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Letter "U" » urgent
«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.»
Author: Benno C. Schmidt, Jr.
| Keywords:
convention, elegance, preciousness, refinement, The Fall, urgent, Yale
«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.»
Author: Herbert Butterfield
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divergence, in agreement, perturbed, perturbing, perturbs, urgent
«We don't have anything as urgent as manyana in Ireland»
«We learn from our gardens to deal with the most urgent question of the time: How much is enough?»
«The urgent consideration of the public safety may undoubtedly authorize the violation of every positive law. How far that or any other consideration may operate to dissolve the natural obligations of humanity and justice, is a doctrine of which I still desire to remain ignorant.»
Author: Edward Gibbon
(Historian)
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authorize, authorized, authorizes, authorizing, consideration, dissolve, obligations, operate, Public Safety, undoubtedly, urgent, violation, violations
«Whither, O splendid ship, thy white sails crowding, / Leaning across the bosom of the urgent West.»
«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.»
Author: George Carlin
(Actor, Author, Comedian)
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An electric, candle, Edison, electric, electric light, gas, gas lamp, lamp, Late Night, that much, Thomas, Thomas Edison, urgent, worked
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