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And Gandalf said: "This is your realm, and the heart of the greater realm that shall be. The Third Age of the world is ended,… — J.R.R. Tolkien
Through me you pass into the city of woe: Through me you pass into eternal pain: Through me among the people lost for aye. Justice… — Dante Alighieri
How teach again, however, what has been taught correctly and incorrectly learned a thousand thousand times, throughout the millenniums of mankind's prudent folly? That is… — Joseph Campbell
Laundry, liturgy and women's work all serve to ground us in the world, and they need not grind us down. Our daily tasks, whether we… — Kathleen Norris
It did not really matter what we expected from life, but rather what life expected from us. We needed to stop asking about the meaning… — Viktor E. Frankl
Evil conquered?' said Gwydion. 'You have learned much, but learn this last and hardest of lessons. You have conquered only the enchantments of evil. That… — Lloyd Alexander
The greatest humanistic and historical task of the oppressed: to liberate themselves... — Paulo Freire
That perhaps is your task--to find the relation between things that seem incompatible yet have a mysterious affinity, to absorb every experience that comes your… — Virginia Woolf
When we traded homemaking for careers, we were implicitly promised economic independence and worldly influence. But a devil of a bargain it has turned out… — Barbara Kingsolver
The basic project of art is always to make the world whole and comprehensible, to restore it to us in all its glory and its… — Robert Hughes
We want one class of persons to have a liberal education, and we want another class of persons, a very much larger class of necessity… — Woodrow Wilson
The theologian may indulge the pleasing task of describing Religion as she descended from Heaven, arrayed in her native purity. A more melancholy duty is… — Edward Gibbon
I don't know whether the universe, with its countless galaxies, stars and planets, has a deeper meaning or not, but at the very least, it… — Dalai Lama
My task which I am trying to achieve is, by the power of the written word, to make you hear, to make you feel â€”… — Joseph Conrad
To do well those thing which God ordained to be the common lot of all man-kind, is the truest greatness. To be a successful father… — Joseph Fielding Smith
Few tasks are more like the torture of Sisyphus than housework, with its endless repetition: the clean becomes soiled, the soiled is made clean, over… — Simone de Beauvoir
A man builds a fine house; and now he has a master, and a task for life. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
For it is the bitter grief of theology and its blessed task, too, always to have to seek (because it does not clearly have present… — Karl Rahner
I love this world," he added. "That is what rules my life. When I die, I want to have done all in my power to… — Charles de Lint
In organizations, real power and energy is generated through relationships. The patterns of relationships and the capacities to form them are more important than tasks,… — Margaret J. Wheatley

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