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• In these times, the hardest task for social or political activists is to find a way to get people to wonder again about what we all believe is true. The challenge is to sow doubt.

  Lawrence Lessig

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Sow, Task

• My major task was to keep us solvent.

  Cheryl Crawford

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Keep, Task, Major

• Sometimes in this country, we don’t focus a lot on people’s experience and their resume. Mitt Romney would be the most experienced executive to be nominated since 1952. The fundamental task for the next president is going to be fixing things, cleaning things up, being a turnaround artist, if you will.

  Artur Davis

  Topics in Country

  Tags in Focus, Nominated, Task

• We will liberate our country from the occupying forces and put an end to relations between Russia and the Chechen State, no matter how difficult the task may be.

  Aslan Maskhadov

  Topics in Country

  Tags in Occupying, Task, End

• I have now taken a serious task upon myself and I fear a greater one that is in the power of any man to perform in the given time-but it is too late to go back.

  Eli Whitney

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  Tags in Serious, Task, Myself

• My most important task must be an attempt to bring the monster under democratic direction and control.

  Elliot Lee Richardson

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  Tags in Important, Task, Democratic, Direction

• The task of the solitary man is to be even more solitary.

  Emil Cioran

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  Tags in Man, Solitary, Task

• Our task is not to rediscover nature but to remake it.

  Raoul Vaneigem

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• Be larger than your task.

  Orison Swett Marden

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  Tags in Task, Larger, Courage

• The task of art today is to bring chaos into order.

  Theodor W. Adorno

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  Tags in Task, Today, Bring, Order

• Love always involves responsibility, and love always involves sacrifice. And we do not really love Christ unless we are prepared to face His task and to take up His Cross.

  William Barclay

  Topics in Sacrifice

  Tags in Task, Christ

• It is not enough to understand, or to see clearly. The future will be shaped in the arena of human activity, by those willing to commit their minds and their bodies to the task.

  Robert F. Kennedy

  Topics in Future

  Tags in Task, Understand, Human

• The task of a writer consists of being able to make something out of an idea.

  Thomas Mann

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• I was just studying with my father, a very difficult task for me since he was a great, great Qawwali singer.

  Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan

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  Tags in Task, Studying

• 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

  Topics in Dream

  Tags in Aware, Task, Playing

• The almost insoluble task is to let neither the power of others, nor our own powerlessness, stupefy us.

  Theodor W. Adorno

  Topics in Power

  Tags in Task, Own

• What practical conclusions may we now draw for our propaganda work among women? The task of this Party Congress must not be to issue detailed practical suggestions, but to draw up general directions for the proletarian women’s movement.

  Clara Zetkin

  Tags in Task, Proletarian, Movement, Conclusions

• Our common language is English. And our common task is to ensure that our non-English-speaking children learn this common language.

  William J. Bennett

  Tags in Task, Ensure

• 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 controversies of the day.

  William J. Bennett

  Tags in Controversies, Task

• Today, we are now deciding how do we treat those who are choosing to carry out a war against us, non-U.S. citizens who are choosing to take us to task for what we believe and who we are. In this conflict, we have to decide how we are going to try to find these terrorists.

  Todd Tiahrt

  Tags in Task, Conflict