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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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• Hark! the hours are softly calling Bidding Spring arise To listen to the rain-drops falling From the cloudy skies To listen to Earth’s weary voices Louder every day Bidding her no longer linger On her charm’d way But hasten to her task of beauty Scarcely yet begun.

  Adelaide Anne Procter

  Spring, Rain, Fall

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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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• ...we discovered that education is not something which the teacher does, but that it is a natural process which develops spontaneously in the human being. It is not acquired by listening to words, but in virtue of experiences in which the child acts on his environment. The teacher's task is not to talk, but to prepare and arrange a series of motives for cultural activity in a special environment made for the child.

  Maria Montessori

  Teacher, Children, Listening

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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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• As you reach for understanding, you find that your ladder of facts isn’t long enough, and you try to extend it by adding a rung of faith. Eventually you see that the task is hopeless, and you put away your ladder of facts and go get a ladder of faith.

  Robert Breault

  Faith, Long, Understanding

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• Life is a series of tasks that you absolutely must get done before they don't matter any more.

  Robert Breault

  Perspective, Done, Matter

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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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• A child must feel the flush of victory and the heart-sinking of disappointment before he takes with a will to the tasks distasteful to him and resolves to dance his way through a dull routine of textbooks.

  Helen Keller

  Education, Children, Disappointment

  Helen Keller (2016). “The Story of My Life”, p.26, Om Books International

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• It is always the task of the intellectual to "think otherwise." This is not just a perverse idiosyncrasy. It is an absolutely essential feature of a society.

  Harvey Cox

  Thinking, Intellectual, Essentials

  Harvey Cox (2013). “The Secular City: Secularization and Urbanization in Theological Perspective”, p.270, Princeton University Press

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• It is the task of radical thought, since the world is given to us unintelligibly, to make it more unintelligible, more enigmatic, more fabulous.

  Jean Baudrillard

  World, Fabulous, Given

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• We cannot perform our tasks to the best of our power, unless we think well of our own capacity.

  William Godwin

  Thinking, Capacity, Wells

  William Godwin (1831). “Thoughts on Man, His Nature, Productions, and Discoveries: Interspersed with Some Particulars Respecting the Author”, p.345

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• Too many so-called leaders of the movement have been made into celebrities and their revolutionary fervor destroyed by mass media. They become Hollywood objects and lose identification with the real issues. The task is to transform society; only the people can do that

  Huey Newton

  Real, Media, Issues

  Huey P. Newton (2009). “Revolutionary Suicide: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.242, Penguin

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• Reading and life are not separate but symbiotic. And for this serious task of imaginative discovery and self-discovery, there is and remains one perfect symbol: the printed book.

  Julian Barnes

  Book, Reading, Discovery

  "Julian Barnes: my life as a bibliophile" by Julian Barnes, www.theguardian.com. June 29, 2012.

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• It is the task of the architect to give life a gentler structure.

  Alvar Aalto

  Giving, Architecture, Structure

  "Aalto in Finland" by R.W. Apple, Jr., www.nytimes.com. November 26, 1978.

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• The first animals to be successfully domesticated were dogs, which were a big help because they would bark all night and fetch thrown sticks, thereby freeing humans from having to perform these tedious yet vital tasks.

  Dave Barry

  Funny, Dog, Humorous

  Dave Barry (2011). “Dave Barry Hits Below the Beltway”, p.11, Ballantine Books

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• I have been aware all the time that my peoples, spread far and wide throughout every continent and ocean in the world, were united to support me in the task to which I have now been dedicated with such solemnity.

  Queen Elizabeth II

  Ocean, Support, World

  Queen Elizabeth II's Speech on her Coronation Day, www.royal.uk. June 2, 1953.

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• Now, the vicissitudes that afflict the individual have their source in society. It is this situation that has given currency to the phrase social forces. Personal relations have given way to impersonal ones. The Great Society has arrived and the task of our generation is to bring it under control. The study of how it is to be done is the function of politics.

  Aneurin Bevan

  Our Generation, Generations, Phrases

  David A. Reisman, Aneurin Bevan (1996). “In Place of Fear”, Pickering & Chatto Publishers

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• The task of the educator is to make the child's spirit pass again where its forefathers have gone, moving rapidly through certain stages but suppressing none of them. In this regard, the history of science must be our guide.

  Henri Poincare

  Children, Moving, History

  "'La logique et l'intuition dans la science mathématique et dans l'enseignement' ('Logic and intuition in the science of mathematics and in teaching')". Book by Henri Poincare, 1899.

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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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• The business, task or object of the scientific study of languages will if possible be 1) to trace the history of all known languages. Naturally this is possible only to a very limited extent and for very few languages.

  Ferdinand de Saussure

  Study, Language, Objects

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• The search for a personal identity is the life task of a teenager.

  Haim Ginott

  Teenager, Identity, Personal Identity

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• To mean understandings, it is sufficient honour to be numbered amongst the lowest labourers of learning; but different abilities must find different tasks. To hew stone, would have been unworthy of Palladio; and to have rambled in search of shells and flowers, had but ill suited with the capacity of Newton.

  Samuel Johnson

  Flower, Mean, Science

  Samuel Johnson (1823). “The Works of Samuel Johnson: LL.D. A New Edition in Twelve Volumes. With an Essay on His Life and Genius, by Arthur Murphy, Esq”, p.76

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• I do believe that there are some universal cognitive tasks that are deep and profound - indeed, so deep and profound that it is worthwhile to understand them in order to design our displays in accord with those tasks.

  Edward Tufte

  Believe, Order, Profound

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