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• Just once I wanted a task that required all the joy I had. Day after day I had noticed that if I waited long enough, my strong unexpressed joy would dwindle and dissipate inside me, like a fire subsiding . . . . Just this once I wanted to let it rip.

  Annie Dillard

  Strong, Rip, Fire

  Annie Dillard (1994). “The Annie Dillard reader”, Harpercollins

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• Who is the happy Warrior? Who is he
  That every man in arms should wish to be?
  It is the generous spirit, who, when brought
  Among the tasks of real life, hath wrought
  Upon the plan that pleased his boyish thought:
  Whose high endeavors are an inward light
  That makes the path before him always bright:
  Who, with a natural instinct to discern
  What knowledge can perform, is diligent to learn;
  And in himself posses his own desire

  William Wordsworth

  Happiness, Real, Warrior

  'Character of the Happy Warrior' (1807)

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• The task for us now, if we are to survive, is to build the earth.

  Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

  World, Earth, Ifs

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• All too often we say of a man doing a good job that he is indispensable. A flattering canard, as so many disillusioned and retired and fired have discovered when the world seems to keep on turning without them. In business, a man can come nearest to indispensability by being dispensable in his current job. How can a man move up to new responsibilities if he is the only one able to handle his present tasks? It matters not how small or large the job you now have, if you have trained no one to do it as well, you're not available; you've made your promotion difficult if not impossible.

  Malcolm Forbes

  Jobs, Moving, Responsibility

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• Technology means the systematic application of scientific or other organized knowledge to practical tasks.

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  Wisdom, Knowledge, Mean

  John Kenneth Galbraith (2015). “The New Industrial State”, p.14, Princeton University Press

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• If anything is evident about people who manage money, it is that the task attracts a very low level of talent, one that is protected in its highly imperfect profession by the mystery that is thought to enfold the subject of economics in general and of money in particular.

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  Money, People, Levels

  John Kenneth Galbraith (2017). “Money: Whence It Came, Where It Went”, p.348, Princeton University Press

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• We want the full works of citizenship with no reservations. We will accept nothing less . . . This condition of freedom, equality, and democracy is not the gift of gods. It is the task of men, yes, men, brave men, honest men, determined men.

  A. Philip Randolph

  Men, Brave, Democracy

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• Science is a capital or fund perpetually reinvested; it accumulates, rolls up, is carried forward by every new man. Every man of science has all the science before him to go upon, to set himself up in business with. What an enormous sum Darwin availed himself of and reinvested! Not so in literature; to every poet, to every artist, it is still the first day of creation, so far as the essentials of his task are concerned. Literature is not so much a fund to be reinvested as it is a crop to be ever new-grown.

  John Burroughs

  Art, Science, Men

  John Burroughs (1905). “The Writings of John Burroughs”

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• More than ten million women march to work every morning side by side with the men. Steadily the importance of women is gaining notonly in the routine tasks of industry but in executive responsibility. I include also the woman who stays at home as the guardian of the welfare of the family. She is a partner in the job and wages. Women constitute a part of our industrial achievement.

  Herbert Hoover

  Morning, Jobs, Women

  Herbert Hoover (1929). “The New Day: Campaign Speeches of Herbert Hoover, 1928”, p.63, Stanford University Press

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• We simply must have faith in each other, faith in our ability to govern ourselves, and faith in the future of this Nation. Restoring that faith and that confidence to America is now the most important task we face.

  Jimmy Carter

  Faith, Confidence, America

  Energy and the National Goals - A Crisis of Confidence, delivered 15 July, 1979

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• The work of adult life is not easy. As in childhood, each step presents not only new tasks of development but requires a letting go of the techniques that worked before. With each passage some magic must be given up, some cherished illusion of safety and comfortably familiar sense of self must be cast off, to allow for the greater expansion of our distinctiveness.

  Gail Sheehy

  Letting Go, Self, Safety

  Gail Sheehy (1977). “Passages: Predictable Crises of Adult Life”, Bantam

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• The task of man is not to discover new worlds, but to discover his own world in terms of human comprehension and beauty.

  Archibald MacLeish

  Beauty, Men, World

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• When Shakespeare copied chroniclers verbatim, it was because he knew they were good enough for his audiences. In a more polished age he who could so move our passions, could surely have performed the easier task of satisfying our taste.

  Horace Walpole

  Moving, Passion, Age

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• To endure oneself may be the hardest task in the universe. You cannot hire a wise man or any other intellect to solve it for you. There's no writ of inquest or calling of witness to provide answers.

  Frank Herbert

  Wise, Men, May

  Frank Herbert (2008). “Dune Messiah”, p.99, Penguin

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• The most important preliminary to the task of arranging one's life so that one may live fully and comfortably within one's daily budget of 24 hours is the calm realization of the extreme difficulty of the task, of the sacrifices and the endless effort which it demands.

  Arnold Bennett

  Life, Sacrifice, Effort

  Arnold Bennett (2006). “How to Live on 24 Hours a Day”, p.19, Filiquarian Publishing, LLC.

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• If we dedicate ourselves over and over again to the goal of climbing one peak to the next...resisting the urge to become discouraged by the task-every one of us can become a high achiever.

  John R Noe

  Climbing, Goal, Next

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• A word can be transformed into a coulour, light, a smell; it is the writer's task to use it in such a way that it serves, never fails, can never be ignored.

  Knut Hamsun

  Light, Smell, Use

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• On the theory of the soul's mortality, the inferiority of women's capacity is easily accounted for: Their domestic life requires no higher faculties either of mind or body. This circumstance vanishes and becomes absolutely insignificant, on the religious theory: The one sex has an equal task to perform as the other: Their powers of reason and resolution ought also to have been equal, and both of them infinitely greater than at present.

  David Hume

  Religious, Sex, Women

  David Hume, Richard H. Popkin (1998). “Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion (Second Edition)”, p.93, Hackett Publishing

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• I am convinced that nothing will happen to me, for I know the greatness of the task for which Providence has chosen me.

  Adolf Hitler

  Greatness, Comedy, Providence

  Adolf Hitler (1942). “The Speeches of Adolf Hitler: April 1922-August 1939”

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• Go on day by day fulfilling the task of the day, and leaving the results with God.

  F.B. Meyer

  Leaving, Goes On, Results

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• If we do not roll up our sleeves to the task of the Gospel in our days, then we will amount to virtually nothing for God.

  Alistair Begg

  Sleeves, Ifs, Amount

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• Metaphysics must be based on what exists, for it has the task of explicating it.

  Franz Grillparzer

  Metaphysics, Empiricism

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• I live for those who love me,
  Whose hearts are kind and true;
  For the Heaven that smiles above me,
  And awaits my spirit too;
  For all human ties that bind me,
  For the task by God assigned me,
  For the bright hopes yet to find me,
  And the good that I can do.

  George Linnaeus Banks

  Life, Hope, Heart

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• The things that haven't been done before, Are the tasks worthwhile today; Are you one of the flock that follows, or Are you one that shall lead the way? Are you one of the timid souls that quail At the jeers of a doubting crew, Or dare you, whether you win or fail, Strike out for a goal that's new?

  Edgar Guest

  Winning, Goal, Soul

  Edgar Albert Guest, “Things That Haven't Been Done Before”

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• I think that the Court's task, in this as in all areas of constitutional adjudication, is not responsibly aided by the uncritical invocation of metaphors like the ' wall of separation,' a phrase nowhere to be found in the Constitution.

  Potter Stewart

  Christian, Religious, Wall

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