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“Democratic Rep. Charles Schumer of New York made a plea to Livingston, the incoming speaker. These new hearings, these new subpoenas wave a red flag that common sense and common wisdom are not welcome here, .. Mr. Livingston, this may be the first and most important task you will ever face as speaker. Lead us out of this abyss.”

Firsts May Made Important Faces Common New York Red Tasks Democratic Wave Hearing Common Sense Welcome Flags Speakers Abyss Red Flags Subpoenas

Author:Charles Schumer

“When the artist activates his being, awakens to his surroundings, and sets himself the task of creating, connections are made out of conscious awareness that return coalesced as inspiration.”

Made Inspiration Artist Awareness Return Creating Conscious Tasks Connections Surroundings Activate Conscious Awareness

Book:Affirmations for Artists

Source: Affirmations for Artists

“It was not for the sake of oil that the risky decision to cease this corrupt coexistence was made. But at least now the Iraqi people have a chance of controlling their own main resource, and it will be our task to ensure that the funding and revenue are transparent instead of opaque.”

People Made Chance Decision Resources Tasks Sake Oil Cease Revenue Transparent Funding Coexistence Opaque

Author:Christopher Hitchens

“The task of an author is, either to teach what is not known, or to recommend known truths by his manner of adorning them; either to let new light in upon the mind, and open new scenes to the prospect, or to vary the dress and situation of common objects, so as to give them fresh grace and more powerful attractions, to spread such flowers over the regions through which the intellect has already made its progress, as may tempt it to return, and take a second view of things hastily passed over, or negligently regarded.”

Source: The works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: Together with his life, and notes on his Lives of the poets, by Sir John Hawkins, Knt. In eleven volumes ...

“For suppose that every tool we had could perform its task, either at our bidding or itself perceiving the need, and if-like the statues made by Dædalus or the tripods of Hephæstus, of which the poet says that "self-moved they enter the assembly of the gods" - shuttles in a loom could fly to and fro and a plectrum play a lyre all self-moved, then master-craftsmen would have no need of servants nor masters of slaves.”

Ifs Needs Made Self Play Politics Economy Poet Masters Tools Tasks Moved Slave Servant Liberalism Statues Assembly Craftsman Bidding Tripods

Author:Aristotle

“[On Christianity:] Its lip-service and its empty rites have made it the easiest of all tasks for the usurer to cloak his cruelties, the miser to hide his avarice, the lawyer to condone his lies, the sinner of all social sins to purchase the social immunity from them by outward deference to churches.”

Made Lying Religion Social Church Sin Christianity Tasks Empty Lips Lawyer Cruelty Made It Hypocrisy Sinner Avarice Cloaks Rite Misers Immunity Deference Lip Service

Book:Views and Opinions

Source: Views and Opinions

“The true friend of property, the true conservative, is he who insists that property shall be the servant and not the master of the commonwealth; who insists that the creature of man’s making shall be the servant and not the master of the man who made it. The citizens of the United States must effectively control the mighty commercial forces which they have called into being. There can be no effective control of corporations while their political activity remains. To put an end to it will be neither a short nor an easy task, but it can be done.”

Source: Letters and Speeches

“The teacher's task is not to talk, but to prepare and arrange a series of motives for cultural activity in a special environment made for the child.”

Children Made Environment Teacher Special Activity Tasks Series Motive Montessori

Author:Maria Montessori

“All too often we say of a man doing a good job that he is indispensable. A flattering canard, as so many disillusioned and retired and fired have discovered when the world seems to keep on turning without them. In business, a man can come nearest to indispensability by being dispensable in his current job. How can a man move up to new responsibilities if he is the only one able to handle his present tasks? It matters not how small or large the job you now have, if you have trained no one to do it as well, you're not available; you've made your promotion difficult if not impossible.”

“Why, since man and woman were created for each other, had He made their desires so dissimilar? Why should one class of women be able to dwell in luxurious seclusion from the trials of life, while another class performed their loathsome tasks? Surely His wisdom had not decreed that one set of women should live in degradation and in the end should perish that others might live in security, preserve their frappeed chastity, and in the end be saved.”

