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• Only in the last few years did the science crystallize, revealing the urgency - our planet really is in peril. If we do not change course soon, we will hand our children a situation that is out of their control.

  James Hansen

  Children, Hands, Years

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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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• 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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• Share the Gospel. According to the Bible, it is every believer's privilege and responsibility to share the Gospel. If we understand what lies ahead for those who do not know Christ, there will be a sense of urgency in our witness.

  David Jeremiah

  Lying, Responsibility, Privilege

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• By our very endowment as children of an Eternal Father we have had implanted within our souls the urgency to be free. It is natural for us to want to be accountable for our own fates because there is a whispering within us confirming that this accountability is absolutely essential to the attainment of our eternal destiny.

  Dean L. Larsen

  Children, Father, Fate

  Dean L. Larsen (1989). “Free to Act”, Bookcraft Pubs

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• True individualists are always at odds with the universe. Set adrift by their peculiar tastes and interests, they spend their lives searching for kindred spirits and a compatible mate. They are hopelessly out of step with the business world and its trivial urgencies. Their priorities are not the priorities of their neighbors. They are unique; therefore they are alone.

  Rick Bayan

  Unique, Odds, Priorities

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• We are on the verge of losing the traditional idea of the family, especially in Japan, where the declining birth rate shows no signs of stopping. This is precisely why I think we should consider with a sense of urgency what the new image of "family" should be like, and not fall into the nostalgism that days gone by were just better.

  Mamoru Hosoda

  Fall, Thinking, Japan

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• IBM needed - an enormous sense of urgency.

  Lou Gerstner

  Enormous, Ibm, Needed

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• I think what has happened, actually, is that September 11 has given a spur, a renewed urgency, to dialogue between the great faiths.

  George Carey

  Thinking, September 11, Spurs

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• The Iraqi regime is a threat of unique urgency. [...] It has developed weapons of mass death.

  George W. Bush

  Unique, Weapons, Regimes

  Speech on Iraq Resolution, The Rose Garden, georgewbush-whitehouse.archives.gov. October 2, 2002.

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• Tackling malaria in a country like the Central African Republic is a huge uphill battle, and my experiences there have been a healthy dose of reality, fueling my own sense of urgency to do my part in reducing the preventable suffering of the incredible women I met.

  Mandy Moore

  Country, Reality, Healthy

  "Fighting Malaria With Nets" by Mandy Moore, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 7, 2011.

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• Whether the process proves to be Kyoto or something else, let's acknowledge the urgency of global warming.

  Brian Mulroney

  Kyoto, Global Warming, Process

  Brian Mulroney (2011). “Memoirs”, p.1308, Emblem Editions

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• When I heard about the Microsoft Kinect, though, I felt an urgency rising in me. A game you played without touching any machinery? A chance to wave your hands around, Minority-Report style, and move things around on a screen? This sounded like almost too much fun, with gadget-y pizzazz that sounded astonishing.

  Susan Orlean

  Fun, Moving, Hands

  "Connected" by Susan Orlean, www.newyorker.com. December 17, 2010.

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• It was the look you get when facing a sudden and insurmountable danger: the errant truck, the shaky ladder, the crazy person who pins you to the linoleum and insists, with increasing urgency, that everything you know and love can be undone by a grape.

  David Sedaris

  Crazy, And Love, Looks

  David Sedaris (2010). “When You Are Engulfed In Flames”, p.72, Hachette UK

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• The peasant finds no "natural" urgency within himself that will drive him toward Picasso in spite of all difficulties. In the end the peasant will go back to kitsch when he feels like looking at pictures, for he can enjoy kitsch without effort

  Clement Greenberg

  Effort, Kitsch, Natural

  Clement Greenberg (1971). “Art and Culture: Critical Essays”, p.18, Beacon Press

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• We are now faced with the fact, my friends, that tomorrow is today. We are confronted with the fierce urgency of now. In this unfolding conundrum of life and history, there is such a thing as being too late. Procrastination is still the thief of time. Life often leaves us standing bare, naked, and dejected with a lost opportunity. . . . Over the bleached bones and jumbled residues of numerous civilizations are written the pathetic words, 'Too late.' ... 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, Procrastination

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

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• I don't think of it as procrastination. I think of it as allowing my work to accumulate urgency.

  Maud Newton

  Procrastination, Thinking, Allowing

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• Some-one called my style 'sense of urgency' guitar playing and I've always admitted I often don't know where I'm going when I solo. But that desperation is what makes it exciting.

  Richard Lloyd

  Guitar, Style, Desperation

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• Things may move slow in the academic world, but I continue to move at a pace relative to the urgency of the moment, looking forward to the time when the academic world can catch up.

  Joseph Curiale

  Moving, Pace, World

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• The sense of urgency is real for me, because the window of opportunity is closing. Gotta get back to the Super Bowl, gotta get back there and win it.

  Steve McNair

  Real, Winning, Opportunity

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• The mistake so many marketers make is that they conjoin the urgency of making another sale with the timing to earn the right to make that sale. In other words, you must build trust before you need it. Building trust right when you want to make a sale is just too late.

  Seth Godin

  Mistake, Book, Marketing

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• Political conflicts distort and disturb a people's sense of distinction between matters of importance and matters of urgency. What is vital is disguised by what is merely a matter of well being.

  John Grierson

  People, Political, Matter

  John Grierson (1966). “Grierson on Documentary”, p.207, Univ of California Press

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• We invite all to serve the Savior and walk in His paths straightway. There is an urgency for all of us who have this knowledge of His divinity to act upon it without hesitation or delay. The time is now.

  Marvin J. Ashton

  Time, Delay, Divinity

  Marvin J. Ashton (1987). “Be of Good Cheer”, Deseret Book Co

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