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Nearly 75,000 Demand Progress members have urged Congress to fix the Patriot Act. -- Aaron Swartz
In 2005, attorneys general of 35 states urged the Federal Reserve to end the unsigned check system. -- Charles Duhigg
The true traveller is the one urged to move about for physical, aesthetic, intellectual as well as spiritual reasons. -- Ella Maillart
When have you ever heard of a cantor or any artist turning anyone down when he is strongly urged to perform? -- Sholom Aleichem
Open-minded people tend to be interested in Buddhism because Buddha urged people to investigate things - he didn't just command them to believe. -- Dalai Lama
No more duty can be urged upon those who are entering the great theater of life than simple loyalty to their best convictions. -- Edwin Hubbel Chapin
Social networking platforms like Facebook and Twitter should be urged to adhere to business practices that maximize the safety of activists using their platforms. -- Rebecca MacKinnon
I was in the Minnesota state Senate from 2000 until 2006. In 2006, I was urged to run for Congress, I did. And I've been here ever since. -- Michele Bachmann
It required a strong heart to stand up against such talk, but I urged my people to be quiet and not to begin a war. -- Chief Joseph
A stockbroker urged me to buy a stock that would triple its value every year. I told him, 'At my age, I don't even buy green bananas.' -- Claude Pepper
My father also encouraged my love of nature. He urged me to become a Cub Scout, and later a Boy Scout, and I found I really liked being outdoors. -- Ed Begley, Jr.
Let this circumstance of our constitution therefore be directed to this noble purpose, and then all the objections urged against it by jealous tyranny and affrighted superstition will vanish. -- Adam Weishaupt
Way back in October 2007, I had urged thousands of Australians to vote for Kevin Rudd and Peter Garrett's Labor Party. Why? Because they promised to get tough on illegal Japanese whaling. -- Paul Watson
They urged me to take up winter quarters at the forks of the Platt, stating that if I attempted to advance further until spring, I would endanger the lives of my whole party. -- William Henry Ashley
I ordered a Kindle 2 from Amazon. How could I not? There were banner ads for it all over the Web. Whenever I went to the Amazon Web site, I was urged to buy one. -- Nicholson Baker
When faced with the inevitable fatigue that comes with the recycling of speeches and the recycling of thoughts in a rather small stream of vortex, I am urged to not be ashamed of recycling. -- Barbara Amiel
Hamas, the opponents of Arafat, the opponents of peace, urged a boycott of the election, and yet there was an 85 percent turnout where Hamas is supposed to be strong. Isn't that really quite incredible? -- Warren Christopher
When I became CEO of Xerox 10 years ago, the company's situation was dire. Debt was mounting, the stock sinking and bankers were calling. People urged me to declare bankruptcy, but I felt personally responsible for tens of thousands of employees. -- Anne M. Mulcahy
I wanted to stay in New York to pursue acting, but my dad urged me to get a four-year degree. Reading about the film school at Florida State University, he suggested I go there. I received my bachelor's degree in 2003. -- Lauren Miller
Vice President Dick Cheney reportedly has been disturbed over what he sees as the erosion of presidential powers since the Watergate scandal and has urged Bush to take a stronger stand against what Cheney sees as congressional intrusions into the executive branch. -- Helen Thomas
I think it is very important that I should have a talk with you as soon as possible on a highly secret matter. I mentioned it to you shortly after you took office but have not urged it since on account of the pressure you have been under. -- Henry L. Stimson
I have for some time urged that a nuclear abolition summit to mark the effective end of the nuclear era be convened in Hiroshima and Nagasaki on the 70th anniversary of the bombings of those cities, with the participation of national leaders and representatives of global civil society. -- Daisaku Ikeda
The poems were the only thing I wrote that was not for everyone else. Then my editors at Penguin, who were also friends and had seen several of them, aggressively urged me to do a book. Editors can be aggressive, especially after drinks. That's how 'Beyond This Dark House' appeared. -- Guy Gavriel Kay
