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As you reach for understanding, you find that your ladder of facts isnâ€™t long enough, and you try to extend it by adding a rung… — Robert Breault
Our task shouldn't be punishing the villains in our lives, but enlarging the God who heals us from all wounds. — Mary E. DeMuth
Life is not primarily a quest for pleasure, as Freud believed, or a quest for power, as Alfred Adler taught, but a quest for meaning.… — Viktor E. Frankl
To keep Nigeria ONE, is a task that must be DONE... — Barack Obama
Lay hold of today's task, and you will not depend so much upon tomorrow's. — Seneca the Younger
When his (the good ruler's) task is accomplished and his work done, The people all say, "It happened to us naturally. — Laozi
When one is required to preside over the Church, and be entrusted with the care of so many souls, the whole female sex must retire… — Saint John Chrysostom
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… — Abraham Lincoln
No task, rightly done, is truly private. It is part of the world s work. — Woodrow Wilson
The search for a personal identity is the life task of a teenager. — Haim Ginott
To sense when a teenager needs understanding and when misunderstanding is a difficult and delicate task. The sad truth is that no matter how wise… — Haim Ginott
Great abilities are not requisite for an Historian; for in historical composition, all the greatest powers of the human mind are quiescent. He has facts… — Samuel Johnson
Mankind always sets itself only such tasks as it can solve; since, looking at the matter more closely, we will always find that the task… — Karl Marx
It is the task of radical thought, since the world is given to us unintelligibly, to make it more unintelligible, more enigmatic, more fabulous. — Jean Baudrillard
The Ninety-Ninety Rule of Project Schedules - the first ninety percent of the task takes ninety percent of the time, and the last ten percent… — Arthur Bloch
Too many so-called leaders of the movement have been made into celebrities and their revolutionary fervor destroyed by mass media. They become Hollywood objects and… — Huey Newton
Reading and life are not separate but symbiotic. And for this serious task of imaginative discovery and self-discovery, there is and remains one perfect symbol:… — Julian Barnes
We are trying to remake Vietnamese society, a task which certainly cannot be accomplished by force and which probably cannot be accomplished by any means… — J. William Fulbright
It is the task of the architect to give life a gentler structure. — Alvar Aalto
... when something is detestable, and yet inevitable, what one must do is not merely to endure it-a hard task whatever one may do-but find… — Henry de Montherlant

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