#imminent

To act is to anchor in an imminent future, so imminent it becomes almost tangible; to act is to feel you are consubstantial with that future. ↗

— Emile M. Cioran

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There's nothing so improves the mood of the Party as the imminent execution of a senior colleague. ↗

— Alan Clark

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Your body must become familiar with its death - in all its possible forms and degrees - as a self-evident, imminent, and emotionally neutral step on the way towards the goal you have found worthy of your life. ↗

— Dag Hammarskjold

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Iraq does not pose an imminent threat to the United States of any of its neighboring nations. ↗

— Dennis Kucinich

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Noble life demands a noble architecture for noble uses of noble men. Lack of culture means what it has always meant: ignoble civilization and therefore imminent downfall. ↗

— Frank Lloyd Wright

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Unlike some, I don't claim to hold the mystic key to the future. But judging from past events, it seems to me that those who want to prophesy the imminent end of America's unique global role have a harder case to make than those who think we will limp on for a while, making a mess of things as usual. ↗

— Walter Russell Mead

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There was no imminent threat. This was made up in Texas, announced in January to the Republican leadership that war was going to take place and was going to be good politically. This whole thing was a fraud. ↗

— Edward Kennedy

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For everything in life there is always a beginning and an end. This is the tough part the most difficult thing when you see that it’s coming: The end. ↗

— Seve Ballesteros

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The imminent demise of the large record companies as gatekeepers of the world's popular music is a good thing, for the most part. ↗

— David Byrne

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We still live with this unbelievable threat over our heads of nuclear war. I mean, are we stupid? Do we think that the nuclear threat has gone, that the nuclear destruction of the planet is not imminent? It's a delusion to think it's gone away. ↗

— Kevin Costner

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