I thought if anyone need a leg up, it was our foster children. So, I started getting involved in education reform, and that was back in 1998. And as a result of all the reform work that I had done, people urged me to run for the Minnesota state Senate. I did, I was there for six years. -- Michele Bachmann
One of the people who most influenced me was Ben Shapiro, a marketing professor at the business school. He used to rant and rave and pound his fist: 'It's all about the customers!' And he was right. He was also right that, at that time, retailing was devoid of really talented people; he urged me to go in that direction. -- Thomas G. Stemberg
For years I heeded the warning: Do monthly breast self-exams. Like most women, I did them on a 'sort of' basis. Every few months I'd sort of do a quick feel, but never as thoroughly as the doctors urged. I didn't want to go looking for trouble. If you look for it, you might find it. Looking for cancer is unsettling. Thank God I looked. -- Regina Brett
Slime him, sis," Dan urged, "Make him a redcoat. -- Gordon Korman
That least pleases us which is most urged on us. -- Plautus
That's right, you nasty little vixen, bite me harder." Ian urged. -- Jeaniene Frost
Nonsense, n. The objections that are urged against this excellent dictionary. -- Ambrose Bierce
Fear urged him to go back, but growth drove him on. -- Jack London
I have consistently urged my friends to abstain from reading it. -- Winston Churchill
When people disagreed with him he urged them to be objective. -- Joseph Heller
Men's consciences ought in no sort to be violated, urged, or constrained. -- Roger Williams
Sin from thy lips? O trespass sweetly urged! Give me my sin again. -- William Shakespeare
Go on, she urged. Lie to me by the moonlight. Do a fabulous story. -- F. Scott Fitzgerald
Buddha urged people to investigate things - he didn't just command them to believe. -- Dalai Lama
Today is already the tomorrow which the bad economist yesterday urged us to ignore. -- Henry Hazlitt
The successful competitor, having been urged to compete, must not be turned on when he wins. -- Learned Hand
Haply a woman's voice may do some good When articles too nicely urged be stood on. -- William Shakespeare
The burnt child, urged by rankling ire, Can hardly wait to get back at the fire. -- Ogden Nash
Genuine love will always feel urged to communicate joy - to be a joy-giver. Mankind needs joy.... -- Lawrence G. Lovasik
It is always pleasant to be urged to do something on the ground that one can do it well. -- George Santayana
I've evolved in my writing to tell a more emotional story - my publisher, Random House, has urged that. -- Alan Furst
The most important method of education always has consisted of that in which the pupil was urged to actual performance. -- Albert Einstein
President Bush has urged people to get back to normal and today Congress announced that they are accepting bribes again. -- Jay Leno
When the body is urged to participate with the universe, it creates access routes for emotionality and intellectuality as well. -- Bob Samples
The raging fire which urged us on was scorching us; it would have burned us had we failed to restrain it. -- Giacomo Casanova
America is the wealthiest nation on Earth, but its people are mainly poor, and poor Americans are urged to hate themselves. -- Kurt Vonnegut
I would rather go while I am being urged to stay, than to stay beyond the time when I should go. -- John Major
[To Parliament, when it urged her to marry and settle the succession:] You attend to your own duties and I'll perform mine. -- Elizabeth I
Write about us,Robinson urged. Tell our story.And I did it; I told our story. You hold it in your hands. -- James Patterson
Women were also urged to work on a mysterious quality called 'fascination.' Coming of age in the 1920's was a competitive business... -- Susan Cain
The moving light, rejoicing in its strength, Sped from the pyre of pine, and urged its way, In golden glory, like some strange new sun... -- Aeschylus
I have been urged by the earnest pleas of thousands of people to enter this race. Therefore, I hereby declare my candidacy for Mayor of Chicago. -- Harold Washington
No," I said. "I'm not safe, Belen. Who is going to tear Kerrick's arm off if he hits me again? Come on," I urged. "Stay with us". -- Maria V. Snyder
Every person, on coming to the knowledge of himself, is not only urged to seek God, but is also led as by the hand to find Him. -- John Calvin
The States should be urged to concede to the General Government, with a saving of chartered rights, the exclusive power of establishing banks of discount for paper. -- Thomas Jefferson
