Problem Wake Up Climate Climate Change Realization Global Warming Waking Urgent Pessimistic

Author:Philip Kitcher

“Mandelstam is the sort of poet who comes along very, very rarely. Even the two Russian poets whose work is often linked with his - Anna Akhmatova and Marina Tsvetaeva - though their work is more "urgent" than most American poetry, seem to me to operate at a lesser charge than Mandelstam.”

Two Seems Poet Linked Urgent Anna American Poetry

Author:Christian Wiman

“I stay balanced by remembering to prioritize. What is most important should never be railroaded by the "tyranny of the urgent." My relationship with God, my devotion to my husband, my responsibilities to my children, loving others, and, of course, remaining grateful for the blessings that I have. Like getting to do what I love for a living. And trust me, I am.”

“More than any religious figure that I can think of, Dalai Lama goes out of his way to attend interfaith conferences; religious harmony is one of his urgent priorities in life.”

Thinking Way I Can Religious Figures Harmony Priorities Conferences Urgent Interfaith Lama Dalai Priorities In Life

Author:Pico Iyer

“The oppression of women is the single most corrosive and urgent problem of our time.”

Problem Oppression Our Time Urgent

Author:Brandi Carlile

“What accumulated knowledge exists in low grade societies is at least put into practice; it is transmuted into character; it exists with the depth of meaning that attaches to its coming within urgent daily interests.”

Character Interest Practice Lows Depth Grades Urgent

Book:Democracy And Education

Source: Democracy And Education

“They [leaders in Western Europe] do not misuse financial instruments, financial injections, but, first of all, seek structural change. This is urgent for our economy as well, maybe even more urgent bearing in mind the problem that we cannot yet deal with, namely the prevalence of the oil and gas sector in the Russian Federation and, as a result, dependence on revenue from oil and gas.”

Mind Firsts Wells Problem Results Deals Leader Economy Europe Instruments Western Financial Oil Gas Dependence Revenue Urgent Misuse Federation Oil And Gas Injection Western Europe

Author:Vladimir Putin

“Prosperity consists in our ability to flourish as human beings - within the ecological limits of a finite planet. The challenge for our society is to create the conditions under which this is possible. It is the most urgent task of our times.”

Humans Challenges Human Beings Ability Conditions Planets Limits Tasks Prosperity Our Time Our Society Finite Urgent Ecological

Book:Prosperity Without Growth: Economics for a Finite Planet

Source: Prosperity Without Growth: Economics for a Finite Planet

“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.”

Mind Doe Art Soul Helping Past Walks Pieces Students College Architecture Urgent Expressive

Author:Louis Kahn

“Our politics are being hijacked by a comparatively small number of people who seek to dominate the debate by screaming the loudest. They see the world as an urgent struggle between true believers and nonbelievers. They attempt to impose strict litmus tests and insist on conformity. They demonize dissent and consider all political opponents their enemies. Fear is their favourite tactic as they try to divide and conquer”

“The time of reckoning will at length arrive. And when finallly summoned to the bar of God, to give an account of our stewardship, what plea can we have to urge in our defense, if we remain willingly, and obstinately ignorant of the way which leads to life, with such transcendent means of knowing it, and such urgent motives to its pursuit?”

Ifs Way Giving Mean Knowing Accounts Defense Pursuit Bars Ignorant Motive Urges Length Urgent Stewardship Transcendent Reckoning

Author:William Wilberforce

“Looking for meaning in the ordinary seems like the most urgent thing that we can do.”

Seems Can Do Ordinary Urgent

Author:Ian Bogost

“I feel really urgent about this election. This is the first time in my voting life that I feel not only passionate about my candidate, but also that the alternative would be catastrophic. I want to help the best candidate win.”

Want Feels Firsts Helping Would Be Winning First Time Election Passionate Alternatives Candidates Voting Urgent

Author:Natalie Portman

“The bulk of our efforts [in The Khaled Hosseini Foundation] has focused on helping build permanent shelters for returning refugees who are homeless, living out in the open or in makeshift homes. This is an area of urgent need as Afghanistan's natural elements are quite harsh, with very hot summers, and freezing winters.”

Needs Helping Home Natural Effort Elements Summer Areas Hot Foundation Winter Focused Permanent Afghanistan Shelter Harsh Homeless Refugee Urgent Freezing Hot Summer Natural Elements

Author:Khaled Hosseini

“We need to aim high - in the area of 20-25 percent - to create the urgent demand for new technologies, manufacturing plants and green jobs.”

Needs Jobs Technology Demand Percent Areas Aim Green Plant Urgent Manufacturing New Technology Aim High

Author:Van Jones

“Summits are best at dealing with problems, where the need for action is urgent and the range of possible actions limited. They are less good at dealing with opportunities.”

Needs Problem Action Opportunity Range Urgent Summit Dealing With Problems

Author:David Souter

“I am going to ensure that LGBTQ Americans have full equality under the law and address the urgent crisis of violence against transgender women of color.”

