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• People from the world's richest countries should be prepared to accept the burden of debt reduction for heavily indebted poor countries, and should urge their leaders to fulfill the pledges made to reduce world poverty, especially in Africa, by the year 2015.

  Pope Benedict XVI

  Country, Years, People

  Pope Benedict XVI, Catholic Church. Pope (2005- : Benedict XVI) (2006). “Insegnamenti di Benedetto XVI”

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• No one knows loneliness like an atheist. When an average person feels isolated, he can call through the depths of his soul to One who knows him and sense an answer. An atheist cannot allow himself that luxury, for he has to crush the urge and remind himself of its absurdity.

  Jeffrey Lang

  Crush, Atheist, Loneliness

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• If something is important enough to you that you feel the urge to donate your money or time to it, I think it's best to try to express that form of giving through your career, not just as something you do on the side. If you enjoy your volunteering and charitable activities more than your career, it means your career is in serious need of an upgrade. In my opinion your career should be your best outlet for giving.

  Steve Pavlina

  Work, Mean, Thinking

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• Hope? Hope is not the absence of tragedy, my friend. It is the conviction that tragedy can be endured. Hope is the spark in you that is not subdued in the face of the vast and callous indifference of the universe. Hope is that which is not shattered by hardship. Hope is the urge to fight what is wrong even when you know it will destroy you. Hope is the decision to love and need someone knowing that they will one day die. For me to promise that there are no obstacles would be the cruelest lie I could possibly tell. That lie is not hope. Hope is the will which needs no lies.

  Travis Beacham

  Love, Lying, Fighting

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• It is chiefly in New York that I feel induced to urge this, because New York is, by innumerable ties, connected with Europe - more connected than several parts of Europe itself.

  Lajos Kossuth

  New York, Europe, Ties

  Lajos Kossuth (1853). “Select speeches, condensed and abridged by F.W. Newman”, p.40

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• It is a ruse of the devil, by which he deceives good people, to induce them to do more than they are able, so that they end up not being able to do anything. The spirit of God urges one gently to do the good that can be done reasonably, so that it may be done perseveringly and for a long time.

  Vincent de Paul

  Faith, Long, People

  Saint Vincent de Paul (1985). “Correspondence, Conferences, Documents: I. Correspondence. v. 1. 1607-1639”, BNA Books (Bureau of National Affairs)

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• So, we pray well when we remain in this way in the presence of God, with no exertion of the understanding or will. Therefore, you will do well to listen to God in the urge you feel to return to us.

  Vincent de Paul

  Faith, Understanding, Way

  Saint Vincent de Paul, Pierre Coste (1993). “Correspondence, Conferences, Documents: Apr. 1650-July 1653”, New City Pr

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• Feeling weightless... it's so many things together. A feeling of pride, of healthy solitude, of dignified freedom from everything that's dirty, sticky. You feel exquisitely comfortable... and you feel you have so much energy, such an urge to do things, such an ability to do things. And you work well, yes, you think well, without sweat, without difficulty as if the biblical curse in the sweat of thy face and in sorrow no longer exists, As if you've been born again.

  Wally Schirra

  Dirty, Biblical, Pride

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• The urge to convert experience into a group of words that are in a grammatical relation to one another is the most basic, ongoing impulse of my life.

  Jhumpa Lahiri

  Groups, Ongoing, Relation

  "Jhumpa Lahiri Was Abandoned by Her Editor" by Mark Follman, www.motherjones.com. March 21, 2012.

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• Socialism is the only answer and I urge all comrades to take this struggle to a victorious conclusion. Only this will free us from the chains of bigotry and exploitation.

  Malala Yousafzai

  Struggle, Answers, Socialism

  "Historic 32nd congress of Pakistani section of IMT – First Day". Malala Yousafzai's statement to 32nd Congress of Pakistani Marxists, www.marxist.com. March 10, 2013.

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• Something about music urges us to engage with its larger context, beyond the piece of plastic it came on-it seems to be part of our genetic makeup that we can be so deeply moved by this art form. Music resonates in so many parts of the brain that we can't conceive of it being an isolated thing.

