#task

Still, whether we like it or not, the task of speeding up the decrease of the human population becomes increasingly urgent. ↗

— Havelock Ellis

#decrease #human #human population #increasingly #like

We've got a daunting enough task to provide a definitive account of what happened in 9/11, without fear or favor, something that will last and will survive criticism over time. And we think we can do that with integrity in a bipartisan report. ↗

— Richard Ben-Veniste

#bipartisan #criticism #daunting #definitive #enough

Women's propaganda must touch upon all those questions which are of great importance to the general proletarian movement. The main task is, indeed, to awaken the women's class consciousness and to incorporate them into the class struggle. ↗

— Clara Zetkin

#class #class consciousness #class struggle #consciousness #general

We're building an independent political program that can run electoral politics and then turn on a dime to hold our leaders to task, in case they suddenly develop that old case of amnesia! We'll be there to remind them what they promised and who they promised to work for! ↗

— Richard Trumka

#building #case #develop #dime #electoral

I do believe that there are some universal cognitive tasks that are deep and profound - indeed, so deep and profound that it is worthwhile to understand them in order to design our displays in accord with those tasks. ↗

— Edward Tufte

#believe #cognitive #deep #design #displays

My idea here is that, inasmuch as certain cognitive tasks and principles are tied to nature's laws, these tasks and principles are indifferent to language, culture, gender, or the particular mode of information that is provided. ↗

— Edward Tufte

#cognitive #culture #gender #here #idea

It is easy to go down into Hell; night and day, the gates of dark Death stand wide; but to climb back again, to retrace one's steps to the upper air - there's the rub, the task. ↗

— Virgil

#air #back #climb #dark #day

Learning to trust is one of life's most difficult tasks. ↗

— Isaac Watts

#difficult #learning #life #most #tasks

The first task of the association must therefore be to form the young members. ↗

— Adam Weishaupt

#first #form #members #must #task

The task of a university is the creation of the future, so far as rational thought and civilized modes of appreciation can affect the issue. ↗

— Alfred North Whitehead

#appreciation #civilized #creation #far #future