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No duty is more urgent than that of returning thanks.
James Allen
Thankful
Thanks
Duty
More
Returning
Than
Urgent
Under certain circumstances, urgent circumstances, desperate circumstances, profanity provides a relief denied even to prayer.
Mark Twain
Prayer
Desperate
Circumstances
Relief
Denied
Provides
Urgent
Certain
Profanity
Even
Many people want the government to protect the consumer. A much more urgent problem is to protect the consumer from the government.
Milton Friedman
Government
People
Problem
More
Consumer
Protect
Want
Urgent
Much
Many
We learn from our gardens to deal with the most urgent question of the time: How much is enough?
Wendell Berry
Time
Gardening
Enough
Our
Most
Learn
Deal
How
How Much
Question
Urgent
Much
Gardens
When Thomas Edison worked late into the night on the electric light, he had to do it by gas lamp or candle. I'm sure it made the work seem that much more urgent.
George Carlin
Work
Light
Made
Lamp
Late
Thomas
Thomas Edison
Seem
More
Had
He
Sure
Edison
Candle
Urgent
Worked
Much
Electric
Electric Light
Gas
Night
The release of atomic energy has not created a new problem. It has merely made more urgent the necessity of solving an existing one.
Albert Einstein
War
Problem
Made
Energy
Release
Solving
Atomic
Atomic Energy
More
Merely
New
Existing
Urgent
Created
Necessity
The cancer that demands our urgent attention is corruption and poverty.
Miriam Defensor-Santiago
Corruption
Cancer
Poverty
Our
Attention
Demands
Urgent
Even though this is late in an election year, there is no way we can go forward except together and no way anybody can win except by serving the people's urgent needs. We cannot stand still or slip backwards. We must go forward now together.
Gerald R. Ford
Needs
Together
People
Win
Election
Backwards
Year
Late
Way
We Cannot
Slip
Though
Must
Except
Still
Go
Anybody
Cannot
Urgent
Stand
Forward
Even
Now
Serving
Early childhood education is an urgent educational, economic and moral imperative. Without it, we face a long-term national economic security crisis.
J. B. Pritzker
Education
Face
National
Crisis
Security
Moral
Economic
Imperative
Economic Security
Long-Term
Without
Educational
Childhood
Urgent
Early
Early Childhood
The tone of good web writing grows out of email. It's more direct, personal, colloquial, urgent, witty, efficient. It doesn't waste your time. It reflects that engagement, responsiveness, and haste of web surfers, as opposed to the more general passivity of print readers.
Jacob Weisberg
Time
Good
Writing
Email
Out
Haste
Web
Direct
General
More
Print
Readers
Witty
Opposed
Passivity
Reflects
Efficient
Personal
Urgent
Engagement
Your
Waste
Grows
Tone
First, how do we give everyone a fair shot at opportunity and security in this new economy? Second, how do we make technology work for us, and not against us - especially when it comes to solving urgent challenges like climate change? Third, how do we keep America safe and lead the world without becoming its policeman?
Barack Obama
Work
Technology
Change
Challenges
World
Opportunity
First
Everyone
Security
Solving
Give
Lead
New
Fair
Like
Economy
Safe
Policeman
Make
Without
Becoming
How
Climate
Climate Change
America
Against
Urgent
Us
Shot
Keep
Second
Third
Today more than ever we need creative minds to address the issues of the age. And one of the most urgent is this: How can humanity know so much, achieve so much, and still fail so many people so badly?
Abdullah II of Jordan
Today
Creative
Age
Humanity
People
Achieve
Minds
Address
More
Badly
Fail
Know
Most
How
Still
Issues
Than
So Many People
Urgent
Much
Many
Ever
Need
The memoirs that have come out of Africa are sometimes startlingly beautiful, often urgent, and essentially life-affirming, but they are all performances of courage and honesty.
Alexandra Fuller
Beautiful
Courage
Honesty
Sometimes
Out
Memoirs
Performance
Come
Often
Essentially
Africa
Urgent
There is an urgent need for disarmament of all kinds, but especially nuclear disarmament.
Antonio Guterres
Kinds
Disarmament
Urgent
Urgent Need
Nuclear
Need
I was a good kid, but I was just very chatty. Teachers were rarely entertained, but occasionally a child was, which was enough for me. Everything was so urgent. I needed to say it immediately.
