Life's most urgent question is: What are you doing for others?
Martin Luther King Jr.
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Life's most persistent and urgent question is, 'What are you doing for others?'
Martin Luther King Jr.
I see many people die because they judge that life is not worth living. I see others paradoxically gettin 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
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
It is very urgent to take a decision on these matters, ... Our primary concern is to help the (Iraqi) people who are suffering even more than before because of military action.
Gunter Pleuger
This survey is a clear message to the citizens of California that our out-of-control legal system is hurting our state's economy and in urgent need of reform.
David Houston
The Beta 2 is still an important milestone for broad customer testing, but it is less urgent.
Amitabh Srivastava
What I can say is that U.S. forces helped to provide urgent medical support at the scene of the incident, something for which I know our forces are grateful.
Adam Ingram
Michael Brown was on the job, was doing his job and was making sure people above him at the White House and DHS were fully aware of everything that was going on in an extremely timely and urgent manner. It paints a different picture than what we have seen painted thus far.
Andy Lester
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
It is sad and regrettable that the urgent court application comes in the wake of fruitful interventions by the Minister... to ensure that the inmates are able to receive treatment at accredited sites.
Luphumzo Kebeni
Whether it's a large chance or a small chance, it's a chance, and so, it's an urgent situation.
Captain Paul Mcdonough
Shy and unready men are great betrayers of secrets: for there are few wants more urgent for the moment than the want of something to say.
Sir Henry Taylor
This increase in funding will allow us to better meet the more urgent needs of the visitors we serve.
Linda Allen
Given the rise of chronic conditions and the rapid aging of the population, there has never been a more urgent need to improve quality and reduce costs through the optimal use of technology. I look forward to helping frame the discussion of how technology can help connect people and information in new and important ways that can enable better healthcare at lower cost.
Louis Burns
There is an urgent need for medical evacuation.
Yvette Stevens
In all four countries, it is clear that WFP will have to expand its existing operations to drought-affected populations in order to address the increasing needs. While final figures on the number of people in need of urgent assistance are still being established, donors must respond now if we are going to avert a humanitarian catastrophe.
Holdbrook Arthur
It's different than university, ... Things have to be done quickly here. Timelines aren't as urgent at university.
Paul Newton
It's not an insurance program. It's targeted as a wellness program to keep them well and out of the emergency and urgent-care centers.
David Hurst
Both sides are paying more attention to the relationship and trying to define and shape it. But without any urgent issues demanding attention, this visit was always going to be exploratory, not defining.
Jin Canrong
Walking through the streets of New Haven (Conn.) with William Sloane Coffin Jr. is like being in a movie about a small-town folk hero. People come up to shake his hand, students run after him with urgent questions, old folks stop their cars to call out, 'Good luck Bill!' and 'Howdy, Reverend.
Jessica Mitford
The urgent conditions seem to be seen quickly, while the wait is quite a bit longer for non-urgent cases.
Jennifer Zelmer
The staff will see all patients before the doors are closed for the night. If a community member has to have access to medical care, urgent care is one way.
Kai Gerkey
We have immediate needs such as fixing radio interoperability problems, repayment of local police for guarding airports, firefighter grants, and other homeland security needs that the Congress and president need to act on, ... Funds for these urgent priorities were cut in the 2002 supplemental spending bill.
Karen Anderson
This is an urgent issue. It is time to introduce new technology solutions where everyone from the artist, the label, and distributor is protected from piracy.
Rick Clancy
There is an urgent need for improved therapies for weight loss assistance in the United States. The country is currently facing an obesity epidemic. This health crisis can also be linked a variety of associated disorders, including skyrocketing diabetes rates and heightened heart and stroke risks. Clearly, by attacking the obesity issue, we may be able to prevent many other life-ending illnesses.
Judy Cameron
A man's labor is not only his capital but his life. When it passes it returns never more. To utilize it, to prevent its wasteful squandering, to enable the poor man to bank it up for use hereafter, this surely is one of the most urgent tasks before civilization.
William Booth
It's urgent. People are dying.
Heraldo Munoz
It is most urgent to come to a deal in December. It is clear that it is not those most in need which have to bring forward the biggest sacrifices.
Johannes Laitenberger
So begins a question which has of late become more and more urgent: what is the relation of aesthetics to politics?
Mark Poster
The priority now must be to address the urgent needs over the next six months. OIE and FAO have identified the key priorities as evaluating and strengthening veterinary services, laboratory and surveillance capacity in affected countries and those most at risk.
Bernard Vallat
And apart from all the urgent loss the President's legacy is on the line as well. Not only in how he's perceived as handling Katrina but also on that major task, filling those two Supreme Court vacancies. David.
Kelly O'donnell
...Before considering the question that is seemingly always the most immediate one and the only urgent one, What shall we do? we ponder this: How must we think? For thinking is genuine activity, genuine taking a hand, if to take a hand means to lend a hand to...the coming to presence of Being.
