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• The moral imperative of life is to live a life that detracts not at all from the lives available to those who will follow us into this world.

  Don Richardson

  Life, World, Morality

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• Unknown objects are operating under intelligent control... It is imperative that we learn where UFOs come from and what their purpose is.

  Roscoe H. Hillenkoetter

  Intelligent, Purpose, Flying Saucers

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• Western society has accepted as unquestionable a technological imperative that is quite as arbitrary as the most primitive taboo: not merely the duty to foster invention and constantly to create technological novelties, but equally the duty to surrender to these novelties unconditionally, just because they are offered, without respect to their human consequences.

  Lewis Mumford

  Technology, Arbitrary, Novelty

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• I believe that the imperative need of the day is not simply revival, but a radical reformation that will go to the root of our moral and spiritual maladies and deal with causes rather than with consequences, with the disease rather than with symptoms.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Spiritual, Believe, Roots

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• But fighting to give women and girls a fighting chance isn’t a nice thing to-do. It isn’t some luxury that we get to when we have time on our hands to spend. This is a core imperative for every human being in every society. If we do not continue the campaign for women’s rights and opportunities, the world we want to live, the country we all love and cherish, will not be what it should be.

  Hillary Clinton

  Girl, Country, Nice

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• A fraudulent vote is a stolen vote. It steals a vote from the thin air and nullifies the legal and legitimate vote of a tax-paying citizen, whose rights to a fair election shouldn’t be tampered with. Winning an election is important, but winning it honestly is imperative in a Constitutional Republic.

  Mike Huckabee

  Winning, Rights, Air

  "Huckabee: Is asking for voter ID really 'too much'?" by Mike Huckabee, www.foxnews.com. October 27, 2012.

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• This Apostolic Church never turned from the way of truth nor held any kind of error. It is imperative that nothing of the truths which have been defined be lessened, nothing altered, nothing added, but that they be preserved intact in word and meaning. This is the true rule of faith.

  Pope Agatho

  Errors, Apostolic Church, Catholic

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• When people think the issue can be solved, it becomes a moral imperative to be part of the solution. We can do a lot more within our school districts to recruit aggressively, select people according to high standards, invest in their training and development, and foster and reward their leadership. Once we invest more in attracting, developing and retaining teachers, potential recruits will begin to see it as a profession worth considering.

  Wendy Kopp

  Teacher, School, Thinking

  Source: www.economist.com

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• The music is the imperative. It has the upper hand. I think all music, even though it's an abstraction, does motivate a particular meaning. Then it's the job of the musician to honor that meaning and to somehow implement lyrical material that can accommodate that emotional environment.

  Sufjan Stevens

  Jobs, Emotional, Thinking

  Interview with Jason Crock, pitchfork.com. May 15, 2006.

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• Innovation no longer remains a choice but has become an imperative.

  Narendra Modi

  Choices, Innovation, India

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• Love is not an intellectual concept or a moral imperative or anything else. It is the background emotion that exists when one is connected to the energy available in the universe, which of course, is the energy of God.

  James Redfield

  Love Is, Intellectual, Energy

  James Redfield (1993). “The celestine prophecy: an adventure”, Atticus Press & Company (AL)

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• Until the last great war, a general expectation of material improvement was an idea peculiar to Western man. Now war and its aftermath have made economic and social progress a political imperative in every quarter of the globe.

  Lester B. Pearson

  War, Men, Ideas

  Lester B. Pearson (1964). “The Four Faces of Peace and the International Outlook: Statements”, McClelland and Stewart

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• But all of this action goes on in the dark, hidden underground. It’s called stealing or piracy, as if sharing a wealth of knowledge were the moral equivalent of plundering a ship and murdering its crew. But sharing isn’t immoral - it’s a moral imperative. Only those blinded by greed would refuse to let a friend make a copy.

  Aaron Swartz

  Dark, Wealth Of Knowledge, Greed

  Aaron Swartz (2016). “The Boy Who Could Change the World: The Writings of Aaron Swartz”, p.27, The New Press

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• There is no economic imperative that will condemn us to deplete our vital resource base, but neither is there an invisible hand that will prevent us from doing so.

  Jeffrey Sachs

  Hands, Invisible Hand, Economic

  "Common Wealth: Economics for a Crowded Planet". Book by Jeffrey Sachs, 2011.

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• Myth is the practical metabolism of our soulish life, the logic of our obsessions and oversights for which we have no language or code. Myth is the "morality" that the ineffable puts upon us, our unaccountable imperatives, our inexplicably selective clarity and obscurity, the mortal one-sidedness of our talents and wits, the passion and apathy that make such a transient passage through our hapless minds; that weave a pattern of fatality others will see before we do. Myth is distinctively human or sublime higher-order instinct, the "reason" in culture that reason knows not of.

  Kenny Smith

  Philosophy, Passion, Order

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• It is imperative that Christians be like Jesus, by living freely within the culture as missionaries who are as faithful to the Father and His gospel as Jesus was in His own time and place.

  Mark Driscoll

  Christian, Jesus, Father

  Mark Driscoll (2004). “The Radical Reformission: Reaching Out Without Selling Out”, p.40, Harper Collins

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• I have changed nothing, my style of play is still that of a child. I know that above all it is my job and that I should approach it in another way, but one must not lose sight of the fact that football is a game. It is imperative one plays to amuse oneself, to be happy. That is what children do and I do the same thing.

  Lionel Messi

  Football, Jobs, Children

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• Art postulates communion, and the artist has an imperative need to make others share the joy which he experiences himself.

  Igor Stravinsky

  Art, Joy, Needs

  Igor Stravinsky “An Autobiography”, Library of Alexandria

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• Bitcoin is the beginning of something great: a currency without a government, something necessary and imperative.

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb

  Government, Bitcoin, Currency

  Reddit AMA, www.reddit.com. March 20, 2013.

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• It is imperative that the entire Christian community in the United States come to realize the grave threats to the Church's public moral witness presented by a militant atheism which finds increasing expression in the political and cultural spheres. The seriousness of these threats needs to be clearly appreciated at every level of ecclesial life.

  Pope Benedict XVI

  Christian, Expression, Political

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• An enlightened citizenry is indispensable for the proper functioning of a republic. Self-government is not possible unless the citizens are educated sufficiently to enable them to exercise oversight. It is therefore imperative that the nation see to it that a suitable education be provided for all its citizens.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Exercise, Government, Self

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• Love is the greatest apologetic. It is the essential component in reaching the whole person in a fragmented world. The need is vast, but it is also imperative that we be willing to follow the example of Jesus and meet the need.

  Ravi Zacharias

  Jesus, Love Is, Essentials

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• As we continue to fight the War on Terror, it is imperative that we protect America's fallen heroes by ensuring that they are treated with respect, while being laid to rest.

  Jon Porter

  War, Hero, Fighting

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• Reducing consumption is imperative, but it's pointless to cut out meat and cars while having lots of children.

  Madeleine Bunting

  Children, Cutting, Car

  "Greens Need to Grasp the Nettle: Aren't There Just Too Many People?". www.theguardian.com. September 10, 2007.

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• I believe it is imperative to see modern English grammar as a rich and diverse linguistic system deposited on our [England's] shores 1,500 years ago, and left with us unweakened, though substantially changed by the social and political events of the intervening period.

  Robert Burchfield

  Believe, English Grammar, Years

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