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Do not waste what remains of your life in speculating about your neighbors, unless with a view to some mutual benefit. To wonder what so-and-so… — Marcus Aurelius
The real political task in a society such as ours is to criticize the workings of institutions that appear to be both neutral and independent,… — Michel Foucault
The statesman's task is to hear God's footsteps marching through history, and to try and catch on to His coattails as He marches past. — Otto von Bismarck
The secret of getting ahead is getting started. The secret of getting started is breaking your complex overwhelming tasks into small manageable tasks, and starting… — Mark Twain
We need faith and the mind of the Lord Jesus to recognize something of lasting value in even our most ordinary tasks. — Philip Yancey
You have a pet theory, one you have been turning over for years, that life itself is a kind of Rube Goldberg device, an extremely… — Kevin Brockmeier
Bright star, would I were stedfast as thou art--- Not in lone splendour hung aloft the night And watching, with eternal lids apart, Like nature's… — John Keats
From all of us Scarborough girls, greetings and thanks. This task required two, working together, trusting each other. It required the "us," not the "I."… — Nancy Werlin
According to Shiva, life is in the end about fixing holes. Shiva didn't speak in metaphors. fixing holes is precisely what he did. Still, it's… — Abraham Verghese
Philosophy and science have not always been friendly toward the idea of God, the reason being they are dedicated to the task of accounting for… — Aiden Wilson Tozer
For example, the supporters of tariffs treat it as self-evident that the creation of jobs is a desirable end, in and of itself, regardless of… — Milton Friedman
One of the most difficult tasks men can perform, however much others may despise it, is the invention of good games. — Carl Jung
His face set in grim determination, Richard slogged ahead, his fingers reaching up to touch the tooth under his shirt. Loneliness, deeper than he had… — Terry Goodkind
We must make the building of a free society once more an intellectual adventure, a deed of courage.... Unless we can make the philosophic foundations… — Friedrich August von Hayek
Of all the questions which can come before this nation, short of the actual preservation of its existence in a great war, there is none… — Theodore Roosevelt
From cradle to grave this problem of running order through chaos, direction through space, discipline through freedom, unity through multiplicity, has always been, and must… — Henry Adams
People.. were poor not because they were stupid or lazy. They worked all day long, doing complex physical tasks. They were poor because the financial… — Muhammad Yunus
Motherhood is a Sisyphean task. You finish sewing one seam shut, and another rips open. I have come to believe that this life I'm wearing… — Jodi Picoult
For every one pupil who needs to be guarded against a weak excess of sensibility there are three who need to be awakened from the… — C.S. Lewis
It was very bad if the council had resorted to recruiting men. By tradition men were our last line of defence, their physical strength bent… — N.K. Jemisin

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