Duty Quotes
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I see it as my duty to take a stand for the Iraqi people, for democracy, freedom and reconciliation.
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My mother speaks of my step being a source of life-long pain to her, that it is a living death, etc. By the same post I had several letters from anxious relatives, telling me that it was my duty to come home and thus ease my mother's anxiety.
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May the time not be far off when all other European nations will come to the realisation that the primary necessity is putting an end to the quarrels and strife of centuries and of building up of a finer community of all peoples is: The recognition of a higher common duty arising out of common rights?
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War for the sake of war is sin, but war for the sake of defense is duty.
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It is to be all made of fantasy, All made of passion and all made of wishes, All adoration, duty, and observance, All humbleness, all patience and impatience, All purity, all trial, all observance
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She had a big ole booty, I was doing my duty.
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It is the duty of every citizen according to his best capacities to give validity to his convictions in political affairs.
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The Imperial German Government will not expect the Government of the United States to omit any word or any act necessary to the performance of its sacred duty of maintaining the rights of the United States and its citizens and of safeguarding their free exercise and enjoyment.
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It's gotten to a point where everybody is concerned about their rights and nobody is concerned about their duties.
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The longer a soul hath neglected duty, the more ado there is to get it taken up.
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If we cannot end the conflict, we have an inescapable moral duty to help refugees and provide legal avenues to safety.
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There is so much potential out there in young people and they aren't getting the right information or being encouraged in the right ways. This is our duty as a society.
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Yes, I am my brother's keeper. I am under a moral obligation to him that is inspired, not by any maudlin sentimentality but by the higher duty I owe myself. What would you think me if I were capable of seating myself at a table and gorging myself with food and saw about me the children of my fellow beings starving to death?
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Only when it is a duty to love, only then is love eternally and happily secured against despair.
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Communication is truth; communication is happiness. To share is our duty; to go down boldly and bring to light those hidden thoughts which are the most diseased; to conceal nothing; to pretend nothing; if we are ignorant to say so; if we love our friends to let them know it.
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Just as it is the duty of all men to obey just laws, so it is the duty of all men to disobey unjust laws.
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The march to our duty here, not merely to ourselves, but to our surroundings, must proceed. God wills it.
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The line of life is a ragged diagonal between duty and desire.
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I believe it is one's duty to paint the rich and magnificent aspects of nature. We need gaiety and happiness, hope and love.
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You must decide if karate is for your health or to aid your duty.
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When a thoughtful human being has overcome incentives to vice and is aware of having done his bitter duty, he finds himself in a state that could be called happiness, a state of contentment and peace of mind in which virtue is its own reward.
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I know that not only is Swaraj our birthright, but it is our sacred duty to win it.
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You can't help it. An artist's duty, as far as I'm concerned, is to reflect the times.
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We are not here in this world to drift like seaweed. Whatever intelligence we have, it is our duty to drive to the utmost.
