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"You urge time when you are expecting your salary, you urge time when you want to meet your beloved, you urge time when you wish to see your children grow up. And when time is urged, you astonishly exclaim! Maybe this is the true theory of relativity.." »The wise Pharoah Moe
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"The urge to save humanity is almost always a false front for the urge to rule." »Henry Louis Mencken
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"True art is characterized by an irresistible urge in the creative artist" »Albert Einstein
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"We are not abandoning our convictions, our philosophy or traditions, nor do we urge anyone to abandon theirs." »Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev
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"I can't listen to that much Wagner. I start getting the urge to conquer Poland." »Woody Allen
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"True art is characterized by an irresistible urge in the creative artist." »Albert Einstein
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"The aging process has you firmly in its grasp if you never get the urge to throw a snowball." »Doug Larson
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"An education was a bit like a communicable sexual disease. It made you unsuitable for a lot of jobs and then you had the urge to pass it on." »Terry Pratchett, Hogfather
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"It is not the fruits of scientific research that elevate man and enrich his nature. but the urge to understand, the intellectual work, creative or receptive." »Albert Einstein
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"Our firmest convictions are apt to be the most suspect, they mark our limitations and our bounds. Life is a petty thing unless it is moved by the indomitable urge to extend its boundaries." »Jose Ortega y Gasset
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"Explain it as we may, a martial strain will urge a man into the front rank of battle sooner than an argument, and a fine anthem excite his devotion more certainly than a logical discourse." »Henry Tuckerman
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"While I know that the beautiful, the spiritual, and the sublime are today suspect, I have begun to stop resisting the constant urge to deny that beauty has a valid right to exist in contemporary art." »Ian Hornak, Cover Magazine, 1994; American Idealist & Realist Painter and Draughtsman recognized for his collaboration with the
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"The ability to think straight, some knowledge of the past, some vision of the future, some skill to do useful service, some urge to fit that service into the well-being of the community-these are the most vital things education must try to produce." »Virginia Crocheron Gildersleeve
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"American housewives have not had their brains shot away, nor are they schizophrenic in the clinical sense. But if ... the fundamental human drive is not the urge for pleasure or the satisfaction of biological needs, but the need to grow and to realize one's full potential, their comfortable, empty, purposeless days are indeed cause for a nameless terror." »Betty Naomi Friedan
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"It doesn't require any particular bravery to stand on the floor of the Senate and urge our boys in Vietnam to fight harder, and if this war mushrooms into a major conflict and a hundred thousand young Americans are killed, it won't be U. S. Senators who die. It will be American soldiers who are too young to qualify for the senate." »George McGovern
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"On this subject I do not which to think, or speak, or write, with moderation. No No Tell a man whose house is on fire to give a moderate alarm tell him to moderately rescue his wife from the hands of the ravisher tell the mother to gradually extricate her babe from the fire into which it has fallen but urge me not to use moderation in a cause like the present. I am in earnest I will not equivocate I will not retreat a single inch and I will be heard." »Lloyd Garrison
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