Duty Quotes
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To cultivate the faculty of observation must then be the first duty of those who would excel in any scientific pursuit, and to none is this study more necessary than to the student of medicine.
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When you go into court you are putting your fate into the hands of twelve people who weren't smart enough to get out of jury duty.
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Performance of duty and observance of morality are convertible terms.
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The right of personal freedom recedes before the duty to preserve the race.
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Non-cooperation with evil is a sacred duty.
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Painting is a faith, and it imposes the duty to disregard public opinion.
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It is the duty of a man of honor to teach others the good which he has not been able to do himself because of the malignity of the times, that this good finally can be done by another more loved in heaven.
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Trying to be just a parliamentarian doing your duty and trying to keep family out and also the celebrity status out is rare and hopefully I have been able thus far to - been able to protect my wife and children.
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Small wonder that love would break under circumstances like these. Standing there in the soddie door, she seemed two personalities. One argued bitterly that it was impossible for love to keep going when there was no hope for the future, suggested that there was no use trying to keep it going. The other said sternly that marriage was not the fulfillment of a passion, - marriage was the fulfillment of love. And love was sometimes pleasure and sometimes duty.
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The truth is that the only time I'm happy is when I'm doing absolutely nothing. I don't understand people who like to work and talk about it like it was some sort of goddamn duty. Doing nothing feel like floating on warm water to me. Delightful, perfect.
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Live so that thou mayest desire to live again - that is thy duty - for in any case thou wilt live again!
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My duty is to obey orders.
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I think I could turn and live with the animals, they are so placid and self contained; I stand and look at them long and long. They do not sweat and whine about their condition; They do not lie awake in the dark and weep for their sins; They do not make me sick discussing their duty to God; Not one is dissatisfied-not one is demented with the mania of owning things; Not one kneels to another, nor his kind that lived thousands of years ago; Not one is responsible or industrious over the whole earth.
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Holiness is not the luxury of a few people, but a simple duty for you and me.
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Victory over fear is the first spiritual duty of man.
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The highest duty and the highest proof of wisdom - that deed and word should be in accord.
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I don't think it's about art being a career but it's about making sure that if art is something that you love, something that brings you joy, it's about you having a duty to find time in your life for that thing that brings you joy...even if it can only be a small amount.
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The soldier is summoned to a life of active duty and so is the Christian.
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Do the duty which lies nearest to thee.
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From my early school days, I was brought up with the belief that we have a duty to use our talents, to volunteer and to make a contribution.
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There's a rule saying I have to ground anyone who's crazy ... There's a catch. Catch-22. Anyone who wants to get out of combat duty isn't really crazy.
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It is the surgeon’s duty to tranquillize the temper, to beget cheerfulness, and to impart confidence of recovery.
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Leadership to me means duty, honor, country. It means character, and it means listening from time to time.
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After four tours of duty as a Navy SEAL officer, I came home from Iraq and watched the VA - the second-biggest bureaucracy in the country - fail my friends. The VA was broken and my friends were suffering. And yet, time and again, the only 'solution' I heard from liberals was to spend more money. It made me angry.