Men Should Made Ends Might Able Desire Class Security Men And Women Tasks Saved Trials Preserves Degradation Chastity Luxurious Seclusion

Author:Madeleine Albright

“We must protect each other against the attacks of those self-appointed watchdogs of patriotism now abroad in the land who irresponsibly pin red labels on anyone whom they wish to destroy. ... [Academic professionals are the only person competant to differentiate between honest independents and the Communists.] This is our responsibility. It is not a pleasant task. But if it is left to outsiders, the distinction is not likely to be made and those independent critics of social institutions among us who are one of the glories of a true university could be silenced.”

“The value of all service lies in the spirit in which you serve and not in the importance or magnitude of the service. Even the lowliest task or deed is made holy, joyous, and prosperous when it is filled with love.”

Made Helping Spirit Lying Values Holy Tasks Importance Filled Deeds Helping Others Prosperous Joyous Magnitude

Author:Charles Fillmore

“But it is daily tasks, daily acts of love and worship that serve to remind us that the religion is not strictly an intellectual pursuit, and these days it is easy to lose sight of that as, like our society itself, churches are becoming more politicized and polarized. Christian faith is a way of life, not an impregnable fortress made up of ideas; not a philosophy; not a grocery list of beliefs.”

“All of us desire a better state of society. But society cannot become better before two great tasks are performed.Unless peace can be firmly established and the prevailing obsession with money and power profoundly modified, there is no hope of any desirable change being made.”

Made Two States Desire Tasks Obsession Desirable No Hope Prevailing Money And Power

Book:Ends and Means: An Inquiry Into the Nature of Ideals and Into the Methods Employed for Their Realization

Source: Ends and Means: An Inquiry Into the Nature of Ideals and Into the Methods Employed for Their Realization

“So we are mocked by this world when we speak of God's coming judgment against all sin, and when we plead that sinners come to the Savior to avoid Hell. But we can't give up because our task is irksome, or because we are mocked. Neither can we live self-indulgent lives, because our convictions aren't based on some man-made and fallible calculations. They are based on the immutability of the Word of God.”

Men World Giving Made Self Speak Sin Hell This World Giving Up Judgment Tasks Conviction Sinner Savior Word Of God Calculations Self Indulgent

Author:Ray Comfort

“We carve on our body what society teaches us and continue this task, not knowing the identity they force us to have. This identity is carved on our faces and our skins. Not knowing our bodies have become "the paper made of human meat," we stuff our bodies and make them a theater where cultural symbols or suppressed symbols play.”

Humans Made Play Body Faces Force Stuff Teach Knowing Identity Paper Tasks Skins Theater Symbols Meat Not Knowing

Author:Kim Hyesoon

“I was a musician who began playing with computers, to see if they could make some tasks simpler. I developed some "tricks" or strategies for working with audio files, and then discovered that the same tricks could be applied to video files, or really, any type of data. Previously I made many different kinds of music. I did some work as a composer of film scores. In that role, my task was to create audio to match and deepen the visual. In my work now, the role is often reversed: I have to create images to match and deepen the audio.”

Ifs Kind Made Different Film Roles Type Computer Musician Tasks Strategy Tricks Video Data Visuals Score Composer Different Kinds Files Audio Different Kinds Of Music Film Scores

Author:Kurt Ralske

“One has to choose between engaging in stylistic research or the mere recording of facts. I feel that a filmmaker must go beyond the recording of facts. Moreover, I believe that Africans, in particular, must reinvent cinema. It will be a difficult task because our viewing audience is used to a specific film language, but a choice has to be made: either one is very popular and one talks to people in a simple and plain manner, or else one searches for an African film language that would exclude chattering and focus more on how to make use of visuals and sounds.”

“A woman can make a man feel older or younger than his years if she so chooses. Being a woman is a terribly difficult task since it consists principally in dealing with men. Women were made with a sense of humor so they could love men instead of laughing at them.”

