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The man who believes that the secrets of the world are forever hidden lives in mystery and fear. Superstition will drag him down. The rain… — Cormac McCarthy
Let me begin now, this very night, to emulate Christ. Cast off forever will be the old self and with it defeat, despair, doubt, and… — Thomas S. Monson
Whenever I have endured or accomplished some difficult task -- such as watching television, going out socially or sleeping -- I always look forward to… — Isaac Asimov
The important task of literature is to free man, not to censor him, and that is why Puritanism was the most destructive and evil force… — Anais Nin
Sociopathy is the inability to process emotional experience, including love and caring, except when such experience can be calculated as a coldly intellectual task. — Martha Stout
Fetching objects for people who are too lazy to fetch them for themselves is never a pleasant task, particularly when the people are insulting you. — Daniel Handler
Even the greatest fool can accomplish a task if it were after his or her heart. But the intelligent ones are those who can convert… — Swami Vivekananda
We think we can make honey without sharing in the fate of bees, but we are in truth nothing but poor bees, destined to accomplish… — Muriel Barbery
You display inordinate pride for someone who has completed a task which could have been performed by a lesser primate in a shorter time. — Eoin Colfer
The most important human endeavor is the striving for morality in our actions. Our inner balance and even our very existence depend on it. Only… — Albert Einstein
A cultured society that has fallen away from its religious traditions expects more from art than the aesthetic consciousness and the 'standpoint of art' can… — Hans-Georg Gadamer
We are all fixing what is broken. It is the task of a lifetime. We'll leave much unfinished for the next generation. — Abraham Verghese
Were you hoping for a quest? A seemingly impossible task that you could relay to your queen afterward? Would you like to tell her that… — Melissa Marr
It is the task of the translator to release in his own language that pure language that is under the spell of another, to liberate… — Walter Benjamin
For while we are enclosed in these confinements of the body, we perform as a kind of duty the heavy task of necessity; for the… — Marcus Tullius Cicero
I guessed my mother figured if my father got right down to the task of eating he wouldnâ€™t be so inclined to jump up and… — Janet Evanovich
The most necessary task of civilization is to teach people how to think. It should be the primary purpose of our public schools. The mind… — Thomas A. Edison
It is this nothingness (in solitude) that I have to face in my solitude, a nothingness so dreadful that everything in me wants to run… — Henri Nouwen
Every pellet has a story all its own. Every pellet has a story all its own. With its fur and teeth and bones And one… — Kathryn Lasky
A hundred people is rather a large handful for the four of us to take on," Malcolm pointed out. "Do you have any ideas about… — John Flanagan

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