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• I think the American people expect more from us than cries of indignation and attack. The times are too grave, the challenge too urgent, and the stakes too high - to permit the customary passions of political debate.

  John F. Kennedy

  Passion, Thinking, People

  Presidential Nomination Acceptance Speech, en.wikisource.org. July 15, 1960.

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• The word which is best said came nearest to not being spoken at all, for it is cousin to a deed which the speaker could have better done. Nay, almost it must have taken the place of a deed by some urgent necessity, even by some misfortune, so that the truest writer will be some captive knight, after all. And perhaps the fates had such a design, when, having stored Raleigh so richly with the substance of life and experience, they made him a fast prisoner, and compelled him to make his words his deeds, and transfer to his expression the emphasis and sincerity of his action.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Inspirational, Cousin, Taken

  Henry David Thoreau (2014). “A Week On The Concord And Merrimack Rivers (Annotated Edition)”, p.87, Jazzybee Verlag

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• I am most drawn to writing when I have something else urgent to do.

  Mason Cooley

  Writing

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• We believe that our truly urgent need is to make our nation secure, our economy strong and our dollar sound. For every American this matter of the sound dollar is crucial. Without a sound dollar, every American family would face a renewal of inflation, an ever-increasing cost of living, the withering away of savings and life insurance policies.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Strong, Believe, Cost Of Living

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• Prayer is a supernal gift of our Father in Heaven to every soul. Think of it: the absolute Supreme Being, the most all-knowing, all-seeing, all-powerful personage, encourages you and me, as insignificant as we are, to converse with Him as our Father. Our supplication can be brief or can occupy all the time needed. It can be an extended expression of love and gratitude or an urgent plea for help. He has created numberless cosmos and populated them with worlds, yet you and I can talk with Him personally, and He will ever answer.

  Richard G. Scott

  Gratitude, Powerful, Prayer

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• [T]he unsympathetic assessments we make of others are usually the result of nothing more sinister than our habit of looking at them in the wrong way, through lenses clouded by distraction, exhaustion and fear, which blind us to the fact that they are really, despite a thousand differences, just altered versions of ourselves: fellow fragile, uncertain, flawed beings likewise craving love and in urgent need of forgiveness.

  Alain de Botton

  Assessment, Differences, Way

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• Most people spend their time on the 'urgent' rather than on the 'important.'

  Robert M. Hutchins

  People, Important

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• When a sixth of the population of a nation which has undertaken to be the refuge of liberty are slaves, and a whole country [Mexico] is unjustly overrun and conquered by a foreign army, and subjected to military law, I think that it is not too soon for honest men to rebel and revolutionize. What makes this duty the more urgent is the fact that the country so overrun is not our own, but ours is the invading army.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Country, Military, Army

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• No piecemeal solution is going to prevent the collapse of whole societies and ecosystems ... a radical re-thinking of our values, priorities and political systems is urgent.

  Maude Barlow

  Thinking, Ecosystems, Priorities

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• The time has come to end this charade. The debts are unaffordable. If they won't cancel the debts I would suggest obstruction; you do it yourselves. Africa should say: 'thank you very much but we need this money to meet the needs of children who are dying right now so we will put the debt servicing payments into urgent social investment in health, education, drinking water, control of AIDS and other needs.'

  Jeffrey Sachs

  Time, Children, Drinking

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• People have different interpretations of "urgent".

  Marco Arment

  Business, People, Different

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• Only when I saw the Earth from space, in all its ineffable beauty and fragility, did I realize that humankind's most urgent task is to cherish and preserve it for future generations.

  Sigmund Jahn

  Space, Tasks, Generations

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• The need for a global structure of control in the form of a world environment court is now more urgent than ever before.

  Judi Dench

  Needs, World, Global Warming

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• We are in an extremely precarious and urgent situation that compels immediate action

  David Karoly

  Action, Climate Change, Situation

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• We believe that climate change must be viewed not only as a danger to natural systems, but also as a direct threat to human survival and well-being. We are convinced that this negotiation process must not be viewed as a traditional series of governmental trade-offs, but as an urgent international effort to safeguard human lives, homes, rights and livelihoods.

  Maumoon Abdul Gayoom

  Believe, Home, Rights

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• ...the world needs to face up to the challenge of climate change, and to do so now. It is clear that climate change poses an urgent challenge, not only a challenge that threatens the environment but also international peace and security, prosperity and development. And as the Stern report showed, the economic effects of climate change on this scale cannot be ignored, but the costs can be limited if we act early

  Gordon Brown

  Challenges, Faces, Climate

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• The scientific evidence is now overwhelming: climate change presents very serious global risks, and it demands an urgent global response.

  Nicholas Stern

  Risk, Climate, Demand

  "Buying carbon credits cost-effective and necessary". www.irishtimes.com. December 14, 2006.

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• The company's most urgent task is to learn to welcome, beg for, demand - innovation from everyone.

  Tom Peters

  Innovation, Tasks, Demand

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• Civil society rests on moral relationships. They are covenantal rather than contractual. They are brought about not by governments but by us a husbands and wives, parents, friends and citizens, and by the knowledge of what we do and what we are makes a difference to those around us. (...) Renewing society's resources of moral energy is the program, urgent but achievable.

  Jonathan Sacks

  Husband, Differences, Government

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• We are forced to choose, for the processes we have initiated in our lifetime cannot continue in the lifetime of our children. Whatever we do either creates the framework for continuing the supreme adventure of life and consciousness on this planet or sets the stage for its termination. The choice before us is urgent and important: it can neither be postponed nor ignored.

  Ervin Laszlo

  Inspiring, Children, Adventure

  Ervin Laszlo (1994). “The Choice: Evolution Or Extinction? : a Thinking Person's Guide to Global Issues”, Tarcher

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• No pecuniary consideration is more urgent, than the regular redemption and discharge of the public debt: on none can delay be more injurious, or an economy of time more valuable.

  George Washington

  President, Delay, Redemption

  George Washington (1855). “Maxims of Washington: Political, Social, Moral, and Religious”, p.120

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• Effective people stay out of Quadrants III and IV because, urgent or not, they aren't important. They also shrink Quadrant I down to size by spending more time in Quadrant II...Quadrant II is the heart of effective personal management.

  Stephen Covey

  Inspirational, Heart, People

  Stephen R. Covey (2015). “The Stephen R. Covey Interactive Reader - 4 Books in 1: The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People, First Things First, and the Best of the Most Renowned Leadership Teacher of our Time”, p.218, Mango Media Inc.

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• Every man must decide whether he will walk in the creative light of altruism or the darkness of destructive selfishness. This is the judgment. Life's persistent and most urgent question is 'What are you doing for others?'

  Martin Luther

  Men, Light, Creative

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• Christian worship is the most momentous, most urgent, most glorious action that can take place in human life.

  Karl Barth

  Christian, Action, Worship

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• I make a forceful and urgent call to the entire Catholic Church, and also to every Christian of other confessions, as well as to followers of every religion and to those brothers and sisters who do not believe: peace is a good which overcomes every barrier, because it belongs to all of humanity!

  Pope Francis

  Christian, Brother, Believe

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