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As crude a weapon as the cave man's club, the chemical barrage has been hurled against the fabric of life - a fabric on the… — Rachel Carson
Ah? A small aversion to menial labor?" The doctor cocked an eyebrow. "Understandable, but misplaced. One should treasure those hum-drum tasks that keep the body… — Tad Williams
It is important for knitters to know two things about frogging: that cats are capable of this knitting action, and even seem to enjoy it… — Stephanie Pearl-McPhee
A man sets himself the task of portraying the world. Shortly before he dies he discovers that this patient labyrinth of lines is a drawing… — Jorge Luis Borges
Our task is to widen our circle of compassion to include all living beings and all of nature — Albert Einstein
To be enlightened is to be aware, always, of total reality in its immanent otherness - to be aware of it and yet remain in… — Aldous Huxley
The task of art is to transform what is continuously happening to us, to transform all of these things into symbols, into music, into something… — Jorge Luis Borges
Let us remember, too, that greatness is not always a matter of the scale of oneâ€™s life, but of the quality of oneâ€™s life. True… — Spencer W. Kimball
Think of your life as an hourglass. You know there are thousands of grains of sand in the top of the hourglass; and they all… — Dale Carnegie
Elrond raised his eyes and looked at him, and Frodo felt his heart pierced by the sudden keenness of the glance. 'If I understand aright… — J.R.R. Tolkien
As her newest apprentice, it had been my job to go to the market every morning. I had gotten all the jobs no one else… — Maria V. Snyder
Ours is not the task of fixing the entire world at once, but of stretching out to mend the part of the world that is… — Clarissa Pinkola Estes
â€¦Itâ€™s hard to appreciate the beauty of a world when one doubts its very validityâ€¦.But Iâ€™ve long since lost all such doubts, Ono,â€™ he continued.… — Kazuo Ishiguro
Yes, yes, mistress, I shall go and accomplish your task. Onlyâ€”I was not only sent to kill the Leucrotta. There is a maiden in a… — Catherynne M. Valente
Our task is to take this earth so deeply and wholly into ourselves that it will resurrect within our being. — Rainer Maria Rilke
The monkeys solved the puzzle simply because they found it gratifying to solve puzzles. They enjoyed it. The joy of the task was its own… — Daniel H. Pink
The directorâ€™s task is to recreate life, its movement, its contradictions, its dynamic and conflicts. It is his duty to reveal every iota of the… — Andrei Tarkovsky
We had stretched out our arms to each other and supported something in our joined hands, but this thing we were holding was like a… — Yukio Mishima
He comes to us as One unknown, without a name, as of old, by the lakeside, He came to those men who knew Him not.… — Albert Schweitzer
It is a kiss that, once begun, never really ends. Interrupted, yes. Paused, certainly. But from that very moment onward, Vera sees the whole of… — Kristin Hannah

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