Martin Heidegger
Terror is nothing other than justice, prompt, severe, inflexible; it is therefore an emanation of virtue; it is not so much a special principle as it is a consequence of the general principle of democracy applied to our country's most urgent needs.
Maximilien Robespierre
Of course, it will take a long time in history for the new socialist countryside to materialize in China. Formerly meant to be a vision to pursue and a direction for development, the notion is now deemed as both a long-term goal and an urgent, immediate task.
Chen Xiwen
It all depends on how urgent the patient requires the services. Once we get a call, we decide what kind of facilities would be required for the particular case. Since we don't own the aircraft and we charter them, we call for a plane from the nearest base.
Dr Prabhat Jauhari
Gov. Riley's use of a state plane on his D.C. trip gives the public an urgent need to know just how their tax money is being used to assist in Riley's re-election.
Jim Spearman
I don't think it's scary. I think it makes the game a lot more breathtaking, a lot more urgent for both teams.
Troy Smith
While final figures on the number of people in need of urgent assistance are still being established, donors must respond now if we are going to avert a humanitarian catastrophe.
Holdbrook Arthur
It is urgent that ... we establish a force that has both the troop strength, the equipment and an unambiguous mandate to protect civilians from harm.
Juan Mendez
These are urgent questions because we're talking about a lot of children and a tremendously disabling brain disease, which really robs a child and a family of the personhood of this child.
Thomas Insel
While we cannot comment directly on the classified study cited by NBC, this is another serious reminder that there is still urgent work to be done to improve aviation security. In the post-9/11 world, travelers want to know that something is being done.
Michael Trudnak
The very fact of its finding itself in agreement with other minds perturbs it, so that it hunts for points of divergence, feeling the urgent need to make it clear that at least it reached the same conclusions by a different route.
Herbert Butterfield
We could not do it because of urgent matters in the country. There was no right time to have the meeting. We will find a right time but this has not been affected by the report.
Dino Patti Djalal
This case could affect many people's voting rights. It's urgent, from that perspective, that a decision be made quickly.
Bob Martinez
Under these conditions, President Jiang must remain at home to handle urgent problems of flood control and emergency relief.
Tang Jiaxuan
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.
We all know the importance of our business, ... a balance between safety and an urgent need for fuel.
Jeanne Miller
It is extremely important for the government to take urgent measures to instruct its armed forces to cease acts of violence against civilians and the LTTE.
Anton Balasingham
One of the major problems is that local officials do not understand it is an urgent and critical task to tackle pollution and save energy.
Xie Zhenhua
It's urgent and necessary that we begin moving aggressively — and immediately — to restore New York as a leader in innovation, entrepreneurship and economic progress. Innovation will be the engine. Innovation will be what creates high-paying, high-skill jobs for New York and provides all of New York with rising standards of living.
Linda Sanford
Our hope is that he is doing better than what was reported and that if he needs medicine or urgent medical care that we could look at the options that exist to help him.
Omar Samad
In certain trying circumstances, urgent circumstances, desperate circumstances, profanity furnishes a relief denied even to prayer.
Mark Twain
In the past decade, Brazil has not grown very fast. It's urgent to create conditions for growth to accelerate.
Francois Bourguignon
We are making an urgent appeal for any photos or videos -- including from mobile phones -- taken Thursday morning close to where the bombs exploded.
Brian Paddick
We saw rows of people in a really bad way with suppurating wounds. They need urgent treatment.
Sean Keogh
It's a basic concept that all women can relate to. Women have an urgent need to protect themselves.
Anna Forbes
Filing for bankruptcy doesn't make this one go away, ... It may make it less urgent to deal with, but the fact of the matter is these guys are still on strike, and they're still hurting Northwest's business to some extent.
John Remington
Government should be doing it. Unfortunately . . . this is an urgent matter. That's why Crime Stoppers is getting involved, because the tips aren't responded to quickly enough right now. If there's no response, people will stop phoning in. It will implode the whole program.
Vern Nielsen
The points in my previous report [a 2003 study identifying threats to the domestic manufacturing base] have become more urgent in the three years since I wrote it. There are few indicators that would disabuse me of the positions I took then.
Joel Popkin
Climate change is the most urgent and serious challenge faced by the global community ? and we need leadership to adapt the global economy to deal with it, ... The Prime Minister?s move away from a target-based approach could have disastrous consequences.
Tony Juniper
A very large number of GP practices are both maintaining urgent access and flexible booking. What we've got to work on is the rest.
Lord Warner
When we speak about 1.7 million people in need of urgent assistance, we refer to a food security, water, health, nutrition and protection crisis.
Maxwell Gaylard
We will do this on an urgent basis by using the infrastructure available.