[Donald Trump] actually advocated for the actions we took in Libya and urged that [Muamar] Gadhafi be taken out, after actually doing some business with him one time. -- Hillary Clinton
I have friends who are majorly into the cosplay culture and have urged me to go to a convention for no other reason than to meet others like me. -- Simon Sinek
The people are urged to be patriotic ... by sacrificing their own children. Patriotism requires allegience to the flag, which means obedience and readiness to kill father, mother, brother, sister. -- Emma Goldman
The strength of the donkey mind lies in adopting a course inversely as the arguments urged, which, well considered, requires as great a mental force as the direct sequence. -- George Eliot
I sympathize afresh with the mighty Voltaire who, when badgered on his deathbed and urged to renounce the devil, murmured that this was no time to be making enemies. -- Christopher Hitchens
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No, by my soul, I never in my life Did hear a challenge urged more modestly, Unless a brother should a brother dare To gentle exercise and proof of arms. -- William Shakespeare
The simulated approval and affection with which parents and teachers are often urged to solve behavior problems are counterfeit. So are flattery, backslap-ping, and many other ways of "winning friends. -- B. F. Skinner
Duffers who consistently shank their balls are urged to buy and study Shanks - No Thanks by R.K. Hoffman, or in extreme cases, M.S. Howard's excellent Tennis for Beginners. -- Henry Beard
Shortly after my Ph.D., Alfred Kastler urged me to accept a teaching position at the University of Paris. I followed his advice and started to teach at the undergraduate level. -- Claude Cohen-Tannoudji
Bush senior used to say that we have more will than wallet. So he urged the country to attack poverty with a thousand points of light, none of which could be eaten. -- Barney Frank
A popular Harvard business professor urged his students to read the obituaries in the New York Times before they read anything else, in order to learn from the lives of great men. -- Georges F. Doriot
His mind scolded him for his stupidity and urged him to forget her but his heart had no justifications for its stand. It remained unmoved, its solidarity unaffected, its arrogance still holding. -- Faraaz Kazi
Go on, get out - last words are for fools who haven't said enough. To his housekeeper, who urged him to tell her his last words so she could write them down for posterity. -- Karl Marx
Every sinner is now on trial once for all. He is now invited by the bleeding Saviour, urged by all the horrors of hell, to enter heaven. But death closes the possibility for ever. -- Asahel Nettleton
Through the ages, countless spiritual disciplines have urged us to look within ourselves and seek the truth. Part of that truth resides in a small, dark room -- one we are afraid to enter -- Matthew J. Pallamary
Theyâ??ve taken their own precautions against Al Qaeda. To prepare for an attack, each Frenchman is urged to keep duct tape, a white flag, and a three-day supply of mistresses in the house. -- Argus Hamilton
I do not think of literature as something confessional or therapeutic. I make sentences in order to be precise about experiences and things. I am urged by many things and no things in particular. -- Per Petterson
Hamas, the opponents of Arafat, the opponents of peace, urged a boycott of the election, and yet there was an 85 percent turnout where Hamas is supposed to be strong. Isnt that really quite incredible? -- Warren Christopher
The despairing are always being urged to abstain from selfishness, to think of others first. This seems unfair. Why load them with responsibility for the welfare of others, when their own already weighs them down?" -- Julian Barnes
I think it must be very hard to be one of the new young writers who are urged to put themselves forward when it may be the last thing on earth they'd be good at. -- Anne Tyler
I always urged my contemporaries to look for interest and inspiration to the development and study of drawing, but they would not listen. They thought the road to salvation lay by the way of colour. -- Edgar Degas
I think it must be very hard to be one of the new young writers who are urged to put themselves forward when it may be the last thing on earth they'd be good at -- Anne Tyler
We believe that big nations should not bully smaller nations, and that the sovereignty of nations must be respected. And we have long urged that disputes be resolved peacefully, including through mechanisms like international arbitration. -- Barack Obama

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