397 Quotes About Tasks

  • Author Elizabeth Alexander
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    I have not yet learned to use our television DVR. One of the points of marriage is that you split labor. In the olden days that meant one hunted and one gathered; now it means one knows where the tea-towels are kept and the other knows how to program the DVR, for why should we both have to know?

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  • Author Alan Alda
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    Jean Paul Sartre says in "No Exit" that hell is other people. Well, our task in life is to make it heaven. Or at least earth.

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  • Author Aldrich Ames
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    The difficulties of conducting espionage against the Soviet Union in the Soviet Union were such that historically the Agency had backed away from the task.

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  • Author Aristotle
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    The virtue as the art consecrates itself constantly to what's difficult to do, and the harder the task, the shinier the success.

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  • Author Chinua Achebe
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    Every generation must recognize and embrace the task it is peculiarly designed by history and by providence to perform.

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  • Author Douglas Adams
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    The Electric Monk was a labour-saving device, like a dishwasher or a video recorder... Electric Monks believed things for you, thus saving you what was becoming an increasingly onerous task, that of believing all the things the world expected you to believe.

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