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To stimulate optimal size and strength increases, it's imperative that you regularly attempt the momentarily impossible. For example, if you can curl 100 pounds for a maximum of 10 reps, but never attempt the 11th, your body has no reason to enlarge upon its existing capacity. It is only by regularly attempting to go beyond your existing capacity that inroads are made into your body's reserves.

Mike Mentzer

Curls, Example, Body

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For the world order to be one of peace and justice, for the global village to be a theater of right livelihood, it is imperative that a new and proactive spiritual vision commensurate to the challenges of the emerging world order be enunciated without delay.

Agnivesh

Spiritual, Order, Justice

Agnivesh's Right Livelihood Award Acceptance Speech, www.rightlivelihoodaward.org. December 31, 2004.

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When neither high purpose nor the categorical imperatives of religion will do, the only argument against suicide is life itself. You pause and attend: the heart beats in your chest; outside, the trees are thick with new leaves, a swallow dips over them, the light moves, people are going about their business.

Al Alvarez

Suicide, Moving, Heart

Al Alvarez (2013). “The Savage God: A Study of Suicide”, p.152, Bloomsbury Publishing

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Why we play as children is not because it is our work or because it is how we learn, though both statements are true; we play because we are wired for joy, it is imperative as human beings.

John Thorn

Children, Play, Joy

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No species ... possesses a purpose beyond the imperatives created by genetic history ... The human mind is a device for survival and reproduction, and reason is just one of its various techniques.

E. O. Wilson

Survival, Mind, Technique

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"Faith" as an imperative is a veto against science-in praxi, it means lies at any price.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Faith, Lying, Mean

Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (2007). “Twilight of the Idols with the Antichrist and Ecce Homo”, p.140, Wordsworth Editions

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It is imperative to contest all factions for complete victory, so the army is not garrisoned and the profit can be total. This is the law of strategic siege.

Sun Tzu

War, Army, Law

Sun Tzu (2005). “The Art of War”, p.75, Shambhala Publications

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The truth is that finding happiness in what you do every day is so imperative.

Gary Vaynerchuk

Inspirational, Finding Happiness, Truth Is

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It's imperative to realize that it is not necessary to try to get rid of fear in order to succeed. Rich and successful people have fear, rich and successful people have doubts, rich and successful people have worries. They just don't let these feelings stop them. Unsuccessful people have fears, doubts, and worries, then let those feelings stop them.

T. Harv Eker

Inspirational, Successful, Order

FaceBook post by T. Harv Eker from Dec 18, 2013

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If you want to create wealth, it is imperative that you believe that you are at the steering wheel of life, especially your financial life.

T. Harv Eker

Believe, Secret, Want

FaceBook post by T. Harv Eker from Apr 10, 2013

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Our words, like our deeds, should be filled with faith and hope and charity, the three great Christian imperatives so desperately needed in the world today. With such words, spoken under the influence of the Spirit, tears can be dried, hearts can be healed, lives can be elevated, hope can return, confidence can prevail. ... May we all rejoice in the thought that when we say edifying, encouraging things unto the least of these, our brethren and sisters and little ones, we say it unto God.

Jeffrey R. Holland

Christian, Inspiration, Heart

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The rapidly evolving global economy demands a dynamic and creative workforce. The arts and its related businesses are responsible for billions of dollars in cultural exports for this country. It is imperative that we continue to support the arts and arts education both on the national and local levels. The strength of every democracy is measured by its commitment to the arts.

Charles Segars

Education, Country, Art

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It is imperative that we do not fear challenges that we have attracted to promote our growth. Every obstacle we encounter is an opportunity for spiritual evolution.

Dannion Brinkley

Spiritual, Encouragement, Opportunity

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To this day, we see all around us the Promethean drive to omnipotence through technology and to omniscience through science. The effecting of all things possible and the knowledge of all causes are the respective primary imperatives of technology and of science. But the motivating imperative of society continues to be the very different one of its physical and spiritual survival. It is now far less obvious than it was in Francis Bacon's world how to bring the three imperatives into harmony, and how to bring all three together to bear on problems where they superpose.

Gerald Holton

Spiritual, Knowledge, Science

Gerald James Holton (1986). “The Advancement of Science, and Its Burdens: The Jefferson Lecture and Other Essays”, p.183, CUP Archive

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It is imperative that one approaches a spiritual master, for by such association one proportionately develops his consciousness towards the Supreme Personality of Godhead.

A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada

Spiritual, Personality, Association

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We live in a permanent state of bad faith, a mutual representation of ourselves to one another for the sake of remaining sane and following our biological imperative to continue as a species.

Thomas Ligotti

Sake, States, Sane

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There are good people, who are in politics - in both parties - who hold this at arm's length, because if they acknowledge it and recognize it, then the moral imperative to make big changes is inescapable.

Al Gore

Party, People, Arms

"An Inconvenient Truth". Documentary, 2006.

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We need each other, deeper than anyone ever dares to admit even to themselves. I think it is a genetic imperative that we huddle together and hold on to each other. There is no question in my mind that there is nothing else in life, really, than friendship.

Patch Adams

Friendship, Thinking, Mind

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Physical fitness is the first requisite of happiness. In order to achieve happiness, it is imperative to gain mastery of your body. If at the age of 30 you are stiff and out of shape, you are old. If at 60 you are supple and strong then you are young.

Joseph Pilates

Strong, Order, Age

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A dancer must have tremendous personality. A God like Christ and even a godman like Rajneesh had some personality. Combination of talent, dedication, creativity and being emotive is imperative. A coupling of these four qualities with technique is essential. Monotony is deterrent as it regards your style and I notice today, that new dancers perform in a startlingly similar fashion.

Yamini Krishnamurthy

Fashion, Creativity, Dedication

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Before you place your financial future in the hands of an adviser, it's imperative that you find someone who not only makes you comfortable but whose honesty is beyond reproach.

Benjamin Graham

Honesty, Hands, Investing

Benjamin Graham (1965). “The Intelligent Investor: A Book of Practical Counsel”, p.65, Prabhat Prakashan

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As we enter into the 110th Congress, it is imperative that we address ethics reforms needed to make this institution run correctly.

Jo Ann Davis

Running, Reform, Addresses

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If the United States is to produce a nation of investors-as we must if we are to gain financial world-leadership-it is imperative that boards of directors be so constituted as to adequately represent the interests and inspire the complete confidence of investors of moderate substance.

B. C. Forbes

Inspire, Directors, United States

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Cultural constraints condition and limit our choices, shaping our characters with their imperatives.

Jeane Kirkpatrick

Character, Choices, Limits

Jeane J. Kirkpatrick (1983). “The Reagan phenomenon, and other speeches on foreign policy”, Aei Pr

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The greater the importance to safeguarding the community from incitements to the overthrow of our institutions by force and violence, the more imperative is the need to preserve the constitutional rights of free speech, free press and free assembly in order to maintain the opportunity for free political discussion.

Charles Evans Hughes

Opportunity, Order, Rights

"De Jonge v. Oregon, 299 U.S. 353, 365". Judicial opinion, 1937.

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