It takes a very unusual mind to undertake the analysis of the obvious.
Alfred North Whitehead
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Wherever a man may happen to turn, whatever a man may undertake, he will always end up by returning to the path which nature has marked out for him.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
We're not ... equipped with the financial and other resources to undertake a development of the size and complexity required.
Stuart Rolt
The secretary-general welcomes the initiative of the British Foreign Secretary, H.E. Mr. Jack Straw, to undertake a mission to Cyprus, Greece and Turkey this week.
Stephanie Dujarric
If we don't undertake the levee reconstruction and coastal restoration, we're just leaving New Orleans more vulnerable than it was before.
Ivor Van Heerden
Part of this new office will be to undertake the necessary steps to address any outstanding issues relating to the reimbursement of past hurricane relief efforts. These groups were essential and will continue to play a substantial role in the hurricane relief effort.
Russ Knocke
Ontario, therefore urges the federal government, in consultation with the provinces and territories, to undertake an immediate high priority review of the current firearms provisions in the Criminal Code as set out in this paper.
Michael Bryant
I regret the time and resources needed to undertake this but... it is right to lay this accusation to rest.
David Blunkett
[Travel seems] not just a way of having a good time, but something that every self-respecting citizen ought to undertake, like a high-fiber diet, say, or a deodorant.
Jan Morris
WEDDING, n. A ceremony at which two persons undertake to become one, one undertakes to become nothing, and nothing undertakes to become supportable.
Ambrose Bierce
We're ready to undertake two new prize competitions in the arena of suborbital rocket flights.
Brant Sponberg
The question is whether we're ready to undertake responsibility for overcoming the crisis or will again sink in debates, mutual recriminations and half-steps.
Yevgeny Primakov
Pepsi is willing to undertake similar efforts for any retailer interested, provided it makes economic sense.
Nicole Bradley
These are the kinds of plans we?re hoping that businesses and communities and schools and others will undertake.
Dr. Ned Calonge
There is no question that films that we would have considered viable just a few seasons ago are too risky to undertake these days, ... Small films are smaller than ever and titles that would have done decently a few years back would almost certainly be doomed to abject failure these days.
Mark Urman
China's efforts to improve corporate governance and undertake a broad range of structural and institutional reforms will further enhance its competitive position as a financial and trade center of gravity in the region.
Homi Kharas
I don't really consider myself to be an actor of any particular style. My aim with every role I undertake is to be truthful and honest in that particular portrayal. I don't have a particular methodology from any one school of thought or training.
Benjamin Bratt
We feel that it is too early in the process to undertake that effort right now. When the infrastructure for supporting dealers has been put in place, the company will then begin to invite interested parties to become dealers. I expect that that will not happen for at least another year to 18 months.
John Harmer
Today's decision means everyone loses. The Times has lost this case and will now undertake the difficult and sad process of removing significant portions from its electronic historical archive.
Arthur Sulzberger Jr
It certainly gives the idea that the Chinese might diminish demand for all kinds of goods, including the metals and energy. This raises concerns the Chinese might undertake a pattern of raising interest rates.
Daniel Vaught
The reforms Putnam will undertake as part of the commission's order are intended to provide real and substantial protections for mutual fund investors.
Stephen Cutler
They still have to have vision, the ability to undertake an ambitious project, to leverage resources, to manage financing. We thought it would be very useful for the students to look at a situation that was very different from the normal one.
Josh Lerner
All that a pacifist can undertake -- but it is a very great deal -- is to refuse to kill, injure or otherwise cause suffering to another human creature, and untiringly to order his life by the rule of love though others may be captured by hate.
Vera Brittain (mary)
The culture of corruption in Kenya runs very deep and only such a commission can undertake to address it fully and ensure it is uprooted from our midst.
Paul Muite
I still have a desire to undertake some coaching role within the AFL-VFL system, but my primary time commitments will be to my position at Cricket Victoria. I have thoroughly enjoyed my stint as Box Hill Hawks coach and I wish them well for season 2006.
Andy Collins
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.
Robert Higgins
With most operas, some lead roles are very strenuous to undertake, they're hard to do three days in a row.
Christine Seitz
They fear discovery of their 'fraudulence' and undertake too much work to compensate for their lack of self-esteem and identity.
Manfred Kets De Vries
Roche has had plenty of time to figure out what its options are regarding the licensing of the patents. There are too many potential suppliers to undertake individual negotiations with each company. Roche needs to simply identify the relevant terms it will impose on generic suppliers and offer open licenses to anyone who can comply.
James Love
If the Fish and Wildlife Service does undertake a rigorous, scientific process to peer review this, they will have no choice but to reject this proposal from the state of Idaho. The conclusions were reached prior to the state obtaining the data and the data does not scientifically substantiate the conclusions.
