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I tend to forget what I'm doing will ever be read while I'm writing it, and just get on with the task at hand. — Garth Ennis
Our yearning for democracy is accompanied by a no less profound yearning for peace. And the media also faced the task of historical engineering to… — Noam Chomsky
If you walk along the street you will encounter a number of scientific problems. Of these, about 80 per cent are insoluble, while 19Â½ per… — Hermann Bondi
The primes are the raw material out of which we have to build arithmetic, and Euclid's theorem assures us that we have plenty of material… — G. H. Hardy
It becomes a giant's task to compute the result when the effect of cross seas, wind at all angles and ever varying force, arched surfaces,… — Lawrence Hargrave
Tragically, the White House Task Force on Disadvantaged Youth reported that one-quarter of our young people are at serious risk of not achieving productive adulthood. — Ruben Hinojosa
Our bodies must always be wherever that struggle and the moment we forget that, the moment we become lazy, the moment we sit back, then… — William Kunstler
Clearly our first task is to use the material wealth of space to solve the urgent problems we now face on Earth: to bring the… — Gerard K. O'Neill
Keep your eye on the task, not on yourself. The task matters, and you are a servant — Peter Drucker
Justice White's conclusion is perhaps correct, if one assumes that the task of a court of law is to plumb the intent of the particular… — Antonin Scalia
It is the political task of the social scientist â€” as of any liberal educator â€” continually to translate personal troubles into public issues, and… — C. Wright Mills
It is our duty and our joy to communicate our hearts to each other. Words assist us in this task. — Kate DiCamillo
My dear citizens, fellow citizens, French people, this 6th of May, have just chosen change by bringing me the presidency of the French republic. I… — Francois Hollande
And that is what is behind the abrupt rise in climate change denial among hardcore conservatives: they have come to understand that as soon as… — Naomi Klein
Our most dangerous tendency is to expect too much of government, and at the same time do for it too little. We contemplate the immediate… — Warren G. Harding
It is not so difficult a task to plant new truths, as to root out old errors; for there is this paradox in men, they… — Charles Caleb Colton
When you join the Parachute Regiment they send you on training and initiation exercises. One of the tasks is to accept and care for a… — Matthew Parris
It is an easy and vulgar thing to please the mob, and not a very arduous task to astonish them; but essentially to benefit and… — Charles Caleb Colton
Perform your long and heavy task with energy, treading the path to which Fate has been pleased to call you. — Alfred de Vigny
There is a marvelous story of a man who once stood before God, his heart breaking from the pain and injustice in the world. "Dear… — David Wolpe

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