Ifs Men Feels Years Made Difficult Laughing Tasks Sense Of Humor Men Women Being A Woman Difficult Tasks

Author:Will Rogers

“The laws governing the universe can be made interesting and wonderful to the child, more interesting even that things in themselves, and he begins to ask: What am I? What is the task of man in this wonderful universe? Do we merely live here for ourselves, or is there something more for us to do? Why do we struggle and fight? What is good and evil? Where will it all end?”

Men Children Made Ends Law Fighting Universe Evil Asks Interesting Struggle Wonderful Tasks Good And Evil Governing

Book:To Educate the Human Potential

Source: To Educate the Human Potential

“History is a series of mistakes. Now the task is to plan for those mistakes so those of us who are populists can actually take over the reins of power when the right mistakes are made.”

Made Mistake Plans Tasks Series Reins Populist

Author:Zephyr Teachout

“My sport has transformed my body to be powerful for a specific task over years of training and competition. The more tuned for competition I am, the less "feminine" I look, and it has made me feel powerful on the track but self-conscious in the sack. That transformed for me as I let go of feminine ideals of all kinds, in work, parenting, etc.”

Feels Years Looks Kind Made Self Body Sports Powerful Letting Go Training Conscious Ideals Tasks Competition Track All Kinds Etc Feminine Transformed Self Conscious

Author:Lauren Fleshman

“Even to get Yahya Khan to reason was an impossible task - it only made you lose your temper.”

Made Reason Loses Impossible Tasks Temper

Author:Zulfikar Ali Bhutto

“Fires can't be made with dead embers, nor can enthusiasm be stirred by spiritless men. Enthusiasm in our daily work lightens effort and turns even labor into pleasant tasks.”

Men Made Turns Work Effort Fire Labor Tasks Enthusiasm Pleasant Embers Enthusiasm For Life Daily Work

Author:James A. Baldwin

“Eventually, I believe, current attempts to understand the mind by analogy with man-made computers that can perform superbly some of the same external tasks as conscious beings will be recognized as a gigantic waste of time.”

Men Mind Believe Made I Believe Waste Computer Conscious Tasks Currents Wasting Time Analogies

Book:The View From Nowhere

Source: The View From Nowhere

“The difficult task of knowing another soul is not for young gentlemen whose consciousness is chiefly made up of their own wishes.”

Men Made Soul Young Wish Difficult Consciousness Knowing Tasks Gentleman Difficult Tasks Young Gentlemen

Book:Middlemarch: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)

Source: Middlemarch: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)

“Few tasks are more like the torture of Sisyphus than housework, with its endless repetition: the clean becomes soiled, the soiled is made clean, over and over, day after day.”

Made Tasks Clean Endless Torture Household Repetition Cleaning Housework Chores Housekeeping Sisyphus Clean House Household Chores

Author:Simone de Beauvoir

“Out of love for mankind, and out of despair at my embarrassing situation, seeing that I had accomplished nothing and was unable to make anything easier than it had already been made, and moved by a genuine interest in those who make everything easy, I conceived it as my task to create difficulties everywhere.”

Made Easy Interest Situation Seeing Mankind Easier Despair Tasks Difficulty Moved Genuine Accomplished Embarrassing

Author:Soren Kierkegaard

“Hades raised an eyebrow. When he sat forward in his throne, shadowy faces appeared in the folds of his black robes, faces of torment,as if the garment was stitched of trapped souls from the Fields of Punishment, trying to get out. The ADHD part of me wondered, off-task, whether the rest of his clothes were made the same way. What horrible things would you have to do in your life to get woven into Hades' underwear?”

“Like slavery and apartheid, poverty is not natural. It is man-made and it can be overcome and eradicated by the actions of human beings. Overcoming poverty is not a gesture of charity. It is an act of justice... Sometimes it falls upon a generation to be great. You can be that great generation. Let your greatness blossom.”

