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As founder and co-chair of the upper Mississippi River Congressional task force, I have long sought to preserve the river's health and historical multiple uses, including as a natural waterway and a home to wildlife, for the benefit of future generations of Americans. Ron Kind

Future Health Home Natural Long Benefit Wildlife Future Generations River Generations Mississippi Mississippi River Force Sought Historical Task Task Force American Upper Congressional Uses Multiple Including Founder Preserve

Being a parent is too complicated and emotional a task for magical techniques and miracle cures. Ron Taffel

Complicated Too Miracle Magical Parent Emotional Cures Task Being Techniques

Tragically, the White House Task Force on Disadvantaged Youth reported that one-quarter of our young people are at serious risk of not achieving productive adulthood. Ruben Hinojosa

Youth People Young White White House Our Risk Disadvantaged Adulthood House Force Tragically Task Reported Task Force Achieving Young People Productive Serious

If you observe children with sufficient objectivity as they grow into the world, then you will perceive that children's temporal bodies are still not fully connected with the spirit-soul. The task of education, understood in a spiritual sense, is to bring the soul-spirit into harmony with the temporal body. Rudolf Steiner

Education Spiritual You World Will Sense Harmony Temporal Perceive Objectivity Observe Understood Still Task Children Then Bodies Body Connected Fully Grow Sufficient Bring

Above all, we must be conscious of the primary pedagogical task, namely that we must first make something of ourselves so that a living inner spiritual relationship exists between the teacher and the children. Rudolf Steiner

Teacher Spiritual Relationship First Living Ourselves Must Above Something Primary Between Namely Make Exists Task Children Conscious Inner

I didn't learn Chinese to write 'Confucius.' That would've been a monumental task. I have three friends who can translate Chinese text for me; all three helped me with my research on Confucius. They are acknowledged in my acknowledgements in the book. Russell Freedman

Me Book Three Research Monumental Write Learn Been Text Friends Task Acknowledged Chinese Confucius Translate Who Helped

My job and my task as prime minister of Lebanon is to shield Lebanon from any instability like in Syria or Iraq or any other country that surrounds us. My task is to make sure that we have a country that is stable. Saad Hariri

The most urgent task I have is to help those British citizens who came from the Caribbean, the so-called Windrush generation, and make sure they are all treated with the decency and the fairness they deserve. Sajid Javid

Generation Decency Caribbean Those Citizens Most Make Fairness Sure Came Task So-Called Urgent Help Who Deserve Treated British

He only seems to me to live, and to make proper use of life, who sets himself some serious work to do, and seeks the credit of a task well and skillfully performed. Sallust

I gave myself the small task of writing honestly about the kind of life I knew. I believe there is some value in carrying out that task, however limited. Sally Rooney

Life Myself Writing Value Believe Honestly Gave Out Kind Carrying Some About Small Knew Limited However Task

For Texas, a wise and prudent administration in the commencement of her national existence will be universally expected, imposing upon me the difficult and delicate task of setting in complete and successful operation a political body based upon principles so hazardously asserted and so gloriously maintained. Sam Houston

Me Wise Political Will National Difficult Setting Complete Administration Delicate Maintained Principles Operation Imposing Existence Texas Commencement Task Expected Prudent Successful Body Asserted Based Her Universally

It takes locking in on the task at hand and honing in on what you need to do in order to be successful in the NBA postseason. Scottie Pippen

You Honing Locking Takes Hand Task Order Successful NBA Need

Among advocates for life after death, nobody even tries to sit down and do the hard work of explaining how the basic physics of atoms and electrons would have to be altered in order for this to be true. If we tried, the fundamental absurdity of the task would quickly become evident. Sean M. Carroll

Life Work Death Hard Work Physics Be True Atoms Become Sit Down Evident Would Tried Tries True Absurdity Nobody Altered Advocate How Quickly Task Order After Explaining Hard Electron Even Fundamental Among Basic

Task switching is hard because we do not control what is on our mind. Despite our efforts, the original task continues to occupy our mental bandwidth. Although we can control where our time goes, we cannot fully control how our bandwidth is allocated. Sendhil Mullainathan

Time Mind Control Despite Our We Cannot Our Time Mental Allocated Although Because Occupy How Task Bandwidth Efforts Goes Where Cannot Hard Fully Original Switching

The Chinese, as befits a Communist autocracy, approached the task of dominating the Olympics with top-down military discipline. Shashi Tharoor

Discipline Military Dominating Task Autocracy Chinese Communist Olympics

I hate raising money. It diverts you from what your real task is: to be a representative. You're diverted into preservation when you really want to spend your time and energy making a better state and a better country - which is the reason you ran in the first place. Shelley Moore Capito

Time You Hate Money Better First Country Energy State Ran Spend Diverted First Place Making Real Task Representative Want Place Which Really Your Reason Raising Preservation

There's something very funny about giving a menial task to a genius and watching him find so much complexity and overanalyse it to such a degree that the waitress from Nebraska working at the Cheesecake Factory has passed them all by. Simon Helberg

I can never resist Ruritanian intrigue: I was once charged with the task of offering the Estonian throne to Prince Edward. Feeling like a Dumas Musketeer on a mission, I did so, but he turned it down. Simon Sebag Montefiore

Feeling Down Once Intrigue Charged Throne Never He Like Prince Mission Edward Offering Task Did Turned Resist

The task of a judge is not to make the law - it is to apply the law. Sonia Sotomayor

Judge Law Make Task Apply

Writing fueled me, and my task was to make it fit into my life. I practiced my trade as an attorney, and on weekends and holidays, I typed away. I assumed a nom de plume, Selena Montgomery, to separate my fiction from more academic publications. Stacey Abrams

When I became commander of the Joint Special Operations Task Force, I was leading thousands of individuals, from Special Forces to the broader interagency effort. I quickly realized that while we had the most best and most effective operators and small teams in the world, we were unable to scale. Stanley A. McChrystal

Best World Broader Scale Unable Thousands Small Joint Had Individuals Leading Most Force Forces Became Operations Were Commander Effective Quickly Effort Task Task Force While Realized Special Special Forces Teams

Many who become theologians in our time think their task is to try to determine how much of what has passed for Christianity they still need to believe and yet still be able to think of themselves as Christians. Stanley Hauerwas

I thought that there would never again be an opportunity to be involved with an industry as socially destructive and morally bankrupt as the subprime mortgage industry. I was wrong. The for-profit education industry has proven equal to the task. Steve Eisman

Education Opportunity Thought Destructive Would Morally Never Wrong Mortgage Involved Equal Industry Proven Task Bankrupt Again Socially

Each time I left prison, I left with the resolve to get my life together, to get a job, to get back on track. And each time, the task became more and more and more daunting. Susan Burton

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