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• During adolescence imagination is boundless. The urge toward self-perfection is at its peak. And with all their self- absorption and personalized dreams of glory, youth are in pursuit of something larger than personal passions, some values or ideals to which they might attach their imaginations.

  Louise J. Kaplan

  Dream, Passion, Self

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• There is a missionary spirit—a spirit which urges us to live outside ourselves and to be concerned for the welfare of others.

  Carlos E. Asay

  Missionary, Spirit, Welfare

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• The urge to kill, like the urge to beget,
  Is blind and sinister. Its craving is set
  Today on the flesh of a hare: tomorrow it can
  Howl the same way for the flesh of a man.

  Andrei Voznesensky

  Men, Flesh, Today

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• The urge for Chinese food is always unpredictable: famous for no occasion, standard fare for no holiday, and the constant as to demand is either whim, the needy plebiscite of instantly famished drunks, or pregnancy.

  Alexander Theroux

  Pregnancy, Holiday, Chinese

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• A grifter's got an irresistible urge to be the guy who's wise. There's nothin' to whipping a fool. Hell, fools are made to be whipped. But to take another pro. Even your partner, who knows you and has his eye on you. That's a score! No matter what happens.

  Donald E. Westlake

  Wise, Cheating, Eye

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• Whenever you pray, make sure you do it at school assemblies and football games, like the demonstrative creatures who pray before large television audiences. That is the real goal of the thing. But do not, I urge you, pray all alone in your home where no one can see. That does not get you ratings.

  Garry Wills

  Football, Prayer, Real

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• Parenting is not logical. If it were, we would never have to read a book, never need a family therapist, and never feel the urge to call a close friend late at night for support after a particularly trying bedtime scene. . . . We have moments of logic, but life is run by a much larger force. Life is filled with disagreement, opposition, illusion, irrational thinking, miracle, meaning, surprise, and wonder.

  Jeanne Elium

  Running, Book, Night

  Jeanne Elium, Don Elium (2011). “Raising a Daughter: Parents and the Awakening of a Healthy Woman”, p.223, Celestial Arts

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• I think obsessions happen because you're trying to understand something or some urge.

  Jim Carrey

  Thinking, Trying, Obsession

  Press conference on 'The Number 23', collider.com. February 21, 2007.

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• In The 3rd Alternative, Stephen Covey urges us to chart a course beyond the suboptimal solutions to all our crises - beyond left and right, and beyond the many false choices in front of us. The 3rdAlternative is a wise and welcome echo of Einstein's warning that the problems we're facing today cannot be solved by the same level of thinking that created them.

  Arianna Huffington

  Wise, Thinking, Echoes

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• I do not desire to give myself any fresh political label. Though the formation of the Union of Democratic Control it has been possible for me to work in close co-operation with several of your leaders and this joint effort on the part of the Labour members and radicals is having I think a very beneficial effect. I do not desire to alienate myself from any of my former political associates but rather to endeavour to urge them along the same path which I myself am treading.

  Arthur Ponsonby, 1st Baron Ponsonby of Shulbrede

  Thinking, Giving, Political

  Letter to Herbert Bryan, May 19, 1916.

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• Art hurts. Art urges voyages - and it is easier to stay at home.

  Gwendolyn Brooks

  Art, Hurt, Home

  Gwendolyn Brooks (2005). “The Essential Gwendolyn Brooks”, p.109, Library of America

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• Way down deep, we're all motivated by the same urges. Cats have the courage to live by them.

  Jim Davis

  Cat, Animal, Humanity

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• A transposable aphorism is a malaise of the urge to be witty, or in other words, a maxim that is untroubled by the fact that the opposite of what it says is equally true so long as it appears to be funny.

  Umberto Eco

  Witty, Opposites, Long

  Umberto Eco (2005). “On Literature”, p.81, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• True art is characterized by an irresistible urge in the creative artist.

  Albert Einstein

  Art, Memorable, Creativity

  Albert Einstein, Helen Dukas (1981). “Albert Einstein, the Human Side: New Glimpses from His Archives”, p.77, Princeton University Press

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• Very few people possess true artistic ability. It is therefore both unseemly and unproductive to irritate the situation by making an effort. If you have a burning, restless urge to write or paint, simply eat something sweet and the feeling will pass.

  Fran Lebowitz

  Sweet, Art, Writing

  Fran Lebowitz (2011). “The Fran Lebowitz Reader”, p.23, Vintage

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  Ever since I was a child I have had this instinctive urge for expansion and growth. To me, the function and duty of a quality human being is the sincere and honest development of one's potential.

  Bruce Lee

  Children, Greatness, Organization

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Anyone who has lost track of time when using a computer knows the propensity to dream, the urge to make dreams come true and the tendency to miss lunch.

  Tim Berners-Lee

  Dream, Business, Lunch

  Interview with Kris Herbst for Internet World, www.w3.org. June 1994.

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• When your life is being threatened there's an instinctive urge to fight. You fight for the time you have, for your relationships.

  Laura Linney

  Fighting, Life Is, Threatened

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• URGE is a grassroots charity. We organized to get some incubators to give to the hospital for the kids. We donate money to orphanages.

  Ziggy Marley

  Kids, Giving, Charity

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Building your own house is a primal urge, one of those universal genetic drives like the need to provide for your family.

  Kevin McCloud

  House, Needs, Building

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• Many men nourish a pride which urges them to conceal their struggles and show themselves only as conquerors.

  Honore de Balzac

  Struggle, Pride, Men

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• Agnosticism has nothing to impart. Its sermons are the exhortations of one who convinces you he stands on nothing and urges you to stand there too.

  Anna Julia Cooper

  Agnostic, Convince, Impart

  Anna Julia Cooper (2016). “A Voice from the South”, p.143, Courier Dover Publications

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• At birth, the child leaves a person - his mother's womb - and this makes him independent of her bodily functions. The baby is next endowed with an urge, or need, to face the out world and to absorb it. We might say that he is born with 'the psychology of world conquest.' By absorbing what he finds about him, he forms his own personality.

  Maria Montessori

  Mother, Baby, Children

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• Under the urge of nature and according to the laws of development, though not understood by the adult, the child is obliged to be serious about two fundamental things ... the first is the love of activity... The second fundamental thing is independence.

  Maria Montessori

  Children, Independent, Law

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• What is this self-inside us, this silent observer, severe and speechless critic, who can terrorize us, and urge us onto futile activity, and in the end, judge us still more severely for the errors into which his own reproaches drove us?

  T. S. Eliot

  Errors, Self, Judging

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