Duty Quotes
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The first duty of life is to be as artificial as possible. What the second duty is no one as yet discovered.
Oscar Wilde
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Art is a game. Too bad for him who makes a duty of it.
Max Jacob
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Oh, duty is what one expects from others, it is not what one does oneself.
Oscar Wilde
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Ever notice that the whisper of temptation can be heard farther than the loudest call to duty.
Earl Wilson
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Our duty is to be patient.
Hamza Yusuf
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The physician's duty is not to stave off death or return patients to their old lives, but to take into our arms a patient and family whose lives have disintegrated and work until they can stand back up and face - and make sense of - their own existence.
Paul Kalanithi
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Little children are still the symbol of the eternal marriage between love and duty.
George Eliot
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Taking care of people is the duty of every politician.
Ewa Kopacz
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If Congress sees fit to impose a capitation, or other direct tax, it must be laid in proportion to the census; if Congress determines to impose duties, imposts, and excises, they must be uniform throughout the United States. These are not strictly limitations of power. They are rules prescribing the mode in which it shall be exercised... This review shows that personal property, contracts, occupations, and the like have never been regarded by Congress as proper subjects of direct tax.
Salmon Portland Chase
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Beyond being timely, an obituary has a more subjective duty: to assess its subject's impact.
Walter Cronkite
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We must grow out of religion. It is either bugaboo, formalism, or hysteria. Besides, what proof is there that "the churches" know more about "God" than the Cockney sentry on duty outside the camp? We have only their say-so.
Richard Aldington
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It is the duty of every good officer to obey any orders given him by his commander in chief.
Nathan Hale
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The right to life is guaranteed to all Americans in the Declaration of Independence, and ensuring this is upheld is the Constitutional duty of all members of Congress.
Rand Paul
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If it is the duty of the State to educate, it is the duty of the State also to bear the burden of education, namely, the taxation out of which education is provided.
Edmund Barton
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It was the sibling thing, I suppose. I was fascinated by the intricate tangle of love and duty and resentment that tied them together. The glances they exchanged; the complicated balance of power established over decades; the games I would never play with rules I would never fully understand. And perhaps that was key: they were such a natural group that they made me feel remarkably singular by comparison. To watch them together was to know strongly, painfully, all that I'd been missing.
Kate Morton
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Deeply consider that it is your duty and interest to read the Holy Scriptures.
Adam Clarke
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In all disputes between conflicting governments, it is our interest not less than our duty to remain strictly neutral.
Zachary Taylor
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Rights that do not flow from duty well performed are not worth having.
Mahatma Gandhi
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If co-operation is a duty, I hold that non-co-operation also under certain conditions is equally a duty.
Mahatma Gandhi
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Let every lion do his duty.
J. P. Morgan
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Consult duty not events.
Walter Savage Landor
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It is difficult to preach, this morality of mediocrity! It may never admit what it is and what it wants! It must speak about restraint and worth and duty and love of one's neighbor.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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We never fail when we try to do our duty, we always fail when we neglect to do it.
Robert Baden-Powell
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It is seldom very hard to do one's duty when one knows what it is, but it is often exceedingly difficult to find this out.
Samuel Butler