Alan Watts Quotes, Self Quotes, Tasks Quotes

Nothing fails like success—because the self-imposed task of our society and all its members is a contradiction: to force things to happen which are acceptable only when they happen without force.

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Fortune, delighting in her cruel task, and playing her wanton game untiringly, is ever shifting her uncertain favours.

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There's some task which the God of all the universe, the great Creator, your redeemer in Jesus Christ has for you to do, and which will remain undone and incomplete until by faith and obedience you step into the will of God.

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Pharmaceutical projects are like fresh fruit - they depreciate if they are not tended to, and they do poorly if sitting on the shelf with long periods of inactivity.

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Politics is so difficult, it's generally only people who aren't quite up to the task who feel convinced they are.

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No task, rightly done, is truly private. It is part of the world s work.

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Serious journalists often imagine society is adrift because people don't know certain things. Yet often, they know but just don't care. So the task of serious journalism isn't just to lay out truths. It is to make vital truths compelling to a big audience.

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The wind, a sightless laborer, whistles at his task.

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My friends I now leave, not knowing when, or whether ever, I may return, with a task before me greater than that which rested upon Washington. Without the assistance of that Divine Being, who ever attended him, I cannot succeed. With that assistance, I cannot fail.

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I have been cautioned to talk but be careful not to say anything. I do not consider this a difficult task.

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It is rather for us here dedicated to the great task remaining before us, that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion.

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God exists or God does not exist. Leave it for us. Your task is to learn how to live peacefully.

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There's no bigger task than protecting the homeland of our country.

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And the most difficult of tasks to keep Heights which the soul is competent to gain.

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Some people appear to be more meager in talent than they are, just because the tasks they set themselves are always too great.

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You cannot simultaneously prevent and prepare for war. The very prevention of war requires more faith, courage and resolution than are needed to prepare for war. We must all do our share, that we may be equal to the task of peace.

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For, once begun, Your task is easy; half the work is done.

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The fact that our task is exactly commensurate with our life gives it the appearance of being infinite.

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According to Shiva, life is in the end about fixing holes. Shiva didn't speak in metaphors. fixing holes is precisely what he did. Still, it's an apt metaphor for our profession. But there's another kind of hole, and that is the wound that divides family. Sometimes this wound occurs at the moment of birth, sometimes it happens later. We are all fixing what is broken. It is the task of a lifetime. We'll leave much unfinished for the next generation.

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Americans are rising to the tasks of history, and they expect the same of us.

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