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• The market economy is deeply congruent with the values set out in the Hebrew Bible. Material prosperity is a divine blessing. Poverty crushes the spirit as well as the body, and its alleviation is a sacred task. Work is a noble calling.

  Jonathan Sacks

  Crush, Blessing, Noble

  "Rediscovering Religious Values in the Market Economy" by Chief Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 12, 2011.

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• Let me remind you all that the first task of American foreign policy is to reduce threats to the United States.

  Michael Mandelbaum

  United States, Firsts, Threat

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• I have great energy and I have great tasks ahead of me.

  Garry Kasparov

  Energy

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• A man's labor is not only his capital but his life. When it passes it returns never more. To utilize it, to prevent its wasteful squandering, to enable the poor man to bank it up for use hereafter, this surely is one of the most urgent tasks before civilization.

  William Booth

  Work, Men, Civilization

  William Booth (1890). “In Darkest England, and the Way Out”

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• No task is more difficult than systematic hypocrisy.

  Edward George, Baron George

  Hypocrisy, Systematic, Difficult

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• Clearly our first task is to use the material wealth of space to solve the urgent problems we now face on Earth: to bring the poverty-stricken segments of the world up to a decent living standard, without recourse to war or punitive action against those already in material comfort; to provide for a maturing civilization the basic energy vital to its survival.

  Gerard K. O'Neill

  War, Space, Civilization

  "The High Frontier: Human Colonies in Space". Book by Gerard K. O'Neill, 1976.

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• I feel like when the task is more difficult for me it's more exciting.

  Victoria Azarenka

  Exciting, Difficult, Feels

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• I really enjoy the iPad because you can multi-task: I can watch a movie, read, look at pictures that I shot - because I'm into photography. It serves a lot of purposes for me.

  Tyson Chandler

  Photography, Ipads, Watches

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• If you think about it, the historian's task is like that of the detective.

  David Herbert Donald

  Thinking, Detectives, Historian

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• We all join the President in applauding the sacrifices made by our brave men and women in uniform. But we must continue to provide them the tools they need to accomplish the difficult tasks they face.

  Dick Durbin

  Sacrifice, Men, Brave

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• In America, we no longer have an institutionalized, organized way of calling business to task - of taking them to account for what they've done - and this is especially true in the cultural realm.

  Thomas Frank

  America, Calling, Done

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• Writing a great script - not just a good one, but a great one - is almost an impossible task.

  Michael Arndt

  Writing, Scripts, Impossible

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• Our yearning for democracy is accompanied by a no less profound yearning for peace. And the media also faced the task of historical engineering to establish this required truth. We therefore have phenomena called 'peace missions' and the 'peace process'. These are terms that apply to whatever the United States happens to be doing or advocating at some moment... in short, 'War is Peace'.

  Noam Chomsky

  War, Engineering, Media

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• If you walk along the street you will encounter a number of scientific problems. Of these, about 80 per cent are insoluble, while 19½ per cent are trivial. There is then perhaps half a per cent where skill, persistence, courage, creativity and originality can make a difference. It is always the task of the academic to swim in that half a per cent, asking the questions through which some progress can be made.

  Hermann Bondi

  Creativity, Science, Persistence

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• It becomes a giant's task to compute the result when the effect of cross seas, wind at all angles and ever varying force, arched surfaces, head resistance, ratio of weight to area, and the intelligence of the guiding power crop up.

  Lawrence Hargrave

  Wind, Sea, Ratios

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• Tragically, the White House Task Force on Disadvantaged Youth reported that one-quarter of our young people are at serious risk of not achieving productive adulthood.

  Ruben Hinojosa

  White, People, House

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• I enter my studio at 9 a.m. I have lunch here, I return right away to my work and I go out to dinner at 8 p.m. My daily tasks vary very much.

  Oscar Niemeyer

  Daily Tasks, Lunch, Dinner

  "Oscar Niemeyer Talks About Brasilia, Communism, Regrets". Interview with Michael Luongo, www.bloomberg.com. December 7, 2012.

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• War drags human beings from their tasks of building and improving, and pushes them en masse into the category of destroyers and killers.

  Helen and Scott Nearing

  War, Killers, Building

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• We come here because we too feel a responsibility for the human community. To preserve and develop a human quality of life is the common responsibility of us all. It is not fitting that those concerned with the various aspects of the human be alienated from each other. Both you and ourselves represent forces too profound and aim at objectives too significant for either of us to succeed completely without the assistance of the other. The urgency of our work impels us to get on with our common task lest a new period of disaster erupt over the Earth.

  Thomas Berry

  Responsibility, Profound, Community

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• Juggling work and parental responsibilities is no easy task, but I'm trying my best and just like everything else there are good days and there are bad days.

  Ali Landry

  Responsibility, Good Day, Bad Day

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• I don't have a problem with delegation. I love to delegate. I am either lazy enough, or busy enough, or trusting enough, or congenial enough, that the notion leaving tasks in someone else's lap doesn't just sound wise to me, it sounds attractive.

  John Ortberg

  Wise, Leaving, Lazy

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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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• In 1947 I defended my thesis on nuclear physics, and in 1948 I was included in a group of research scientists whose task was to develop nuclear weapons.

  Andrei Sakharov

  Groups, Nuclear, Research

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• Most incredible, however, are the times we know Christ is with us in the midst of our daily, routine lives. In the middle of cleaning the house or driving somewhere in the pick-up, He stops us. . . in our tracks and makes His presence known. Often it's in the middle of the most mundane task that He lets us know He is there with us. We realize, then, that there can be no "ordinary" moments for people who live their lives with Jesus.

  Michael Card

  Jesus, Routine Life, People

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• To occupy yourself with tasks that are useful to yourself and others, you can get your mind off your problems.

  Frederick Lenz

  Happiness, Buddhism, Occupy Yourself

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