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Letter "I" » imperatives
«The one important thing I have learned over the years is the difference between taking one's work seriously and taking one's self seriously. The first is imperative and the second is disastrous.»
Author: Margot Fonteyn
(Dancer)
| About:
Self-interest,
Work
| Keywords:
disastrous, imperative, imperatives, seriously, The Second
«The most tragic paradox of our time is to be found in the failure of nation-states to recognize the imperatives of internationalism.»
Author: Earl Warren
(Judge, Politician)
| About:
Paradox
| Keywords:
imperatives, internationalism, paradox, tragic
«Every man has his own destiny: the only imperative is to follow it, to accept it, no matter where it leads him.»
Author: Henry Miller
(Author, Writer)
| About:
Destiny
| Keywords:
imperative, imperatives, it No, leads
«If the Revolution has the right to destroy bridges and art monuments whenever necessary, it will stop still less from laying its hand on any tendency in art which, no matter how great its achievement in form, threatens to disintegrate the revolutionary environment or to arouse the internal forces of the Revolution, that is, the proletariat, the peasantry and the intelligentsia, to a hostile opposition to one another. Our standard is, clearly, political, imperative and intolerant.»
Author: Leon Trotsky
| Keywords:
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«Coming to terms with the rhythms of women's lives means coming to terms with life itself, accepting the imperatives of the body rather than the imperatives of an artificial, man-made, perhaps transcendentally beautiful civilization. Emphasis on the male work-rhythm is an emphasis on infinite possibilities; emphasis on the female rhythms is an emphasis on a defined pattern, on limitation.»
Author: Margaret Mead
| Keywords:
accepting, artificial, by artificial means, emphasis, female body, imperatives, limitation, pattern, rhythm, rhythms, transcendentally
«War is not merely justifiable, but imperative upon honorable men, upon an honorable nation, where peace can only be obtained by the sacrifice of conscientious conviction or of national welfare»
Author: Theodore Roosevelt
(President)
| About:
War
| Keywords:
conscientious, conviction, honorable, imperative, imperatives, justifiable, nation, national, obtained, sacrifice, The Sacrifice, welfare
«The root of the matter? the thing I mean? is love, Christian love, or compassion. If you feel this, you have a motive for existence, a guide for action, a reason for courage, an imperative necessity for intellectual honesty.»
Author: Bertrand Russell
(Logician, Philosopher)
| Keywords:
guide, imperative, imperatives, Intellectual honesty, motive, root, the matter
«This we can all bear witness to, living as we do plagued by unremitting anxiety . It becomes more and more imperative that the life of the spirit be avowed as the only firm basis upon which to establish happiness and peace.»
Author: Dalai Lama
| About:
Anxiety,
Happiness,
Peace,
Spirit
| Keywords:
anxiety, avow, avowed, basis, bear upon, bear witness, establish, firm, imperative, imperatives, more and more, plagued, Plague The, plaguing, unremitting, witness
«It is those who have this imperative demand for the best in their natures, and who will accept nothing short of it, that hold the banners of progress, that set the standards, the ideals, for others.»
«It is imperative to contest all factions for complete victory, so the army is not garrisoned and the profit can be total. This is the law of strategic siege.»
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