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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.

Why don't you reform yourselves? That task would be sufficient enough.

Stiller was able to reach speeds of around 35 miles per hour, no small task for someone who had never longboarded before.

Concentrate on something useful. Having decided to achieve a task, achieve it at all costs.

In addressing a task, one almost always has several possible options, sometimes only a few, and they may all be practical and functional. But they lack the aesthetic aspect that raises it to architecture.

If architecture had nothing to do with art, it would be astonishingly easy to build houses, but the architect's task - his most difficult task - is always that of selecting.

That is the artistic task: To choose the best from these solutions.

The principal task of friendship is to foster one`s friends` illusions.

A great task has been completed and an even larger one remains.

Throughout our history in times of testing, Americans have come together in prayer to heal and ask for strength for the tasks ahead, ... So I've declared Friday, Sept. the 16th, as a National Day of Prayer and Remembrance. I ask that we pray - as Americans have always prayed in times of trial - with confidence in His purpose, with hope for a brighter future, and with the humility to ask God to keep us strong so that we can better serve our brothers and sisters in need.

Unsolvable problems do not exist. Any crisis is a combination of specific tasks to be worked on. The government has the experience and reserves to overcome the economic downturn

I always say that modernization is not an abstract thing; its a very specific task.

The hugely popular Windows 95 operating system revolutionized the software world thanks to its capability of accomplishing the seemingly impossible task of making Bill Gates even richer than he already was.

Big tasks are still out there, and a lot of hard work yet to be done.

We're talking about communities where they have not even turned on the lights, communities where they have not even picked up the trash. Now those are physical things that it does not take a rocket scientist to figure out. But somehow those tasks have not been accomplished.

The theory of isolation of certain tasks in certain hemispheres of the brain suggests I shouldn't even be able to speak, never mind write.

The team vigorously participated in international rescue tasks and gave quick response and made remarkable achievements in the rescue work, fully illustrating China's important role in international humanitarian affairs and further demonstrated that China is a responsible country in the international society.

The T1 addresses this issue as a massively threaded processor that can handle more tasks on a single piece of silicon. Customers can now do a lot more without adding hardware.

The tasks were kind of hard and they were related to the magazine. It was about being in the moment and on the spot your true character comes out. I think the objective was to find someone different than the typical role models.

The stresses of daily life are all around us, from remembering to pick up milk to scheduling your next vehicle maintenance appointment. While these tasks and appointments are not likely to go away, there are new technologies available to help you navigate this sea of responsibility and bring you added peace of mind.

We need to breach those levees to let the water out of the system. We've got many tasks going at once on these situations.

When you hire someone to do tasks that you dislike, that employee really has you over a barrel,

We will have time to go back and do an after-action report, but the time right now is to look at what the enormous tasks ahead are, ... Meet the Press.

There will probably be some job loss, but I think it will be less than what people think. There is always a need for more talent and human intervention even when tasks are automated.

the right group of forces for the sort of tasks that may be necessary.

You have to recognize that this is the result of the sacrifice and hard work of the employees. In the end, it is the rank and file who find ways to accomplish their tasks with less resources.

We also have an advantage in the intuitiveness of all of our software. Everything from Mac OS X Server Admin and Server Monitor all the way to ARD (Apple Remote Desktop) make the tasks that people have to do a lot easier.

to solve the issue of Taiwan and realize complete reunification of the motherland is one of the three major tasks for the Party and the nation in the new century.

Even though we don't always realize it, as the day goes on, we have increased difficulty exerting self-control and focusing on our work. As self-control wears out, we feel tired and find tasks to be more difficult, and our mood sours.

Everything in Haiti is broken and everything needs fixing. One of the most immediate tasks is reconciliation and dialogue among Haitians.

Perform the tasks of Truth, wear Truth, and take the Support of the True Name. Associating with Truth, obtain Truth, and love the True Name.

With our 10g release, we focused on making the Oracle Database easier to install, deploy, and manage as well as easier for developers to use. Oracle SQL Developer offers database developers everything they need to productively tackle their coding and debugging tasks more effectively. Oracle Database customers will benefit in terms of both cost savings and increased developer productivity.

deeply develop hi-tech training in line with the tasks of warfare.

As a programmer, it's sometimes difficult to know how ordinary people with no technical experience are reacting to your software. Linux people tend to know other Linux people. In these usability tests, we selected test subjects who were experienced with Windows, but who had never heard of Linux, and asked them to perform basic tasks using the Linux desktop.

They undoubtedly come through Syria and they come through Iran, probably, and through other countries to be available for tasks that he has in mind, ... And money comes in as well.

They've built a little over 30 schools, they're working with the coalition training the Iraqi army, they're doing border security, they're doing a little bit of everything. There's just a myriad of different tasks they're doing over there.

Our emphasis has not been on measuring the tasks we've automated to date.

People don't like having to do tasks by themselves -- especially housework. Rather than doing chores separately, it can be a much more positive experience when families do them at the same time.

