Duty Quotes
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There is no intensity of love or feeling that does not involve the risk of crippling hurt. It is a duty to take this risk, to love and feel without defense or reserve.
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When duty calls, that is when character counts.
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For it is the duty of an astronomer to compose the history of the celestial motions through careful and expert study.
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My duty is to obey orders.
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At times, non-cooperation becomes as much a duty as cooperation.
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Your first great duties, you are sensible, are those you owe to Heaven, to your Creator and Redeemer. Let these be ever present to your minds, and exemplified in your lives and conduct.
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Non-cooperation with tyrants is a duty.
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The first duty of a government is to give education to the people.
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The sense of obligation to continue is present in all of us. A duty to strive is the duty of us all. I felt a call to that duty.
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Every step of progress means a duty repudiated, and a scripture torn up.
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Man is a god to his fellow-man, if he know his duty.
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This world is full of beauty, as other worlds above, and if we did our duty, it might be as full of love.
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It seems to me it's a painter's duty to try to put an idea into his work.
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You cannot do anything without rousing the masses to action. A plenary meeting of the Soviet must be called to decide on mass searches in Petrograd and the goods stations. To carry out these searches, each factory and company must form contingents, not on a voluntary basis: it must be the duty of everyone to take part in these searches under the threat of being deprived of his bread card. We can't expect to get anywhere unless we resort to terrorism: speculators must be shot on the spot. Moreover, bandits must be dealt with just as resolutely: they must be shot on the spot.
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When you are in the line of your duty, it is like standing in front of a line of posts, and every post is in line. But step one step aside, and every post looks as though it were not quite in line. The farther you get away from that straight line, the more crooked the posts will appear. It is the straight and narrow path of duty that will lead you and me back to the presence of God.
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Every subject's duty is the Kings, but every subject's soul is his own.
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Belize, with the help of God and the support of its people, will stand upright and will do its duty and help bring peace, stability and prosperity to our region and to wider circles of our planet Earth.
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Obviously, the duty of artists is there, but it's more an indictment of the political system that someone like Zinn views artists as the seers, idealizing them as the people responsible for inspiring change.
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It is our duty to serve those who serve us.
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Duty is the necessity to act out of reverence for the law.
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I consider it an indispensible duty to close this last solemn act of my official life by commending the interests of our dearest country to the protection of Almighty God and those who have the superintendence of them into his Holy keeping.
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To abandon duty is to destroy that which makes any individual unique and capable of prodigious feats.
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The most difficult achievement is the capacity to see oneself, to name oneself, to imagine oneself. If in daily life we use ideologies, common sense, religion, even literature itself to disguise our experiences and make them presentable, in fiction it’s possible to sweep away all the veils—in fact, perhaps, it’s a duty.
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The sense of duty pursues us ever.
