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• For a knowledge of intimacy, localization in the spaces of our intimacy is more urgent than determination of dates.

  Gaston Bachelard

  Determination, Space, Intimacy

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• We must be ready to allow ourselves to be interrupted by God... It is a strange fact that Christians and even ministers frequently consider their work so important and urgent that they will allow nothing to disturb them. They think they are doing God a service in this but actually they are disdaining God's "crooked but straight path". It is part of the discipline of humility that we must not spare our hand where it can perform service and that we do not assume that our schedule is our own to manage, but allow it to be arranged by God.

  Brennan Manning

  Christian, Humility, Thinking

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• I see many people die because they judge that life is not worth living. I see others paradoxically getting killed for the ideas or illusions that give them a reason for living (what is called a reason for living is also an excellent reason for dying). I therefore conclude that the meaning of life is the most urgent of questions.

  Albert Camus

  Ideas, People, Giving

  Albert Camus (2012). “The Myth of Sisyphus: And Other Essays”, p.4, Vintage

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• I believe that peace with the Palestinians is most urgent - urgent than ever before. It is necessary. It is crucial. It is possible. A delay may worsen its chances. Israel and the Palestinians are, in my judgment, ripe today to restart the peace process.

  Shimon Peres

  Believe, Israel, Delay

  Presidential Medal of Freedom Acceptance Address, delivered 13 June 2012, White House, Washington, D.C.

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• There is an urgent need for Americans to look deeply into themselves and their actions, and musical poetry is perhaps the most effective mirror available. Every newspaper headline is a potential song.

  Phil Ochs

  Song, Mirrors, Musical

  "Phil Ochs in Concert". Live album by Phil Ochs (introduction to the song "The Marines Have Landed on the Shores of Santo Domingo"), March 1966.

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• We live in a time-crunched world, and just about everything we do seems to be urgent.

  Joyce Meyer

  World, Seems

  Joyce Meyer (2010). “Hearing from God Each Morning: 365 Daily Devotions”, p.199, Hachette UK

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• The hardest thing is to go to sleep at night, when there are so many urgent things needing to be done. A huge gap exists between what we know is possible with today's machines and what we have so far been able to finish.

  Donald Knuth

  Sleep, Night, Machines

  "Donald Knuth on The Art of Computer Programming". Innovations Interview, www.informit.com. 1996.

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• Every time a student walks past a really urgent, expressive piece of architecture that belongs to his college, it can help reassure him that he does have that mind, does have that soul.

  Louis Kahn

  Art, Past, College

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• I came to poetry through the urgent need to denounce injustice, exploitation, humiliation. I know that's not enough to change the world. But to remain silent would have been a kind of intolerable complicity.

  Tahar Ben Jelloun

  Needs, World, Injustice

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• There are as many ways to help another human being as there are people in need of help. For some, the urgent need is as basic as food and water. For others, it is an opportunity to develop a talent, realize an idea, and reach one's full potential.

  Naveen Jain

  Opportunity, Ideas, People

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• There is an urgent need for a radical revision of our current concepts of the nature of consciousness and its relationship to matter and the brain.

  Stanislav Grof

  Brain, Needs, Revision

  Stanislav Grof (2000). “Psychology of the Future: Lessons from Modern Consciousness Research”, p.230, SUNY Press

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• The signs that the world is spinning out of kilter are increasingly difficult to misinterpret. The question is how to convince enough people to join a critical mass of urgent opinion, in the U.S. and the rest of the world.

  Al Gore

  People, World, Spinning

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• The next kiss deepened, became more urgent, needy. There was no space between them, and she could feel he enjoyed their closeness. Riley heard him moan and they reluctantly broke apart.

  Jana Oliver

  Kissing, Space, Next

  Jana Oliver (2013). “Demon Trappers 1-3: Forsaken, Forbidden, Forgiven”, p.222, Pan Macmillan

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• I sat up in bed. "What did he say?" Tyson groaned, still half asleep. He was lying facedown on the couch, his feet so far over the edge they were in the bathroom. "The happy man said...bowling practice?" I hoped he was right, but then there was an urgent knock on the suite's interior door. Annabeth stuck her head in--her blonde hair in a rat's nest. "DISEMBOWLING practice?

