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The formation of character in young people is educationally a different task from and a prior task to, the discussion of the great, difficult ethical… — William Bennett
Send the harmony of a Great Desire vibrating through every fiber of your being. Pray for a task that will call forth your faith, your… — Thomas Dreier
Nothing is likely to help a person overcome or endure troubles than the consciousness of having a task in life. — Viktor E. Frankl
The greatest task of democracy, its ritual and feast - is choice. — H.G. Wells
It is necessary to curb the power of government. This is the task of all constitutions, bills of rights and laws. This is the meaning… — Ludwig von Mises
The proper aim of giving is to put the recipient in a state where he no longer needs our gifts...Thus a heavy task is laid… — C.S. Lewis
I'm not talking about blind optimism, the kind of hope that just ignores the enormity of the tasks ahead or the roadblocks that stand in… — Barack Obama
Think of fear as a 2-year-old child who doesn't want to go grocery shopping with you. Because you must buy groceries, you'll just have to… — Jack Canfield
Knowledge is the source of Wealth. Applied to tasks we already know, it becomes Productivity. Applied to tasks that are new, it becomes Innovation... — Peter Drucker
Everything in life is miraculous. For the sigil taught me that it rests within the power of each of us to awaken atwill from a… — James Branch Cabell
To be honest, to be kind-to earn a little and to spend a little less, to make upon the whole a family happier for his… — Robert Louis Stevenson
Love has a particular trait: it has a task or purpose to fulfill - to abide. By its nature, love is enduring. The Holy Spirit… — Pope Benedict XVI
Every man must patiently bide his time. He must wait -- not in listless idleness but in constant, steady, cheerful endeavors, always willing and fulfilling… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
The pacifist's task today is to find a method of helping and healing which provides a revolutionary constructive substitute for war. — Vera Brittain
Mankind will never win lasting peace so long as men use their full resources only in tasks of war. While we are yet at peace,… — John Foster Dulles
God does not require us to achieve any of the good tasks that humanity must pursue. What God requires of us is that we not… — Bayard Rustin
I speak of peace, therefore, as the necessary rational end of rational men. I realize the pursuit of peace is not as dramatic as the… — John F. Kennedy
We have thought of peace as the passive and war as the active way of living. The opposite is true. War is not the most… — Mary Parker Follett
Our nettlesome task is to discover how to organize our strength into compelling power. — Martin Luther King, Jr.
Anger and hatred cannot bring harmony. The noble task of arms control and disarmament cannot be accomplished by confrontation and condemnation. Hostile attitudes only serve… — Dalai Lama

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