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• My emotional and intellectual response to Hiroshima was that the question of the social responsibility of a journalist was posed with greater urgency than ever.

  Wilfred Burchett

  Responsibility, Emotional, Intellectual

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• Any wine will get you high. Judge like a king, and choose the purest, the ones unadulterated with fear, or some urgency about "what's needed."

  Rumi

  Kings, Wine, Judging

  Rumi (2014). “'Another city'. a selectionf of poems from the Persian”, p.62, Lulu.com

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• I was brought in by the White House as GM's chairman in 2009, around the time of the bankruptcy, and became CEO later that year. As a company, we were grateful for the government's support. But as GM's financial health began to improve, I could detect no real sense of urgency, or even interest, on the part of the government to relinquish control.

  Edward Whitacre, Jr.

  Real, Grateful, Government

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• Realization of this need means adults must awaken to the urgency of the young people's unrest-in other words there must be created an adult unrest against the inequities and injustices in the present system. If the government is in jeopardy, it is not because we are unable to cope with revolutionary situations. Jeopardy means that either the leaders or the people do not realize they have all the tools required to make the revolution come true. The tools and the opportunity exist. Only the moral imagination is missing.

  William O. Douglas

  Mean, Opportunity, Government

  WILLIAM O. DOUGLAS (1970). “POINTS OF REBELLION”

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• We come here because we too feel a responsibility for the human community. To preserve and develop a human quality of life is the common responsibility of us all. It is not fitting that those concerned with the various aspects of the human be alienated from each other. Both you and ourselves represent forces too profound and aim at objectives too significant for either of us to succeed completely without the assistance of the other. The urgency of our work impels us to get on with our common task lest a new period of disaster erupt over the Earth.

  Thomas Berry

  Responsibility, Profound, Community

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• I found myself declaiming, full flower, for an hour on the "utmost importance and urgency" of Blogging, telling him in no uncertain terms that, especially in a high-end niche business, Blogging is "the premier way" to have "intimate conversations" with his Clients. Funny thing, I believe it!

  Tom Peters

  Funny, Believe, Flower

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• I think there is a shared sense of urgency in Washington on fiscal issues.

  Jacob Lew

  Thinking, Issues, Sense Of Urgency

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• I don't write on topics that require a lot of urgency. But in 'Stiff,' I wanted to change people's hearts about organ donation. Whenever I get a chance, I try to talk about that.

  Mary Roach

  Heart, Writing, People

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• And I do think that great fiction, even when it's comedic, has an urgency or an inevitability to it, a sense that the writer absolutely had to write this particular story in this way.

  Karen Russell

  Writing, Thinking, Fiction

  Interview with Jennifer L. Knox, www.newyorker.com. June 14 & 21, 2010.

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• We are now facing a difficult situation in Peru, where there are attempts to cut back the territorial rights of the indigenous peoples, including moves to divide, fragment and privatise our communal organisations. Now more than ever, it is a matter of urgency for us to consolidate our own indigenous alternatives for development.

  Evaristo Nugkuag

  Moving, Cutting, Rights

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• I can finally go home and tell the constituents, law enforcement, and leaders in Washington state that Congress is treating the meth problem with the same urgency and commitment that local communities have been treating it with for years.

  Rick Larsen

  Home, Commitment, Years

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• In my work I've never done preliminary drawing, because it's sometimes difficult to repeat something or to continue when the urgency's gone.

  Deanna Petherbridge

  Drawing, Done, Gone

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• When I got to the Senate, one of the things that most bothered me is this lack of urgency about the major issues.

  Marco Rubio

  Issues, Bothered, Senate

  Source: www.esquire.com

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• Add to this cruelly delicate organism the overpowering necessity to create, create, create - so that without the creating of music or poetry or books or buildings or something of meaning, his very breath is cut off from him. He must create, must pour out creation. By some strange, unknown, inward urgency he is not really alive unless he is creating.

  Pearl S. Buck

  Book, Creativity, Cutting

  "The 101 Habits of Highly Successful Screenwriters: Insiders Secrets from Hollywood's Top Writers". Book by Karl Inglesias (p. 4), 2001.

