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• Every one of course represents the spirit of his age, but there is an eternal aspect of the Spirit of every age which may be caught. To recreate the past from the mutilated fragments of the present is the task of the Historian.

  Oscar Wilde

  Past, Age, May

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• Our task as image-bearing, God-loving, Christ-shaped, Spirit-filled Christians, following Christ and shaping our world, is to announce redemption to a world that has discovered its fallenness, to announce healing to a world that has discovered its brokenness, to proclaim love and trust to a world that knows only exploitation, fear and suspicion.

  N. T. Wright

  Christian, Healing, Our World

  "The Challenge of Jesus: Rediscovering Who Jesus Was and Is". Book by N. T. Wright, 1999.

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• The task of the church is to make the invisible Kingdom visible through faithful Christian living and witness-bearing .

  J. I. Packer

  Christian, Faithful, Church

  J. I. Packer (2001). “Concise Theology: A Guide to Historic Christian Beliefs”, p.194, Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.

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• What sets disciplined people apart? - The capacity to get past distractions. Focus on the task at hand.

  Bill Parcells

  Past, Hands, People

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• The task of life is to face sacred moments.

  Abraham Joshua Heschel

  Sacred, Faces, Life Is

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• Any of us probably could do more important things than we are doing. Any of us could use some changes in our tasks. But none of us - and still stay alive and sane - could do without something to do.

  L. Ron Hubbard

  Important, Use, Alive

  L. Ron Hubbard (2007). “The Problems of Work: Scientology Applied to the Workaday World”, p.39, Bridge Publications, Inc.

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• Here's why this matters: Studies show that a person who is interrupted takes 50 percent longer to accomplish a task. Not only that, he or she makes up to 50 percent more errors.

  John Medina

  Errors, Matter, Study

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• Concentrate on something useful. Having decided to achieve a task, achieve it at all costs.

  Arnold Bennett

  Procrastination, Cost, Achieve

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• To reverse the trend and reduce the role of government in our lives, and thus alleviate the government deficit and inflation pressures, is a giant educational task. The social and economic ideas that gave birth to the transfer system must be discredited and replaced with old values of individual independence and self-reliance. The social philosophy of individual freedom and unhampered private property must again be our guiding light.

  Hans F. Sennholz

  Educational, Philosophy, Self

  Hans F. Sennholz (1979). “Age of inflation”

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• If you are already an awakened soul,
  Then you must realise
  That God has already given you
  A supreme task to perform:
  He wants you to work
  For His Vision's world-blossoms.

  Sri Chinmoy

  Soul, Vision, World

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• As soon as I finished the Russian course, I was sent to Korea with the task of trying to establish an agent network, a network in the so called maritime provinces.

  George Blake

  Korea, Kgb, Trying

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• Keeping the daily demands of life in balance is one of the great tasks of mortality. There is no peace for those whose lives are out of balance temporally or spiritually.

  Brent L. Top

  Balance, Demand, Mortality

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• It is easy to rationalize that we don't have time to exercise. Not so. Ultimately, our improved health through exercise will provide us more time and energy to accomplish other tasks. We can usually do about whatever we want to-if we want to badly enough.

  Joe J. Christensen

  Exercise, Energy, Want

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• Your task is to stand straight; not to be held straight.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Character

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• Unfortunately, I have dedicated great effort to the task of compiling this ‘sensitive words glossary,’ and I have mastered my filtering skills. I knew which words and sentences had to be cut, and I accepted the cutting as if that was the way it should be. In fact, I will often take it on myself to save time and cut a few words. I call this ‘castrated writing’ - I am a proactive eunuch, I have already castrated myself before the surgeon raises his scalpel.

  Murong Xuecun

  Writing, Cutting, Skills

  "Words We Can Use, and Those We Can Not". www.nytimes.com. February 24, 2011.

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• Since the purpose of reading, of education, is to become good, our most important task is to choose the right books. Our personal set of stories, our canon, shapes our lives. I believe it is a law of the universe that we will not rise above our canon. Our canon is part of us, deeply, subconsciously. And the characters and teachings in our canon shape our characters--good, evil, mediocre, or great.

  Oliver DeMille

  Believe, Book, Teaching

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• We must now face the difficult task of moving towards a single economy, a single political entity .. For the first time since the fall of the Roman Empire we have the opportunity to unite Europe.

  Romano Prodi

  Moving, Fall, Opportunity

  "Greek debt crisis prompts fears of EU disintegration" by Toby Helm, www.theguardian.com. June 25, 2011.

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• The trebling of the population in this small and impoverished country, flowing with milk and honey but not with sufficient water, rich in rocks and sand dunes but poor in natural resources and vital raw materials, has been no easy task: Indeed, practical men, with their eyes fixed upon things as they are, regarded it as an empty and insubstantial utopian dream.

  David Ben-Gurion

  Country, Dream, Eye

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• It may be true that the weak will always be driven to the wall; but it is the task of a just society to see that the wall is climbable.

  Sydney J. Harris

  Wall, Weak Will, Justice

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• You know, sometimes I get moments of inspiration when I'm writing something and then the task seems so daunting that it just kind of scares me away.

  Adam Pascal

  Inspiration, Writing, Scare

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• I would love to expose multiple younger generations to Frank's music. It's not an easy task because It's not ever going to be plastered all over the radio for the masses.

  Dweezil Zappa

  Love, Generations, Radio

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• I have now taken a serious task upon myself and I fear a greater one that is in the power of any man to perform in the given time-but it is too late to go back.

  Eli Whitney

  Taken, Power, Men

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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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• Play permits the child to resolve in symbolic form unsolved problems of the past and to cope directly or symbolically with present concerns. It is also his most significant tool for preparing himself for the future and its tasks.

  Bruno Bettelheim

  Children, Past, Play

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• We had to do the same thing here. To top that sequel was quite a task. Mike had a couple of good conceptual humour and character ideas, which got me back into it.

  Jay Roach

  Couple, Character, Ideas

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

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