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 angels may have wider spheres of action, may have nobler forms of duty; but right with them and with us is one and the same thing.
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Who kept the faith and fought the fight; The glory theirs, the duty ours.
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Every duty we omit obscures some truth we should have known.
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Duty is a very personal thing. It is what comes from knowing the need to take action and not just a need to urge others to do something.
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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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Violence is sometimes a duty.
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The voice of protest, of warning, of appeal is never more needed than when the clamor of fife and drum, echoed by the press and too often by the pulpit, is bidding all men fall in and keep step and obey in silence the tyrannous word of command. Then, more than ever, it is the duty of the good citizen not to be silent.
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The first duty of man is that of subduing fear.
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We have an intuitive sense of our duty.
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In our community, we have a duty to strengthen the weakest among us to build a better society.
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On the one hand, it is a duty, and on the other hand it is a pleasure to help those who feel worse than you.
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I think most people didn't want to do court duty.
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We grew up with the duty to make it difficult for others before they made it difficult for us.
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You don't have a right to vote, you've got a duty of vote.
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Duty looks more repelling at a distance than when fairly faced and met.
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God never imposes a duty without giving time to do it.
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The preservation of health is a duty. Few seem conscious that there is such a thing as physical morality.
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As soon as sacrifice becomes a duty and necessity to mankind. I see no limit to the horizon which opens before him.
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Let him who gropes painfully in darkness or uncertain light, and prays vehemently that the dawn may ripen into day, lay this precept well to heart: "Do the duty which lies nearest to thee," which thou know to be a duty! Thy second duty will already have become clearer.
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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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The gospel does not abolish industry, but changes its nature and chief design; it dignifies toil, mitigates the evils connected therewith, and creates new motives to diligence. The triumph achieved on Calvary never was designed to supersede the duty of close application to enterprising duty. Its first command compels us to some honorable and useful pursuit. Its language is," Study to be quiet, and to do your own business, and to work with your own hands as we commanded you." " If any man will not work, neither let him eat."
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I take it as a man's duty to restrain himself.
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I think in short order all of us need to act like we are citizens with not only rights, but also duties.