Flying in space is risky. It will never be safe, and the best thing we can do is manage those risks. It's important for people, for human beings, to be in space because they're adaptable and because they're not pre-programmed software that can go off and do tasks that are appropriate for machines.

The only thing they can do is very rudimentary tasks like finding a point on a map.

This example showed me that the ability to step back is also among the political tasks of a president,

This could be one of the biggest tasks we're going to undertake. I don't mind telling you that it scares the daylights out of me.

This is about 500 fewer than at present, reflecting the closure of two small bases in Basra, the transfer of some training tasks to the Iraqi security forces and structural differences between the two brigades,

In cases where you're trying to do more complex, sophisticated tasks in middle school, that's not as easily translatable into a multiple-choice test, ... If we used more authentic assessments, we might find they're not doing just as well but maybe better.

In a way, what we do is not totally different from some of the tasks that will be performed for the assembly of the International Space Station.

I much preferred the approach at the anarchist camp, with its shared tasks and collective responsibilities. Everyone played their part. There was no division between workers and consumers.

In both painting and hacking there are some tasks that are terrifyingly ambitious, and others that are comfortably routine. It's a good idea to save some easy tasks for moments when you would otherwise stall.

Infinity is a player of great significance who appears on the stage only when the crucial questions of existence are raised. Infinity offers its services when we seek to know if the Universe began or whether it will ever end, whether life will always be part of its landscape, and whether there are tasks which can never be accomplished. Infinity challenges us to contemplate the duplication of ourselves and all that we hold dear, and to ponder the cogency of all possibilities, potential and actual. It undermines our sense of the precious by suggesting a randomly infinite universe will eventually conjure up the works of Shakespeare, somewhere, as if created by a regiment of monkeys armed with typewriters. Infinity also seeks to guard us from taking the wrong path in our quest to unravel the deepest of Nature's secrets about the ultimate structure of mass and energy.

I'm very, very proud of the crew, ... I think this is going to be more representative of what the EVAs are going to be like in the future where the crew is asked to do tasks that they haven't looked at extensively preflight.

Instead of viewing tasks that require activity as a chore or a bother, we should view it as an opportunity.

Instead of working on one project at a time, this gift will enable us to take on several tasks at once.

I've had jobs that allow me the flexibility to achieve work-life balance, to be there when one of the kids sinks a jump shot or for the parent-teacher meetings. I can move tasks around. If I don't get something done at the office at 4:30 in the afternoon, I can go back to it at 10:00 in the evening.

Small businesses are searching for a flexible, functional solution that will quickly and painlessly help them manage daily accounting tasks and also support a company's growth and evolution, from startup to mid-market. With its ease-of-use, depth of features and integrated components, Small Business PRO fully meets these expectations so companies can capitalize on the power of automation to increase efficiency and remain focused on advancing their business to the next level.

The best education gives you the necessary skills to solve real problems and carry out the necessary tasks at home, in society and at work

The biggest difference is that the Core version is directed to a different population of students. It measures the same types of skills as the advanced version, but the tasks are slightly less complex and there is less of a reading load.

not playing any games on this. All I can think about all the unfinished tasks we want to accomplish here.

Do not pray for tasks equal to your powers. Pray for power equal to your tasks.

The largest challenge is just getting out the door on time and coming back in. The tasks themselves are not overly challenging. So, overall, the biggest challenge will be just executing the overall EVA day timeline.

(The contestants are) going to get real business lessons, real business advice and, day in and day out, tasks that are difficult and challenging and they're going to be aware of what it takes to be an apprentice at Martha Stewart Living.

The congress's tasks are to review the implementation of the resolutions of the 9th party congress and decide orientations and missions for developing the country in the coming time.

It's hard now to imagine that kind of travel and the daily tasks they simply took for granted. If a wagon axle broke, you had to stop and carve a new one. To cross a river, you sometimes had to build a raft.

It will be sometime next year. We know that the tasks ahead for all the staff and judicial officers will be challenging and demanding, but we pledge to do our best to carry out the responsibility to which we have been assigned so that justice delayed will not mean justice denied for the Cambodian people, who have waited for long.

In terms of technology trends, a new operating system like XP makes a big difference. It makes the PC more stable and robust, so you can be running background tasks as your PC operates effectively as a hub or a server in your environment. Those are positive dimensions of a new operating system.

His experience and outstanding personal qualities make him ideally qualified to lead the U.N. in tackling the many urgent tasks which it currently faces,

If you want to completely tear yourself away from your home, your family and all you've ever known; if you want to endure months and years of a Spartan lifestyle and a harsh disciplinary regime; and if you don't mind carrying out the most menial tasks with only the bare minimum of material, then by all means join the French Foreign Legion.

If you think about your brain, and learning and the memory process, I can ask you questions about when you were five-years-old and you can retrieve information. That's a tremendous capacity for memory. In fact, you perform fairly simple tasks that you would think a computer would easily be able to accomplish, but in fact it can't.

