Duty Quotes
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It is seldom very hard to do one's duty when one knows what it is, but it is often exceedingly difficult to find this out.
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The first duty of a revolutionary is to get away with it.
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Consult duty not events.
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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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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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The dead cannot cry out for justice. It is a duty of the living to do so for them.
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Zeal and duty are not slow But on occasion's forelock watchful wait.
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I didn't volunteer; they asked me. I felt a duty to testify.
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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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In short, we have, among African countries, a duty of solidarity.
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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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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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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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In all disputes between conflicting governments, it is our interest not less than our duty to remain strictly neutral.
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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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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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It is the duty of the State to educate, and the right of the people to demand education.
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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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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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Let every lion do his duty.
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Curiosity creeps into the houses of the unfortunate and the needy under the name of duty or of pity.
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The newspaper is of necessity something of a monopoly, and its first duty is to shun the temptations of monopoly. Its primary office is the gathering of news. At the peril of its soul it must see that the supply is not tainted. Neither in what it gives, nor in what it does not give, nor in the mode of presentation, must the unclouded face of truth suffer wrong. Comment is free but facts are sacred.