Men Humans Made Sometimes Action Fall Natural Justice Human Beings Inspiring Poverty Generations Greatness Tasks Overcoming Slavery Charity Humanitarian Apartheid

Author:Nelson Mandela

“Next out of the hall came the sisters and their husbands. Before I could say anything, the captain had clamped his hand over my mouth and was lifting me off my feet as I kicked. Cornwall made as to draw his dagger, but Regan pulled him away. "You've just won a kingdom, my duke, killing vermin is a servant's task. Leave the bitter fool stew in his own bile." She wanted me. It was clear.”

Made Hands Wanted Next Clear Feet Fool Husband Draws Mouths Tasks Killing Kingdoms Bitter Servant Halls Captains Say Anything Lifting Dukes Daggers Stew Vermin Cornwall Regan

Author:Christopher Moore

“We were made to enjoy music, to enjoy beautiful sunsets, to enjoy looking at the billows of the sea and to be thrilled with a rose that is bedecked with dew… Human beings are actually created for the transcendent, for the sublime, for the beautiful, for the truthful... and all of us are given the task of trying to make this world a little more hospitable to these beautiful things.”

World Trying Humans Littles Made Beautiful Given Enjoy Human Beings Beauty Sea This World Tasks Rose Sunset Truthful Beautiful Things Sublime Dew Transcendent Beautiful Sunset

Author:Desmond Tutu

“The task must be made difficult, for only the difficult inspires the noble-hearted.”

Made Difficult Inspire Tasks Noble Hearted

Author:Soren Kierkegaard

“The Master made it his task to destroy systematically every doctrine, every belief, every concept of the divine, for these things, which were originally intended as pointers, were now being taken as descriptions. He loved to quote the Eastern saying "When the sage points to the moon, all that the idiot sees is the finger.”

Made Belief Taken Divine Masters Moon Concepts Tasks Fingers Doctrine Made It Idiot Description Sage Eastern Pointers

Author:Anthony de Mello

“The most important human endeavor is the striving for morality in our actions. Our inner balance and even our very existence depend on it. Only morality in our actions can give beauty and dignity to life. To make this a living force and bring it to clear consciousness is perhaps the foremost task of education. The foundation of morality should not be made dependent on myth nor tied to any authority lest doubt about the myth or about the legitimacy of the authority imperil the foundation of sound judgment and action.”

Source: Albert Einstein, The Human Side: Glimpses from His Archives

“When that mama worry takes ahold of a woman you can't expect no sense from her. She'll do or say anything at all and you just better hope you ain't in her way. That's the Lord's doing right there. He made mothers to be like that on account of children need protecting and the men ain't around to do it most of the time. Helping that child be up to the mama. But God never gives us a task without giving us the means to see it through. That mama worry come straight from Him, it make it so she can't help but look after that child.”

Men Way Needs Giving Looks Mean Children Made Helping Mother Lord Worry Tasks Accounts Say Anything Mama Being A Mother Doing Right

Author:Hillary Jordan

“He made me realize that hard work--that the act of finishing, of completing, of accomplishing a task--is joyous”

Made Hard Realizing Hard Work Tasks Joyous Finishing Completing

Author:Sherman Alexie

“It did not seem possible that Wendy Wright had been born out of blood and internal organs like other people. In proximity to her he felt himself to be a squat, oily, sweating, uneducated nurt whose stomach rattled and whose breath wheezed. Near her he became aware of the physical mechanisms which kept him alive; within him machinery, pipes and valves and gas-compressors and fan belts had to chug away at a losing task, a labor ultimately doomed. Seeing her face, he discovered that his own consisted of a garish mask; noticing her body made him feel like a low-class wind-up toy.”

Source: Ubik

“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 dragging nightmare of life made up of unimportant tasks and tedious useless little habits, to see life as it really is, and to rejoice in its exquisite wonderfulness.”

