Duty Quotes
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Mr. Henry James writes fiction as if it were a painful duty.
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Oh, duty is what one expects from others, it is not what one does oneself.
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Ever notice that the whisper of temptation can be heard farther than the loudest call to duty.
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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.
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Art is a game. Too bad for him who makes a duty of it.
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Little children are still the symbol of the eternal marriage between love and duty.
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Our duty is to be patient.
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Taking care of people is the duty of every politician.
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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.
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Beyond being timely, an obituary has a more subjective duty: to assess its subject's impact.
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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.
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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.
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It is the duty of every good officer to obey any orders given him by his commander in chief.
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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.
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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.
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Deeply consider that it is your duty and interest to read the Holy Scriptures.
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If co-operation is a duty, I hold that non-co-operation also under certain conditions is equally a duty.
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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.
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Let men of all ranks whether they are successful, or unsuccessful, whether they triumph or not; let them do their duty, and rest satisfied.
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Rights that do not flow from duty well performed are not worth having.
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In all disputes between conflicting governments, it is our interest not less than our duty to remain strictly neutral.
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We never fail when we try to do our duty, we always fail when we neglect to do it.
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If you're an independent voter, I'm willing to bet that you were not too happy at the prospect of hitting the polls on November 8, 2016. But let me guess – you did it anyway because after all, it's your civic duty, right?
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Consult duty not events.
