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• Some trans people thought that in claiming that gender is performative that I was saying that it is all a fiction, and that a person's felt sense of gender was therefore "unreal." That was never my intention. I sought to expand our sense of what gender realities could be. But I think I needed to pay more attention to what people feel, how the primary experience of the body is registered, and the quite urgent and legitimate demand to have those aspects of sex recognized and supported.

  Judith Butler

  Sex, Reality, Thinking

  Source: transadvocate.com

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• On the unhampered market there prevails an irresistible tendency to employ every factor of production for the best possible satisfaction of the most urgent needs of the consumers. If the government interfered with this process, it can only impair satisfaction; it can never improve it.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Government, Needs, Satisfaction

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• I find most meetings are a waste of time, because they are so ill-prepared and there's little opportunity for true synergy in producing better solutions than what anyone originally thought of. So I work hard to only attend those meetings that have strategic importance and miss all kinds of other seemingly urgent meetings.

  Stephen Covey

  Hard Work, Opportunity, Missing

  Source: zenhabits.net

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• I am fortunate to have a very helpful team that enables me to spend time doing things that are important but not necessarily urgent. People who have no such team need to also make these larger decisions so that they can cheerfully say No to that which is urgent but not important.

  Stephen Covey

  Team, People, Decision

  Source: zenhabits.net

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• I read so ravenously that I would read through whole categories. I was crazy about reading biographies. [...] I think biographies are very urgent to children.

  Joan Didion

  Children, Crazy, Reading

  Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. June 3, 2006.

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• I'd like to promote lots of things. I'd like to promote elimination of drug prohibition. I'd like to promote parental choice in education through vouchers. Those are two things I think are very urgent and important. They're both more important than the harm which Social Security will do.

  Milton Friedman

  Thinking, Two, Choices

  Source: rightwingnews.com

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• No one is obliged to take a position on the urgent issues of the day, but there are times when our impoverished public sphere could do with some occasional assertions of literary and moral authority.

  Pankaj Mishra

  Issues, Spheres, Moral

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• The most sacred duty, the supreme and urgent work, is to deliver humanity from the malediction of Cain - fratricidal war.

  African Spir

  War, Humanity, Cain

  "Paroles d'un sage: Choix de pensées d'African Spir" ("Words of a Sage : Selected thoughts of African Spir") by Hélène Claparède-Spir, (p. 51), 1937.

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• There is an urgent need to-day for the citizens of a democracy to think well. It is not enough to have freedom of the Press and parliamentary institutions. Our difficulties are due partly to our own stupidity, partly to the exploitation of that stupidity, and partly to our own prejudices and personal desires.

  Susan Stebbing

  Thinking, Stupidity, Desire

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• Communications and commerce are global; investment is mobile; technology is almost magical; and ambition for a better life is now universal. We earn our livelihood in peaceful competition with people all across the earth. Profound and powerful forces are shaking and remaking our world, and the urgent question of our time is whether we can make change our friend and not our enemy.

  William J. Clinton

  Powerful, Communication, Ambition

  Clinton, William J. (1994). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: William J. Clinton, 1993”, p.1, Best Books on

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• As a physician, I see the earth as a patient in the intensive care unit. We have an acute clinical crisis on our hands and must take urgent action. My prescription for survival is that the American people rise up as they did in the 1980s, when 80 percent of Americans supported the nuclear weapons freeze.

  Helen Caldicott

  Hands, People, Survival

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• Prostitution means sexual intercourse between a man and a woman aimed at satisfying the man's sexual and the woman's economic needs. It is obvious that sexual needs, even in a male dominated system, are not as urgent and important as economic needs which, if not satisfied, lead to disease and death. Yet society considers the woman's economic need as less vital than the man's sexual one.

