Duty Quotes
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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.
Ornella Muti
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All Americans have a sacred duty to guarantee Social Security benefits to our nation's senior citizens.
Steve King
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Words can cause real harm and interfere with a person's education. Campuses have a duty to act-- sometimes legally, always morally-- to protect their students from injury.
Erwin Chemerinsky
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Traditional Albanian society was based on a clan system and was further divided into brotherhoods and bajraks. The bajrak system identified a local leader, called a bajrakar, who could be counted on to provide a certain number of men for military duty.
Sebastian Junger
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It is our duty to ensure we have a peace worth fighting for.
Chris Bradford
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I believe in commitment to duty. That's how I've lived my life.
Jessy White
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There are multitudes of pure and holy spirits waiting to take tabernacles, now what is our duty. To prepare tabernacles for them; to take a course that will not tend to drive those spirits into families of the wicked, where they will be trained in wickedness, debauchery, and every species of crime. It is the duty of every righteous man and woman to prepare tabernacles for all the spirits they can. This is the reason why the doctrine of plurality of wives was revealed, that the noble spirits which are waiting for tabernacles might be brought forth.
Brigham Young
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In the life of the Indian there is only one inevitable duty-the duty of prayer-the daily recognition of the Unseen and Eternal. Our daily devotions were more necessary to us than daily food.
Charles Alexander Eastman
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The true source of rights is duty.
Mahatma Gandhi
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You have to be holy in your position as you are, and I have to be holy in the position that God has put me. So it is nothing extraordinary to be holy. Holiness is not the luxury of the few. Holiness is a simple duty for you and for me. We have been created for that.
Mother Teresa
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To exact revenge for yourself or your friends is not only a right, it's an absolute duty.
Stieg Larsson
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Only enemies speak the truth; friends and lovers lie endlessly, caught in the web of duty.
Stephen King
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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.
Hugo Black
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He who is false to the present duty breaks a thread in the loom, and you will see the effect when the weaving of a life-time is unraveled.
William Ellery Channing
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If each one does their duty as an individual and if each one works in their own proper vocation, it will be right with the whole.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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You don't have a right to vote, you've got a duty of vote.
David Barton
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God never imposes a duty without giving time to do it.
John Ruskin
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I enjoy popularisation and I think I'm reasonably good at it. I also think it's a duty. It's just so pedagogically stupid to forget how difficult one found these ideas oneself to begin with.
Terry Eagleton
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Violence is sometimes a duty.
Arthur Conan Doyle
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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.
Mother Teresa
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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.
Charles Eliot Norton
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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.
Cecily McMillan
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In our community, we have a duty to strengthen the weakest among us to build a better society.
Bill Courtney
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Duty and to-day are ours; results and futurity belong to God.
Horace Greeley