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Book:We, understanding the psychology of romantic love

Source: We, understanding the psychology of romantic love

“He [Julius Caesar] learned that Alexander , having completed nearly all his conquests by the time he was thirty-two years old, was at an utter loss to know what he should do during the rest of his life, whereat Augustus expressed his surprise that Alexander did not regard it as a greater task to set in order the empire which he had won than to win it.”

Knows Should Years Two Order Winning Loss Greater Tasks Regard Surprise Thirty Empires Two Years Conquest Julius Augustus Two Year Olds

Author:Augustus

“The sociological imagination enables us to grasp history and biography and the relations between the two within society. This is its task and its promise.”

Two Imagination Promise Tasks Relation Biographies Sociological

Book:The Sociological Imagination

Source: The Sociological Imagination

“Moral virtue is ... a mean between two vices, that of excess and that of defect, and ... it is no small task to hit the mean in each case, as it is not, for example, any chance comer, but only the geometer, who can find the center of a given circle.”

Mean Two Given Chance Moral Cases Virtue Example Morality Tasks Vices Circles Excess Defects Moral Virtues

Book:The Nicomachean Ethics of Aristotle

Source: The Nicomachean Ethics of Aristotle

“Painting someone's portrait is, of course, an impossible task. What an absurd idea to try and distil a human being, the most complex organism on the planet, into flicks, washes, and blobs of paint on a two-dimensional surface.”

Trying Humans Two Ideas Courses Human Beings Impossible Painting Planets Tasks Complexes Paint Surface Absurd Organisms Portraits Portraiture

Author:David Cobley

“Psychohistory, as a science, will always be problem-centered, while history will always remain period-centered. They are simply two different tasks.”

Two Different Problem Periods Tasks

Book:The New Psychohistory

Source: The New Psychohistory

“Few of those who fill the world with books, have any pretensions to the hope either of pleasing or instructing. They have often no other task than to lay two books before them, out of which they compile a third, without any new material of their own, and with very little application of judgment to those which former authors have supplied.”

World Writing Littles Two Book Materials Judgment Tasks Thirds Lays Former Application Pretension

Book:The Works of Samuel Johnson, L. L. D.: In Twelve Volumes

Source: The Works of Samuel Johnson, L. L. D.: In Twelve Volumes

“Emotional 'literacy' implies an expanded responsibility for schools in helping to socialize children. This daunting task requires two major changes: that teachers go beyond their traditional mission and that people in the community become more involved with schools as both active participants in children's learning and as individual mentors.”

“Relaxation is a physical and moral necessity. Animals, even to the simplest and dullest, have their games, their sports, their diversions. The toil-worn artisan, stooping and straining over his daily task, which taxes eye and brain and limb, ought to have opportunity and means for an hour or two of relaxation after that task is concluded.”

Mean Two Eye Opportunity Games Sports Hours Pleasure Animal Brain Moral Ought Taxes Tasks Worn Toil Relaxation Simplest Limbs Diversion Artisans Daily Tasks

Author:Horace Greeley

“Getting to know ourselves and learning to control ourselves are the two great tasks of life. Don't make up strange and exotic 'penances.' Simply say no to yourself once a day, and you will be on the road to sanctity for the rest of your life.”

Knows Two Strange Tasks Rest Of Your Life Exotic Sanctity Penance Control Ourselves

Author:Joan D. Chittister

“Moral virtue is a mean . . . between two vices, one of excess and the other of defect; . . . it is such a mean because it aims at hitting the middle point in feelings and in actions. This is why it is a hard task to be good, for it is hard to find the middle point in anything.”

Mean Two Hard Feelings Action Moral Virtue Middle Tasks Aim Vices Be Good Excess Hitting Defects Moral Virtues

Book:The Nicomachean ethics

Source: The Nicomachean ethics

“On this tenth day of June, nineteen hundred and forty, the hand that held the dagger has struck it into the back of its neighbor.... In our unity, in our American unity we will pursue two obvious and simultaneous courses; we will extend to the opponents of force the material resources of this nation, and at the same time we will harness and speed up the use of those resources in order that we ourselves in the Americas may have equipment and training equal to the task of any emergency and every defense.”

