Obligation Quotes
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Nothing makes me more pessimistic than the obligation not to be pessimistic.
Eugene Ionesco
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Then, aware once more of her obligation, she asked politely: “You only wrriter, or your work also?” “I hope to teach English one day.”
Bel Kaufman
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You find in some a sort of graceless modesty, that makes them ashamed to requite an obligation.
Seneca the Younger
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My religion recognizes no obligation to resolve doubt other than through rational means; and it commands no mere faith in eternal truths
Moses Mendelssohn
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The nation's obligation to her defenders is as old as that defense itself.
Steve Buyer
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This is advertising that is designed not to look or feel like advertising at all. The one thing we felt we got parents to agree with was that if their children ask them questions about enlisting, they had an obligation to, one, engage, and then two, be informed.
Edward Boches
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It is a dangerous experiment to call in gratitude as an ally to love. Love is a debt which inclination always pays, obligation never.
Blaise Pascal
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The civilized man has a moral obligation to be skeptical, to demand the credentials of all statements that claim to be facts.
Bergen Evans
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My obligation as president, and what I promise the country, is that the courts will be able to do their job free of all pressure.
Ricardo Lagos
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People who know me well have learned to insist that I commit to obligations by opening my laptop and putting them onto the appropriate calendar or list - a verbal agreement and a promise to remember won't work.
Ethan Zuckerman
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A nation has its first obligation to its own workers and its own poor.
Richard Lamm
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No man can possibly be benevolent or religious, to the full extent of his obligations, without concerning himself, to a greater or less extent, with the affairs of human government.
Charles Grandison Finney
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The international community and Israel have the same opinion regarding the Hamas government. We don't say we are going to boycott it forever. We say the Hamas government must abide by the obligations the Palestinian Authority has signed.
Moshe Katsav
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There's a difference between maliciously offending somebody - on purpose - and somebody being offended by...truth. If you're offended by the truth, that's your problem. I have no obligation to not offend you if I'm speaking the truth. The truth is supposed to offend you; that's how you know you don't got it.
Brad Stine
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The obligation of the state is to guarantee freedom of religion, and that implies dealing with all of them on an equal footing.
Ricardo Alarcon
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Consciously or subconsciously, we become slaves to debt and social obligation. As a result, we end up more committed to the minutia and less in tune with the bigger picture: our deepest sense of purpose.
Romany Malco
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I believe that a worthwhile life is defined by a kind of spiritual journey and a sense of obligation.
Bill Clinton
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When your effort is low, you're probably not thinking about the opportunity, you're thinking about the obligation.
Eric Thomas
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Hollywood has an obligation to watch what they put out there. Kids do imitate what they see - good or bad.
Morgan Brittany
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I keep exercising even when the days are much shorter. Not only is this a great stress reliever for me to get in a nice run, but it's also my 'me time' when I can just get away from all the holiday season obligations.
David Niu
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I've always felt toward the slightest scene, even if all I had to do in a scene was just to come in and say, 'Hi,' that the people ought to get their money's worth and that this is an obligation of mine, to give them the best you can get from me.
Marilyn Monroe
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Art Exists for the human species. I think that all of the people who love art, those who teach art, and all of you should burn with the obligation to save the world
Shinichi Suzuki
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And when I hear it said that God is good and He will pardon us, and then see that men cease not from evil-doing, oh, how it grieves me! The infinite goodness with which God communicates with us, sinners as we are, should constantly make us love and serve Him better; but we, on the contrary, instead of seeing in his goodness an obligation to please Him, convert it into an excuse for sin which will of a certainty lead in the end to our deeper condemnation.
Catherine of Genoa
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You have to do what’s right for you – in myself I felt a deep moral obligation.
Susan J. Fowler