  Rick Riordan

  Lying, Men, Feet

  Rick Riordan (2007). “The Sea of Monsters”, Disney-Hyperion

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• I knew he wouldn't come, but I howled anyway, and when I did, the other wolves would pass images of him to me of what he looked like: lithe, gray, yellow-eyed. I would pass back images of my own, of a wolf on the edge of the woods, silent and cautious, watching me. The images, clear as the slender-leaved trees in front of me, made finding him seem urgent, but I didn't know how to begin to look.

  Maggie Stiefvater

  Yellow, Tree, Looks

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• My life is shaped by the urgent need to wander and observe, and my camera is my passport.

  Steve McCurry

  Inspirational, Photography, Insightful

  "Steve McCurry’s Photographs Of His Travels Will Give You The Chills" by Rebecca Shapiro, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 24, 2015.

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• The goblins want girls who dream so hard about being pretty their yearning leaves a palpable trail, a scent goblins can follow like sharks on a soft bloom of blood. The girls with hungry eyes who pray each night to wake up as someone else. Urgent, unkissed, wishful girls. Like Kizzy.

  Laini Taylor

  Girl, Dream, Eye

  Laini Taylor (2009). “Lips Touch: Three Times”, p.13, Scholastic Inc.

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• Great books are the ones that are urgent, life-changing, the ones that crack open the reader’s skull and heart.

  Siri Hustvedt

  Life Changing, Book, Heart

  Siri Hustvedt (2012). “Living, Thinking, Looking: Essays”, p.63, Macmillan

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• Fenworth nodded. "Yes, yes. Urgent, deadly, insidious. The world is in peril and we must rise against evil." The old wizard released the general and patted him on the shoulder. "Tea and cake first, don't you think?

  Donita K. Paul

  Thinking, Cake, Evil

  Donita K. Paul (2008). “DragonQuest: A Novel”, p.87, WaterBrook

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• For those who stubbornly seek freedom, there can be no more urgent task than to come to understand the mechanisms and practices of indoctrination. These are easy to perceive in the totalitarian societies, much less so in the system of 'brainwashing under freedom' to which we are subjected and which all too often we serve as willing or unwitting instruments.

  Noam Chomsky

  Freedom, Practice, Tasks

  "The Chomsky Reader". Book by Noam Chomsky, 1987.

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• It's the silliness--the profligacy, and the silliness--that's so dizzying: a seven-year-old will run downstairs, kiss you hard, and then run back upstairs again, all in less than 30 seconds. It's as urgent an item on their daily agenda as eating or singing. It's like being mugged by Cupid.

  Caitlin Moran

  Running, Kissing, Years

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• I believe that the most urgent need of parents today is to instill in our children a moral vision: what does it mean to be a good person, an excellent neighbor, a compassionate heart? What does it mean to say that God exits, that He loves us and He cares for us? What does it mean to love and forgive each other? Parents and caregivers of children must play a primary role in returning our society to a healthy sense of the sacred. We must commit to feeding our children’s souls in the same way we commit to feeding their bodies.

  Marianne Williamson

  Children, Believe, Mean

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• I am so tired of the girl in the infirmary, I am so sick of the girl who cries wolf all the time - even though not one of those cries was ever a false alarm. Not one of my pleas was ever less than truly urgent because when it's all in your mind, there always IS a wolf.

  Elizabeth Wurtzel

  Girl, Tired, Sick

  Elizabeth Wurtzel (2014). “Prozac Nation: Young and Depressed in America”, p.299, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Because, as we all know, it’s easier to do trivial things that are urgent than it is to do important things that are not urgent, like thinking. And it’s also easier to do little things we know we can do than to start on big things that we’re not so sure about.

  John Cleese

  Thinking, Important, Littles

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• Getting lost was not a matter of geography so much as identity, a passionate desire, even an urgent need, to become no one and anyone, to shake off the shackles that remind you who you are, who others think you are.

  Rebecca Solnit

  Thinking, Passionate Desire, Identity

  Rebecca Solnit (2010). “A Field Guide To Getting Lost”, p.26, Canongate Books

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