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I resolved to stop accumulating and begin the infinitely more serious and difficult task of wise distribution.
Andrew Carnegie
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The task of understanding the past is neverending.


Susanna Moore
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Art is the proper task of life.


Friedrich Nietzsche
Tags: Life Art Proper
If architecture had nothing to do with art, it would be astonishingly easy to build houses, but the architect's task - his most difficult task - is always that of selecting.
Arne Jacobsen
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Our task is not to rediscover nature but to remake it.


Raoul Vaneigem
Tags: Nature Our Task
It's a difficult task to deal with cities. But with some original ways of getting things done, with some basic commandments, you can really get cities to be a great, great place to live.
Eduardo Paes
Tags: Great You Get
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The presidency of the Euro group is an interesting and important task.


Wolfgang Schauble
All things being equal, if we could simulate the same scenario, he has a lot more difficult task. He's elected to swim six individual events, as opposed to what I elected to do, which was four.
Mark Spitz
Tags: More Things Being
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The task of a judge is not to make the law - it is to apply the law.


Sonia Sotomayor
Tags: Make Law Judge
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It is the task of a good man to help those in misfortune.


Sophocles
Tags: Good Those Man
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To aid life, leaving it free, however, that is the basic task of the educator.


Maria Montessori
Tags: Life Free However
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Every block of stone has a statue inside it and it is the task of the sculptor to discover it.


Michelangelo
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The task we must set for ourselves is not to feel secure, but to be able to tolerate insecurity.


Erich Fromm
Tags: Feel Must Able
The task of leadership is not to put greatness into humanity, but to elicit it, for the greatness is already there.
John Buchan
The almost insoluble task is to let neither the power of others, nor our own powerlessness, stupefy us.
Theodor Adorno
Tags: Power Our Us
The task of the government is not only to pour honey into a cup, but sometimes to give bitter medicine.
Vladimir Putin
When the theater gates open, a mob pours inside, and it is the poet's task to turn it into an audience.
Franz Grillparzer
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To introduce a whole new tax regime, that would be modern tax reform. But that's too big a task.


Chuck Schumer
Tags: Would New Too
Still, whether we like it or not, the task of speeding up the decrease of the human population becomes increasingly urgent.
Havelock Ellis
Tags: Like Up Still
Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it.
Rumi
Tags: You Your Love
The curious task of economics is to demonstrate to men how little they really know about what they imagine they can design.
Friedrich August von Hayek
Tags: Men Design About
I long to accomplish a great and noble task, but it is my chief duty to accomplish small tasks as if they were great and noble.
Helen Keller
Tags: Great Were Long
We are well aware of the task ahead of us in what will be a very difficult match but which we all dream of playing.
Zinedine Zidane
Tags: Very Will Which
The process, not the results, have to be the reason a writer writes. Otherwise, creating a four-hundred-page novel is just too daunting a task.
Nancy Kress
Tags: Just Too Reason
Set me a task in which I can put something of my very self, and it is a task no longer; it is joy; it is art.
Bliss Carman
Tags: Me Very Something
I've appointed a task force to take a fresh look at the color-code system and whether we should retain it, change it or scrap it.
Janet Napolitano
A man may fulfill the object of his existence by asking a question he cannot answer, and attempting a task he cannot achieve.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
Tags: He Man His
Given political history in Chile, it seemed to me that there was a critical task of consolidating a democracy and creating healthy civic-military and political-military relationships.
Michelle Bachelet
Wake the power within thee slumbering, trim the plot that's in thy keeping, thou wilt bless the task when reaping sweet labour's prize.
John Stuart Blackie
Tags: Power Within Wake
Have courage for the great sorrows of life and patience for the small ones; and when you have laboriously accomplished your daily task, go to sleep in peace.
Victor Hugo
The principal task of a conductor is not to put himself in evidence but to disappear behind his functions as much as possible. We are pilots, not servants.
Franz Liszt
Tags: Much His Put
To conclude that women are unfitted to the task of our historic society seems to me the equivalent of closing male eyes to female facts.
Lyndon B. Johnson
Tags: Women Society Me
As a matter of self-preservation, a man needs good friends or ardent enemies, for the former instruct him and the latter take him to task.
Diogenes
Tags: Good Man Take
This republic represents the greatest basis for that universal socialist order, the creation of which is at the present time the historic task of the International Proletariat.
Karl Liebknecht
Tags: Time Which Order
We now accept the fact that learning is a lifelong process of keeping abreast of change. And the most pressing task is to teach people how to learn.
Peter Drucker
Nonetheless, I sense that it will be the task of the future to somehow synthesize the sheer diversity of our present resources into a more organic and well-ordered procedure.
George Crumb
Tags: Future More Our
I promptly fell in love with scientific research and soon had assigned myself, as a major vocation, the task of elucidating the mechanism of action of the antidiabetic hormone.
Christian de Duve
Tags: Had Love Myself
Getting to the point where a cause goes from being a terribly daunting task with a handful of adherents to an acknowledged success with momentum and many allies is a rarity.
Thomas Kaplan
Tags: Being Where Many
The elementary school must assume as its sublime and most solemn responsibility the task of teaching every child in it to read. Any school that does not accomplish this has failed.
William Bennett
Tags: Most Every Any
I have - I have more than an interesting task in piloting Wales into our new democracy, without wanting to exercise draconian powers on behalf of anybody else - I can assure of that.
Ron Davies
Tags: More Our Than