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 highest duty is to respect authority.
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Let every lion do his duty.
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Duty does not require any person to submit to the destruction of his personal ambitions and the right to live his own life in his own way.
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The first duty of a revolutionary is to get away with 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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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 the State to educate, and the right of the people to demand education.
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I didn't volunteer; they asked me. I felt a duty to testify.
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Zeal and duty are not slow But on occasion's forelock watchful wait.
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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 Her Majesty's government neither to flap nor to falter.
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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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In short, we have, among African countries, a duty of solidarity.
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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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Most criminals are not born; they are made.... What the State really punishes in a criminal is often its own neglect, its own failure to do its duty to the citizen.
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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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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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To me, the Presidency and the Vice-Presidency were not prizes to be won, but a duty to be done.
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No simplicity of mind, no obscurity of station, can escape the universal duty of questioning all that we believe.
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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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In Christian marriage, love is not an option. It is a duty.
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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.
