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What I am in search of is not so much the gratification of a curiosity or a passion for worldly life, but something far less… — Hermann Hesse
She had of course, kept working. He liked to think she would have moved under the table to continue her task if a gun battle… — Eileen Wilks
One of the hardest tasks as a human being is knowing when to keep an open mind, and when not to. — Deb Caletti
So your desire is to do nothing? Well, you shall not have a week, a day, an hour, free from oppression. You shall not be… — Victor Hugo
The man is a success who has lived well, laughed often, and loved much; who has gained the respect of intelligent men and the love… — Robert Louis Stevenson
Appearances to the mind are of four kinds. Things either are what they appear to be; or they neither are, nor appear to be; or… — Epictetus
If you are facing a difficult task donâ€™t put it off. If you do it will just keep tormenting you. — Joyce Meyer
The only thing that makes one an artist is making art. And that requires the precise opposite of hanging out; a deeply lonely and unglamorous… — David Rakoff
That is the way we decided to talk, free and easy, two young men discussing a boxing match. That was the only way to talk.… — David Benioff
Entrepreneurship rests on a theory of economy and society. The theory sees change as normal and indeed as healthy. And it sees the major task… — Peter Drucker
For one human being to love another; that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks, the ultimate, the last test and proof, the… — Rainer Maria Rilke
And who ever said the world was fair, little lady? Maybe death is fair, but certainly not life. We must accept the unfairness as proof… — Tom Robbins
Just to live in the country is a full-time job. You don't have to do anything. The idle pursuit of making a living is pushed… — Elwyn Brooks White
Scientists seek the lawfulness of events. It is the task of Religion to fit man into this lawfulness. — Frank Herbert
He made me realize that hard work--that the act of finishing, of completing, of accomplishing a task--is joyous — Sherman Alexie
Knowledge is power, and the right knowledge lets man perform miraculous, almost godlike tasks. — Dan Brown
Philosophy ought to question the basic assumptions of the age. Thinking through, critically and carefully, what most of us take for granted is, I believe,… — Peter Singer
The task of all Christian scholarshipâ€”not just biblical studiesâ€”is to study reality as a manifestation of Godâ€™s glory, to speak and write about it with… — John Piper
Do not forget that the armed forces are the servants of the people. You do not make national policy; it is we, the civilians, who… — Muhammad Ali Jinnah
On the death of a friend, we should consider that the fates through confidence have devolved on us the task of a double living, that… — Henry David Thoreau

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