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• It is imperative that we make consumers more aware of the long-term effects of their financial decisions, particularly in managing their credit card debt, so that they can avoid financial pitfalls that may lead to bankruptcy.

  Daniel Kahikina Akaka

  Long, Decision, Pitfalls

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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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• With control of the universe at stake, a crash program is imperative.We produced the A-bomb, under the huge Manhattan Project, in an amazingly short time. The needs, the urgency today are even greater. The Air Force should end UFO secrecy, give the facts to scientists,the public, to Congress. Once the people realize the truth, they would back, even demand a crash program...for this is one race we dare not lose.

  Donald Keyhoe

  Race, Air, People

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• It is those who have this imperative demand for the best in their natures, and who will accept nothing short of it, that holds the banners of progress, that set the standards, the ideals, for others.

  Orison Swett Marden

  Motivational, Nature, Excellence

  Orison Swett Marden (2007). “Do It to a Finish!”, p.19, Cosimo, Inc.

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• The Green Party is no longer the alternative, the Green Party is the imperative

  Rosa Clemente

  Party, Alternatives, Green

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• There's an evolutionary imperative why we give a crap about our family and friends, and there's an evolutionary imperative why we don't give a crap about anybody else. If we loved all people indiscriminately, we couldn't function.

  David Foster

  Love, People, Giving

  "Fictional character: Dr. Gregory House". TV Series "House" ("TB or Not TB", 2005), www.imdb.com. (2004–2012).

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• Humor is imperative, more important than food. You have a choice when someone dies. You can lie down or get back into life. Do something for someone else.

  Doris Roberts

  Lying, Humor, Choices

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• The moral imperative to make big changes is inescapable...that what we take for granted may not be here for our children

  Al Gore

  Children, Future, Vision

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• A woman, as much as a man, is responsible by the age of forty for the character of her face. But women, obeying the biological imperative, strive harder to preserve a youthful appearance (the reproductive look) and lose it sooner.

  Edward Abbey

  Character, Men, Age

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.44, RosettaBooks

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• To put it in a terminology that hearkens back to the more brutal age of ancient empires, the three grand imperatives of imperial geo-strategy are to prevent collusion and maintain security dependence among the vassals, to keep tributaries pliant and protected, and to keep the barbarians from coming together.

  Zbigniew Brzezinski

  Together, Age, Empires

  Zbigniew Brzezinski (2007). “The Grand Chessboard”, p.43, Basic Books

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• Making the case (for same-sex marriage) from a conservative values perspective is an imperative, not an option.

  Ken Mehlman

  Sex, Perspective, Lgbt

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• Aberjhani's writing blows the mind and frees the psyche of any rigid assumptions about ancestral heritage. Here, our collective experience is starkly rendered. The transparency of one culture overlays another, and another, to form the daguerreotype of possibilities that is homo sapiens, interacting, almost like the elements themselves, with the created world and modified only by context and its imperatives.

  Rosy Cole

  Writing, Blow, Mind

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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 have four sons whom I love dearly. Suppose our lawn needed to be cut. I could say, "Boys, can you see the need? The grass is high. It's above my knees. Soon I will not be able to get to the garage. Don't you see the desperate need?" But in the final analysis, they get out the mower because their father says, "Mow the grass!" World evangelization is an imperative because Jesus said so.

  George Sweeting

  Jesus, Father, Son

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• A sustained engagement with the world, a sense of how it was and how it ought to be, and what has been lost, is imperative to good writing - I just don't know how you can be a serious writer without it.

  Pankaj Mishra

  Writing, Engagement, World

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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