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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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• The major impediment to experiencing the sacred depths of ordinary moments is the speed and distraction of contemporary life that moves to the imperatives of the global economic order.In addition, we increasingly live in a virtual world in which our reality is filtered through media and information technology.

  Sam Keen

  Moving, Technology, Reality

  Source: www.spiritualityandpractice.com

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• Without reverence we [people] will gradually descend into ecocide. In the degree that the imperatives of the market - the temple of the Mall - govern our lives, we are in escalating danger of destroying the commonwealth of all sentient beings - bugs and bees and buntings - on which we depend for a luxurious life on planet earth.

  Sam Keen

  People, Bunting, Degrees

  Source: www.spiritualityandpractice.com

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• I believe that if you have good organizational skills, then creativity can come out of that, but it's hard to be really creative when everything is a mess. And in a restaurant, organizational skills are imperative.

  Anne Burrell

  Believe, Creativity, Skills

  "Anne Burrell Talks Wedding Plans and 'Chef Wanted'". Interview with Lisa Hirsch, www.etonline.com. January 31, 2013.

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• This food-and-shelter theory concerning man's efforts is without insight. The desire for praise is more imperative than the desire for food and shelter

  Eric Hoffer

  Men, Effort, Desire

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• To rail and rant against tyranny is to manifest inferiority, for there is no tyranny but ignorance; to be conscious of one's powers is to lose consciousness of tyranny. Self government is not a remote aim. It is an intimate and inescapable fact. To govern oneself is a natural imperative, and all tyranny is the miscarriage of self government. The first requisite of freedom is to accept responsibility for the lack of it.

  E.C. Riegel

  Ignorance, Miscarriage, Responsibility

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• It is imperative to master the principles of the art of war and learn to be unmoved in mind even in the heat of the battle.

  Miyamoto Musashi

  Art, War, Mind

  Miyamoto Musashi, Musashi Miyamoto, Thomas F. Cleary (2005). “The Book of Five Rings”, p.26, Shambhala Publications

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• There is nothing so important, so imperative, as the delivery of the divine message that has been entrusted to us.

  Orson F. Whitney

  Important, Missionary, Messages

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• Just as we're all students throughout life, we're all teachers. In fact, we learn best by offering what we desire for ourselves to as many individuals as we can, as frequently as we can.....Following this line of thinking, it's imperative that we make deliberate effort to increase our inspirational energy, as this will lead us to being both a spiritual learner and teacher simultaneously.

  Wayne Dyer

  Life, Spiritual, Teacher

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• The computer revolution is a revolution in the way we think and in the way we express what we think. The essence of this change is the emergence of what might best be called procedural epistemology-the study of the structure of knowledge from an imperative point of view, as opposed to the more declarative point of view taken by classical mathematical subjects.

  Hal Abelson

  Taken, Learning, Thinking

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• Black History Month is dedicated to heroes that paved the way for Black people. It's a month that's very imperative because it gives those who lack the knowledge of our heroes a chance to gain insight. It's not just about the month, it's about the years that it took for us to get to this one month and it's beyond placing a value on how much Black History Month really means to me.

  Alana Beard

  Hero, Mean, Years

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• A tension has always existed between the capitalist imperative to maximize efficiency at any cost and the moral imperatives of culture, which historically have served as a counterweight to the moral blindness of the market. This is another example of the cultural contradictions of capitalism - the tendency over time for the economic impulse to erode the moral underpinnings of society. Mercy toward the animals in our care is one such casualty.

  Michael Pollan

  Animal, Cooking, Example

  Michael Pollan (2009). “The Omnivore's Dilemma: The Search for a Perfect Meal in a Fast-Food World”, p.161, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• Corporations are mandated, in effect, to 'grow or die,' a rule also called 'the growth imperative.'

  Michele Simon

  Growth, Corporations, Economic

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• Action isn't a burden to be hoisted up and lugged around on our shoulders. It is something we are. The work we have to do can be seen as a kind of coming alive. More than some moral imperative, it's an awakening to our true nature, a releasing of our gifts.

  Joanna Macy

  Awakening, Alive, Action

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• We are on the brink of a new energy order. Over the next few decades, our reserves of oil will start to run out and it is imperative that governments in both producing and consuming nations prepare now for that time. We should not cling to crude down to the last drop – we should leave oil before it leaves us. That means new approaches must be found soon..... The really important thing is that even though we are not yet running out of oil, we are running out of time.

  Fatih Birol

  Running, Mean, Order

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• Neither god, nor angels, or just men, command you to suffer for a single moment. Therefore it is your solemn and imperative duty to use every means, both moral, intellectual, and physical that promises success.

  Henry Highland Garnet

  Single Mom, Mean, Angel

  Henry Highland Garnet (1865). “A Memorial Discourse”, p.47, Gale Cengage Learning

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• It is imperative that the past of the pilgrims' progress be intentionally carried forward into the present as we work into our future. Without it we cannot know who we are, why we are here, or where we can go. Without a common past to live out of we become aimless and wandering individuals instead of a pilgrim people.

  H. Richard Niebuhr

  Past, People, Progress

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• We play because we are wired for joy; it is imperative as human beings.

  John Thorn

  Play, Joy, Humans

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• Whether you believe it a moral imperative or in the rich world's enlightened self-interest, securing the conditions that will lead to a healthy, prosperous future for everyone is a goal I believe we all share.

  Bill Gates

  Believe, Prosperous Future, Self

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• Nature does nothing in vain. Therefore, it is imperative for persons to act in accordance with their nature and develop their latent talents, in order to be content and complete.

  Aristotle

  Order, Doe, Talent

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• The politics of that year [2004] are old now, but the problem remains the same, the real culture clash of American life. It's between the essence of fundamentalism - paternalism, authority, and charity - and the messy imperatives of democracy, "the din of the vox populi" once derided by Abram Vereide. It's the difference between false unity, preached from above, and real solidarity, pledged between brothers and sisters - the kinds who are always bickering.

  Jeff Sharlet

  Brother, Real, Essence

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• To Jane Jacob’s three traditional urban values of civic space, human scale and diversity, the current environmental imperative adds two more: conservation and regionalism.

  Peter Calthorpe

  Two, Space, Diversity

  Peter Calthorpe (2010). “Urbanism in the Age of Climate Change”, p.15, Island Press

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• In my experience, if you steer clear of dogma and muster up more love than you thought you had to give, then your vitality increases, satisfaction sets in, sweetness surfaces. I believe in the creative power of good feelings. I'm convinced that the desire to be real is everyone's divine imperative.

  Danielle LaPorte

  Inspirational, Real, Believe

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• To play is to listen to the imperative inner force that wants to take form and be acted out without reason. It is the joyful, spontaneous expression of one's self. The inner force materializes the feeling and perception without planning or effort. That is what play is.

  Michele Cassou

  Play, Self, Expression

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• The imperative need of this nation at all times is the leadership of Uncommon Men or Women.

  Herbert Hoover

  Men, Presidential, Needs

  Herbert Hoover (1955). “Addresses Upon the American Road, 1950-1955”

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