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"It is a libel to suggest that children need rewards for attending to tasks, apart from intrinsic interest and satisfaction. Children work very hard in their purposeful endeavors in the world, when they have ends they want to accomplish themselves. It is meaningless teaching, not learning, that demands irrelevant incentives."
"The sole remaining task for philosophy is the analysis of language."
"The conservationist¹s most important task, if we are to save the Earth, is to educate."
"My friends I now leave, not knowing when, or whether ever, I may return, with a task before me greater than that which rested upon Washington. Without the assistance of that Divine Being, who ever attended him, I cannot succeed. With that assistance, I cannot fail."
"I really do like surprises. I'm not so talented at planning things out or having schedules before or sticking to the plan per se, but yeah I'm very much a spontaneous guy and it's sort of hard for me to multi-task and to have all these things going on at once."
"The Electric Monk was a labour-saving device, like a dishwasher or a video recorder... Electric Monks believed things for you, thus saving you what was becoming an increasingly onerous task, that of believing all the things the world expected you to believe."
"Whoever today speaks of human existence in terms of power, efficiency, and historical tasks is an actual or potential assassin."
"In hell there is no other punishment than to begin over and over again the tasks left unfinished in your lifetime."
"Our task is to create memes... Launch your meme boldly and see if it will replicate."
"Set the troops to their tasks without imparting your designs."
"One of the main tasks of theology is to find words that do not divide but unite, that do not create conflict but unity, that do not hurt but heal."
"Hitler produced a local "lab experiment"; he provided me with an ideology in the same way that Marx provided one for Lenin. My task is to turn this ideology into a world movement."
"For those who stubbornly seek freedom, there can be no more urgent task than to come to understand the mechanisms and practices of indoctrination. These are easy to perceive in the totalitarian societies, much less so in the system of 'brainwashing under freedom' to which we are subjected and which all too often we serve as willing or unwitting instruments."
"We must not just be in the world and above the world, but also of the world. To love it for what it is... is the only task. Avoid it and you are lost. Lose yourself in it, and you are free."
"Man's task is simple. He should cease letting his existence be a thoughtless accident."
"The task of the modern educator is not to cut down jungles but to irrigate deserts. The right defence against false sentiments is to inculcate just sentiments. By starving the sensibility of our pupils we only make them easier prey to the propagandist when he comes. For famished nature will be avenged and a hard heart is no infallible protection against a soft head."
"Our task is not to leave a record of what happened on this date for those who will inherit the Earth; history will take care of that."
"While it is good that we seek to know the Holy One, it is probably not so good to presume that we ever complete the task."
"The fact is that you can't do everything that you have to do. You have to procrastinate on something. Therefore, procrastinate on small tasks."
"A menial task which must be mine, that shall I glorify and make an art of it."
