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We now accept the fact that learning is a lifelong process of keeping abreast of change. And the most pressing task is to teach people how to learn.
Peter Drucker

Change, Learning, Learn

Terror is only justice: prompt, severe and inflexible; it is then an emanation of virtue; it is less a distinct principle than a natural consequence of the general principle of democracy, applied to the most pressing wants of the country.
Maximilien Robespierre

Justice, Democracy, Country

Raising awareness on the most pressing environmental issues of our time is more important than ever.
Leonardo DiCaprio

Time, Important, Issues

A British pressing with a compilation of the best stuff really, I mean actually not only that but, these were all kind of semi hits for the people on it in America.
Eric Clapton

Best, Mean, America

Many questions torment America in its dark night of the soul, questions more urgently pressing, and yet it must be asked: How did we get stuck with Piers Morgan? Who is he, why is he here, is he returnable?
James Wolcott

Night, America, Why

I never quite understood these actors - though I envy them sometimes - who can lie out for a year or two. I feel as though time is a real pressing issue, and I want to get as much work done in the time that I have left.
Sylvester Stallone

Work, Time, Envy

How about no one's ever going to outsell Michael Jackson at selling records because the record industry is over. Game over. There's no more record stores. With no more record stores there's no more pressing plants. With no more pressing plants, there's no more charts.
will.i.am

Game, Industry, Plants

House and Senate Republicans are now united in adopting earmark bans. We hope President Obama will follow through on his support for an earmark ban by pressing Democratic leaders to join House and Senate Republicans in taking this critical step to restore public trust.
John Boehner

Trust, Hope, Through

When it comes to Chinese food I have always operated under the policy that the less known about the preparation the better. A wise diner who is invited to visit the kitchen replies by saying, as politely as possible, that he has a pressing engagement elsewhere.
Calvin Trillin

Food, Wise, Saying

In this generation, the issue pressing that question on our consciences is the issue of abortion.
Robert Casey

Question, Generation, Issue

Arizona faces many challenges ahead. None is more important or more pressing than passing a new state budget.
Jane D. Hull

Important, State, Ahead

At first sight experience seems to bury us under a flood of external objects, pressing upon us with a sharp and importunate reality, calling us out of ourselves in a thousand forms of action.
Walter Pater

Experience, Reality, Action

In its entirety, probably, it follows us at every instant; all that we have felt, thought and willed from our earliest infancy is there, leaning over the present which is about to join it, pressing against the portals of consciousness that would fain leave it outside.
Henri Bergson

Thought, Against, Leave

Part of the western movement is this desire that we, Americans, have to keep pressing on.
Beau Bridges

Keep, Desire, Movement

When there is a huge force pressing down on freedoms, sub-cultures with more creativity and power are likely to form.
Joichi Ito

Power, Down, Creativity

How we continue to fund Medicare and Medicaid into the future is a pressing issue of national concern.
James T. Walsh

Future, National, Continue

Environmental policy must strike a balance between the earth's best interests and our citizen's pressing needs.
Jim Clyburn

Best, Between, Balance

Health care for all Americans is the most pressing domestic issue today. It's far past time for the President and Congress to deliver health care to everyone.
Russ Feingold

Time, Health, Today

The Citizen's Petition reflects Vermont's spirit of pragmatism and across-the-board cooperation. I applaud the 'Campaign to Fix the Debt' for calling attention to one of the country's most pressing problems, our ballooning national debt, and for urging policymakers to find practical solutions.
Peter Welch

Country, Find, Problems

The Liberals have been pressing for the brief on the basis of which he said there was authority for war.
Clare Short

War, Said, Authority

I think the good old British democracy should keep scrutinising and pressing to get the truth out.
Clare Short

Good, Truth, Democracy

Let a man be but in earnest in praying against a temptation as the tempter is in pressing it, and he needs not proceed by a surer measure.
Robert South

Against, Needs, Temptation

I'm not one of these actors who feels a pressing need to direct, and I have no plans to do it.
Dennis Franz

Feels, Plans, Direct

We put together a one-sentence petition asking Congress to censure President Clinton and move on to other pressing issues. We sent it to under 100 friends and family, and within a week we had 100,000 people sign the petition.
Joan Blades

Family, Together, Friends

We know there are a lot of people in the unemployment pool that do not match up in their skill set for what jobs are going to be created, and that's an area we've got to keep pressing on.
Austan Goolsbee

Keep, Jobs, Match

I hear that Brooke Ashley is also pressing charges. I don't know how she can prove anything. How can they prove anything, whether it's true or not, that I'm the one that infected her?
Marc Wallice

When I look at the chaotic and volatile debate right now, both in Germany and around the world, my impression and concern is that the daily barrage of proposals and political statements is making markets and consumers even more nervous. Still, Brussels is pressing for a joint European approach.
Peer Steinbruck

Daily, Political, Around

You want the book to be special, and they are not always going to be special, but at least you want that to be the ambition. So the only way that happens is if you are not pressing to write a book.
Michael Lewis

Book, Special, Ambition

If we're going to talk about economic fairness, or about fairness, one of the most pressing economic issues facing families, seniors, and job creators in Missouri and across America is the strain of skyrocketing gas prices.
Roy Blunt

Job, America, Talk

As soon as you sit down to write about something you are pressing your nose deeper into the sewer of facts.
Theo Van Gogh

Down, Write, Nose

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