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• If not one more cent in new aid money flowed [to Africa], we could with more urgency and efficiency and creativity be doing much more to take more people out of poverty.

  Kumi Naidoo

  Creativity, People, Poverty

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• You have to believe in who you are and what difference you can make. You have to care about the urgency and the difference it will make to your community, and you have to, again, have confidence in the contribution that you can make. You believe, you care, you have confidence in the difference that you can make. And that's not to be egotistical, it's just to be confident.

  Nancy Pelosi

  Believe, Differences, Community

  "What Will It Take to Make A Woman President?: Conversations About Women, Leadership and Power". Book by Marianne Schnall, www.salon.com. November 5, 2013.

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• I've kind of fallen out of love with politics. ...Whatever experience and talents I've gained over the years -- I think it may well be that the highest and best use of that is to try to bring enough awareness of the solutions to the climate crisis and enough of a sense of urgency that we come together across party lines on behalf of our children.

  Al Gore

  Children, Party, Thinking

  "Gore: I've 'fallen out of love with politics'". edition.cnn.com. July 6, 2007.

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• There comes a terrible moment to many souls when the great movements of the world, the larger destinies of mankind, which have lain aloof in newspapers and other neglected reading, enter like an earthquake into their own lives--when the slow urgency of growing generations turns into the tread of an invading army or the dire clash of civil war, and grey fathers know nothing to seek for but the corpses of their blooming sons, and girls forget all vanity to make lint and bandages which may serve for the shattered limbs of their betrothed husbands.

  George Eliot

  Girl, Husband, War

  George Eliot (2009). “Daniel Deronda”, p.689, Oxford Paperbacks

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• What Americans expect from Washington is action that matches the urgency they feel in their daily lives.

  Barack Obama

  Action, Daily Life, Feels

  "The Action Americans Need". www.washingtonpost.com. February 5, 2009.

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• In my youth and comparative inexperience I had always regarded the yearning and pangs of love as the worst torture that could afflict the human heart. At this moment, however, I began to realize that there was another and perhaps grimmer torture than that of longing and desiring: that of being loved against one's will and of being unable to defend oneself against the urgency of another's passion; of seeing another human being seared by the flame of her desire and of having to look impotently, lacking the power, the capacity, the strength to pluck her from the flames.

  Stefan Zweig

  Love, Passion, Heart

  "Beware of Pity". Book by Stefan Zweig, 1939.

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• Somewhere in the child, somewhere in the adult, there is a hard, irreducible, stubborn core of biological urgency, and biological necessity, and biological reason that culture cannot reach and that reserves the right, which sooner or later it will exercise, to judge the culture and resist and revise it.

  Lionel Trilling

  Children, Exercise, Judging

  "Beyond Culture: Essays on Literature and Learning (Freud: Within and Beyond Culture)". Book by Lionel Trilling, 1965.

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• The Muslim world, with its history and cultures, and indeed its different interpretations of Islam, is still little known in the West. The two worlds, Muslim and non-Muslim, Eastern and Western, must, as a matter of urgency, make a real effort to get to know one another, for I fear that what we have is not a clash of civilisations, but a clash of ignorance on both sides.

  Aga Khan IV

  Real, Ignorance, Two

  Speech at the "Musée-Musées" Round Table Louvre Museum, www.akdn.org. October 17, 2007.

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• The ultimate solution to the problem of spiritual complacency is to create a systematically embedded culture of holy urgency.

  Alan Hirsch

  Spiritual, Culture, Complacency

  Michael Frost, Alan Hirsch (2011). “The Faith of Leap (Shapevine): Embracing a Theology of Risk, Adventure & Courage”, p.42, Baker Books

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• In the beginning, there was a kind of energy that - like an urgency to express myself, and the songs just couldn't be held in. But I think it changes, the nature of how that - what that energy is. And I need to court the muse in a much more serious way.

  James Taylor

  Song, Thinking, Way

  "Why James Taylor is still ‘endlessly interested’ in making music". Interview with Jeffrey Brown, www.pbs.org. Jun 30, 2015.

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• Human life is God's outer church. Its needs and urgencies are priests and pastors.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Humanity, Church, Needs

  Henry Ward Beecher, William Drysdale (1887). “Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit”

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