"It is no easy task to lead men. But it is easy enough to drive them."
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"Each morning sees some task begun, each evening sees it close; Something attempted, something done, has earned a night's repose."
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"Knowledge is the source of Wealth. Applied to tasks we already know, it becomes Productivity. Applied to tasks that are new, it becomes Innovation."
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"The task is not done. The journey is not complete. We can and we must do more."
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"Tomorrow becomes never. No matter how small the task, take the first step now!"
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"Better to complete a small task well, than to do much imperfectly."
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"Our task is not to liberate the oppressed, but to liberate the oppressors"
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"My task, which I am trying to achieve is, by the power of the written word, to make you hear, to make you feel--it is, before all, to make you see."
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"It is not enough to understand, or to see clearly. The future will be shaped in the arena of human activity, by those willing to commit their minds and their bodies to the task."
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"Each morning sees some task begin, each evening sees it close."
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"Learning to trust is one of life's most difficult tasks."
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"Many instructional arrangements seem "contrived," but there is nothing wrong with that. It is the teacher's function to contrive conditions under which students learn. It has always been the task of formal education to set up behavior which would prove useful or enjoyable later in a student's life."
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"Our task is to take this earth so deeply and wholly into ourselves that it will resurrect within our being."
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"Taxation, gentlemen, is very much like dairy farming. The task is to extract the maximum amount of milk with the minimum amount of moo."
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"A spiritually established life is not an easy task. But a materially satisfied life is an impossible task."
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"Divine is the task to relieve pain"
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"It's not enough to do the tasks that are expected or required of us. We have to give more, do more, be more."
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"Every human being has a personal legend to be fulfilled, and this is our reason for being in the world. This personal legend manifests itself in our enthusiasm for the task."
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"This is the copywriters task: not to create mass desire — but to channel and direct it."
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"Life as we find it is too hard for us; it entails too much pain, too many disappointments, impossible tasks. We cannot do without palliative remedies."
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