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• Do not pray for easy lives. Pray to be stronger men.

  John F. Kennedy

  Inspirational, Life, Strength

  "Twenty Sermons". Book by Phillips Brooks, p. 330, 1886.

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• I look upon the People and the Nation as handed on to me as an responsibility conferred upon me by God, and I believe, as it is written in the Bible, that it is my duty to increase this heritage for which one day I shall be called upon to give an account. Whoever tries to interfere with my task I shall crush.

  Wilhelm II

  Crush, War, Believe

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• Far from failing in its intended task, our educational system is in fact succeeding magnificently, because its aim is to keep the American people thoughtless enough to go on supporting the system.

  Richard Mitchell

  Educational, School, America

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• One of the most important tasks is to broaden the energy supply ... Energy determines today international security and social as well as economic development in many respects. In reality the wellbeing of millions of people is directly dependent in energy security.

  Vladimir Putin

  Reality, People, Important

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• O, do not pray for easy lives.

  Phillips Brooks

  Strength, Being Strong, Stay Strong

  Phillips Brooks (1886). “Visions and Tasks: Sermons Fourth Series”

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• We appreciate the complicated and wonderful gifts you give us in each other. And we appreciate the task you put down before us, of loving each other the best we can, even as you love us.

  Kate DiCamillo

  Appreciate, Giving, Wonderful

  Kate DiCamillo (2013). “The Essential Kate DiCamillo Collection”, p.155, Candlewick Press

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• In hell there is no other punishment than to begin over and over again the tasks left unfinished in your lifetime.

  Andre Gide

  Punishment, Hell, Lifetime

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• Yours is not the task of making your way in the world, but the task of remaking the world which you will find before you.

  Harry S. Truman

  Inspirational Life, World, Way

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• Your task, O preacher, is to make sure that you are faithful to the text, that you are faithful to the proclamation of that gospel, that you are faithful to set forth the whole counsel of God, and then step back and let it happen.

  R. C. Sproul

  Faithful, Steps, Preacher

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• The real political task in a society such as ours is to criticize the workings of institutions that appear to be both neutral and independent, to criticize and attack them in such a manner that the political violence that has always exercised itself obscurely through them will be unmasked, so that one can fight against them.

  Michel Foucault

  Real, Independent, Fighting

  Noam Chomsky, Michel Foucault (2006). “The Chomsky - Foucault Debate: On Human Nature”, p.41, The New Press

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• It is our task-our essential, central, crucial task-to transform ourselves from mere social creatures into community creatures.

  M. Scott Peck

  Community, Essentials, Social

  M. Scott Peck (2010). “The Different Drum: Community Making and Peace”, p.165, Simon and Schuster

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• It is our task, both in science and in society at large, to prove the conventional wisdom wrong and to make our unpredictable dreams come true

  Freeman Dyson

  Dream, Unpredictable, Prove

  Freeman Dyson (2013). “FROM EROS TO GAIA”, p.94, Pantheon

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• It is for us to pray not for tasks equal to our powers, but for powers equal to our tasks, to go forward with a great desire forever beating at the door of our hearts as we travel toward our distant goal.

  Helen Keller

  Hard Work, Heart, Doors

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• Those who produce should have, but we know that those who produce the most - that is, those who work hardest, and at the most difficult and most menial tasks, have the least.

  Eugene V. Debs

  Should Have, Produce, Difficult

  "Walls and Bars". Book by Eugene V. Debs, 1927.

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• I always say that modernization is not an abstract thing; its a very specific task.

  Dmitry Medvedev

  Abstract, Modernization

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• Commercial interests with their advertising industry do not want people to develop contentment and less greed. Military interests in economic, political, ethnic or nationalist guises, do not want people to develop more tolerance, nonviolence and compassion. And ruling groups in general, in whatever sort of hierarchy do not want the ruled to become too insightful, too independent, too creative on their own, as the danger is that they will become insubordinate, rebellious, and unproductive in their alloted tasks.

  Robert Thurman

  Military, Creativity, Independent

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• Economic controversy is generally a thankless task. You cannot hope to make any impression on your opponent. Yet he is the only reader on whose interest you can count.

  Francis Ysidro Edgeworth

  Opponents, Economics, Impression

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• The most original thing a writer can do is write like himself. It is also his most difficult task.

  Robertson Davies

  Writing, Difficult, Can Do

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• The smallest task, well done, becomes a miracle of achievement

  Og Mandino

  Achievement, Miracle, Done

  Og Mandino (2011). “The Greatest Salesman in the World, Part II: The End of the Story”, p.125, Bantam

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• Comparing filmmaking to a plastic model, shooting is the process where you mold and color each piece, and editing is where you build a finished whole from the pieces you molded and colored. Obviously, the latter is the most enjoyable part in the making of plastic models, so editing is the process in filmmaking I enjoy the most. But at the same time, editing can be a painstaking task, too.

  Takeshi Kitano

  Editing, Color, Mold

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• It is not for us . . . to send out missionaries to foreign peoples; it is our task to build up our own Western culture.

  Carl Jung

  Western Culture, Culture, Western

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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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• It is Easy to be a Hater. Go for the difficult Task: be a Lover!

  Paulo Coelho

  Relationship, Lovers, Easy

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• Trying to be number one and trying to do a task well are two different things.

  Alfie Kohn

  Two, Numbers, Trying

  Alfie Kohn (2013). “No Contest: The Case Against Competition”, p.87, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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