“Cooking with your kids and engaging them in hands-on activities are two ways to begin to educate children about the healthy eating, and kick start the important task to help change how the younger generation looks at food and nutrition.”

Way Looks Children Two Important Helping Hands Kids Generations Healthy Activity Eating Tasks Cooking Kicks Educate Nutrition Engaging Two Ways Younger Generation Healthy Eating

Author:Marcus Samuelsson

“The important thing is the 80/20 rule: 80% of the effects come from 20% of the causes. This means that if you're doing ten tasks, two are going to be vastly more important than others.”

Ifs Mean Two Important Causes Effects Ten Tasks Important Things

Author:Brian Tracy

“There are thus two tasks for the Mass Media division of Unesco, the one general, the other special. The special one is to enlist the press and the radio and the cinema to the fullest extent in the service of formal and adult education, of science and learning, of art and culture. The general one is to see that these agencies are used both to contribute to mutual comprehension between different nations and cultures, and also to promote the growth of a common outlook shared by all nations and cultures.”

“The simplest scheme of evolution is one that depends on two processes; a generator and a test. The task of the generator is to produce variety, new forms that have not existed previously, whereas the task of the test is to cull out the newly generated forms so that only those that are well fitted to the environment will survive.”

Wells Two Form Process Environment Produce Depends Evolution Tasks Tests Variety Schemes Simplest Generator

Author:Herbert Simon

“Observe that for the programmer, as for the chef, the urgency of the patron may govern the scheduled completion of the task, but it cannot govern the actual completion. An omelette, promised in two minutes, may appear to be progressing nicely. But when it has not set in two minutes, the customer has two choices - wait or eat it raw. Software customers have had the same choices.”

May Two Choices Waiting Progress Minutes Tasks Customers Software Chef Programmers Urgency Completion Patron Two Choices

Author:Fred Brooks

“I hold this to be the highest task of a bond between two people: that each shall stand guard over the solitude of the other. For, if it lies in the nature of indifference and of the crowd to recognize no solitude, then love and friendship are there for the purpose of continually providing the opportunity for solitude. And only those are the true sharings which rhythmically interrupt periods of deep isolation.”

People Ifs Two Lying Purpose Opportunity Periods Solitude Highest Tasks Crowds Indifference Isolation Providing Love And Friendship

Book:Selected Letters

Source: Selected Letters

“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

“Management and entrepreneurship are only two different dimensions of the same task. An entrepreneur who does not learn how to manage will not last long. A management that does not learn to innovate will not last long.”

Long Doe Two Different Lasts Tasks Management Entrepreneur Manage Entrepreneurship Dimensions Different Dimensions

Book:Management Challenges for the 21st Century

Source: Management Challenges for the 21st Century

“Keys to Finding Hope: 1. Hope depends upon taking care that we have at least two alternatives, in every situation we find ourselves, and with every task confronting us. 2. In any situation, no matter how much we may feel we are at the mercy of vast forces out there, that are totally beyond our control, we can always find something that is within our control, however small, and work on that. 3. Nothing that happens to us is just senseless and meaningless. In the context of our total life, it will eventually turn out to have meaning.”

Feels May Two Matter Happens Care Turns Force Situation Keys Depends Findings Tasks Mercy Alternatives Meaningless Confronting

Author:Richard Nelson Bolles

“To carry language from two dimensions into three is the task of the poets, and the rebels in the 20th Century.”

Two Three Language Century Poet Tasks Dimensions Rebel 20th Century

Author:Terence McKenna

“There are actually only ever two pastoral problems you will ever encounter. The first is this: persuading those who are under the dominion of sin that they are under the dominion of sin. That's the task of evangelism. And [second], persuading those who are no longer under the dominion of sin that they are no longer under the dominion of sin because they're Christ's.”

