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• The Nuffield report suggests that there is a moral imperative for investment into GM crop research in developing countries. But the moral imperative is in fact the opposite.  The policy of drawing of funds away from low-cost sustainable agriculture research, towards hi-tech, exclusive, expensive and unsafe technology is itself ethically questionable.  There is a strong moral argument that the funding of GM technology in agriculture is harming the long-term sustainability of agriculture in the developing world.

  Tewolde Berhan Gebre Egziabher

  Country, Strong, Technology

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• Most of the time, I regard the judgment of people as a waste of time. I regard the judgment of behavior as imperative.

  Nathaniel Branden

  People, Waste, Wasting Time

  Interview with Alec Mouhibian, November 2004.

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• Taking responsible steps to reduce poverty is not merely a moral imperative but an economic one.

  John Yarmuth

  Poverty, Steps, Moral

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• Rarely has a collection of essays from a dozen scholars created a whole greater than the sum of its parts, but Capitalism Takes Command conveys with detail, coherence, and sophistication the changes in the American economy in the nineteenth century under the multiple imperatives of capitalism.

  Joyce Appleby

  Details, Dozen, Coherence

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• This we can all bear witness to, living as we do plagued by unremitting anxiety . It becomes more and more imperative that the life of the spirit be avowed as the only firm basis upon which to establish happiness and peace.

  Dalai Lama

  Anxiety, Bears, Spirit

  His Holiness The Dalai Lama (1998). “Path To Tranquility”, p.132, Penguin Books India

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• The creation of a nuclear weapons convention is not only achievable, it is imperative if civilisation is to survive.

  C. G. Weeramantry

  Nuclear, Weapons, Creation

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• Republics demanded virtue. Monarchies could rely on coercion and "dazzling splendor" to suppress self-interest or factions; republics relied on the goodness of the people to put aside private interest for public good. The imperatives of virtue attached all sorts of desiderata to the republican citizen: simplicity, frugality, sobriety, simple manners, Christian benevolence, duty to the polity. Republics called on other virtues--spiritedness, courage--to protect the polity from external threats. Tyrants kept standing armies; republics relied on free yeomen, defending their own land.

  James Monroe

  Christian, Army, Simple

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• Entranced by promises of a material paradise of limitless luxury, humanity has too long ignored the mismatch between the imperatives of our existence as living beings on a finite planet and the imperatives of the institutions of money that chart our path to the future. Created to build colonial empires in service to kings, global corporations are ill suited to the task of building just, sustainable, and compassionate civil societies that nurture sufficiency, partnership, and respect for the whole of life.

  David Korten

  Kings, Luxury, Long

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• For me, it's very important if I do action movies and I have a stunt person, to work with them. Not only by memorizing the choreography but also it's important to study that individual and it's imperative for that individual to study you because you're not playing two different people, you're playing the same person.

  Zoe Saldana

  Two, People, Important

  Source: screenrant.com

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• Morality, after all, has nothing to do with selflessness. On the contrary, self-interest is precisely the basis of the categorical imperative.

  Frans de Waal

  Self, Morality, Categorical Imperative

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• When you decide to make a film, it's imperative that it's a story you just have to tell...no matter what. If so, then dive in. It won't be 'work'...it will be a thrilling, deeply satisfying experience.

  Dori Berinstein

  What If, Stories, Matter

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• It is imperative to master the principles of the art of war and learn to be unmoved in mind even in the heat of the battle.

  Miyamoto Musashi

  Art, War, Mind

  Miyamoto Musashi, Musashi Miyamoto, Thomas F. Cleary (2005). “The Book of Five Rings”, p.26, Shambhala Publications

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• To rail and rant against tyranny is to manifest inferiority, for there is no tyranny but ignorance; to be conscious of one's powers is to lose consciousness of tyranny. Self government is not a remote aim. It is an intimate and inescapable fact. To govern oneself is a natural imperative, and all tyranny is the miscarriage of self government. The first requisite of freedom is to accept responsibility for the lack of it.

  E.C. Riegel

  Ignorance, Miscarriage, Responsibility

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• This food-and-shelter theory concerning man's efforts is without insight. The desire for praise is more imperative than the desire for food and shelter

  Eric Hoffer

  Men, Effort, Desire

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• I believe that if you have good organizational skills, then creativity can come out of that, but it's hard to be really creative when everything is a mess. And in a restaurant, organizational skills are imperative.

  Anne Burrell

  Believe, Creativity, Skills

  "Anne Burrell Talks Wedding Plans and 'Chef Wanted'". Interview with Lisa Hirsch, www.etonline.com. January 31, 2013.

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• Without reverence we [people] will gradually descend into ecocide. In the degree that the imperatives of the market - the temple of the Mall - govern our lives, we are in escalating danger of destroying the commonwealth of all sentient beings - bugs and bees and buntings - on which we depend for a luxurious life on planet earth.

  Sam Keen

  People, Bunting, Degrees

  Source: www.spiritualityandpractice.com

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• The major impediment to experiencing the sacred depths of ordinary moments is the speed and distraction of contemporary life that moves to the imperatives of the global economic order.In addition, we increasingly live in a virtual world in which our reality is filtered through media and information technology.

  Sam Keen

  Moving, Technology, Reality

  Source: www.spiritualityandpractice.com

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• For me, study is a divine and daily imperative, and I study a page of Talmud daily so that I am not only teaching. My teaching is constantly being fed by my learning.

  Erica Brown

  Teaching, Pages, Study

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• A key difference between Christianity and Islam is that Muslims believe that the Koran contains verbatim the word of God; it is written in the imperative. This precludes a comparison with Christianity.

  Geert Wilders

  Believe, Keys, Differences

  "Merkel Is Afraid". Interview with Walter Mayr and René Pfister, www.spiegel.de. November 9, 2010.

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• It is imperative that young white men and women study the black American history. It is imperative that blacks and whites study the Asian American history.

  Maya Angelou

  Men, White Man, Black

  "America's Renaissance Woman". Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. January 22, 1997.

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• The truth is very important. No matter how negative it is, it is imperative that you learn the truth, not necessarily the facts. I mean, that, that can come, but facts can stand in front of the truth and almost obscure the truth. It is imperative that students learn the truth of our history.

  Maya Angelou

  Mean, Important, Negative

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• It is better to control oneself, if one can, and not hit back. But on certain occasions, it is imperative to defend oneself. I don't think it's fair to ask anybody not to defend herself or himself.

  Maya Angelou

  Thinking, Certain, Occasions

  "America's Renaissance Woman". Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. January 22, 1997.

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• Violence becomes imperative when an attempt is made to assert rights without any reference to duties.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Rights, Violence, Made

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• Why we are here is important, but to know where we are going is imperative. It's not what you've got, it's what you use, that makes a difference in how your life turns out.

  Zig Ziglar

  Motivation, Differences, Important

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• I think it's imperative to have faith or religion, because it's good to have morals, to be kind to others.

  Tinie Tempah

  Thinking, Have Faith, Be Kind

  "Tinie Tempah interview: 'It's a new day, a new age, a new outlook" by Elizabeth Day, www.theguardian.com. February 12, 2011.

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