Barbara Park
Good
Me
Enough
Everything
Say
Kid
Immediately
Entertained
Rarely
Occasionally
Were
Very
Child
Just
Which
Urgent
Teachers
Needed
In the urgent aftermath of Sept. 11, 2001, with more attacks thought to be imminent, analysts wanted to use 'contact chaining' techniques to build what the NSA describes as network graphs of people who represented potential threats.
Barton Gellman
People
Thought
Build
Analyst
Imminent
Threats
More
Network
Potential
Attacks
Contact
Wanted
Aftermath
Urgent
Use
Sept
Who
Techniques
The task of dealing with global warming is urgent and important.
Brett Kavanaugh
Important
Global
Global Warming
Dealing
Task
Urgent
Warming
The scientific consensus is that climate change is real, urgent, and caused by humans. This science should be both supported and understood by anyone who hopes to lead NASA, one of our nation's top science agencies.
Brian Schatz
Change
Science
Nation
Our
Top
Hopes
Both
Lead
Supported
Scientific
Climate
Climate Change
Real
Understood
NASA
Caused
Anyone
Urgent
Agencies
Should
Who
Humans
Consensus
The best advice I ever received is that there is a difference between urgency and importance: Urgent tasks seem important, but they're not. Important things need to get done.
Chieh Huang
Best
Important
Advice
Important Things
Seem
Between
Importance
Get
Tasks
Done
Difference
Urgency
Urgent
Ever
Things
Received
Need
For my entire career, I have worked to bring electronic inventions to healthcare markets where there is a critical and urgent need.
Chris Toumazou
Markets
Critical
Entire
Entire Career
Inventions
Healthcare
Where
Urgent
Urgent Need
Worked
Electronic
Bring
Career
Need
As we get closer to the end of this Congress, we should be addressing the urgent needs of the American people - the war in Iraq, affordable health care, a sensible energy policy, quality education for our children, retirement security, and a sound and fair fiscal policy.
Chris Van Hollen
Education
War
Health
Needs
Quality
People
Care
Energy
Congress
Our
Addressing
Security
Retirement
Retirement Security
Fair
Quality Education
Policy
Health Care
Sound
Fiscal
Iraq
End
Get
Affordable
American
Affordable Health Care
Closer
Children
Sensible
Energy Policy
Urgent
American People
Should
I was in my senior year of high school when I read 'Notes From Underground' by Dostoyevsky, and it was an exhilarating discovery. I hadn't known up until that moment that fiction could be like that. Fiction could say these things, could be unseemly, could be unsettling and distressing in that particular way, that immediate and urgent way.
Claire Messud
School
Year
Way
Immediate
Say
High
Distressing
High School
Could
Unsettling
Particular
Like
Particular Way
Until
Underground
Read
Known
Exhilarating
Discovery
Up
Senior
Senior Year
Fiction
Urgent
Notes
Moment
Things
If you know what you're doing, it's not interesting. It has to be a challenge; it has to seem impossible and urgent to do it. And then you do it.
Claire Messud
You
Impossible
Challenge
Seem
Know
Doing
Interesting
Urgent
Then
There is no need for an end to fish, or to fishing for that matter. But there is an urgent need for governments to free themselves from the fishing-industrial complex and its Ponzi scheme, to stop subsidizing the fishing-industrial complex and awarding it fishing rights, when it should in fact pay for the privilege to fish.
Daniel Pauly
Rights
Matter
Free
Pay
Complex
Fact
Scheme
Fish
Fishing
Governments
End
Privilege
Stop
In Fact
Urgent
Urgent Need
Themselves
Should
Awarding
Need
To be clear, climate change is a true 800 pound gorilla in the room. The effects of global warming threaten global environmental upheaval over the coming century. But for South Florida and the Everglades, it could be our death knell if urgent action is not taken.
Debbie Wasserman Schultz
Environmental
Death
Change
Action
Our
Threaten
Could
Pound
Taken
Clear
Knell
True
Over
Global
Global Warming
Gorilla
Climate
Climate Change
Coming
South
South Florida
Effects
Upheaval
Room
Urgent
Century
Warming
Everglades
Florida
We may excuse the spiritual poverty of our preaching in many ways, but the true secret will be found in the lack of urgent prayer for God's presence in the power of the Holy Spirit.
Edward McKendree Bounds
God
Spiritual
Prayer
Will
Poverty
Power
Preaching
Secret
Our
Ways
Spirit
True
Excuse
Lack
May
Urgent
Holy
Holy Spirit
Many
Found
Presence
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