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• If our dreams could edit the news (and sometimes our nightmares) these poems are how they'd wake us up to the urgency of our times.

  Betsy Sholl

  Dream, News, Nightmare

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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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• We are being called into realization with great urgency and extraordinary beauty, and oftentimes not without difficulty.

  Judith Hanson Lasater

  Extraordinary Beauty, Realization, Difficulty

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• The urgency for reducing climate emissions is too great. We must take our collective experience and use it toward making green design a part of all design.

  Ian Shapiro

  Design, Climate, Use

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• There's a sense of urgency in understanding that your body is not really your own. We can control it to a certain extent through habits and good behavior, but there's so much we don't have control of.

  Sufjan Stevens

  Understanding, Body, Behavior

  Interview with Ryan Dombal, pitchfork.com. January 31, 2011.

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• We must do more and with more urgency to empower women.

  Judith Rodin

  Empowering, Empowering Women

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• When you have a little bit more of a threat, I guess you just have a better sense of urgency, and for me that's when the best comes out in me

  Jake Ellenberger

  Mma, Littles, Threat

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• America faces many challenges...but the enemy I fear most is complacency. We are about to be hit by the full force of global competition. If we continue to ignore the obvious task at hand while others beat us at our own game, our children and grandchildren will pay the price. We must now establish a sense of urgency.

  Charles M. Vest

  Children, Science, Math

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• We are social beings who make communities with an urgency, and it is a stern charge to make us take refuge in the lonely world of oneself. ...Racism attempts to occlude our cosmopolitanism (of the songs in and out of our bones), and it often appropriates our mild forms of xenophobia into its own virulent project. Difference among peoples is something that we negotiate in our everyday interactions, asking questions and being better informed of our mutual realities. To transform difference into the body is an act of bad faith, a denial of our shared nakedness.

  Vijay Prashad

  Song, Lonely, Xenophobia

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• The same contingencies of time and space that force a statesman or soldier to make decisions, impel the historian, though with less urgency, to make up his mind.

  Samuel Eliot Morison

  Space, Decision, Soldier

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• As a former District Attorney and Attorney General, I know the urgency of providing safe homes, schools and neighborhoods for all. This remarkable tour-de-force is a powerful study of one promising solution: a data-rich, eminently readable demonstration of why we should treat gun violence as an American epidemic.

  Scott Harshbarger

  Powerful, Home, School

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• There's a sense of urgency that the president does not possess, that there is a 9/11 in the making.

  Rand Paul

  President, Doe, Sense Of Urgency

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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• The urgency derives from the nearness of climate tipping points.

  James Hansen

  Climate, Tipping, Climate Change

  James Hansen (2011). “Storms of My Grandchildren: The Truth about the Coming Climate Catastrophe and Our Last Chance to Save Humanity”, p.4, A&C Black

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• No, she thought, 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.

  Virginia Woolf

  Moments, Sideways, Mark

  Virginia Woolf (2016). “To the Lighthouse”, p.166, Tyché

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• IBM needed - an enormous sense of urgency.

  Lou Gerstner

  Enormous, Ibm, Needed

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• It occurred to me that I was unhappy. And it didn’t feel so very terrible. No urgency, nothing. I could slip out of my life on a slow wave like this—it didn’t matter. I don’t have to be happy. All I have to do is hold on to something and wait.

  Helen Oyeyemi

  Waiting, Unhappy, Matter

  Helen Oyeyemi (2011). “Mr Fox”, p.42, Pan Macmillan

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• We are continuously bombarded with information, appeals, deadlines, communications... We are continually being squeezed or projected into the future as our present moments are assaulted and consumed in the fires of endless urgency.

  Jon Kabat-Zinn

  Communication, Fire, Information

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• In today’s interconnected and globalized world, it is now commonplace for people of dissimilar world views, faiths and races to live side by side. It is a matter of great urgency, therefore, that we find ways to cooperate with one another in a spirit of mutual acceptance and respect.

  Dalai Lama

  Respect, Buddhist, Buddhism

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• Sabbath requires surrender. If we only stop when we are finished with all our work, we will never stop, because our work is never completely done. With every accomplishment there arises a new responsibility... Sabbath dissolves the artificial urgency of our days, because it liberates us from the need to be finished.

  Wayne Muller

  Responsibility, Accomplishment, Needs

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• Being constantly the hub of a network of potential interruptions provides the excitement and importance of crisis management. As well as the false sense of efficiency in multitasking, there is the false sense of urgency in multi-interrupt processing.

  Michael Foley

  Multitasking, Management, Excitement

  Michael Foley (2010). “The Age of Absurdity: Why Modern Life makes it Hard to be Happy”, p.72, Simon and Schuster

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• We must quickly mobilize our civilization with the urgency and resolve that has previously been seen only when nations mobilized for war. These prior struggles for survival were won when leaders found words at the 11th hour that released a mighty surge of courage, hope and readiness to sacrifice for a protracted and mortal challenge.

  Al Gore

  War, Struggle, Sacrifice

  Nobel Peace Prize Lecture, delivered 10 December 2007, Oslo, Norway

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• Duane Allman didn't see himself as the bandleader .. he led by example, and you gained a lot of respect from Duane if you earned it, if you proved you could keep up with him. If you couldn't, you'd either end up in awe of him or you might not even like him. He was very different from Jerry Garcia (guitar/leader of the Grateful Dead) who was very easy going. Duane didn't have time to be easy going ... there was much more urgency to his personality

  Richard Betts

  Music, Grateful, Guitar

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• We got anxious at the end of the weekend in our urgency to try to score the winning goal. Ended up playing far too many long balls forward. That style of play doesn't suit Manchester United. We must continue to play football and enjoy the game. If we do that, eventually things will come right for us.

  Alex Ferguson

  Football, Weekend, Winning

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