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  • There is an urgent need to stop subsidizing the fossil fuel industry, dramatically reduce wasted energy, and significantly shift our power supplies from oil, coal, and natural gas to wind, solar, geothermal, and other renewable energy sources.

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  • St. Ambrose of Milan No duty is more urgent than that of returning thanks.
    ― St. Ambrose of Milan
    Bishop of Milan (339 - 397)
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  • William Booth A man's labor is not only his capital but his life. When it passes it returns never more. To utilize it, to prevent its wasteful squandering, to enable the poor man to bank it up for use hereafter, this surely is one of the most urgent tasks before civilization.
    ― William Booth
    English Methodist preacher (1829 - 1912)
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  • Gerald R. Ford Even though this is late in an election year, there is no way we can go forward except together and no way anybody can win except by serving the people's urgent needs. We cannot stand still or slip backwards. We must go forward now together.
    ― Gerald R. Ford
    American politician and 38th President of the United States (1913 - 2006)
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  • Alfred Marshall It is common to distinguish necessaries, comforts, and luxuries; the first class including all things required to meet wants which must be satisfied, while the latter consist of things that meet wants of a less urgent character.
    ― Alfred Marshall
    British economist (1842 - 1924)
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  • Alfred Marshall It is common to distinguish necessaries, comforts, and luxuries; the first class including all things required to meet wants which must be satisfied, while the latter consist of things that meet wants of a less urgent character.
    ― Alfred Marshall
     
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  • Martin Luther King Life's most persistent and urgent question is: What are you doing for others? Living is a form of not being sure, not knowing what next or how. The moment you know how, you begin to die a little.
    ― Martin Luther King
    American preacher (1929 - 1968)
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  • Milton Friedman Many people want the government to protect the consumer. A much more urgent problem is to protect the consumer from the government.
    ― Milton Friedman
    American economist (1912 - 2006)
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  • Sir Henry Taylor Shy and unready men are great betrayers of secrets; for there are few wants more urgent for the moment than the want of something to say.
    ― Sir Henry Taylor
    English dramatist and poet (1800 - 1886)
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  • Albert Einstein The release of atomic energy has not created a new problem. It has merely made more urgent the necessity of solving an existing one.
    ― Albert Einstein
    German - American physicist (1879 - 1955)
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  • Edward Gibbon 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.
    ― Edward Gibbon
    British historian (1737 - 1794)
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  • Bill McKibben There is an urgent need to stop subsidizing the fossil fuel industry, dramatically reduce wasted energy, and significantly shift our power supplies from oil, coal, and natural gas to wind, solar, geothermal, and other renewable energy sources.
    ― Bill McKibben
    American environmentalist, author, and journalist (1960 - )
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