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So silently, peacefully, without hurry, without any tension, without any anguish, move into yourself instantly. It is urgent. Unless meditation becomes urgent to you, it will never happen; you will die before it. Put meditation on your laundry list as the most important, urgent... number one. But meditation in your life is just at the very end of your laundry list - and the laundry list goes on becoming bigger and bigger. And before you finish your laundry list, you are finished, so the time for meditation never comes.

Rajneesh

Moving, Numbers, Meditation

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The Superfund legislation set up a system of insurance premiums collected from the chemical industry to clean up toxic wastes. This new program may prove to be as far-reaching and important as any accomplishment of my administration. The reduction of the threat to America's health and safety from thousands of toxic-waste sites will continue to be an urgent but bitterly fought issue-another example for the conflict between the public welfare and the profits of a few private despoilers of our nation's environment.

Jimmy Carter

Health, Science, Toxic Waste

Jimmy Carter (2013). “Keeping Faith: Memoirs of a President”, p.591, University of Arkansas Press

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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.

Calvin Coolidge

Government, People, Presidential

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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?

Kate Millett

Depression, Voice, Anecdotes

Kate Millett (1990). “The Loony-bin Trip”, p.283, University of Illinois Press

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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.

Gustavo Esteva

Way, Sides, Solidarity

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

Tom Frieden

Ebola, Needs, Stunning

CDC Telebriefing in West Africa, www.cdc.gov. September 2, 2014.

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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.

David Popenoe

Breakup, Lying, Home

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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.

Maria Cherkasova

Children, Men, Russia

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

Michael Hyatt

Important, Precedent

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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.

Alain Bombard

Ocean, Fighting, Men

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

Patricia A. McKillip

Dust, Gathering, Use

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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.

Jeffrey Sachs

Views, Issues, Doubt

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She was at that crucial age when a women begins to regret having stayed faithful to a husband she never really loved, when the glowing sunset colors of her beauty offer her one last, urgent choice between maternal and feminine love. At such a moment a life that seemed to have chosen its course long ago is questioned once again, for the last time the magic compass needle of the will hovers between final resignation and the hope of erotic experience.

Stefan Zweig

Love, Husband, Regret

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

Martin Heidegger

Technology, Mastery, Humans

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

Margaret Sanger

Eugenics, Birth Rate, Today

Margaret Sanger, Michael W. Perry, H. G. Wells (2003). “The Pivot of Civilization in Historical Perspective: The Birth Control Classic”, p.295, Inkling Books

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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?

Abdallah II

Birthday, Issues, People

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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.

Life Changing, Knowing, Littles

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The urgent can drown out the important.

David Meerman Scott

Business, Marketing, Important

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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.

Stephen Fry

Baby, Sorry, Breathing Life

Stephen Fry (1997). “Moab is My Washpot”, Random House (UK)

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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.

Lorin Stein

Our Generation, America, Imagination

"Editor's Note". www.theparisreview.org. 2010.

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I speak of peace, therefore, as the necessary rational end of rational men. I realize the pursuit of peace is not as dramatic as the pursuit of war... But we have no more urgent task.

John F. Kennedy

Peace, War, Men

American University Commencement Address, delivered 10 June 1963

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Sometimes the most urgent and vital thing you can possibly do is take a complete rest.

Ashleigh Brilliant

Fitness, Relaxation, Massage

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The kiss began much the same as usual--Edward was as careful as ever, and my heart began to overreact like it always did. And then something seemed to change. Suddenly his lips became much more urgent, his free hand twisted into my hair and held my face securely to his. And though I was clearly beginning to cross his cautious lines, for once he didn't stop me. His body was cold through the thin quilt, but I crushed myself against him eagerly.

Stephenie Meyer

Quilts, Heart, Kissing

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The receptionist looked us over, then went back to typing something incredibly urgent—like her résumé́ for another job.

James Patterson

Jobs, Like Her, Receptionists

James Patterson (2007). “The Angel Experiment”, Little, Brown and Company

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You, God, who live next door - If at times, through the long night, I trouble you with my urgent knocking - this is why: I hear you breathe so seldom. I know you're all alone in that room. If you should be thirsty, there's no one to get you a glass of water. I wait listening, always. Just give me a sign! I'm right here... Sen komşu tanrı, Uzun geceler bazen, Kapına vura vura uyandırıyorsam seni Solumanı seyrek duyduğumdandır... Bilirim, yalnızsın odanda. Sana birşey gerekse kimse yok, Bir yudum su versin aradığında. Hep dinlerim, yeter ki bir ses edin, Öyle yakınım sana.

Rainer Maria Rilke

Night, Glasses, Doors

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