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God does not ask your ability Or your inability. He asks only your availability.
Mary Kay Ash
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One worthwhile task carried to a successful conclusion is better than 50 half-finished tasks.
B. C. Forbes
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Focusing your life solely on making a buck shows a poverty of ambition. It asks too little of yourself. And it will leave you unfulfilled.
Barack Obama
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The three hardest tasks in the world are neither physical feats nor intellectual achievements, but moral acts: to return love for hate, to include the excluded, and to say,
Sydney J. Harris
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The man who asks a question is a fool for a minute, the man who does not ask is a fool for life.
Confucius
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One of the main tasks of theology is to find words that do not divide but unite, that do not create conflict but unity, that do not hurt but heal.
Henri Nouwen
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When someone asks you, 'What's punk?' my reply is, 'If you have to ask, you're never going to know.
Henry Rollins
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The three hardest tasks in the world are neither physical feats nor intellectual achievements, but moral acts: to return love for hate, to include the excluded, and to say, 'I was wrong'.
Sydney J. Harris
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What then is time? If no one asks me, I know what it is. If I wish to explain it to him who asks, I do not know.
Saint Augustine
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Without a sign, his sword the brave man draws, and asks no omen, but his country's cause.
Homer
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But such is the irresistable nature of truth, that all it asks, and all it wants is the liberty of appearing.
Thomas Paine
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When a man is in doubt about this or that in his writing, it will often guide him if he asks himself how it will tell a hundred years hence.
Samuel Butler
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Cowardice asks the question, is it safe? Expediency asks the question, is it politic? Vanity asks the question, is it popular? But conscience asks the question, is it right? And there comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular, but one must take it because it is right.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
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It seems essential, in relationships and all tasks, that we concentrate only on what is most significant and important.
Soren Kierkegaard
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For one human being to love another; that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks, the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.
Rainer Maria Rilke
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One of the chief tasks of any dialogue with the Gentile world is to prove that the distinction between anti-Semitism and anti-Zionism is not a distinction at all.
Abba Eban
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Always the beautiful answer who asks a more beautiful question.
E. E. Cummings
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Never say no when a client asks for something, even if it is the moon. You can always try, and anyhow there is plenty of time afterwards to explain that it was not possible.
Richard M. Nixon
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If a friend asks a favor, you should grant it if it is reasonable; if not, tell him plainly why you cannot: You will wrong him and wrong yourself by equivocation of any kind.
Robert E. Lee
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Love takes off masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within.
James Baldwin
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The questions which one asks oneself begin, at least, to illuminate the world, and become one's key to the experience of others.
James Baldwin
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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.
James Baldwin
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I long to accomplish a great and noble task, but it is my chief duty to accomplish small tasks as if they were great and noble.
Helen Keller
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I write synopses after the book is completed. I can't write it beforehand, because I don't know what the book's about. I invent something for my publisher because he asks for one, but the final book ends up very differently.
Jackie Collins
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To be an effective leader, you have to have a manipulative streak - you have to figure out the people working for you and give each tasks that will take advantage of his strength.
Norman Schwarzkopf
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Lou Holtz
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Emily Post
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Good fiction creates empathy. A novel takes you somewhere and asks you to look through the eyes of another person, to live another life.
Barbara Kingsolver
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Isaac Watts
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The closing years of life are like the end of a masquerade party, when the masks are dropped.
Cesare Pavese
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Anything in any way beautiful derives its beauty from itself and asks nothing beyond itself. Praise is no part of it, for nothing is made worse or better by praise.
Marcus Aurelius
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Now, if we only had as many casks of butter as there are people here, then I would eat lots of butter!
H.C. Andersen
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Children show me in their playful smiles the divine in everyone. This simple goodness shines straight from their hearts and only asks to be loved.
Michael Jackson
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We have a hunger of the mind which asks for knowledge of all around us, and the more we gain, the more is our desire; the more we see, the more we are capable of seeing.
Maria Mitchell
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A man can never be idle with safety and advantage until he has been so trained by work that he makes his freedom from times and tasks more fruitful than his toil has been.
Hamilton Wright Mabie
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The fool is not he who asks what and when he/ she doesn’t know. The fool is he/she that is so confident that they don’t ask out of pride, so they don’t seem dumb and they still end up making fools of themselves!
Audu Maikori
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People are more complicated than the masks they wear in society.
Robert Greene
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I feel like there's a lot of tasks in cooking that I want to master, that I want to do better.
Marcus Samuelsson
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The man who sows wrong thoughts and deeds and prays that God will bless him is in the position of a farmer who, having sown tares, asks God to bring forth for him a harvest of wheat.
James Allen
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God asks no man whether he will accept life. That is not a choice. You must take it. The only question is how.
Henry Ward Beecher
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People think actresses find public speaking easy, and it's not easy at all; we're used to hiding behind masks.
Jane Fonda
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To the families and friends of SierraLeoneans in the Diaspora we’ve lost to COVID 19, please accept our deepest condolences. You are in our hearts and prayers this Easter. Let us remember to prevent and protect against Coronavirus,hand washing, facial masks, social distancing.
Julius Maada Bio
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it is distressing how often one can guess the answer given to an economic question merely by knowing who asks it.
George Stigler
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We must now intensify protective measures such as wearing of face masks, hand washing and practicing physical distancing. We cannot afford to act irresponsibly, so we must take this preventive action very seriously.
Godwin Obaseki
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Some people go to bed at night thinking, 'That was a good day.' I am one of those who worries and asks, 'How did I screw up today?
Tom Hanks
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I must say again that the use of masks in public places remains mandatory. It is not optional. You must wear a facemask when you are out and about in public. I urge us to take responsibility for our personal safety and conduct when we are out of our homes.
Babajide Sanwo-Olu
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We shall enforce use of face masks, social distancing, use of hand sanitizers and other measures that will help in curbing community transmission. We are also encouraging people to submit to testing.
Simon Lalong
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When an African man gets a scholarship to study in the UK, he packs everything up and leaves but when a woman gets a scholarship, she asks if the scholarship might extend to support the children.
Akanimo Odon
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We must now contemplate fresh ideas in terms of how we make our sporting arenas more reflective of public health demands. How do we undertake research into how face-masks can mitigate transmission, and see to what extent we can build confidence with this?
Sunday Akin Dare
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False gods must be repudiated, but that is not all: The reasons for their existence must be sought beneath their masks.
Alexander Herzen
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