Life Littles Made Life Is Taught Habit Tasks Useless Nightmare Rejoice Miraculous Exquisite Tedious Unimportant

Book:The Cream of the Jest: The Lineage of Lichfield, Two Comedies of Evasion

Source: The Cream of the Jest: The Lineage of Lichfield, Two Comedies of Evasion

“If you make your bed every morning you will have accomplished the first task of the day. It will give you a small sense of pride and it will encourage you to do another task and another and another. . . . And, if by chance you have a miserable day, you will come home to a bed that is made - that you made - and a made bed gives you encouragement that tomorrow will be better.”

Ifs Giving Firsts Made Home Chance Morning Pride Tomorrow Bed Tasks Encouragement Miserable Accomplished Coming Home Every Morning Graduation Tomorrow Will Be Better

Author:William H. McRaven

“Socialism is young and has made errors. Many times revolutionaries lack the knowledge and intellectual courage needed to meet the task of developing the new man with methods different from the conventional ones - and the conventional methods suffer from the influences of the society, which created them.”

Men Made Different Young Suffering Influence Needed Intellectual Tasks Method Errors Socialism Developing Revolutionary Conventional

Author:Che Guevara

“When every fact, every present or past phenomenon of that universe, every phase of present or past life therein, has been examined, classified, and co-ordinated with the rest, then the mission of science will be completed. What is this but saying that the task of science can never end till man ceases to be, till history is no longer made, and development itself ceases?”

Men Has Beens Made Ends Facts Past Science Universe History Development Tasks Accounts Missions Cease Phenomenon Phases Examination Past Life Classification

Book:The Grammar of Science

Source: The Grammar of Science

“He has half the deed done who has made a beginning.”

Made Done Action Half Tasks Addiction Deeds Recovery New Beginnings Deeds Done

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Horace (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Horace (Illustrated)

“It goes without saying that the desire to accomplish the task with more confidence, to avoid wasting time and labour, and to spare our experimental animals as much as possible, made us strictly observe all the precautions taken by surgeons in respect to their patients.”

Made Desire Animal Taken Tasks Patient Accomplish Labour Wasting Time Spares Surgeons Precaution

Book:Experimental psychology, and other essays

Source: Experimental psychology, and other essays

“All human beings have failings, all human beings have needs and temptations and stresses. Men and women who live together through long years get to know one another's failings; but they also come to know what is worthy of respect and admiration in those they live with and in themselves. If at the end one can say, This man used to the limit the powers that God granted him; he was worthy of love and respect and of the sacrifices of many people, made in order that he might achieve what he deemed to be his task, then that life has been lived well and there are no regrets.”

Source: Autobiography

“The extraordinary woman depends on the ordinary woman. It is only when we know what were the conditions of the average woman's life - the number of children, whether she had money of her own, if she had a room to herself, whether she had help bringing up her family, if she had servants, whether part of the housework was her task - it is only when we can measure the way of life and experience made possible to the ordinary woman that we can account for the success or failure of the extraordinary woman as a writer.”

Ifs Knows Way Children Made Helping Rooms Numbers Conditions Depends Ordinary Tasks Accounts Extraordinary Average Servant Housework Success Or Failure

Book:Virginia Woolf, women and writing

Source: Virginia Woolf, women and writing

“Few tasks are more like the torture of Sisyphus than housework, with its endless repetition: the clean becomes soiled, the soiled is made clean, over and over, day after day. The housewife wears herself out marking time: she makes nothing, simply perpetuates the present … Eating, sleeping, cleaning – the years no longer rise up towards heaven, they lie spread out ahead, grey and identical. The battle against dust and dirt is never won.”

Years Made Lying Heaven Sleep Battle Eating Tasks Clean Spread Endless Dust Torture Dirt Repetition Grey Cleaning Identical Housewife Housework Sisyphus Marking Time

Author:Simone de Beauvoir

“How reliable are the computer [climate] models on which possible future climates are based? Not very. All will agree that the task of modeling climate is vast, because of the estimates that have to be made and the rubbery quality of much of the data.”

Made Quality Computer Models Tasks Agree Climate Data Global Warming Modeling

Author:Don Aitkin