Debasish Sen
We learn from our gardens to deal with the most urgent question of the time: How much is enough?
Wendell Berry
The trend in angiography is imaging rather than intervention. The benefit is for people who you don't want to subject to an angiogram and who you don't expect (will need) urgent intervention.
Dr. Kirk Ohanian
Patching is very urgent, ... We expect public exploit code to become available, especially for the MSDTC issue.
Michael Sutton
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
No question. We know where we are and where all of our competitors are. Certainly it is going to be the time to be urgent.
Keith Acton
I will try to meet the urgent, desperate social needs of our people.
Gyude Bryant
The president and the Congress will be diverted from the urgent national business, while prolonged proceedings take place in the Senate.
Rick Boucher
I think governments around the world, including Australia, have started the process, but there is a long way to go and I would argue that it's urgent.
Clive Wilkinson
It is important to start building new hospitals and schools as soon as possible but it's most urgent to save the lives of thousands of children who could then make use of these schools.
Jan Vandemoortele
Making contacts direct ? church to church, individual to individual ? is producing the delivery of services much more quickly than government agencies can do it, ... We're really meeting some needs that are urgent.
Merrill Oster
The problem is pretty urgent, and we don't have any time to start dealing with these problems, ... If we do nothing today, the cost of postponing action grows over time.
Jagadeesh Gokhale
Save the Children has made great strides to address the immediate emergency situation, but huge challenges remain. We are mounting an urgent effort to meet the winter-survival needs of earthquake-affected children and their families.
Bruce Rasmussen
At this time, the most urgent need is to restore a sense of normalcy for the more than 300,000 students displaced by the storm, ... It is just simply not the time to open up a policy debate on vouchers.
Greg Weaver
His experience and outstanding personal qualities make him ideally qualified to lead the U.N. in tackling the many urgent tasks which it currently faces.
Malcolm Rifkind
I welcome the speed with which the commission and member states have been able to respond to the urgent request for help.
Jose Manuel Barroso
Because we don't bill insurance, we erase the line between family practice and urgent care. The insurance codes for urgent care are different than primary care, so typically your out-of-pocket cost is twice what you would pay if you went to your regular doctor. But we charge everyone the same.
Brendan Francis
In my view, there is an urgent need to communicate with the public and help to explain where there is consensus, and where are there doubts about the issues of sustainable development.
Jeff Sachs
We have to be more urgent and quicker getting the play in and out of the huddle. There were some times in the game I looked at the clock, and it was so low, and I was surprised. You have to get used to the clock winding down that quick.
Richard Kovalcheck
Our resources are inferior to the refugees' needs. Should there be more new arrivals, we don't have the resources to respond. We have an urgent need for shelter, cooking equipment, medicine, water -- everything necessary for an adequate life.
Georges Menze
A very large number of GP practices are both maintaining urgent access and flexible bookings.
Lord Warner
Many European issues await urgent decisions. I am convinced that the next (German) government will throw its full weight so as to contribute to their progress.
Josep Borrell
It is both a long-term goal and an urgent immediate task.
Chen Xiwen
The school has an urgent responsibility to protect all its students from verbal and physical abuse.
Peter Kellogg
If they don't find a match soon, all three could die. It is just that urgent.
Michele Compton
Today our cooperation is becoming more urgent. The situation prompts that.
Ali Shamkhani
The Security Council has taken up urgent human rights and political problems in more than 20 countries this year. If China moves to block this effort they should explain to Aung San Suu Kyi and average Burmese people why their concerns are less important.
Brad Adams
We didn't know there was this urgent need to produce these things. They said, 'Can you pull a rabbit out of your hat?' We did the best we could.
Todd Davison
The city has updated its ongoing contingency plans to deal with the latest electricity blackouts and has taken urgent steps to safeguard residents. We will also install uninterrupted power supply devices to keep traffic lights working for more than six hours after a power failure at 200 of Cape Towns 1 260 intersections, which is expected to cost R8 million.
Nomaindia Mfeketo
We're seeing what absolutely needs to be in the call as an urgent matter and what can perhaps wait until January.
Denise Bottcher
My urgent message to all the refugees in the camps is, 'Don't come back yet, it's not safe,'.
Dennis Mcnamara
Food, we are told, ran out a couple of days ago. There is water from a well. The sanitary conditions are terrible. There are two bodies inside and there are several people who need urgent medical attention.
Andrew White
It can best be described as a volcano in the Church of the Nativity which is waiting to erupt and it will erupt at any moment ... unless we can manage to mediate a way to meet the urgent humanitarian needs, .
Andrew White
This is politics, raw and urgent, ... What is happening across the pages of almost every newspaper is a ruthless attempt to destroy the young challenger among the Tory modernizers' camp and to keep the Conservatives firmly on the right of British politics.