Suzanne Stone
We need U.S. energy companies that have the scale and financial strength to make investments, undertake the risk and develop the new technologies.
Rex Tillerson
Today, each artist must undertake to invent himself, a lifelong act of creation that constitutes the essential content of the artist's work. The meaning of art in our time flows from this function of self-creation.
Harold Rosenberg
I think we'll find out in due course [whether] they are going to detach from the orbital module and undertake a few maneuvers while they are still in orbit. That would be remarkably ambitious for a second flight.
Dean Cheng
We'll have to wait to see the content of the coalition agreement. It will be an important sign of whether the government is ready to undertake basic reforms or only reforms too small to get Germany out of a very difficult situation.
Uwe Andersen
Assuming the two-percentage-point increase goes through in January, we will undertake a full review of the ratings, ... is what we are looking for from a ratings perspective.
James Mccormack
In order to stop the further transmission of the measles virus, the ministry of health will undertake two phases of an emergency vaccination campaign targeting all children between nine months and five years in the whole country.
James Nyikal
We're going to give them the benefit of the doubt that they will do what they say they are going to do. We would just urge them to undertake a quicker pace of reform.
Timothy Adams
Knowing better than anyone my own shortcomings, I undertake this task with humility and ask you all, as Canadians, to help me.
Adrienne Clarkson
It's possible that if businesses feel more confident about the future, given that the Dow has broken above 11,000, they might be more inclined to step up capital spending, undertake more in terms of product development, including R&D, all of which would add to employment.
John Lonski
Part of the actions that we've decided to undertake include upgrading process control equipment.
Scott Dean
Any restrictions should only pertain to any project we might undertake with the use of federal money.
Mark Mcnally
We did not undertake this decision lightly. In view of the financial considerations facing MAO (Miss America Organization) now and in the future, we respect MAO's decision to start fresh. We wish the pageant well.
Jeff Vasser
Brother Freeman is the only person allowed to speak, file, and undertake action outside court for me, ... smoke screen to prevent that evidence in my favor reach me.
Zacarias Moussaoui
If you try to undertake what is a $5 billion problem here on a month-to-month basis, it's going to take a long, long time at that rate to see significant results. It's important to us to know how much we're getting and for how long.
Tom Rathbun
Safety education on the farm, especially for children, is a crucial initiative for the rural communities, ... ADM is proud to support FS4JK as they undertake the important task of educating farmers and their families about how to keep children safe on and around the farm.
Brian Peterson
We can undertake a great number of capital projects and keep the tax rate at 63 cents.
Chad Mitchell
If the parliament is sitting it has to undertake business, that's not a question of picking and choosing.
Philip Ruddock
Even though Office 2007 is very innovative and a compelling solution, it is a big endeavor for enterprises to undertake, and many of them are going to sit on the sidelines in 2007 and wait and see and learn from others' experiences.
Kyle Mcnabb
LEONINE, adj. Unlike a menagerie lion. Leonine verses are those in which a word in the middle of a line rhymes with a word at the end, as in this famous passage from Bella Peeler Silcox: The electric light invades the dunnest deep of Hades. Cries Pluto, 'twixt his snores: 'O tempora! O mores!' It should be explained that Mrs. Silcox does not undertake to teach pronunciatio.
Ambrose Bierce
There was just no other way to play it. There was no question this was a man who was tortured and troubled and filled with so many inconsistencies, plus the pain of dealing with the shocking task he was asked to undertake.
Dougray Scott
Experience in other countries shows ... that governments can undertake efforts that can yield substantial reduction in enterprise fairly quickly.
Robert Holleyman
Ford has not asked for, and is not interested in, a government bailout. There are many partnerships we can undertake with the government -- from alternative energy research to worker re-training to enforcing our trade laws -- but a bailout is not one of them.
Dan Brouillette
That they (the powers of heaven) may be conferred upon us, it is true; but when we undertake to cover• our sins, or to gratify our pride, our vain ambition, or to exercise control or dominion• or compulsion upon the souls of the children of men, in any degree of unrighteousness, behold, the heavens withdraw• themselves; the Spirit of the Lord is grieved.
Dr. Joseph Smith
When I was young I was amazed at Plutarch's statement that the elder Cato began at the age of eighty to learn Greek. I am amazed no longer. Old age is ready to undertake tasks that youth shirked because they would take too long.
W. Somerset Maugham
There are too many unanswered questions regarding his ability financially to undertake this project.
Jim Carrey
Rebellion against your handicaps gets you nowhere. Self-pity gets you nowhere. One must have the adventurous daring to accept oneself as a bundle of possibilities and undertake the most interesting game in the world - making the most of one's best.
Harry Emerson Fosdick
It is clear that [the election authorities] have to undertake some practical steps in an urgent way to organize the way they work and make decisions to [register] a preponderance of the voters by mid-August.
Roger Noriega
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