Duty Quotes
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Performance of duty and observance of morality are convertible terms.
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All social life, stability, progress, depend upon each man's confidence in his neighbor, a reliance upon him to do his duty.
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I want everyone to keep the property that he has acquired for himself according to the principle: benefit to the community precedes benefit to the individual. But the state should retain supervision and each property owner should consider himself appointed by the state. It is his duty not to use his property against the interests of others among his own people. This is the crucial matter. The Third Reich will always retain its right to control the owners of property.
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The highest duty and the highest proof of wisdom - that deed and word should be in accord.
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The woman who knows and fulfils her duty realizes her dignified status.
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The line of life is a ragged diagonal between duty and desire.
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A party is the vanguard of a class, and its duty is to lead the masses and not merely to reflect the average political level of the masses.
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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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We Aryans are those of European descent who are racially conscious and who have committed our lives to our people's survival and evolutionary advancement. We shall do our duty. We shall not surrender our freedom and our very existence to Jewish or any other power. We shall preserve our heritage and our hard-won rights and freedoms. We shall guide our people up the evolutionary stairway to the stars.
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It is the duty of the ship's captain to make port, cost what it may.
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Neither let us be slandered from our duty by false accusations against us, nor frightened from it by menaces of destruction ... nor of dungeons to ourselves. Let us have faith that right makes might, and in that faith, let us, to the end, dare to do our duty as we understand it.
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There is no intensity of love or feeling that does not involve the risk of crippling hurt. It is a duty to take this risk, to love and feel without defense or reserve.
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It's really easy to be grounded again when you get back home, and you sing in front of 20,000 people a night, and your wife hands you the kids and tells you it's your turn to be on diaper duty and take out the trash. So it's easy to keep things in perspective when things like that happen.
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Non-cooperation with evil is a sacred duty.
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Let each hour of the day have its allotted duty, and cultivate that power of concentration which grows with its exercise.
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You are very fortunate to be assigned to duty at Fortress Monroe on Chesapeake Bay; it is just the season for soft shelled crabs, and hog fish have just come in, and they are the most delicious panfish you ever ate.
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I like stirring the pot - I think it's part of my duty, to shake people up a bit - make them look at things in a different way.
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The duty of a journalist is the duty of a watchman.
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It is the duty of the human understanding to understand that there are things which it cannot understand, and what those things are. Human understanding has vulgarly occupied itself with nothing but understanding, but if it would only take the trouble to understand itself at the same time it would simply have to posit the paradox.
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Gratitude is a duty which ought to be paid, but which none have a right to expect.
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Man is a god to his fellow-man, if he know his duty.
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A photographer is a witness. He has a moral duty. Every picture must be true and honest. I believe a photographer's strength is his ability to accurately record reality. There are photographers who think they are lucky if they find unusual or special subject. But it is never the subject that is so marvelous. It is how alive and real the photographer can make it.
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There are moments when I feel like giving up or giving in, but I soon rally again and do my duty as I see it: to keep the spark of life inside me ablaze.
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When duty calls, that is when character counts.
