Obligations Quotes
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There is a world of difference between the experience of 'care' – the wiping of a bottom, the bathing of a body: basic biological obligations – and the intimacy that makes us want to live.
Antonella Gambotto-Burke -
The United States are under peculiar obligations to become a holy people unto the Lord our God.
Ezra Stiles
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Survival is a privilege which entails obligations. I am forever asking myself what I can do for those who have not survived.
Simon Wiesenthal -
Our land of new promise will be a nation that meets its obligations, a nation that balances its budget, but never loses the balance of its values.
Bill Clinton -
Bullshit is unavoidable when circumstances require someone to talk without knowing what he is talking about. Thus, the production of bullshit is stimulated whenever a person's obligations or opportunities to speak about some topic exceed his knowledge of the facts that are relevant to that topic. This discrepancy is common in public life, where people are frequently impelled-whether by their own propensities or by the demands of others - to speak extensively about matters of which they are to some degree ignorant.
Harry Frankfurt -
I delight in my family obligations, but they leave little time for breaks let alone quick trips across the country.
Carre Otis