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"The moral task of man is a process of spiritualization. All creatures are go-betweens, and we are placed in time that by diligence in spiritual business we may grow liker and nearer to God. The aim of man is beyond the temporal - in the serene region of the everlasting Present."
"I'm focused on the task that lies ahead for us."
"The humblest tasks get beautified if loving hands do them."
"The greatest humanistic and historical task of the oppressed: to liberate themselves."
"Everybody has to share something. This is one of the most important laws of the human condition, is the necessity to share. This is the task of the writer - but not only of a writer, of every human being - it is to share something that he or she has."
"It is Easy to be a Hater. Go for the difficult Task: be a Lover!"
"There's nothing so useless than executing a task efficiently when it actually never should have been executed at all."
"Decision making is the specific executive task."
"It behooves those who take the young to task to leave them room for excuse, lest they drive them to be hardened by too much rebuke."
"It is not quite accurate to say that the objective of art is to represent what happens to us as a consequence of encountering the world. A fuller description of the task would be to say our aim is to discover what happens to us as we consider things."
"It is not for us . . . to send out missionaries to foreign peoples; it is our task to build up our own Western culture."
"I could well imagine that I might have lived in former centuries and there encountered questions I was not yet able to answer; that I had been born again because I had not fulfilled the task given to me."
"Nothing fails like success—because the self-imposed task of our society and all its members is a contradiction: to force things to happen which are acceptable only when they happen without force."
"The first task of the Magician in every ceremony is therefore to render his Circle absolutely impregnable."
"Ideas in the head set hands about their several tasks."
"A heavier task could not have been impos'd, Than I to speak my griefs unspeakable."
"By God, I cannot flatter, I do defy The tongues of soothers! but a braver place In my heart's love hath no man than yourself. Nay, task me to my word; approve me, lord."
"No task, rightly done, is truly private. It is part of the world s work."
"Those tasks that have been entrusted to us are difficult; almost everything serious is difficult; and everything is serious."
"Much is due to those who first broke the way to knowledge, and left only to their successors the task of smoothing it."
