Duty Quotes
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It is the duty of every good officer to obey any orders given him by his commander in chief.
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Consult duty not events.
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The first duty of a revolutionary is to get away with it.
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Depart from discretion when it interferes with duty.
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It is the duty of Her Majesty's government neither to flap nor to falter.
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There's no substitute for hard work and effort beyond the call of duty. That is what strengthens the soul and ennobles one's character.
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In short, we have, among African countries, a duty of solidarity.
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Zeal and duty are not slow But on occasion's forelock watchful wait.
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The dead cannot cry out for justice. It is a duty of the living to do so for them.
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I have always done my duty. I am ready to die. My only regret is for the friends I leave behind me.
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I didn't volunteer; they asked me. I felt a duty to testify.
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To me, the Presidency and the Vice-Presidency were not prizes to be won, but a duty to be done.
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There is only one basic human right, the right to do as you damn well please. And with it comes the only basic human duty, the duty to take the consequences.
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It is the duty of the State to educate, and the right of the people to demand education.
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When any person treats you ill or speaks ill of you, remember that he does this or says this because he thinks it is his duty. It is not possible, then, for him to follow that which seems right to you, but that which seems right to himself.
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It is man's social nature which distinguishes him from the brute creation. If it is his privilege to be independent, it is equally his duty to be inter-dependent. Only an arrogant man will claim to be independent of everybody else and be self-contained.
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I'm really glad that I'm not Anna because I don't want to be there again. I've been there. But when something does happen to me, whether it's that movie or whether it's actually happened to me, I feel that it's my duty to actually share that with all of you guys. I want to immediately go to my desk and start writing about it.
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In all disputes between conflicting governments, it is our interest not less than our duty to remain strictly neutral.
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My duty is that of a chronicler; and if I perform that conscientiously, the lessons which my observations suggest will need no pointing out.
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God doesn't want religious duty. He doesn't want a distracted, half-hearted, 'Fine, I'll read a chapter...now are You happy?' attitude. God wants His word to be a delight to us, so much that we meditate on it day and night.
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The duty of rhetoric is to deal with such matters as we deliberate upon without arts or systems to guide us, in the hearing of persons who cannot take in at a glance a complicated argument or follow a long chain of reasoning.
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The worst of doing one's duty was that it apparently unfitted one for doing anything else.
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It used to be believed that the parent had unlimited claims on the child and rights over him. In a truer view of the matter, we are coming to see that the rights are on the side of the child and the duties on the side of the parent.
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My duty as a gentleman has never interfered with my pleasures in the smallest degree.