Firsts Two Problem Christ Sin Tasks Encounters Evangelism Dominion Persuading

Author:Sinclair B. Ferguson

“The creative person basically has two kinds of jobs: One is the sexy, creative kind. Second is the kind that pays the bills. Sometimes the task at hand covers both bases, but not often.”

Kind Persons Two Sometimes Hands Jobs Pay Creative Tasks Bases Bills Sexy Creative Person Task At Hand

Author:Derek Sivers

“I think that all countries of the region should join their efforts in the fight against a common threat - terrorism in general and ISIS in particular. It concerns Iran as well, it concerns Saudi Arabia (although the two countries do not get along very well, ISIS threatens both of them), it concerns Jordan, it concerns Turkey (in spite of certain problems regarding the Kurdish issue), and, in my opinion, everybody is interested in resolving the situation. Our task is to join these efforts to fight against a common enemy.”

“Only when the kulak refused to deliver grain to the State did [Joseph] Stalin, under the pressure of the Left Opposition, accomplish a sharp turn. Being the empiricist that he is, he moved, to the opposite extreme, and set as a task for two or three years the collectivization of all the peasantry, the liquidation of the kulaks as a class, and the compression of the Five Year Plan into four years.”

Years Two States Turns Three Left Class Five Four Plans Tasks Opposites Pressure Moved Extremes Accomplish Five Years Opposition Three Years Four Years Grain Compression Five Year Plans

Author:Leon Trotsky

“[My approach to the Bible, history does really matter.] Everything matters. But I have priorities. For instance, for me to know whether there were two Isaiahs or one is less important than the text itself. Of course I read the arguments for and against. But it's not my task in life to say there were two or three authors of Isaiah's book, or how many authors there were of Deuteronomy. This is not what I'm doing.”

Knows Doe Two Important Book Matter Three Courses Approach Argument Tasks Priorities Instance

Author:Elie Wiesel

“When I was a kid, I was told that I had a biological father, but that he didn't have much importance. I had an adoptive father who was present, who loved me, who was up to the task. And he was. So, I didn't question that story, until I was thirty-two, and suddenly realized that I was curious, that he did have something to do with me.”

Two Stories Kids Father Tasks Importance Curious Thirty Biological Fathers

Author:Melissa Febos

“My task over the last two years hasn't just been to stop the bleeding. My task has also been to try to figure out how do we address some of the structural problems in the economy that have prevented more Googles from being created.”

Trying Years Two Problem Lasts Economy Figures Capitalism Tasks Addresses Two Years Google Bleeding

Author:Barack Obama

“The software program for motherhood is impossible to fully download into the male brain. You give them two tasks and they're like, 'I have to change the baby and get the dry cleaning?'”

Giving Two Brain Impossible Baby Program Tasks Males Motherhood Dry Software Cleaning Downloads Dry Cleaning

Author:Allison Pearson

“I hold this to be the highest task for a bond between two people: that each protects the solitude of the other.”

People Two Friendship Marriage Relationship Solitude Protect Highest Tasks Ties

Author:Rainer Maria Rilke

“One of your tasks is to separate the 'personal' from the 'substantive.' The two can become confused, especially if someone rubs the President wrong.”

Ifs Two President Tasks Confused

Book:Public Statements of Donald H. Rumsfeld, Secretary of Defense, 2001

Source: Public Statements of Donald H. Rumsfeld, Secretary of Defense, 2001

“I believe that one can indeed work on two or more tasks at once, but in ways yet to be understood.”

Way Believe Two I Believe Understood Tasks

Author:Marilyn vos Savant

“I pity the young woman who will attempt to insinuate herself between my mama's boy and me. I sympathize with the monumental nature of her task. It will take a crowbar, two bulldozers and half a dozen Molotov cocktails to pry my Oedipus and me loose from one another.”

