"He who has a task to perform must know how to take sides, or he is quite unworthy of it."
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"One inconvenience... may attend bold and arduous attempts: frequent failure may discourage. This evil, however, is not more pernicious than the slow proficiency which is the natural consequence of too easy tasks."
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"If you are facing a difficult task don’t put it off. If you do it will just keep tormenting you."
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"I will never work merely to make a reputation for myself, to be popular for appearances rather than for what I am. My task is to lead my country through service."
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"It would be an endless task to trace the variety of meannesses, cares, and sorrows into which women are plunged by the prevailing opinion that they were created rather to feel than reason."
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"God exists or God does not exist. Leave it for us. Your task is to learn how to live peacefully."
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"A primary task of management in the developed countries in the decades ahead will be to make knowledge productive."
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"Lucidity's task: to attain a correct despair, an Olympian ferocity."
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"All my writings may be considered tasks imposed from within, their source was a fateful compulsion. What I wrote were things that assailed me from within myself. I permitted the spirit that moved me to speak out."
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"The military taught me the importance of getting something done in a timely manner and the importance of completing a mission on time. My lieutenant would say, 'If you don't, you die.' In many ways, life is the same. If you don't pay attention to a timeline, you lose out on the ability to accomplish the task at hand."
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"Sex can sometimes become the most horrible of tasks."
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"The United States has an isolationist and insular culture, combined with a global and interventionist posture. This highly dangerous and febrile mixture, which greatly facilitates the task of the fear-mongers and chauvinists, needs a very exact and nuanced diagnosis. I don't think that analogies from the totalitarian model, however suggestive, are sufficient."
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"Your ability to work with others on a complex task is a critical skill for advancement at work."
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"The stakes are immense, the task colossal, the time is short. But we may hope - we must hope - that man's own creation, man's own genius, will not destroy him."
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"Some men spend a lifetime in an attempt to comprehend the complexities of women. Others pre-occupy themselves with somewhat simpler tasks, such as understanding the theory of relativity!"
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"All of us desire a better state of society. But society cannot become better before two great tasks are performed.Unless peace can be firmly established and the prevailing obsession with money and power profoundly modified, there is no hope of any desirable change being made."
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"It is no easy task to be good."
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"I would like the government to do all it can to mitigate, then, in understanding, in mutuality of interest, in concern for the common good, our tasks will be solved."
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"Procrastination is attitude's natural assassin. There's nothing so fatiguing as an uncompleted task"
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"It seems to me that the conquest of the air is the only major task for our generation."
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