  David Byrne

  Art, Makeup, Brain

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• If the only way you could read an email was to run a mile first, the urge would quickly die. Human beings constantly do subconscious effort/reward calculations. Tapping a screen is the easiest of physical tasks.

  Andrew Weil

  Running, Effort, Email

  "Pressing The Bar" by Andrew Weil, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 10, 2013.

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• It's no wonder most religions are born in the desert, because when men lay beneath that boundless night sky and look up at the infinite expanse of creation they have an uncontrollable urge to put something in the way .

  Terry Pratchett

  Night, Men, Sky

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• When we appreciate how much we have, we feel the urge to pare down, get back to basics, and learn what is essential for our happiness. We long to realize what's really important.

  Sarah Ban Breathnach

  Life, Long, Appreciate

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• In this era of non-judgmental mush, too many Americans have become incapable of facing the brutal reality of unprovoked hatred, based on envy, resentment and ultimately on a vicious urge to lash out against others for the pain of ones own insignificance. That has been a common thread in things as disparate as ghetto riots, two world wars, and now Islamic terrorism.

  Thomas Sowell

  Pain, War, Islamic

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• Urges ... every man has urges. But the true measure of man is to admit them, to learn to control them. The Shield used to refer to themselves as the most dominant force in our universe. But that ain't the way I remember it. They fell victim to the faults of men. Their lust and greed and valor for glory, it led them right down in the pit, where they belong. Tonight, they'll burn for it. For I am no man. I am reborn. Our bond can never be broken, and our urges can never be satisfied.

  Bray Wyatt

  Men, Broken, Greed

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• Religion asks you to learn from the experience of others. Spirituality urges you to seek your own.

  Neale Donald Walsch

  Spirituality, Asks

  Neale Donald Walsch (2005). “The Complete Conversations with God: An Uncommon Dialogue”, p.271, Penguin

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• There is a universal urge for intimacy, for trading subjectivities, in communication. For Telepathy. Our desire for it tells us about what we wish to be: truly intersubjective beings.

  David Porush

  Communication, Wish, Desire

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• The inertia of the mind urges it to slide down the easy slope of imagination, rather than to climb the steep slope of introspection.

  Marcel Proust

  Imagination, Mind, Slides

  Marcel Proust (1982). “Remembrance of Things Past: The captive. The fugitive. Time regained”, Vintage

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• Playing God is actually the highest expression of human nature. The urges to improve ourselves, to master our environment, and to set our children on the best path possible have been the fundamental driving forces of all of human history. Without these urges to ‘play God’, the world as we know it wouldn’t exist today.

  Ramez Naam

  Children, Expression, Play

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• A conservative is someone who stands athwart history, yelling Stop, at a time when no one is inclined to do so, or to have much patience with those who so urge it.

  William F. Buckley, Jr.

  Yelling, Conservative, Art History

  William F. Buckley Jr. (2010). “Athwart History: Half a Century of Polemics, Animadversions, and Illuminations: A William F. Buckley Jr. Omnibus”, p.27, Encounter Books

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• The stage is like an addiction. Since singing and dancing had been my dreams all this time, I fall even more into those charms every time I’m on stage. These days I get the urge to make the audience go crazy.

  Minzy

  Dream, Crazy, Fall

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• For me there were only two ways on the precipice - either I have to fall in or I have to fall out, to accept or say good-bye. The moment I crossed the precipice, it no longer was a discipline - it became a passion, an urge to pursue. Then I experienced freedom. Freedom comes when the discipline revolutionizes the discipline as a passion for the art.

  B.K.S. Iyengar

  Art, Fall, Passion

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• Maia Sharp is one of America's great singer-songwriters. Her storytelling runs profound and
  deep while honoring a pop tradition that urges you to sing along and feel good. Maia sings with
  an angelic voice that's shrouded in stark realism and a healthy dose of cynicism.....it's an exotic
  cocktail!

  Don Was

  Running, America, Voice

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• If you feel an overwhelming urge to act spontaneously, pull in the reins

  Priscilla Shirer

  Overwhelming Urge, Reins, Feels

  Priscilla Shirer (2007). “Discerning the Voice of God: How to Recognize When God Speaks”, p.146, Moody Publishers

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