Two Young Half Boys Tasks Pity Dozen Young Women Mama Cocktails Oedipus Bulldozers Molotov Molotov Cocktail Mama's Boy

Book:Bad Mother: A Chronicle of Maternal Crimes, Minor Calamities, and Occasional Moments of Grace

Source: Bad Mother: A Chronicle of Maternal Crimes, Minor Calamities, and Occasional Moments of Grace

“When you have two busy kids running around the house, returning e-mails is a task, let alone surfing the web.”

Two Running Kids House Tasks Busy Mail Surfing Surfing The Web

Author:Tom Brady

“You will, Judas, my brother. God will give you the strength, as much as you lack, because it is necessary—it is necessary for me to be killed and for you to betray me. We two must save the world. Help me." Judas bowed his head. After a moment he asked, "If you had to betray your master, would you do it?" Jesus reflected for a long time. Finally he said, "No, I'm afraid I wouldn't be able to. That is why God pitied me and gave me the easier task: to be crucified.”

Ifs World Giving Long Said Two Moments Helping Able Jesus Brother Masters Easier Long Time Tasks Gods Will My Brother Help Me Betray Save The World Judas

Book:The last temptation of Christ

Source: The last temptation of Christ

“From all of us Scarborough girls, greetings and thanks. This task required two, working together, trusting each other. It required the "us," not the "I." For that is true love, is it not?”

Two Together Girl Love Is Tasks True Love Thanks Working Together Greetings True Love Is Trusting Each Other

Author:Nancy Werlin

“Asmodeus! You don’t see her, do you hear me? (Jericho) Completely blind, Minor Master. Hearing is intact. Is there anyone here besides the two of us? No? Good. I’m leaving now unless Minor Master has another preferably nonpainful task for me. (Asmodeus) You're dismissed. (Jericho) Cool beaners. (Asmodeus)”

Two Masters Tasks Blind Leaving Hearing Minors Two Of Us Jericho Asmodeus

Author:Sherrilyn Kenyon

“Two tasks at the beginning of your life: to narrow your orbit more and more, and ever and again to check whether you are not in hiding somewhere outside your orbit.”

Two Tasks Checks Hiding Orbit

Book:The Blue Octavo Notebooks

Source: The Blue Octavo Notebooks

“Every pellet has a story all its own. Every pellet has a story all its own. With its fur and teeth and bones And one or two stones, Every pellet has a story all its own. We shall dissect every pellet with glee. Perhaps we'll find a rodents knee. And never shall we tire In the sacred task that we conspire, No do our work less perfectly And those bright flecks at the core, Which makes our hearts soar, Shall forever remain the deepest mystery. - The owlets in the Pelletorium at St. Aegolius”

Heart Two Stories Forever Mystery Stones Tasks Sacred Bones Core Teeth Knees Soar Tire Fur Glee Rodents

Book:Guardians of Ga'Hoole Collection: Legend of the Guardians

Source: Guardians of Ga'Hoole Collection: Legend of the Guardians

“That is the way we decided to talk, free and easy, two young men discussing a boxing match. That was the only way to talk. You couldn't let too much truth seep into your conversation, you couldn't admit with your mouth what your eyes had seen. If you opened the door even a centimeter, you would smell the rot outside and hear the screams. You did not open the door. You kept your mind on the tasks of the day, the hunt for food and water and something to burn, and you saved the rest for the end of the war.”

Ifs Men Way Mind Two War Ends Eye Young Easy Water Too Much Doors Conversation Mouths Tasks Decided Smell Saved Young Man Boxing Scream Hunts Discussing Boxing Matches

Book:City of Thieves: A Novel

Source: City of Thieves: A Novel

“Entrepreneurship rests on a theory of economy and society. The theory sees change as normal and indeed as healthy. And it sees the major task in society – and especially in the economy – as doing something different rather than doing better what is already being done. This is basically what Say, two hundred years ago, meant when he coined the term entrepreneur.”

