Duty Quotes
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The sluggish economy is creating a situation where the young people in Japan cannot cherish their desires or have prospects for their future. Also, the decline in Japan's economic capability is resulting in a declining presence for Japan's foreign policy as well. Accordingly, the duties and mission that I must fulfill are pretty clear: namely, to regain a strong and robust economy, and also to restore Japan's strong foreign policy capability.
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The folkish-minded man, in particular, has the sacred duty, each in his own denomination, of making people stop just talking superficially of God's will, and actually fulfill God's will, and not let God's word be desecrated. For God's will gave men their form, their essence and their abilities. Anyone who destroys His work is declaring war on the Lord's creation, the divine will.
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Stern daughter of the voice of God! O Duty! if that name thou love Who art a light to guide, a rod To check the erring and reprove.
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To keep the body in good health is a duty, for otherwise we shall not be able to trim the lamp of wisdom, and keep our mind strong and clear.
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From a very early age I had imbibed the opinion that it was every man's duty to do all that lay in his power to leave his country as good as he had found it.
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To secure integrity there must a lofty sense of duty and a deep responsibility to future times as well as to God.
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Health is a divine gift, and the care of the body is a sacred duty, to neglect which is to sin.
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Victory over fear is the first spiritual duty of man.
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As Christians, it's our duty to stand up for what we believe - that's called testifying.
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My dead and wounded were nearly as great in number as those still on duty. They literally covered the ground. The blood stood in puddles in some places on the rocks; the ground was soaked with the blood of as brave men as ever fell on the red field of battle.
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An unromantic poem I mean to make, of one who only lives for duty's sake.
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Duty has a trick of behaving unexpectedly -- something like a heavy friend whom we have amiably asked to visit us, and who breaks his leg within our gates.
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The atmosphere in the school lunchroom is not quite that of a prison, because the students are permitted to talk quietly, under the frowning scrutiny of teachers standing around on duty, during their meal-they are not supposed to talk while standing in line, though this rule is only sporadically enforced.
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Whoever survives a test, whatever it may be, must tell the story. That is his duty.
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The soldier is summoned to a life of active duty and so is the Christian.
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Paramount among the responsibilities of a free press is the duty to prevent any part of the government from deceiving the people and sending them off to distant lands to die of foreign fevers and foreign shot and shell.
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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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The fundamental principle of our constitution ... enjoins the sense of command, duty that the will of the majority shall prevail.
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The thought that I had been captured so soon, without having done anything for the revolution, made me feel ashamed. I thought: at least now, I must carry out my duty well under torture.
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The duty of youth is to challenge corruption.
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Wrong no man by doing injuries, or omitting the benefits that are your duty.
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All Americans have a sacred duty to guarantee Social Security benefits to our nation's senior citizens.
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I believe in commitment to duty. That's how I've lived my life.
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We have an intuitive sense of our duty.
