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• In everyday life there is always manana. There is no urgency

  Mark Spitz

  Everyday, Everyday Life

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• Dream audaciously. Have the courage to fail forward. Act with urgency.

  Phil Knight

  Dream, Failing

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• What the Super Bowl did for us was give us a sense of urgency.

  George Jackson

  Giving, Super Bowl, Sense Of Urgency

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• I have been impressed with the urgency of doing.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

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• We have also come to this hallowed spot to remind America of the fierce urgency of Now. This is no time to engage in the luxury of cooling off or to take the tranquilizing drug of gradualism. Now is the time to make real the promises of democracy

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Real, Luxury, America

  I Have a Dream, delivered 28 August 1963, at the Lincoln Memorial, Washington D.C.

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• I love children and I get along with them great. It's just that I believe if you're going to be a parent, there has to be something inside you that says, 'I want a family.' I don't feel that sense of urgency.

  George Clooney

  Family, Children, Believe

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• Recent warming coincides with rapid growth of human-made greenhouse gases. The observed rapid warming gives urgency to discussions about how to slow greenhouse gas emissions.

  James Hansen

  Giving, Growth, Made

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• I think, at the L.A. County Museum of Art, I saw my first example of Kerry James Marshall, who had a very sort of heroic, oversized painting of black men in a barbershop. But it was painted on the same level and with the same urgency that you would see in a grand-scale [Anthony] van Dyck or [Diego] Velazquez. The composition was classically informed; the painting technique was masterful. And it was something that really inspired me because, you know, these were images of young, black men in painting on the museum walls of one of the more sanctified and sacred institutions in Los Angeles.

  Kehinde Wiley

  Art, Wall, Men

  Source: www.aaa.si.edu

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• In the ever accelerating world of the Internet, e-campaigning has gone from a novelty to a necessity in less than a year. With increasing sophistication and urgency, campaigns are using the Web as a bulletin board, advertising medium and organizing tool.

  Howard Fineman

  Years, Campaigns, Tools

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• Urgency and vision are the twin pillars on which humanity's hope now hangs.

  Christopher Flavin

  Humanity, Vision, Climate

  Christopher Flavin, Amanda Chiu, Lisa Mastny (2008). “Low-carbon Energy: A Roadmap”, p.36, Worldwatch Institute

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• Every time I fail, I assume I will be a stronger person for it. I keep on running figuratively and literally, despite a limp that gets more noticeable with each passing season, because for me there has always been a place to go and a terrible urgency to get there.

  Joan Benoit

  Running, Stronger, Places To Go

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• We cannot put off living until we are ready. The most salient characteristic of life is its urgency, 'here and now' without any possible postponement. Life is fired at us point-blank.

  Jose Ortega y Gasset

  Inspirational, Life, Motivation

  "'Misión de la Universidad' ('Mission of the University')". Book by Jose Ortega y Gasset, translated by Howard Lee Nostrand, p. 73, 1946.

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• Now let us begin. Now let us rededicate ourselves to the long and bitter - but beautiful - struggle for a new world.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Beautiful, Struggle, Long

  Beyond Vietnam -- A Time to Break Silence, Delivered 4 April 1967, Riverside Church, New York City

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• I love the urgency of what we do. I like the battles that take place, the jousting.

  Mike Wallace

  Battle

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• History teaches that grave threats to liberty often come in times of urgency, when constitutional rights seem too extravagant to endure.

  Thurgood Marshall

  Inspirational, Rights, Historical

  "Neither Liberty, Nor Safety" by Virginia Postrel, reason.com. June 1989.

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• We ourselves are imbued with urgency, yet the message of our society is' that there is no viable alternative to the present.

  Tom Hayden

  Alternatives, Our Society, Messages

  Source: www.rollingstone.com

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• One could say nothing to nobody. The urgency of the moment always missed its mark. Words fluttered sideways and struck the object inches too low. Then one gave it up; then the idea sunk back again; then one became like most middle-aged people, cautious, furtive, with wrinkles between the eyes and a look of perpetual apprehension. For how could one express in words these emotions of the body? express that emptiness there?

  Virginia Woolf

  Eye, Wrinkles, Ideas

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• Hip-hop is the streets. Hip-hop is a couple of elements that it comes from back in the days... that feel of music with urgency that speaks to you. It speaks to your livelihood and it's not compromised. It's blunt. It's raw, straight off the street - from the beat to the voice to the words.

  Nas

  Couple, Voice, Hip Hop

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Because many advances have happened, we've lost the urgency (and that's just human nature) that we had before, when we couldn't vote, couldn't use mass transportation, or drink from the fountains.

  Spike Lee

  Use, Vote, Human Nature

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• In the not-for-profit world, there can be wastefulness because there's not the desperate urgency of when you're on a clock.

  Twyla Tharp

  World, Desperate, Clock

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• I have a piano in my living room that I mess around on a little bit and when I asked Len if I could find a piece of music, I went through a **** load of classical music to find something that I felt had a certain urgency to it, but also with a hint of melancholia and maybe a sense of longing. I found that which is public domain and I had a piano teacher to go through it with me.

  Colin Farrell

  Teacher, Piano, Hints

  "Colin Farrell, Kate Beckinsale, & Jessica Biel Discuss ‘Total Recall’". Interview with Tiffany Rose, screenrant.com. August 7, 2012.

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• Throughout all of human history we've enjoyed certain benign circumstances: an envelope of atmosphere, an envelope of temperature. A kind of resilience that if you cut down trees, then they'll grow back. You take fish, they recover. You put stuff into the atmosphere that you know is not good for us, but we can still breathe. We haven't awakened, generally, to the sense of urgency that does exist.

  Sylvia Earle

  Cutting, Tree, Over You

  "Her Majesty Of The Deep Blue Sea: An Interview With Dr. Sylvia Earle, Part One". Interview with Dan Linehan, www.mission-blue.org. January 23, 2013.

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• The clock ticked with empty urgency, as though trying to catch up with the time. In the street a siren howled.

  Ralph Ellison

  Trying, Sirens, Empty

  Ralph Ellison (2010). “Invisible Man”, p.328, Vintage

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• To some of us, hunger was more academic than real, but we must try to develop the ability to feel the urgency of such a situation.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Real, Trying, Hunger

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• The need for comprehensive reform must not blind us to the urgency of addressing the massive debt that's already crushing our young people.

  Elizabeth Warren

  Crush, People, Needs

  "Sen. Warren Introduces Bill On Student Debt". "Here & Now" with Jeremy Hobson, www.wnyc.org. May 6, 2014.

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