"An employer has no business with a man's personality... The task is not to change personality, but to enable a person to achieve and to perform."
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"Keep your eye on the task, not on yourself. The task matters, and you are a servant"
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"It is a difficult task, O citizens, to make speeches to the belly, which has no ears."
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"The most assiduous task of parenting is to divine the difference between boundaries and bondage."
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"...our best task is to move forward without insisting others slide backward."
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"[One task of intellectuals is] to break down the stereotypes and reductive categories that are . . . limiting to human thought and communication."
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"Keep us at tasks too hard for us that we may be driven to Thee for strength."
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"My approach is not a scientific approach. For that, we have greater minds than mine. My approach is: I am in the possession of a text, it has survived so many centuries, and it is my task, my pleasure, to try to decipher it and find all the things that have been said about these few words by generations and generations of commentators. That is what I'm doing. I don't innovate anything. I'm just repeating."
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"There's already a lot of self-exculpatory history being written. Right across the board. And it's my task to make sure that such self-exculpatory histories cannot be written."
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"When a wise man chooses a sane basis for his arguments, it is no great task to speak well."
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"It is not the writer's task to answer questions but to question answers. To be impertinent, insolent, and, if necessary, subversive."
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"Scientific physiology has the task of determining the functions of the animal body and deriving them as a necessary consequence from its elementary conditions."
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"The task of saving the earth's environment must and will become the central organizing principle of the post-Cold War world."
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"The writer cannot expect to be excused from the task of reeducation and regeneration that must be done. In fact, he should march right in front."
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"I think the cultural task is to separate our impulses and needs and desires from the supernatural and, above all, from the superstitious."
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"It is precisely as though I were possessed by some other spirit when I enter on a new task of acting, as though something within me presses a switch and my own consciousness merges into some other, greater, more vital being."
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"If there is any emergence of a fourth party in British politics, it is the task of the Liberal Party to strangle it at birth."
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"I'm always driven by something. It doesn't matter what it is, it could be the smallest task or something huge."
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"Mexico is divided over the results of its presidential election. The U.S.had offered to send in a task force to help determine the outcome, but unfortunately the Supreme Court is currently not in session."
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"None can teach admirably if not loving his task."
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