Jackie Ashley
Many countries where the disease is endemic have already taken action but they are overwhelmed by the situation and require urgent assistance. Fighting the disease in animals is key to our success in limiting the threat of a human pandemic. We know that the virus is being spread by wild birds but we need more research to fully understand their role.
Louise Fresco
Giving is a necessity sometimes... more urgent, indeed, than having.
Margaret Lee Runbeck
The recipients of the Leadership for a Changing World award represent the best this country has to offer. On issues from environmental justice to education reform, they bring people together to solve their communities' most urgent problems. They show all of us just how much progress is possible when we work together with effectiveness and persistence.
Jerry Hauser
There were audiences for the first time in living memory. People were discussing modern music. Maybe they liked it and maybe they didn't, but the question of what we were doing suddenly became an urgent one.
Philip Glass
It is urgent that funds flow rapidly.
Vicente Fox
This is a particularly urgent situation and it looks like the military is the only thing that's functioned in this entire mess. Once they arrived, things turned around.
Michael Greve
There is an urgent need for bold reforms to transform Singapore into an R&D-driven, innovative, knowledge-based enterprise economy, where we compete on knowledge and talent, in addition to efficiency and cost-effectiveness, ... Singapore needs to refocus its research and innovation agenda.
Tony Tan
Aviation is a rogue sector and its environmental impact is out of control. Climate change is the most urgent challenge facing humanity and yet aviation policy is doing the opposite of what is needed.
Tony Juniper
I feel responsibility as the group's CEO for this event that hurts the confidence of customers and society at this important time when we should all unite to tackle urgent issues.
Toshiyuki Shinmachi
I don't want to be insensitive to legitimate concerns about security and smooth operation. There are legitimate reasons for government officials to withhold some information, but I'm not sure this is one of those situations. I just don't see what the urgent need for secrecy is for these numbers.
Bill Lueders
We had to close water inlets for several hours and announce the state of emergency. Specialists are taking urgent measures to dilute the concentration of nitrobenzene in the water.
Viktor Ishayev
Conditions are not ideal. Water capacity is especially difficult as demand has exceeded supply so we're having trouble pumping enough to meet everyone's needs. There's an urgent need to get these people located elsewhere.
Matthew Conway
The data shows an urgent need to strengthen policies at all levels of government and curtail pesticide use.
Jay Feldman
What attracted me to it is the fact that it is completely balanced, ... It's a program that addresses four components of your life. During some sessions you might not work on the physical aspect because the other aspects are more urgent. It allows you to introduce discipline into your life.
Leslie Lewis
I feel I made them understand how upset we were and how urgent this was. We both felt we wanted to do something, rather than just sit here.
Joan Harris
This is urgent, considering the number of illegal kills right now.
Chris Servheen
[State child-welfare administrators presented plans Thursday to improve services for children and families they serve, but some critics said the plan wasnt going far enough.] To look at continuing to assess, define and take steps is not enough, ... It feels like a much more urgent situation than to just sit back and look any longer.
Paul Kelly
The (population) decline over the last few months has provided some relief that makes it not as urgent to get that online. We certainly would welcome using those beds, but it's not imperative at the moment.
Robert Hofmann
Given the competitive and demographic challenges facing Canada, tax reform is increasingly urgent. In the coming years, Canada should not simply react to changes in tax policy abroad, but should take the initiative and adopt policies that would unleash the Canadian tiger.
Jack Mintz
On an urgent basis.
Scott Campbell
Early on we were urgent, but not urgent enough and our hearts were only kind of in it. We just thought, 'They [Lady Raccoons] lost before and they're going to lose again.' But then we realized we had to pick it up and we all got into it and it was amazing.
Ashley Hornisher
They are making investments now so they need our advice as to how to go about doing it. So an agreement is urgent for us in the U.S..
David Aaron
An additional $18 billion for rebuilding the Gulf Coast is welcome news as continued financial support from the federal government is critical if the region is to have hope of recovery. However, the details of the plan for spending these funds will reveal if the administration is committed to addressing the vast and urgent housing needs on the hurricane-devastated region.
Raymond Offenheiser
It is clear that [the election authorities] have to undertake some practical steps in an urgent way to organize the way they work and make decisions to [register] a preponderance of the voters by mid-August.
Roger Noriega
In order to keep the violence from escalating further, it is urgent to get the two parties to sit down together to discuss how to ensure that the cease-fire agreement is observed and how the peace process can be advanced.
Erik Solheim
We have a responsibility to educate and train students, but we also have a responsibility within the larger community, ... Are we doing a play because designers need to know how a corset works, or because we have an urgent need to put ideas before an audience?
Elizabeth Bradley
The most urgent task is to check water pollution to ensure the safety of drinking water, and we must win that battle.
Zhou Shengxian
An urgent task at present is to carry out nationwide publicity as quickly as possible.
Zhong Nanshan
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