  Nawal El Saadawi

  Mean, Men, Disease And Death

  Nawal El Saadawi (2007). “The Hidden Face of Eve: Women in the Arab World, Second Edition”, p.84, Zed Books

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• This is a marvel of the universe:
  To fling a thought across a stretch of sky--
  Some weighty message, or a yearning cry,
  It matters not; the elements rehearse
  Man's urgent utterance, and his words traverse
  The spacious heav'ns like homing birds that fly
  Unswervingly, until, upreached on high,
  A quickened hand plucks off the message terse.

  Josephine Preston Peabody

  Men, Hands, Sky

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• I feel my disease, and I feel that my want of alarm and lively affecting conviction forms its most obstinate ingredient; I try to stir up the emotion, and feel myself harassed and distressed at the impotency of my own meditations. But why linger without the threshold in the face of a warm and urgent invitation? "Come unto me." Do not think it is your office to heal one part of the disease, and Christ's to heal the remainder.

  Thomas Chalmers

  Thinking, Office, Meditation

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• Seeing the world anew, as if it were new, is as old as writing. It's what all painters are trying to do, to see what's there, to see it in a way that renews it. It becomes more and more urgent as the planet gets worn flat and forest after forest is slain to print the paper for people's impressions to be scrawled down on. It becomes harder and harder to be original, to see things with an innocent eye. Innocence is much tied up with it. As the planet gets progressively less innocent, you need a more innocent eye to see it.

  Martin Amis

  Writing, Eye, People

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• Kant ... was also quite aware that "the urgent need" of reason is both different from and "more than mere quest and desire for knowledge." Hence, the distinguishing of the two faculties, reason and intellect, coincides with a distinction between two altogether different mental activities, thinking and knowing.

  Hannah Arendt

  Thinking, Two, Knowing

  Hannah Arendt (1981). “The Life of the Mind”, p.30, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I am now even more persuaded of the urgent need to study why Socrates was accused. The dislike of philosophy is perennial, and the seeds of the condemnation of Socrates are present at all times, not in the bosoms of pleasure-seekers, who don't give a damn, but in those of high-minded and idealistic persons who do not want to submit their aspirations to examination.

  Allan Bloom

  Philosophy, Giving, Want

  "Giants and Dwarfs". Book by Allan Bloom. Chapter: "Western Civ," p. 19, 1990.

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• In New York, you are constantly faced with this very urgent decision that you have to make, about every twenty minutes...you have to decide, immediately, you have to go "Ohmigod. Do I look at the most beautiful woman in the world or the craziest guy in the world?"

  David Cross

  Funny, Beautiful, New York

  "Shut Up You Fucking Baby!". Live comedy album, November 5, 2002.

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• Development requires modification and transformation of the environment... the planet's capacity to support its people us being irreversibly reduced by the destruction and degradation of the biosphere and the need to understand the problem and take corrective action is becoming urgent.

  Malcolm Fraser

  People, Support, Needs

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• Shy and unready men are great betrayers of secrets, for there are few wants more urgent for the moment than the want of something to say.

  Henry Taylor

  Betrayal, Men, Secret

  Sir Henry Taylor (1836). “The Statesman”, p.131

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• Always look for forced urgent selling.

  Seth Klarman

  Looks, Selling

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• I think it's an urgent plea for us all to sit down together.

  John McCain

  Thinking, Together

  Source: abcnews.go.com

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• Don't let the urgent take the place of the important in your life... When you and I were putting out the fires of the urgent, the important was again left in a holding pattern.

  Charles Hummel

  Fire, Important, Patterns

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• It is extremely urgent to try and adapt our thoughts realistically to a world which has no fixed general direction either upward or downward, but is likely to vary largely according to what we do.

  Mary Midgley

  Trying, World, Fixed

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• An author should be delighted, not annoyed when he hears himself persistently misquoted. He could receive no higher compliment. It proves that the world has frequent and urgent need of his thoughts and will rather change the manner in which he expresses them than do without the things expressed.

  Hesketh Pearson

  Annoyed, Needs, World

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