Law Violence Color Crisis Addresses Urgent Transgender Equality Under The Law

Author:Hillary Clinton

“To keep our hearts open is probably the most urgent responsibility you have as you get older.”

Heart Responsibility Urgent

Author:Leonard Cohen

“At any rate, those problems [ non-proliferation regime for weapons of mass destruction ] would not be so acute, with numerous terror attacks and victims of those attacks in many areas of the world - in Europe and in the United States. We also never would have had such an urgent problem with refugees, I have no doubt about it.”

“There could be an independent labor-based party, which might over time become an important force the way the Labor Party did in England. To all of these things there are plenty of barriers, in the culture and in the social and political institutions, the concentration of economic power. But these are not insuperable barriers, I think. They can be overcome. And it is urgent that this be done, because there are really incredible problems that are simply not being addressed.”

“The world was warned of extremely severe dangers unless urgent steps are taken to deal with global warming.”

World Deals Steps Taken Danger Global Warming Severe Urgent

Author:Noam Chomsky

“We are willing to uphold principles that have resulted in unprecedented prosperity and security throughout Europe and around the world. With the threat of climate change only becoming more urgent, Angela [Merkel] and I focused on the need for American and E.U. leadership to advance global cooperation.”

World Needs Principles Security Willing Becoming Europe Threat Climate Climate Change Prosperity Focused Around The World Cooperation Urgent Unprecedented Becoming More Angela

Author:Barack Obama

“Because Al-Qaeda has been a non-state centered organisation, many of these scenarios do not exactly apply. These are not wars between states. And yet, it seems to me that we make a mistake if we accept the view that states are fighting terrorism, since we have abundant evidence for accepting the idea of state terrorism, and what is most urgent is to track and expose how state terrorism operates under the rubric of "democracy."”

Ifs Has Beens Ideas War States Seems Fighting Views Mistake Accepting Democracy Evidence Track Terrorism Als Urgent Scenarios Organisation Al Qaeda Fighting Terrorism Rubrics

Author:Judith Butler

“Some trans people thought that in claiming that gender is performative that I was saying that it is all a fiction, and that a person's felt sense of gender was therefore "unreal." That was never my intention. I sought to expand our sense of what gender realities could be. But I think I needed to pay more attention to what people feel, how the primary experience of the body is registered, and the quite urgent and legitimate demand to have those aspects of sex recognized and supported.”

People Thinking Feels Persons Body Reality Sex Felt Pay Attention Fiction Needed Demand Aspect Intention Gender Primaries Urgent Unreal Trans

Author:Judith Butler

“I think it's an urgent plea for us all to sit down together.”

Thinking Together Urgent

Author:John McCain

“Mythology can be used, and has been used, even to re-state, you know, the very urgent problems of the world.”

Knows World Has Beens States Problem Used Mythology Urgent

Author:Wole Soyinka

“I think the right way to do this is just to step up and do it, so I actually think we'll see more of that over the next coming weeks, because I think they'll say, "We'd like to be good for business and quiet on politics, but this is too urgent, it is too much of a key crisis in who we are going to become as Americans. We can risk too much, and so we have to step forward." And I think you will see more and more people stepping forward, like Howard Schultz, Steve Case and other folks, in order to try to make a difference in this [Donald Trump] election.”

“My rule is, whatever is the most urgent is what I do next.”

Next Urgent

Author:Shelby Steele

“Sometimes one makes a distinction between urgency and importance. And while disasters are urgent, the basically most important thing is education. And that's what gives it ultimately urgency too, because unless you do it now, this important thing gets again and again postponed.”

Giving Important Sometimes Importance Important Things Disaster Distinction Again And Again Urgent Urgency

Author:Amartya Sen

“As one gets older, this question of death, becomes more vexing and urgent.”

Urgent

Author:George Saunders

“If you want, you can try and get a broader perspective, or you can find people who are absolutely out of their minds, or find people that are doing incredibly complex and interesting and urgent journalism. And the same goes for our show. It's a prism into people's own ideologies, when they watch our program. This is just our take.”

People Ifs Want Trying Mind Shows Interesting Watches Perspective Program Complexes Ideology Journalism Urgent Prisms

Author:Jon Stewart

“Very urgent measures need to be taken, and without much delay, in dealing with the ongoing destruction of the environment.”

Needs Taken Environment Destruction Delay Urgent Ongoing

Author:Noam Chomsky

“What we are seeing in America is the creaky old age of an eighteenth-century settlement, deemed at the time to be the new flowering of humankind-come-of-age (the 'Enlightenment') and so deemed to be above revision. At this point the urgent need is for prayer and prophecy.”

Needs Age America Prayer Seeing Century Enlightenment Old Age Humankind Prophecy Urgent Settlement Revision Flowering

Author:N. T. Wright

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