“It is important for knitters to know two things about frogging: that cats are capable of this knitting action, and even seem to enjoy it and seek opportunities to do it; and that foul language is a normal, healthy accompaniment to frogging, whether it is you or the cat that accomplished the task.”

Source: At Knit's End: Meditations for Women Who Knit Too Much

“All great artists know that part of their task is to light up the distance between two human beings.”

Knows Humans Two Light Artist Human Beings Tasks Distance Great Artist Light Up

Book:Maps for Lost Lovers

Source: Maps for Lost Lovers

“Think of fear as a 2-year-old child who doesn't want to go grocery shopping with you. Because you must buy groceries, you'll just have to take the two year old with you. Fear is no different. In other words, acknowledge that fear exists but don't let it keep you from doing important tasks.”

Thinking Want Years Children Two Important Different Humor Tasks Acknowledge Two Years Shopping Deep Thought Groceries Two Year Olds Grocery Shopping

Author:Jack Canfield

“Let me remind you that you have a two-fold task to perform. With the force of arms and at the cost of your blood you will have to win liberty. Then, when India is free, you will have to organize the permanent army of Free India, whose task it will be to preserve our liberty for all time. We must build up our national defense on such an unshakable foundation that never again in our history shall we lose our freedom.”

Source: Chalo Delhi: writings and speeches, 1943-1945

“We have an army for fighting as well as an army for labour. For fighting, we have the Eighth Route and New Fourth Armies but even they do a dual job, warfare and production. With these two kinds of armies, and with a fighting army skilled in these two tasks and in mass work, we can overcome our difficulties and defeat Japanese imperialism.”

Wells Kind Two Jobs Fighting Mass Tasks Overcoming Difficulty Army Defeat Productions Labour Fourth Warfare Routes Imperialism

Book:Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-tung (The Little Red Book) & Other Works

Source: Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-tung (The Little Red Book) & Other Works

“The goal of our life should not be to find joy in marriage, but to bring more love and truth into the world. We marry to assist each other in this task. The most selfish and hateful life of all is that of two beings who unite in order to enjoy life. The highest calling is that of the man who has dedicated his life to serving God and doing good, and who unites with a woman in order to further that purpose.”

Men World Should Two Joy Purpose Order Enjoy Goal Marriage Our Lives He Man Calling Highest Tasks Selfish Serving Dedicated Serving God Enjoy Life Hateful Doing Good Truth And Love

Author:Leo Tolstoy

“[Admiral Nelson's counsel] guided me time and again. On the eve of the critical battle of Santa Cruz, in which the Japanese ships outnumbered ours more than two to one, I sent my task force commanders this dispatch: ATTACK REPEAT ATTACK. They did attack, heroically, and when the battle was done, the enemy turned away. All problems, personal, national, or combat, become smaller if you don't dodge them, but confront them. Touch a thistle timidly, and it pricks you; grasp it boldly, and its spines crumble. Carry the battle to the enemy! Lay your ship alongside his!”

Ifs Two Done Problem Force Enemy Courage Battle Tasks Lays Critical Ships Repeats Combat Santa Commanders Spine Nelson Cruz Dodge Admiral Thistles Task Forces Santa Cruz

Author:William Halsey

“The irony of multitasking is that it's exhausting: when you're doing two or three things simultaneously, you use more energy than the sum of energy required to do each task independently. You're also cheating yourself because your're not doing anything excellently. You're compromising your virtuosity. In the words of T. S. Elliot, you're 'distracted from distractions by distractions'.”

Two Use Three Energy Tasks Compromise Irony Cheating Distraction Distracted Three Things Exhausting Multitasking Virtuosity Cheating Yourself

Book:The Creative Habit: Learn It and Use It for Life

Source: The Creative Habit: Learn It and Use It for Life

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