Intuit is committed to helping solve consumer health care issues. We've been studying the industry for more than three years and by working with leading companies in the industry, we believe we can make a profound impact on people's lives. Our goal is to take complex health care tasks and make solutions so profound; people cannot imagine going back to the old way.

If you want to build a ship, don't drum up people together to collect wood and don't assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea

The task of the software development team is to engineer the illusion of simplicity.

It is a sober truth that people who live only to amuse themselves work harder at the task than most people do in earning their daily bread.

Certain tasks become automatic and don't require your attention, like walking or driving, so that you can easily carry on a complicated conversation while driving. But you probably wouldn't be able to do this if you just learned how to drive.

By organizing our core business into individual business units, there has been duplication of tasks and responsibilities that have not been supported by our sales growth. By restructuring our organization into functional areas, not only will we be more efficient, we will also be much more effective.

By talking to our members, I learned that tasks such as researching legal questions on their own, learning how to find reliable home improvement professionals, and determining various child care options are tasks that take time from an already busy day. Our new benefits are designed to provide women with a starting point for their questions and provide information that can help simplify these tasks.

I pray that I might be in the center of God's will. I pray for wisdom that He might lead me and give me wisdom in the tasks that I have ahead of me.

The task is not to perfect yourself, it's to perfect your love.

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.

When a task cannot be partitioned because of sequential constraints, the application of more effort has no effect on the schedule. The bearing of a child takes nine months, no matter how many women are assigned.

It is our task, both in science and in society at large, to prove the conventional wisdom wrong and to make our unpredictable dreams come true

They'll have difficulty writing, and even doing simple tasks such as buttoning a shirt, or tying a shoe.

We ask the education system to expiate the sins of the rest of the society and then condemn it as hopelessly broken when it doesn't prove up to the task.

Our law enforcement must have every tool necessary to find and disrupt terrorists at home and abroad. That's the task of the 21st century.

In 2005, Duke Energy took a number of significant strategic steps to shape our future, but at the same time stayed focused on the tasks at hand to deliver outstanding results for the year. I'm very proud that our employees were able to surpass their earnings targets at the same time they were creating the foundation for the organization that will become the 'new' Duke Energy.

We must not just be in the world and above the world, but also of the world. To love it for what it is... is the only task. Avoid it and you are lost. Lose yourself in it, and you are free.

We find that the manager, particularly at senior levels, is overburdened with work. With the increasing complexity of modern organizations and their problems, he is destined to become more so. He is driven to brevity, fragmentation, and superficiality in his tasks, yet he cannot easily delegate them because of the nature of his information.

To live fully, outwardly and inwardly, not to ignore the external reality for the sake of the inner life, or the reverse, that's quite a task

The task is not to see what has never been seen before, but to think what has never been thought before about what you see everyday.

A great deal of work still remains for getting EUV mask blanks ready for manufacturing, but our cleaning methodology has removed another barrier. We are well positioned for the tasks ahead.

The device would allow military divers to swim in a straight line, in a search pattern or to a particular location -- tasks that are difficult in conditions of limited visibility.

The fourth one was incredibly, much more so, much more physical than the first ones. It's I think simply the nature of the book that its got those 3 massive tasks in it.

The Glades County School District Maintenance Team, led by Al Brown has also played a vital role in the completion of the project. In an effort to keep costs down, the maintenance department took on several tasks in the project instead of bidding them out to a sub contractor.

The key argument is that cognitive tasks should be turned into design principles.

The EU will be able to carry out the whole range of (these) tasks by 2003, albeit with possible restrictions in terms of scale and deployment time and perhaps a higher level of risk,

To love another another human in all of her splendor and imperfect perfection , it is a magnificent task...tremendous and foolish and human.

It is always the task of the intellectual to "think otherwise." This is not just a perverse idiosyncrasy. It is an absolutely essential feature of a society.

The field of view is limited in such bifocal eyeglasses, requiring the user to gaze down to accomplish near visions tasks and in some cases causing dizziness and discomfort. In stimulated and actual human vision tests, the new lens performed well at both near and far focusing tasks. These results represent a significant advance in vision care.

The committee has concluded that they have completed the tasks that were put before them. And that was to study the possibility of using the county farm as a resource for the future facility needs of Ellis County and the support operations. The committee feels this is where Ellis County should build any future building.

The concept has been thoroughly adopted by draft outlines of the 11th Five-Year Plan, which clearly sets forth the goals and major tasks for the upcoming five years.

In the Pythagorean system, thinking about numbers, or doing mathematics, was an inherently masculine task. Mathematics was associated with the gods, and with transcendence from the material world; women, by their nature, were supposedly rooted in this latter, baser realm.

Time, among all concepts in the world of physics, puts up the greatest resistance to being dethroned from ideal continuum to the world of the discrete, of information, of bits.... Of all obstacles to a thoroughly penetrating account of existence, none looms up more dismayingly than 'time.' Explain time? Not without explaining existence. Explain existence? Not without explaining time. To uncover the deep and hidden connection between time and existence ... is a task for the future.

It is rather suitable for umpires to dress like dentists, since one of their tasks is to draw stumps.