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• We should so provide for old age that it may have no urgent wants of this world to absorb it from meditation on the next. It is awful to see the lean hands of dotage making a coffer of the grave.

  Pearl S. Buck

  Time, Hands, Meditation

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• The most urgent necessity is, not that the State should teach, but that it should allow education. All monopolies are detestable, but the worst of all is the monopoly of education.

  Frederic Bastiat

  States, Monopoly, Should

  "What Is Money?". "Frédéric Bastiat, Essays on Political Economy", translated by David A. Wells, bastiat.org. 1877.

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• Cities must urge urban planners and architects to reinforce pedestrianism as an integrated city policy to develop lively, safe, sustainable and healthy cities. It is equally urgent to strengthen the social function of city space as a meeting place that contributes toward the aims of social sustainability and an open and democratic society.

  Jan Gehl

  Cities, Space, Healthy

  Jan Gehl (2013). “Cities for People”, p.6, Island Press

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• It is common to distinguish necessaries, comforts, and luxuries; the first class including all things required to meet wants which must be satisfied, while the latter consist of things that meet wants of a less urgent character.

  Alfred Marshall

  Character, Class, Luxury

  Alfred Marshall (1997). “Principles of Economics”

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• The most urgent domestic challenge facing the United States at the close of the 20th century is the re-creation of fatherhood as a social role for men.

  David Blankenhorn

  Men, Challenges, Fatherhood

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• Among the most urgent political priorities of our age is the separation of economy and state.

  Llewellyn Rockwell

  Priorities, Political, Age

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• Truth has not such an urgent air.

  Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux

  Truth, Air

  "The Art of Poetry (Canto I)". Book by Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux, 1674.

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• When the urgent crowds out the important, people urgently accomplish nothing of value.

  Orrin Woodward

  Accomplish Nothing, People, Important

  Twitter post from Jan 15, 2016

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• I am not (yet) facing the problem of emigration. I want my music to be acknowledged here first of all, in this country: after that, we shall see - perhaps the question will then become urgent.

  Alfred Schnittke

  Country, Emigration, Want

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• Most of us still believe in the intrinsic value of nature, but I think the first century of the environmental/conservation movement demonstrated pretty clearly that this value cannot compel a civilization-wide shift toward sustainable behavior and enterprise when stacked up against the urgent economic and social needs of 7 billion people, most of whom are struggling to get out of poverty.

  Edward Norton

  Struggle, Believe, Thinking

  "Dialogues on the Environment: Q&A With Edward Norton". Interview with Mark Tercek, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 6, 2013.

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• If your work is deathwork, one weapon is not enough, just as a plumber would not answer an urgent service call with a single wrench.

  Dean Koontz

  Answers, Weapons, Murder

  Dean Koontz (2014). “The Odd Thomas Series 7-Book Bundle: Odd Thomas, Forever Odd, Brother Odd, Odd Hours, Odd Apocalypse, Odd Interlude, Deeply Odd”, p.619, Bantam

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• Whither, O splendid ship, thy white sails crowding,Leaning across the bosom of the urgent West,That fearest nor sea rising, nor sky clouding,Whither away, fair rover, and what thy quest?

  Robert Bridges

  Sea, Sky, White

  Robert Bridges (1912). “Poetical Works Of Robert Brides Excluding The Eight Dramas”

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• It is usual for a woman, even though she may ardently desire to give herself to a man, to feign reluctance, to simulate alarm or indignation. She must be brought to consent by urgent pleading, by lies, adjurations, and promises. I know that only professional prostitutes are accustomed to answer such an invitation with a perfectly frank assent -- prostitutes, or simple-minded, immature girls.

  Stefan Zweig

  Girl, Women, Lying

  Stefan Zweig (2009). “Selected Stories”, p.69, Pushkin Press

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• The Evangelistic Harvest is always urgent. The destiny of men and of nations is always being decided. Every generation is strategic. We are not responsible for the past generation, and we cannot bear the full responsibility for the next one; but we do have our generation. God will hold us responsible as to how well we fulfill our responsibilities to this age and take advantage of our opportunities.

  Billy Graham

  Responsibility, Past, Opportunity

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• It is a sign of the times, and not a very good sign, that these days it is necessary - and not only necessary but urgent - to interest minds in the fate of Mind, that is to say, in their own fate.

  Paul Valery

  Fate, Mind, These Days

  "Reflections on the World Today" by Paul Valery, (p. 156), 1931.

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• Time is always wanting to me, and I cannot meet with a single day when I am nut hurried along, driven to by wits'-end by urgent work, business to attent do or some service to render.

  George Sand

  Time, Nuts, Driven

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• We spend our time sending messages to each other, talking and trying to listen at the same time, exchanging information. This seems to be our most urgent biological function; it is what we do with our lives.

  Lewis Thomas

  Communication, Talking, Trying

  Lewis Thomas (1990). “A Long Line of Cells Collected Essays”

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• Yale's greatness carries an urgent need to guard against the fall of excellence into exclusivity, of refinement into preciousness, of elegance into class and convention.

  Benno C. Schmidt, Jr.

  Fall, Greatness, Yale

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• I feel that's one of the central questions of fantasy. What did we lose when we entered the 20th and 21st century, and how can we mourn what we lost, and what can we replace it with? We're still asking those questions in an urgent way.

  Lev Grossman

  Asking, Way, Fantasy

  Interview with Todd VanDerWerff, www.avclub.com. August 8, 2011.

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• Art is a staple of mankind... So urgent, so utterly linked with the pulse of feeling that it becomes the singular sign of life when every other aspect of civilization fails.

  Jamake Highwater

  Art, Civilization, Feelings

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• If the new government rejects our urgent appeal, we will, next year, in solidarity with our people, intensify our struggle for self-determination, our struggle for national liberation to establish self-government in our homeland.

  Velupillai Prabhakaran

  Determination, Struggle, Government

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• An urgent missive sent to Josephine Home in three days. Don't wash.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Home, Greatest Love, Three

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• There are some, I know, who see beautification as a frill, as an extra, or as something that is luxurious enough to postpone. Well, they make me impatient because I am convinced that beauty and order in our environment are not frills. I am convinced that they are urgent necessities because they will determine whether our grandchildren can live in a decent land or whether they will be surrounded by glittering junkheaps.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Future, Grandchildren, Order

  Johnson, Lyndon B. (1970). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Lyndon B. Johnson, 1968-1969”, p.459, Best Books on

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• The important task rarely must be done today, or even this week...But the urgent task calls for instant action...The momentary appeal of these tasks seems irresistible and important, and they devour our energy. But in the light of time's perspective, their deceptive prominence fades; with a sense of loss we recall the vital tasks we pushed aside. We realize we've become slaves to the tyranny of the urgent.

  Charles Hummel

  Motivational, Loss, Light

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• My urgent advice to you would be, not only always to think first of America, but always, also, to think first of humanity. You do not love humanity if you seek to divide humanity into jealous camps. Humanity can be welded together only by love, by sympathy, by justice, not by jealousy and hatred. I am sorry for the man who seeks to make personal capital out of the passions of his fellowmen. He has lost touch with the ideal of America. For America was created to unit mankind.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Sorry, Passion, Jealous

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