"Two tasks at the beginning of your life: to narrow your orbit more and more, and ever and again to check whether you are not in hiding somewhere outside your orbit."
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"The task for a modern industrial society is to achieve what is now technically realizable, namely, a society which is really based on free voluntary participation of people who produce and create, live their lives freely within institutions they control, and with limited hierarchical structures, possibly none at all"
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"The main task of Socialism - the organization of Socialist production - remains still in the future."
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"My friends, this body - perhaps more than any other gathering in human history - now faces that difficult task."
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"If I thought that I could speak with discrimination and impartiality of the nations of Christendom, I should praise them, but it tasks me too much. They seem to be the most civil and humane, but I may be mistaken."
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"In today's world of technology we should no longer be using outdated paper processes to accomplish tasks such as requisitions, reports, approvals, and purchase orders"
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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"
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"Any task can be completed in only one-third more time than is currently estimated."
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"What plethora of material goods can possibly atone for a waking life so humanly belittling, if not degrading, as the push-button tasks left to human performers?"
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"The tasks I set out for myself are what I do to beat the perfect pointlessness of life."
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"I'm a recognizable person and some people feel the need for some reason to take me to task. You're really messing with the wrong person on that one."
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"I have been cautioned to talk but be careful not to say anything. I do not consider this a difficult task."
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"This [service to oppressed] is the writer's task, and, if he fulfills it as he should, he acquires no merit from it."
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"Do thine own task, and be therewith content."
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"Partnership is not a posture but a process-a continuous process that grows stronger each year as we devote ourselves to common tasks."
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"My task is to make you hear, feel and see. That and no more, and that is everything."
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"A couple's first task, it has always seemed to me, is to solve the problem of breakfast; if this can be worked out amicably, most other difficulties can too."
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"You speak of Lord Byron and me; there is this great difference between us. He describes what he sees I describe what I imagine. Mine is the hardest task."
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"No Task will be so sordid and base, provided you obey your calling in it, that it will not shine and be reckoned very precious in God's sight."
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"The task confronting contemporary man is to live with the hidden ground of his activities as familiarly as our literate predecessors lived with the figure minus ground."
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