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imperative
«If those committed to the quest fail, they will be forgiven. When lost, they will find another way. The moral imperative of humanism is the endeavor alone, whether successful or not, provided the effort is honorable and failure memorable.»
«Adapt or perish, now as ever, is nature's inexorable imperative.»
Author: H. G. Wells
(Historian, Journalist, Novelist, Sociologist)
| Keywords:
imperative, inexorable, perish
«Every man has his own destiny: the only imperative is to follow it, to accept it, no matter where it leads him.»
Author: Henry Miller
(Author, Writer)
| About:
Destiny
| Keywords:
imperative, imperatives, it No, leads
«A categorical imperative would be one which represented an action as objectively necessary in itself, without reference to any other purpose.»
Author: Immanuel Kant
(Philosopher)
| Keywords:
categorical, categorical imperative, imperative, objectively, reference, represented
«If the Revolution has the right to destroy bridges and art monuments whenever necessary, it will stop still less from laying its hand on any tendency in art which, no matter how great its achievement in form, threatens to disintegrate the revolutionary environment or to arouse the internal forces of the Revolution, that is, the proletariat, the peasantry and the intelligentsia, to a hostile opposition to one another. Our standard is, clearly, political, imperative and intolerant.»
Author: Leon Trotsky
| Keywords:
arouse, Bridges, disintegrate, disintegrated, disintegrates, disintegrating, hostile, imperative, imperatives, intelligentsia, internal, intolerant, intolerant of, laying, laying on of hands, monuments, opposition, peasantry, proletariat, revolutionary, standard, tendency, the revolution, threatens
«He invented the news magazine. He invested [it] with an interpretation Tell what happened, tell it well, tell it concisely, but with attention to the belletristic imperative.»
Author: William F. Buckley, Jr.
(Writer)
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belletristic, concisely, imperative, interpretation, magazine, The News, with attention
«If politics is to become scientific, and if the event is not to be constantly surprising, it is imperative that our political thinking should penetrate more deeply into the springs of human action»
Author: Bertrand Russell
(Logician, Philosopher)
| About:
Politics,
Science
| Keywords:
human action, Human Events, imperative, penetrate, surprising
«In order to be blessed with a long life it is imperative that we become strong both mentally and physically . We should do all that makes our mind and body healthy and energetic. »
«It is those who have this imperative demand for the best in their natures, and who will accept nothing short of it, that hold the banners of progress, that set the standards, the ideals, for others.»