#urgent

I have to use the word 'insurgent' because I can't think of a better word right now. ↗

— Peter Pace

#better #i #insurgent #now #right

The insurgents are Baathists and Sunnis in Iraq who have as their goal a separate and distinct one of toppling the government that is there and creating their own. ↗

— Ike Skelton

#distinct #goal #government #insurgents #iraq

Whoa there, Tobias," says the man to my left. "Weren't you raised a Stiff? I thought the most you people did was... graze hands or something." "Then how do you explain all the Abnegation children?" Tobias raises his eyebrows. "They are brought into being by sheer force of will," the woman on the arm of the chair interjects. "Didn't you know that, Tobias?" "No, I wasn't aware." He grins. "My apologies. ↗

— Veronica Roth

#tobias-eaton #children

Capturing any member of any terrorist cell or any insurgent cell that we may happen to come across is always very, very valuable, and the thing that interests me is that in most instances after a time people talk and they tell us what they know. ↗

— John Abizaid

#after #always #any #capturing #cell

Properly practiced creativity must result in greater sales more economically achieved. Properly practiced creativity can lift your claims out of the swamp of sameness and make them accepted, believed, persuasive, urgent. ↗

— William Bernbach

#achieved #believed #claims #creativity #economically

We should so provide for old age that it may have no urgent wants of this world to absorb it from meditation on the next. It is awful to see the lean hands of dotage making a coffer of the grave. ↗

— Pearl S. Buck

#absorb #awful #grave #hands #lean

There is a real danger that computers will develop intelligence and take over. We urgently need to develop direct connections to the brain so that computers can add to human intelligence rather than be in opposition. ↗

— Stephen Hawking

#brain #computers #connections #danger #develop

Growing hemp as nature designed it is vital to our urgent need to reduce greenhouse gases and ensure the survival of our planet. ↗

— Jack Herer

#ensure #gases #greenhouse #greenhouse gases #growing

The hardest thing is to go to sleep at night, when there are so many urgent things needing to be done. A huge gap exists between what we know is possible with today's machines and what we have so far been able to finish. ↗

— Donald Knuth

#been #between #done #exists #far

Most urgently, women's identity must be premised upon our "beauty" so that we will remain vulnerable to outside approval, carrying the vital sensitive organ of self-esteem exposed to the air. ↗

— Naomi Wolf

#approval #beauty #carrying #exposed #identity