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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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• I like shelves full of books in a library, but if all books become electronic, the task of big research libraries remains the same - keep what's published in the form in which it appeared.

  Nicholson Baker

  Book, Library, Research

  "Ask The Author Live: Nicholson Baker On The Kindle". Q&As, www.newyorker.com. July 24, 2009.

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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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• It's 5 P.M. at the office. Working fast, you've finished your tasks for the day and want to go home. But none of your colleagues have left yet, so you stay another hour or two, surfing the Web and reading your e-mails again, so you don't come off as a slacker. It's an unfortunate reality that efficiency often goes unrewarded in the workplace.

  Robert Pozen

  Reading, Home, Reality

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• Given political history in Chile, it seemed to me that there was a critical task of consolidating a democracy and creating healthy civic-military and political-military relationships.

  Michelle Bachelet

  Military, Creating, Political

  "Michelle, top woman in a macho world" by Diane Dixon, www.theguardian.com. April 02, 2006.

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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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• 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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• Like the philosopher, the author views his task as one of establishing a clear connection between life and history, and of making the past bear fruit for the present and future.

  Lion Feuchtwanger

  Writing, Past, Views

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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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• I have to make myself write, sometimes. In the space between poems, you somehow forget how to do it, where to begin. It was good to be task - based for a while. I just came downstairs each day, picked the one I was going to do that day, and wrote.

  Simon Armitage

  Writing, Space, Each Day

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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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• The primes are the raw material out of which we have to build arithmetic, and Euclid's theorem assures us that we have plenty of material for the task.

  G. H. Hardy

  Science, Raw Materials, Euclid

  G. H. Hardy (2012). “A Mathematician's Apology”, p.99, Cambridge University Press

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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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• Our bodies must always be wherever that struggle and the moment we forget that, the moment we become lazy, the moment we sit back, then then the evil ones do their ordained tasks to us.

  William Kunstler

  Struggle, Evil, Lazy

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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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• Unless we repeal the illegal Byrd amendment, American exports will be vulnerable to retaliation, and the U.S. will continue to face a difficult task convincing other countries to make their laws comply with international rules.

  Jim Ramstad

  Country, Law, Faces

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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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• 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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• Would-be novelists need to bring equal parts arrogance and ignorance to the task before them. The arrogance is almost self-explanatory. Walk into any bookstore or library, calculate how many lifetimes the average person would need to read all the fiction contained therein. To think that one has anything to contribute, to any genre or tradition, takes genuine hubris.

  Laura Lippman

  Ignorance, Writing, Thinking

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• The most important political task facing the out-of-power party - the Democrats for now - is creating a villain to run against. It's certainly easier than developing some grand new ideas or policies on which to campaign.

  Pat Sajak

  Running, Party, Ideas

  "Searching for the Next GOP Villain". www.jewishworldreview.com. April 18, 2005.

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• We're building an independent political program that can run electoral politics and then turn on a dime to hold our leaders to task, in case they suddenly develop that old case of amnesia! We'll be there to remind them what they promised and who they promised to work for!

  Richard Trumka

  Running, Independent, Leader

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