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All of philanthropy is harnessing that urge to have your name on something, and using it for good.
When you have an emergency, there is the urge to do whatever it takes to see people get assistance.
There are so many amazing plant-based foods out there that I don't feel the urge to eat tofu bacon.
I urge you to ask yourself just how honorable it is to preside over the abuse and suffering of animals.
The urge to write poetry is like having an itch. When the itch becomes annoying enough, you scratch it.
What keeps me going are my learnings, which I would rather call my 'experience,' and my urge to explore.
In relative youth, we assume we'll remember everything. Someone should urge the young to think otherwise.
Regret is a bitter emotion, so painful that the urge to avoid it often drives decision-making strategies.
I urge everyone - men, boys, women and girls - to join me in standing up for girls' rights with Plan U.K.
I am struck by the wild character of this land and, as the Kazak herders often do, I have the urge to sing.
Why go to Antarctica, why do a film like 'Grizzly Man'? It's the sheer joy of storytelling - it's the urge.
The urge to dominion is God-given and is basic to the nature of man. An aspect of this dominion is property.
Taking stock of what you own, when done correctly and thoroughly, helps dampen the urge to shop frivolously.
We are not abandoning our convictions, our philosophy or traditions, nor do we urge anyone to abandon theirs.
The urge to push the concept of sex and sexuality into the fringes of the human experience is so bizarre to me.
Ladies, I urge you never to buy a black bathroom suite. 'CBB' decided this would be glamorous. 'CBB' was wrong.
I urge everyone to be trendsetters for Azza Suleiman. Let's make it one fashion which everyone will want to follow.
People disparage knowing and the intellectual life, and urge doing. I am content with knowing, if only I could know.
Once we know of atrocities we cannot remain silent, and knowledge inevitably leads to an urge to protect the innocent.
The intent to preserve and capture something is very different from the urge to share, but they had become intertwined.
I don't think it's good to say that you won't do certain things, but I don't necessarily have the natural urge to write.
Building your own house is a primal urge, one of those universal genetic drives like the need to provide for your family.
I urge people to learn from the mistakes of others. Please drink responsibly and it's never acceptable to drink and drive!
I have an urge to communicate. I think I'm a change from what it would be like dating a normal guy who doesn't talk too much.
To newspapers and publishing houses I urge the use of fact over fiction, freedom of the press, and responsibility at all times.
When your life is being threatened there's an instinctive urge to fight. You fight for the time you have, for your relationships.
I don't believe that anything's totally invented... If you're completely inventing a story, there wouldn't be an urge to tell it.
We all feel the urge to condemn ourselves out of guilt, to blame others for our misfortunes and to fantasize about total disaster.
With success comes complacency if you let it happen. It is human nature; there is that urge to think about how well you have done.
I strongly support SNAP and will continue to urge my colleagues in Congress to provide adequate funding to this important program.
It is flagrantly dishonest for an advertising agent to urge consumers to buy a product which he would not allow his own wife to buy.
URGE is a grassroots charity. We organized to get some incubators to give to the hospital for the kids. We donate money to orphanages.
The urge that most people feel to have kids is the exact same as the urge that I have to not have kids. I do not want to raise a child.
Even after I'd published three books and had been writing full-time for twenty years, my father continued to urge me to go to law school.
If a man urge me to tell wherefore I loved him, I feel it cannot be expressed but by answering: Because it was he, because it was myself.
Everyone has early fiction fantasies, but it wasn't until my second child Betsy was born that I allowed the urge to write a novel bubble up.
Trade means jobs, but trade also means security. The time has come for all of us to urge the swift adoption of the Trans Pacific Partnership.
I urge the Government to look carefully at scrapping the entire burden of regulation on micro-businesses with, say, three employees or fewer.
Various are the pleas and arguments which men of corrupt minds frequently urge against yielding obedience to the just and holy commands of God.
I don't own an ABBA album, and I never had the urge to go and buy one. If you're just talking about well crafted pop songs, they were fantastic.
All my music is driven by an urge to connect with people, to share with them in the experience of being human - the good, the bad, and the ugly!
To fully absorb the lessons of the Internet, urge the Internet-centrists, we need to reshape our political and social institutions in its image.
I urge Congress to quickly take up and pass trade promotion authority so we can conclude a TPP agreement. Our position in the world depends on it.
As our leaders in Washington confront tough decisions about our budget priorities, I urge them to continue federal funding for public broadcasting.
Be virtuous in thought and in deed. God has planted in you, for a purpose, a divine urge which may be easily subverted to evil and destructive ends.
Occasionally, I'll be on the Internet and see something about me and give in to the urge to click on it. It's hard not to. Usually, I wish I didn't.
The urge to convert experience into a group of words that are in a grammatical relation to one another is the most basic, ongoing impulse of my life.
Whenever I counsel someone who feels called to be an evangelist, I always urge them to guard their time and not feel like they have to do everything.
The natural urge when running a distance is to push harder and finish sooner - to race against time. Every second behind a deadline is a little defeat.
Go ahead and have the Kit Kat at the movies. If you don't satisfy an urge sometimes, you often substitute less-satisfying things and end up eating more.