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“Civil society rests on moral relationships. They are covenantal rather than contractual. They are brought about not by governments but by us a husbands and wives, parents, friends and citizens, and by the knowledge of what we do and what we are makes a difference to those around us. (...) Renewing society's resources of moral energy is the program, urgent but achievable.”

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Author:Jonathan Sacks

“We are forced to choose, for the processes we have initiated in our lifetime cannot continue in the lifetime of our children. Whatever we do either creates the framework for continuing the supreme adventure of life and consciousness on this planet or sets the stage for its termination. The choice before us is urgent and important: it can neither be postponed nor ignored.”

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Book:The Choice: Evolution Or Extinction? : a Thinking Person's Guide to Global Issues

Source: The Choice: Evolution Or Extinction? : a Thinking Person's Guide to Global Issues

“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.”

President Economy Valuable Debt Redemption Budgets Consideration Delay Urgent Discharge National Debt Debt By Founding Fathers

Book:Maxims of Washington: Political, Social, Moral, and Religious

Source: Maxims of Washington: Political, Social, Moral, and Religious

“A government which lays taxes on the people not required by urgent public necessity and sound public policy is not a protector of liberty, but an instrument of tyranny. It condemns the citizen to servitude.”

People Government Sound Liberty Policy Citizens Taxes Instruments Lays Tyranny Presidential Urgent Servitude Public Policy Protector

Author:Calvin Coolidge

“Effective people stay out of Quadrants III and IV because, urgent or not, they aren't important. They also shrink Quadrant I down to size by spending more time in Quadrant II...Quadrant II is the heart of effective personal management.”

People Inspirational Heart Important Management Size Spending More Time Shrinks Urgent

Book:The Stephen R. Covey Interactive Reader - 4 Books in 1: The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People, First Things First, and the Best of the Most Renowned Leadership Teacher of our Time

Source: The Stephen R. Covey Interactive Reader - 4 Books in 1: The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People, First Things First, and the Best of the Most Renowned Leadership Teacher of our Time

“During depression the world disappears. Language itself. One has nothing to say. Nothing. No small talk, no anecdotes. Nothing can be risked on the board of talk. Because the inner voice is so urgent in its own discourse: How shall I live? How shall I manage the future? Why should I go on?”

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Book:The Loony-bin Trip

Source: The Loony-bin Trip

“It is urgent to show ourselves at the side of our compañeros in San Marcos Avilés. The threat is immediate. The Committees of the True Word must make ourselves known in every way we can, to show clearly the strength of our solidarity.”

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Author:Gustavo Esteva

“Our generation grew up with the Review as a fact of life. It was America’s literary magazine. To our minds, it still is. It has launched our favorite writers. It has made a special claim for the quarterly as such, being both timely and lasting, free of the news of the day or the pressure to please a crowd. Most of all, the Review has shown, repeatedly, that works of imagination can be as stylish and urgent as the flashiest feature reporting, and can do more to refocus our picture of the world.”

“I remember nothing of this, no ambulance rides, nothing. Nothing between switching out the bedside lamp and the sudden indignity of rebirth: the slaps, the brightness, the tubing, the speed, the urgent insistence that I be choked back into breathing life. I have felt so sorry for babies ever since.”

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Book:Moab is My Washpot

Source: Moab is My Washpot

“The urgent can drown out the important.”

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Author:David Meerman Scott

“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.”

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Author:Martin Luther King, Jr.

“Today more than ever we need creative minds to address the issues of the age. And one of the most urgent is this: How can humanity know so much, achieve so much, and still fail so many people so badly?”

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Author:Abdallah II

“On the contrary, the most urgent problem today is how to limit and discourage the over-fertility of the mentally and physically defective.”

Problem Today Limits Contrary Urgent Discouraging Eugenics Fertility Defective Planned Parenthood Birth Rate

Book:The Pivot of Civilization in Historical Perspective: The Birth Control Classic

Source: The Pivot of Civilization in Historical Perspective: The Birth Control Classic

“As an advocate of birth control I wish ... to point out that the unbalance between the birth rate of the 'unfit' and the 'fit,' admittedly the greatest present menace to civilization, can never be rectified by the inauguration of a cradle competition between these two classes. In this matter, the example of the inferior classes, the fertility of the feeble-minded, the mentally defective, the poverty-stricken classes, should not be held up for emulation.... On the contrary, the most urgent problem today is how to limit and discourage the over-fertility of the mentally and physically defective.”

“The will to mastery becomes all the more urgent the more technology threatens to slip from human control”

Humans Technology Slips Mastery Urgent

Author:Martin Heidegger

“In my view, there is an urgent need to communicate with the public and help to explain where there is consensus, and where are there doubts about the issues of sustainable development.”

