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• For some time I have been disturbed by the way the CIA has been diverted from its original assignment. It has become an operational and at times a policy making arm of the government.

  Harry S. Truman

  Government, Policy Making, World

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• The assignment of purpose to everything is called teleology. Children are native teleologists, and many never grow out of it.

  Richard Dawkins

  Children, Purpose, Grows

  Richard Dawkins (2008). “The God Delusion”, p.210, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Love is no assignment for cowards.

  Ovid

  Love, Relationship, Marriage

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• Your destiny is too great, your assignment too important, your time too valuable. Don't let fear intimidate you.

  Joel Osteen

  Life, Destiny, Important

  Twitter post from Mar 24, 2013

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• Too many people think that finding the reason God placed us here on earth will come in one assignment with a big title and complete job description. I believe that discovering our purpose will unfold slowly, like a seed planted deep in the ground.

  Lysa TerKeurst

  Jobs, Believe, Thinking

  Lysa TerKeurst (2009). “Becoming More Than a Good Bible Study Girl”, p.194, Thomas Nelson

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• There are no trivial assignments in the work of the Lord.

  Vance Havner

  Lord

  Vance Havner (2014). “Day by Day”, Solid Christian Books

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• If I can assign names as well as pictures to objects, the right assignment of them we may call truth, and the wrong assignment of them falsehood.

  Socrates

  Names, May, Wells

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• The most work he did on [the urinals] was to run a brush once or twice apiece, singing some song as loud as he could in time to the swishing brush; then he'd splash in some Clorox and he'd be through. ... And when the Big Nurse...came in to check McMurphy's cleaning assignment personally, she brought a little compact mirror and she held it under the rim of the bowls. She walked along shaking her head and saying, "Why, this is an outrage... an outrage..." at every bowl. McMurphy sidled right along beside her, winking down his nose and saying in answer, "No; that's a toilet bowl...a TOILET bowl.

  Ken Kesey

  Running, Song, Mcmurphy

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• No father, no son, no mother, no daughter should get so busy that he or she does not have time to study the scriptures and the words of modern prophets. None of us should get so busy that we crowd out contemplation and praying. None of us should become so busy in our formal Church assignments that there is no room left for quiet Christian service to our neighbors.

  Spencer W. Kimball

  Christian, Mother, Daughter

  Spencer W. Kimball (1981). “Priesthood”, Shadow Mountain

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• I think we listen to music because we want to be changed. Music is not solely for our entertainment. Music has such tremendous power to bring joy. To me, that's our job as artists. Not happiness, not a groove, whatever. You must bring joy. I think that's the assignment. I have no doubt about it.

  Bobby McFerrin

  Jobs, Artist, Thinking

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• Education is a lifetime assignment & terminates when you do.

  Orrin Woodward

  Lifetime

  Twitter post from Jun 11, 2016

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• I would have government defend the life and property of all citizens equally; protect all willing exchange; suppress and penalize all fraud, all misrepresentation, all violence, all predatory practices; invoke a common justice under law; and keep the records incidental to these functions. Even this is a bigger assignment than governments, generally, have proven capable of. Let governments do these things and do them well. Leave all else to men in free and creative effort.

  Leonard Read

  Letting Go, Men, Law

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• I realized that every lesson, conference, response, and assignment I taught must lead students away from me and toward their autonomy as literate people.

  Donalyn Miller

  People, Lessons, Taught

  Donalyn Miller (2010). “The Book Whisperer: Awakening the Inner Reader in Every Child”, p.16, John Wiley & Sons

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• The way to accomplish the assignment of truly living is to engage fully, richly, and deeply in the living of your dreams. We are made to dream and to live those dreams.

  Sark

  Dream, Way, Truly Living

  SARK (2009). “Make Your Creative Dreams Real: A Plan for Procrastinators, Perfectionists, Busy P”, p.35, Simon and Schuster

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• Making reality real is art's responsibility. It is a practical assignment, then, a self-assignment: to achieve, by a cultivated sensitivity for observing life, a capacity for receiving impressions, a lonely, unremitting, unaided, unaidable vision, and transferring this vision without distortion to it onto the pages of a novel, where, if the reader is so persuaded, it will turn into the reader's illusion.

  Eudora Welty

  Lonely, Art, Real

  Eudora Welty (2011). “On Writing”, p.53, Modern Library

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• ...just like some people's instinct to photograph is triggered by vacation... assignments might be that to me and that's why I've built my life around assignments. That was the way to live the photographic life.

  Sam Abell

  Vacation, People, Way To Live

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• Unless i'm reading an assignment or doing a paper or taking a test, i'm thinking about you.

  Virginia C. Andrews

  Reading, Thinking About You, Young Love

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• Our assignment was to topple this prudish, judgmental civilization. And it worked.

  Timothy Leary

  Civilization, Judgmental

  Timothy Leary (2001). “Your Brain Is God”, p.104, Ronin Publishing

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• If he'd expected to be pampered and coddled through his undercover assignments, he would have gone to work for the CIA.

  Julie James

  Gone, Cia, Undercover

  Julie James (2011). “A Lot Like Love”, p.94, Penguin

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• Really, Sage? A date?” I sighed. “Yes, Adrian. A date.” “A real date. Not, like, doing homework together,” he added. “I mean like where you go out to a movie or something. And a movie that’s not part of a school assignment. Or about something boring.” “A real date.

  Richelle Mead

  Real, School, Mean

  Richelle Mead (2012). “The Golden Lily: A Bloodlines Novel”, p.61, Penguin

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• The easiest thing I do is assignment songs. They tell me what they need me to write. I can do that fairly quickly. Writing for an orchestra is difficult. Writing songs [on your own] is most difficult of all. Though [writing for] the orchestra is close.

  Randy Newman

  Song, Writing, Needs

  Interview with Joshua Klein, pitchfork.com. October 27, 2008.

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• Our assignment is not only to make visits but to consistently carry the Spirit into homes, to bless families with the pure love of Christ, to inspire, encourage, lift, and fortify. Every home is in need of additional support. Visiting teachers bring that blessed reinforcement. It is a sacred trust we have been given. We can overcome the obstacles.

  Bonnie D. Parkin

  Teacher, Blessed, Home

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• Try your best to make goodness attractive. That's one of the toughest assignments you'll ever be given.

  Fred Rogers

  Trying, Goodness, Attractive

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• I was years older than you when I became an ambassador for the first time. Remember that, Tycho? How did we get through that assignment, anyway?” “Pretty much, we opened fire on everyone who disagreed with us.” Wedge nodded and turned to his daughter. “When all else fails, just do that.

  Aaron Allston

  Daughter, Fire, Years

  Aaron Allston (2008). “Fury: Star Wars Legends (Legacy of the Force)”, p.278, Del Rey

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• Anyone graduating from medical school in 1966 had first to fulfill military service before launching a career. Fiercely opposed to the Vietnam War, I sought to avoid it through an assignment to the Public Health Service.

  Harold E. Varmus

  Military, War, School

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