Imperative Quotes
287 quotes by 260 authors
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Communication between band-mates is imperative. Communication is the key to any healthy relationship. If I need to be checked, I expect to hear it put…
— Phil Anselmo
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It is imperative that women have quality affordable day care available to them because without it, families suffer.
— Sander Levin
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I had hoped all of Congress would recognize that it is imperative for our health, economy, and national security that we address the effects of…
— Mark Pocan
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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
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Gender equality cannot be achieved by cutting programs that allow girls to get the same chance to compete, learn, and play. The United States has…
— Linda Sanchez
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We live in a permanent state of bad faith, a mutual representation of ourselves to one another for the sake of remaining sane and following…
— Thomas Ligotti
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A deep cynicism is taking hold of the country, with more and more Americans convinced that big money calls the shots in Washington and that…
— John Sarbanes
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As a Jew, I was taught that it was ethically imperative to speak up and to speak out against arbitrary state violence. That was part…
— Judith Butler
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Indebted countries can only grow out of their debt troubles through strong economic growth; austerity measures alone cannot work. It is imperative to engage in…
— Lou Jiwei
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Taking responsible steps to reduce poverty is not merely a moral imperative but an economic one.
— John Yarmuth
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With golf becoming part of the Olympics now, it is even more imperative that more of the middle class get access to the sport.
— Jeev Milkha Singh
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Much as I would like to give out as much as I can, I do recognize that my resources are not unlimited, and therefore, it…
— Vincent Tan
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My education was dominated by modernist thinkers and artists who taught me that the supreme imperative was courage to face the awful truth, to scorn…
— Ellen Willis
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I made my money with software - encoded knowledge without which few products and services can exist today - and so it seemed imperative that…
— Hasso Plattner
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It is imperative to change the way we look at education. We should invest in the foundation of school readiness from birth to age 5.
— James Heckman
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Diversifying our tech talent pool is an imperative for the tech sector. More diverse engineers and entrepreneurs will bring about a new type of innovation…
— Mitch Kapor
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If nothing is to be done in the given situation, he must invent plausible reasons for doing nothing; and if something must be done, he…
— Charles Edward Merriam
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It is imperative that we make consumers more aware of the long-term effects of their financial decisions, particularly in managing their credit card debt, so…
— Daniel Akaka
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It is imperative for the health and safety of millions of workers that we ensure that breathing systems needed for protection are widely available, convenient…
— Bill Shuster
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The Law is one aspect of a much more concrete and encompassing relation than the relation between commanding and obeying that characterizes the imperative.
— Paul Ricoeur
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