Needs Helping Views Issues Doubt Development Communicate Consensus Urgent Sustainable Development

Author:Jeffrey Sachs

“...that once were urgent and necessary for an orderly world and now were buried away, gathering dust and of no use to anyone.”

World Use Dust Buried Gathering Urgent Clutter Orderly

Author:Patricia A. McKillip

“Bible prophecy helps us to better understand the future and realize the urgent need to spread the Gospel. It motivates us to personal purity and gives us hope in a hopeless age.”

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Book:Charting the End Times Prophecy Study Guide

Source: Charting the End Times Prophecy Study Guide

“To what faults do you feel most indulgent? To the ones that arise from urgent material needs.”

Needs Feels Materials Faults Arise Materialism Urgent

Book:Hitch-22: A Memoir

Source: Hitch-22: A Memoir

“In the midst of global crises such as pollution, wars and famine, kindness may be too easily dismissed as a 'soft' issue, or a luxury to be addressed after the urgent problems are solved. But kindness is the greatest need in all those areas - kindness toward the environment, toward other nations, toward the needs of people who are suffering. Until we reflect basic kindness in everything we do, our political gestures will be fleeting and fragile.”

“I had fought on behalf of man against the sea, but I realized that it had become more urgent to fight on behalf of the sea against men.”

Men Fighting Sea Ocean I Realized Conservation Behalf Urgent Ocean Conservation

Author:Alain Bombard

“Don’t let the urgent take precedent over the important.”

Important Urgent Precedent

Author:Michael Hyatt

“The problem of environmental children's health is very urgent in Russia. Environmental situation now is the main factor, which determines young generation's health... the volume of pollutant emissions in atmosphere and water grew and scale of ecological man-caused catastrophes increased. More than half of Russian territories, where 60-70 percent of the of population lives, have unsafe ecological situation.”

“The American family is not simply changing; it is getting weaker. . . . Family decline drives some of our most urgent social problems. . . . The heart of the family problem lies in the steady breakup of the two-parent home.”

Heart Two Problem Home Lying Social Parent Breakup Steady Decline Urgent Social Problems American Family Family Problems Parents Home

Author:David Popenoe

“I could not possibly overstate the need for an urgent response.”

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Author:Tom Frieden

“But I think the American people expect more from us than cries of indignation and attack. The times are too grave, the challenge too urgent, and the stakes too high to permit the customary passions of political debate. We are not here to curse the darkness, but to light the candle that can guide us through that darkness to a safe and sane future. As Winston Churchill said on taking office some twenty years ago: if we open a quarrel between the present and the past, we shall be in danger of losing the future.”

“As we get closer to the end of this Congress, we should be addressing the urgent needs of the American people - the war in Iraq, affordable health care, a sensible energy policy, quality education for our children, retirement security, and a sound and fair fiscal policy.”

“Let us be merciful in our mental judgments of our brothers and sisters, for, in truth, we are all one, and the more deeply they seem to err, the more urgent is the need for us to help them with the right thought, and so make it easier for them to get free.”

Needs Helping Seems Brother Easier Judgment Brothers And Sisters Urgent Merciful

Author:Emmet Fox

“The most urgent task is that of the biblical and liturgical formation of the people of God.”

People Tasks Biblical Urgent Formation

Author:Pope John Paul II

“Of all the problems which were open to me for study, typhus was the most urgent and the most unexplored. We knew nothing of the way in which contagion spread”

Way Problem Study Spread Urgent Contagion Unexplored Typhus

Author:Jules Henry

“Make no mistake, our military readiness is already suffering. According to a recent RAND study, the Army has been stretched so thin that active-duty soldiers are now spending one of every two years abroad, leaving little of the Army left in any appropriate condition to respond to crises that may emerge elsewhere in the world.”

“The best in art and life comes from a center - something urgent and powerful, an idea or emotion that insists on its being. From that insistence, a shape emerges and creates its structure out of passion. If you begin with a structure, you have to make up the passion, and that's very hard to do.”

Ifs Art Ideas Hard Wisdom Passion Powerful Emotion Shapes Structure Urgent Insistence Art And Life

Author:Roger Rosenblatt

“Sex as desired by the class that dominates women is held by that class to be elemental, urgent, necessary, even if or even though it appears to require the repudiation of any claim women might have to full human standing. In the subordination of women, inequality itself is sexualized, made into the experience of sexual pleasure, essential to sexual desire.”

Ifs Humans Made Might Desire Sex Pleasure Class Essentials Standing Claims Feminist Inequality Urgent Elementals Subordination Sexual Desire

Author:Andrea Dworkin

“The urgent consideration of the public safety may undoubtedly authorize the violation of every positive law. How far that or any other consideration may operate to dissolve the natural obligations of humanity and justice, is a doctrine of which I still desire to remain ignorant.”

