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• Every person above the ordinary has a certain mission that they are called to fulfill.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Literature, Ordinary, Certain

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• The mission of art is to represent nature not to imitate her.

  William Morris Hunt

  Art, Art Is

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• We Christians are debtors to all men at all times in all places, but we are so smug to the lostness of men. We've been 'living in Laodicea,' lax, loose, lustful, and lazy. Why is there this criminal indifference to the lostness of men? Our condemnation is that we know how to live better than we are living.

  Leonard Ravenhill

  Christian, Men, Lazy

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• The Church must send or the church will end.

  Mendell Taylor

  Church, Missionary, Motto

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• To stay here and disobey God - I can't afford to take the consequence. I would rather go and obey God than to stay here and know that I disobeyed.

  Amanda Smith

  Christian, Missionary, Mission Trip

  Amanda Smith (2014). “The Colored Evangelist - The Story Of The Lord's Dealings With Mrs. Amanda Smith”, p.270, Jazzybee Verlag

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• It is the State which educates its citizens in civic virtue, gives them a consciousness of their mission and welds them into unity.

  Benito Mussolini

  Giving, Unity, Citizens

  Benito Mussolini (2012). “My Autobiography: With "The Political and Social Doctrine of Fascism"”, p.237, Courier Corporation

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• My background is in physics, so I was the mission specialist, who is sort of like the flight engineer on an airplane.

  Sally Ride

  Airplane, Flight, Physics

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• The Obama presidency has two great missions: fixing the economy, and preventing Iran from gaining nuclear weapons.

  Benjamin Netanyahu

  Usa, Two, Iran

  "Why Iran's Top Leaders Believe That the End of Days Has Come" by Joel C. Rosenberg, www.foxnews.com. November 7, 2011.

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• Our combat mission is ending, but our commitment to Iraq's future is not.

  Barack Obama

  Commitment, Iraq, Combat

  Address to the Nation on the End of Operation Iraqi Freedom, delivered 31 August 2010, Oval Office of the White House, Washington, D.C.

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• Give me one hundred preachers who fear nothing but sin and desire nothing but God, and I care not whether they be clergymen or laymen, they alone will shake the gates of Hell and set up the kingdom of Heaven upon Earth.

  John Wesley

  Giving, Heaven, Desire

  John Wesley (1960). “The Letters of the Rev. John Wesley ...”

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• I will have a one-hour program called the Mission Watch, where I will describe details of the mission and give additional information about the lessons from space.

  Christa McAuliffe

  Space, Giving, Details

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• Every shuttle mission's been successful.

  Christa McAuliffe

  Successful

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• There was only one catch and that was Catch-22. Orr would be crazy to fly more missions and sane if he didn't, but if he was sane he had to fly them. If he flew them he was crazy and didn't have to; but if he didn't want to he was sane and had to.

  Joseph Heller

  Crazy, Would Be, Want

  Catch-22 ch. 5 (1961).

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• It is the awareness of unfulfilled desires which gives a nation the feeling that it has a mission and a destiny.

  Eric Hoffer

  Fate, Frustration, Destiny

  Eric Hoffer (1955). “The passionate state of mind, and other aphorisms”

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• Then during the mission itself, I used the space shuttle's robot arm to release a satellite into orbit.

  Sally Ride

  Hands, Space, Orbit

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• Management must speak with one voice. When it doesn't management itself becomes a peripheral opponent to the team's mission.

  Pat Riley

  Sports, Volleyball, Team

  Pat Riley (1993). “The winner within: a life plan for team players”, Putnam Adult

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• A small body of determined spirits fired by an unquenchable faith in their mission can alter the course of history.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Leadership, Determination, Optimistic

  Mahatma Gandhi, Mohandas Gandhi, Homer A. Jack (2005). “The Wit and Wisdom of Gandhi”, p.55, Courier Corporation

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• Our ministry is supported entirely by faith, through the missions gifts of readers who receive my messages every three weeks. We seldom mention money, and we never burden supporters.

  David Wilkerson

  Faith, Three, Ministry

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• The question is what I wanted to do with the new life God has given me. This is the mission I want to take on.

  Billy Tauzin

  New Life, Want, Given

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• The mission of the press is to spread culture while destroying the attention span.

  Karl Kraus

  Culture, Attention, Literature

  Karl Kraus, Jonathan McVity (2001). “Dicta and Contradicta”, p.50, University of Illinois Press

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• My mission is to kill time, and time's to kill me in its turn. How comfortable one is among murderers.

  Emile M. Cioran

  Kill Me, Murderer, Turns

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• To a person in love, the value of the individual is intuitively known. Love needs no logic for its mission.

  Charles Lindbergh

  Love, Relationship, Intuition

  Charles A. Lindbergh (1992). “Autobiography of Values”, Harcourt

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• Mission accomplished? The mission in Iraq, as laid out by President Bush and Vice President Cheney, has failed.

  Robert Byrd

  Iraq, President, Vices

  "One year later, Bush defends Iraq speech" by Sean Loughlin, www.cnn.com. April 30, 2004.

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• I think my whole generation's mission is to kill the cliche.

  Beck

  Thinking, Generations, Cliche

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• There is no arguing with the pretenders to a divine knowledge and to a divine mission. They are possessed with the sin of pride, they have yielded to the perennial temptation.

  Walter Lippmann

  Pride, Temptation, Arguing

  Walter Lippmann (1955). “Essays in the Public Philosophy”, p.85, Transaction Publishers

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