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The UN Commission on Human Rights, whose membership in recent years has included countries - such as Libya and Sudan - which have deplorable human rights records, and the recent Oil-for-Food scandal, are just a few examples of why reform is so imperative.
by John Linder (Politician, American , born in 1942) keywords: commission, countries, deplorable, examples, few, human, imperative, included, just, libya, membership, recent, records, reform, rights, scandal, such, sudan, un, which, whose, why , years Since September 11, 2001, the powerful coalition of nations, led by the United States, has seen many successes against al-Qaeda and other terrorist groups. It is imperative that we remain united and steadfast in the quest to defeat terrorism around the world.
by Kenny Marchant (Politician, American , born in 1951) keywords: against, al-qaeda, around, coalition, defeat, groups, imperative, led, many, nations, other, powerful, quest, remain, seen, september, since, states, steadfast, successes, terrorism, terrorist, united , world The Senate is the last primitive society in the world. We still worship the elders of the tribe and honor the territorial imperative.
by Eugene McCarthy (Politician, American , born in 1916) keywords: elders, honor, imperative, last, primitive, senate, society, still, territorial, tribe, world , worship 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 must suggest the something. The unpardonable sin is to propose nothing, when action is imperative.
by Charles Edward Merriam (Educator, American , born in 1874) keywords: action, doing, done, given, imperative, invent, must, nothing, plausible, propose, reasons, sin, situation, something, suggest , unpardonable Every man has his own destiny: the only imperative is to follow it, to accept it, no matter where it leads him.
by Henry Miller (Author, American , born in 1891) keywords: accept, destiny, every, follow, him, his, imperative, leads, man, matter, only, own , where After the end of the Second World War it was a categorical imperative for us to declare that we renounced war forever in a central article of the new Constitution.
by Kenzaburo Oe (Writer, Japanese , born in 1935) keywords: after, article, central, constitution, declare, end, forever, imperative, new, renounced, second, us, war , world Until the last great war, a general expectation of material improvement was an idea peculiar to Western man. Now war and its aftermath have made economic and social progress a political imperative in every quarter of the globe.
by Lester B. Pearson (Politician, Canadian , born in 1897) keywords: aftermath, economic, every, expectation, general, globe, great, idea, imperative, improvement, last, made, man, material, now, peculiar, political, progress, quarter, social, until, war , western As we continue to fight the War on Terror, it is imperative that we protect America's fallen heroes by ensuring that they are treated with respect, while being laid to rest.
by Jon Porter (Politician, American , born in 1955) keywords: america, being, continue, ensuring, fallen, fight, heroes, imperative, laid, protect, respect, rest, terror, treated, war , while It is imperative that when thousands of selfless volunteers respond to those who have incurred the wrath of a natural disaster that legal liability need not be hanging over their heads.
by Jon Porter (Politician, American , born in 1955) keywords: disaster, hanging, heads, imperative, incurred, legal, liability, natural, need, over, respond, selfless, their, those, thousands, volunteers , wrath With tens of thousands of patients dying every year from preventable medical errors, it is imperative that we embrace available technologies and drastically improve the way medical records are handled and processed.
by Jon Porter (Politician, American , born in 1955) keywords: available, drastically, dying, embrace, errors, every, handled, imperative, improve, medical, patients, preventable, processed, records, technologies, tens, thousands, way , year The Law is one aspect of a much more concrete and encompassing relation than the relation between commanding and obeying that characterizes the imperative.
by Paul Ricoeur (Philosopher, French , born in 1913) keywords: aspect, between, characterizes, commanding, concrete, imperative, law, more, much, obeying, relation , than Humor is imperative, more important than food. You have a choice when someone dies. You can lie down or get back into life. Do something for someone else.
by Doris Roberts (Actor, American , born in 1930) keywords: back, choice, dies, down, else, food, get, humor, imperative, important, into, lie, life, more, someone, something , than We must make it an imperative duty of our government to protect the gifts which Nature has bestowed on America and to insure the maintenance of a clean, healthy, wholesome environment for our people.
by George Lincoln Rockwell (Activist, American , born in 1918) keywords: america, bestowed, clean, duty, environment, gifts, government, healthy, imperative, insure, maintenance, make, must, nature, our, protect, which , wholesome And I think we need a combination of a freeze, potentially, and also we need to sit down with the - with the banking industry and talk to them about ways in which we can help them be able to work those mortgages out, because it's absolutely imperative that we keep people in their homes.
by Debbie Wasserman Schultz (Politician, American , born in 1966) keywords: able, absolutely, also, banking, because, combination, down, freeze, help, homes, imperative, industry, keep, need, out, potentially, sit, talk, their, them, think, those, ways, which , work 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 and economical.
by Bill Shuster (Politician, American , born in 1961) keywords: available, breathing, convenient, economical, ensure, health, imperative, millions, needed, protection, safety, systems, widely , workers The first and most imperative necessity in war is money, for money means everything else - men, guns, ammunition.
by Ida Tarbell (Journalist, American , born in 1857) keywords: ammunition, else, everything, first, guns, imperative, means, men, money, most, necessity , war Why we play as children is not because it is our work or because it is how we learn, though both statements are true; we play because we are wired for joy, it is imperative as human beings.
by John Thorn (Historian, American , born in 1947) keywords: because, beings, both, children, how, human, imperative, joy, learn, our, play, statements, though, true, why, wired , work The world organization debates disarmament in one room and, in the next room, moves the knights and pawns that make national arms imperative.
by E. B. White (Comedian, American , born in 1899) keywords: arms, debates, disarmament, imperative, knights, make, moves, national, next, organization, pawns, room , world If those committed to the quest fail, they will be forgiven. When lost, they will find another way. The moral imperative of humanism is the endeavor alone, whether successful or not, provided the effort is honorable and failure memorable.
by E. O. Wilson (Scientist, American , born in 1929) keywords: alone, another, committed, effort, endeavor, fail, failure, find, forgiven, honorable, humanism, imperative, lost, memorable, moral, provided, quest, successful, those, way, whether , will
