Duty Quotes
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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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I see it as my duty in some way is to be out in the world as an Australian putting forward what I consider to be authentic Australian music.
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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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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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Love is a better teacher than duty.
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The duty of holding a Neutral conduct may be inferred, without any thing more, from the obligation which justice and humanity impose on every nation, in cases in which it is free to act, to maintain inviolate the relations of Peace and amity toward other Nations.
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Duty is not collective; it is personal.
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There is nothing in the Constitution that authorizes or makes it the official duty of a president to have anything to do with criminal activities.
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My duty as a gentleman has never interfered with my pleasures in the smallest degree.
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Neglect of duty does not cease, by repetition, to be neglect of duty.
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If a juror feels that the statute involved in any criminal offence is unfair, or that it infringes upon the defendant's natural god-given unalienable or constitutional rights, then it is his duty to affirm that the offending statute is really no law at all and that the violation of it is no crime at all, for no one is bound to obey an unjust law.
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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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It is the duty of every Christian to be Christ to his neighbor.
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All these types of love come out of duty, respect, and gratitude. Most of them, as the women in my county know, are sources of sadness, rupture, and brutality.
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The Muslims refuse our culture and try to impose their culture on us. I reject them, and this is not only my duty toward my culture-it is toward my values, my principles, my civilization.
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To put a tempting face aside when duty demands every faculty is a lesson which takes most men longest to learn.
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In Christian marriage, love is not an option. It is a duty.
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No one can be a great thinker who does not recognize that as a thinker it is his first duty to follow his intellect to whatever conclusions it may lead.
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Our duty, privilege, and security are in believing, not in knowing; in trusting God, and not our own understanding. They are to be pitied who have no more trustworthy teacher than themselves.
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The people are the best guardians of their own rights and it is the duty of their executive to abstain from interfering in or thwarting the sacred exercise of the lawmaking functions of their government.
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Means to be means must always be within our reach, and so ahimsa is our supreme duty.
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Resistance to tyranny becomes the Christian and social duty of each individualā¦ Continue steadfast and, with a proper sense of your dependence on God, nobly defend those rights which heaven gave, and no man ought to take from us.
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The ultimate necessity is the summoning of the mind and will to do their duty.
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Woman's first duty in life is to her dressmaker. What the second duty is no one has yet discovered.
