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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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• No one questions the validity, the urgency, the essentiality of the Voting Rights Act.

  Anthony Kennedy

  Rights, Voting, Right To Vote

  "Justice Kennedy: Voting Rights Act might now be unfair" by Joan Biskupic, abcnews.go.com.

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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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• 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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• 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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• What excites me is that, when things are tough, people become resourceful, and now with the Internet, social networking and the ability for people who in the past had been relatively powerless, they have tools to be able to spread ideas and organize. The urgency is there and the tools are there and I think that the possibility for really, really powerful results is there. I think it's all brewing, it's all bubbling up right now.

  Shepard Fairey

  Powerful, Past, Thinking

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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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• 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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• 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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• We have the opportunity now to join in the celebration of possibility, to align ourselves with the forces of life. We’ll need to become skilled at walking the line between urgency and hope, maintaining our balance in a world out of balance. I’m convinced that out of the crucible of crisis, the greatest love story on Earth could be born.

  Velcrow Ripper

  Opportunity, Crucible, Balance

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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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• That's what actually caused me to run for office is, you know, my family story, the experience of growing up in a family where your dad had been imprisoned, had been tortured, and came to America with nothing, washing dishes for 50 cents an hour. That was perhaps the most formative experience of my childhood, is being raised in that household where freedom had an urgency.

  Ted Cruz

  Running, Growing Up, Dad

  Interview with Glenn Thrush, www.politico.com. July 18, 2016.

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• But they need to worry and betray time with urgencies false and otherwise, purely anxious and whiny, their souls really won't be at peace unless they can latch to an established and proven worry and having once found it they assume facial expressions to fit and go with it, which is, you see, unhappiness, and all the time it all flies by them and they know it and that too worries them no end.

  Jack Kerouac

  Expression, Worry, Soul

  Jack Kerouac (2007). “On the Road”, Viking Press

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• The Master said, "Wealth and honor are things that all people desire, and yet unless they are acquired in the proper way I will not abide them. Poverty and disgrace are things that all people hate, and yet unless they are avoided in the proper way I will not despise them. If the gentleman abandons ren, how can he be worthy of that name? The gentleman does not violate ren even for the amount of time required to eat a meal. Even in times of urgency or distress, he does not depart from it."

  Confucius

  Hate, Names, People

  "The Analects". Book by Confucius (Book Four, Section 4.5),

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• Because they're probably long gone. Are you hurt?" Gabe asked with enough urgency that she realized he must have felt shiver in delayed reaction to the hole in the door. "No. No, I'm okay. What a about you? Are you hurt?" "Only if you count the fact that you damned near ripped off my plumbing groping around for my phone." She made a sound of exasperation. "Now? You pick now to become a comedian?" "It's all about timing," he whispered back.

  Cindy Gerard

  Hurt, Phones, Doors

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• Civil disobedience has an honourable history, and when the urgency and moral clarity cross a certain threshold, then I think that civil disobedience is quite understandable, and it has a role to play.

  Al Gore

  Thinking, Play, Roles

  "Civil disobedience has a role to play". Interview with Oliver Burkeman, www.theguardian.com. November 6, 2009.

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• I just realized quite early on that I'm not going to be the type who can write a novel every two years. I think you need to feel an urgency about the act. Otherwise, when you read it, you feel no urgency, either. So I don't write unless I really feel I need to, and that's a luxury.

  Zadie Smith

  Writing, Thinking, Years

  "In Essays, Author Zadie Smith Reveals Her Process". Interview with Melissa Block, www.npr.org. November 11, 2009.

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• The greatest challenge facing mankind is the challenge of distinguishing reality from fantasy, truth from propaganda. Perceiving the truth has always been a challenge to mankind, but in the information age (or as I think of it, the disinformation age) it takes on a special urgency and importance.

  Michael Crichton

  Reality, Thinking, Challenges

  Remarks to the Commonwealth Club, San Francisco, www.cs.cmu.edu. September 15, 2003.

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• While I'm not an expect in psychology, I'm of the opinion that anyone - even strangers - can sense the urgency of a request, and most people will usually do the right thing.

  Nicholas Sparks

  People, Psychology, Opinion

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• To whom can I expose the urgency of my own passion?…There is nobody—here among these grey arches, and moaning pigeons, and cheerful games and tradition and emulation, all so skilfully organised to prevent feeling alone.

  Virginia Woolf

  Passion, Games, Feeling Alone

  Virginia Woolf (2005). “The Waves”, p.43, Collector's Library

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• He gives my hand a tight squeeze, but that desperation, that urgency between us is gone. No insecurities. Max and Fang. Fang and Max. No longer a question. We just are.

  James Patterson

  Hands, Giving, Insecurity

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• Maybe 20 years ago, there would be an event every few months or so, maybe once a year. Now, it just seems like every week there are things happening that remind us that Bible prophecy is being fulfilled and Christ is coming. Having said that, I think that should produce in the Christians, an urgency to share their faith.

  Greg Laurie

  Christian, Thinking, Years

  "Greg Laurie: Watered-Down Mainline Christianity Is a Sign of the End Times (Interview)". Interview with Samuel Smith, www.christianpost.com. August 29, 2016.

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• There is something to be said though when you have 4 or 5 guys playing with no net, there is a sense of urgency, It is organic with a lot of anticipation and you can hear it, the way it is played. My favorite bands that I love from way back have a lot of things going on and it makes it real, it is not tangible but it is the spirit of the moment.

  Marco Mendoza

  Real, Guy, Band

  Source: puregrainaudio.com

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• You know, I’m not saying, “Oh, because I play a good guy on TV, I need to suddenly be villainous in a movie.” I look at it more like: does this role has a kind of urgency for me in terms of, “can I not say no to it for whatever reason?”

  Josh Radnor

  Play, Guy, Doe

  "Josh Radnor At Sundance: The ‘Afternoon Delight’ Star On His Post-‘How I Met Your Mother’ Plans". Interview with Mike Ryan, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 23, 2013.

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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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