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Book:The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire:

Source: The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire:

“The Democrats had long labeled the impeachment debate a distraction from the urgent business of a great nation. But the Republicans argued that the pursuit of justice is the business of a great nation. In winning this point, they caught the falling flag, producing a triumph for the rule of law, a reassertion of the belief that no man is above it, and a rebuke for an arrogance that had grown imperial.”

“A very common symptom in maniacal conditions is erotic excitement. This varies from mere coquetry, a somewhat extended application of the command "love one another", an undue attention to the opposite sex, and so forth, up to the extreme of salacity, when the mind is wholly occupied by the urgent sexual appetite, and all restraint is abandoned.”

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Author:Daniel Hack Tuke

“The persistence of erroneous beliefs exacerbates the widespread anachronistic failure to recognize the urgent problems that face humanity on this planet.”

Problem Faces Faith Humanity Belief Planets Persistence Urgent

Author:Murray Gell-Mann

“One of the best ways of avoiding necessary and even urgent tasks is to seem to be busily employed on things that are already done.”

Way Done Seems Work Tasks Best Way Statistics Avoiding Employed Urgent

Book:The affluent society

Source: The affluent society

“Boosting mankind's capability for coping with complex, urgent problems”

Problem Mankind Complexes Capability Urgent Coping

Author:Douglas Engelbart

“The church exists primarily for two closely correlated purposes: to worship God and to work for his kingdom in the world ... The church also exists for a third purpose, which serves the other two: to encourage one another, to build one another up in faith, to pray with and for one another, to learn from one another and teach one another, and to set one another examples to follow, challenges to take up, and urgent tasks to perform. This is all part of what is known loosely as fellowship.”

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Author:N. T. Wright

“Dogs need to sniff the ground; it's how they keep abreast of current events. The ground is a giant dog newspaper, containing all kinds of late-breaking dog news items, which, if they are especially urgent, are often continued in the next yard.”

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Book:Dave Barry Talks Back

Source: Dave Barry Talks Back

“The next step in human evolution is to transcend thought. This is now our urgent task. It doesn't mean not to think anymore, but simply not to be completely identified with thought, possessed by thought.”

Thinking Humans Mean Next Steps Evolution Tasks Possessed Urgent Next Steps Human Evolution

Book:Stillness Speaks

Source: Stillness Speaks

“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... We 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. The only rigidity lies in our will, our conviction that we are on the right road and that our initiatives are most pressing.”

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Author:Yehudi Menuhin

“Fear can give you urgent wings.”

Giving Fear Wings Urgent

Author:Margaret Mahy

“I think depression creates in me an urgent need to write, but I also believe that daily stress, and even the positive stress of intense happiness, can compel me to express myself through the written word.”

Thinking Needs Writing Believe Written Stress Intense Urgent Written Word

Author:Francesca Lia Block

“Times have changed, and science has made great progress, and so has our work; but our principles have only been confirmed, and along with them our conviction that mankind can hope for a solution to its problems, among which the most urgent are those of peace and unity, only by turning its attention and energies to the discovery of the child and to the development of the great potentialities of the human personality in the course of its formation.”

“Anyone wanting to proclaim the glory of Christ to the ends of the earth must consider not only how to declare the gospel verbally but also how to demonstrate the gospel visibly in a world where so many are urgently hungry. If I am going to address urgent spriitual need by sharing the gospel of Christ or building up the body of Christ around the world, then I cannot overlook dire physical need in the process.”

Ifs World Needs Ends Body Earth Process Christ Building Glory Hungry Around The World Addresses Urgent Building Up Body Of Christ Sharing The Gospel

Author:David Platt

“For me as a kid, reading cyberpunk was like seeing the world for the first time. Gibson's Neuromancer wasn't just stylistically stunning; it felt like the template for a future that we were actively building. I remember reading Sterling's Islands in the Net and suddenly understanding the disruptive potential of technology once it got out into the street. Cyberpunk felt urgent. It wasn't the future 15 minutes out - it was the future sideswiping you and leaving you in a full-body cast as it passed by.”

“Don't wait until you retire to go fishing. Don't even wait until your annual vacation. Go at every opportunity. Things that appear more urgent at the moment may, in the long run, turn out to be far less so.”

May Long Moments Running Turns Opportunity Waiting Fishing Retiring Vacation Long Runs Urgent Annuals

Author:Ted Trueblood

“Unequal Democracy is the sort of book to which every political scientist should aspire--it is methodologically rigorous, conceptually serious, and above all, it addresses urgent concerns of our fellow citizens. As Bartels shows, much of what we think we know about the politics of economic inequality is dead wrong. Bartels's perplexing and often unexpected discoveries should help refocus the gathering public debate about inequality and what to do about it.”