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• To ward off disease or recover health, people as a rule find it easier to depend on healers than to attempt the more difficult task of living wisely.

  Rene Dubos

  Healing, People, Disease

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• The awareness that we cultivate is what makes yoga a practice, rather than a task or a goal to be completed. Your body will most likely become much more flexible by doing yoga, and so will your mind.

  Cyndi Lee

  Yoga, Practice, Goal

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• I lay my tasks down one by one; I sit in the silence of twilight grace. Out of the shadows, deep and dun, Steals, like a star, my Baby's face. .... I will take up my work once more, As if I had never laid it down. Who will dream that I ever wore, In triumph, motherhood's sacred crown? .... Nevertheless, the way is long, And tears leap up in the light of the sun. I'd give my world for a cradle-song, And a kiss from Baby?only one.

  Mary C. Ames

  Dream, Song, Baby

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• The task of the media in a democracy is not to ease the path of those who govern, but to make life difficult for them by constant vigilance as to how they exercise the power they only hold in trust from the people.

  Jimmy Reid

  Exercise, Media, People

  "We don't want a gravy train for the well-connected few" by Jimmy Reid, www.theguardian.com. September 29, 1999.

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• Extreme cold when it first arrives seems to generate cheerfulness and sociability. For a few hours all life's dubious problems are dropped in favor of the clear and congenial task of keeping alive.

  E. B. White

  Weather, Dubious, Alive

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• In military science there is a principle more important than "Forward": it is that the task should be proportionate to the means.

  Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

  Military, Mean, Important

  Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (1974). “August 1914”, Harmondsworth : Penguin

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• The key to managing fear and life's tasks is to take the time daily to get organized.

  Jude Bijou

  Keys, Organized

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• All of us in the Senate live in an iron lung-the iron lung of politics, and it is no easy task to emerge from that rarified atmosphere in order to breathe the same fresh air our constituents breathe.

  John F. Kennedy

  Air, Order, Iron

  John F. Kennedy (1964). “Profiles In Courage”

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• After two years studying what rewrite men did with the facts I phoned them, I knew that journalism was essentially a task of stringing together seamlessly an endless series of cliches.

  Russell Baker

  Men, Years, Two

  Russell Baker (1984). “Growing Up”, Signet Book

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• Life as we find it is too hard for us; it entails too much pain, too many disappointments, impossible tasks. We cannot do without palliative remedies.

  Sigmund Freud

  Pain, Disappointment, Too Much

  Sigmund Freud (1952). “Major Works”

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• The painter puts brush to canvas, and the poet puts pen to paper. The poet has the easier task, for his pen does not alter his rhyme.

  Robert Breault

  Art, Poetry, Doe

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• The Trojans lost the war because they fell for a really dumb trick. hey, there's a gigantic wooden horse outside and all the Greeks have left. Let's bring it inside! Not a formula for long-term survival. Now if they had formed a task force to study the Trojan Horse and report back to a committee, everyone wouldn't have been massacred.. Who says middle management is useless?

  Adam C. Engst

  Horse, War, Middle Management

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• To keep Nigeria ONE, is a task that must be DONE.

  Barack Obama

  Done, Nigeria

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• When his (the good ruler's) task is accomplished and his work done, The people all say, "It happened to us naturally.

  Laozi

  Leadership, People, Done

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• When one is required to preside over the Church, and be entrusted with the care of so many souls, the whole female sex must retire before the magnitude of the task, and the majority of men also.

  Saint John Chrysostom

  Sex, Men, Soul

  Saint Augustine (Bishop of Hippo.), Saint John Chrysostom (1983). “A Select Library of the Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers of the Christian Church”

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• It is rather suitable for umpires to dress like dentists, since one of their tasks is to draw stumps.

  John Arlott

  Umpires, Dresses, Dentist

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• To sense when a teenager needs understanding and when misunderstanding is a difficult and delicate task. The sad truth is that no matter how wise we are, we cannot be right for any length of time in our teenagers' eyes.

  Haim Ginott

  Wise, Teenager, Eye

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• Do not pray for easy lives. Pray to be stronger men! Do not pray for tasks equal to your powers. Prayer is not conquering God's reluctance, but taking hold of God's willingness.

  Phillips Brooks

  Prayer, Men, Stronger

  "Going up to Jerusalem", Twenty Sermons (p. 330), 1886.

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• Love is higher than opinion. If people love one another the most varied opinions can be reconciled - thus one of the most important tasks for humankind today and in the future is that we should learn to live together and understand one another. If this human fellowship is not achieved, all talk of development is empty.

  Rudolf Steiner

  Love Is, People, Important

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• We are here to live moment by moment, and each moment brings a task, a challenge, a goal. It's good to have big goals, but we need to connect the dots between where we are and where we are going, one day, one moment at a time.

  Dan Millman

  Sea, Goal, Challenges

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• The task is not to perfect yourself, it's to perfect your love.

  Jack Kornfield

  Perfect

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• It is vital that we serve each other in the kingdom. . . . So often, our acts of service consist of simple encouragement or of giving . . . help with mundane tasks, but what glorious consequences can flow . . . from small but deliberate deeds!

  Spencer W. Kimball

  Encouragement, Simple, Giving

  Spencer W. Kimball (1982). “The Teachings of Spencer W. Kimball, Twelfth President of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints”

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• Our task is not to liberate the oppressed, but to liberate the oppressors

  Nelson Mandela

  Oppressed, Oppressors

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• One of the essential tasks for living a wise life is letting go. Letting go is the path to freedom. It is only by letting go of the hopes, the fears, the pain, the past, the stories that have a hold on us that we can quiet our mind and open our heart.

  Jack Kornfield

  Letting Go, Wise, Pain

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• Don't ask for the task to be easy... just ask for it to be worth it
  Don't wish it was easier... wish you were better
  Don't ask for less challenge... ask for more skill
  Don't ask for less problems... and for more wisdom
  It's the challenge that makes the experience.
  Life and it's colour and meaning and adventure for you is this collection of experiences.
  To wish them away is to wish your life away.

  Jim Rohn

  Adventure, Skills, Challenges

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