Duties Quotes
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You know I have duties──we both have duties──before which feeling must be sacrificed.
George Eliot
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Do you feel it's right for the England Captain to avoid his media duties?
Garth Crooks
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The modern state no longer has anything but rights; it does not recognize duties any more.
Georges Bernanos
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The historian's first duties are sacrilege and the mocking of false gods. They are his indispensable instruments for establishing the truth.
Jules Michelet
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We must find our duties in what comes to us, not in what might have been.
George Eliot
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If you lay duties upon people and give them no rights, you must pay them well.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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I will return to Libya and undertake my duties and obligations to bring equality within the chaos.
Al-Saadi Gaddafi
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I shall not remind you, Citizen-Directors, of all I have done for the triumph of liberty, the prosperity of St. Domingo, the glory of the French Republic; nor will I protest to you my attachment to our mother country, to my duties; my respect to the constitution, to the laws of the Republic, and my submission to the government.
Toussaint Louverture
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Our magistrates discharge their duties best at the beginning; and fall off toward the end.
Tacitus
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There is nothing so absolutely bracing for the soul as the frequent turning of one's back on duties.
Elizabeth von Arnim
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I have other duties equally sacred ... Duties to myself.
Henrik Ibsen
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Great trials seem to be a necessary preparation for great duties. It would seem that the more important the enterprise, the more severe the trial to which the agent is subjected in his preparation.
Edward Thomson
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It was still quiet in the house, and not a sound was heard from outside, either. Were it not for this silence, my reverie would probably have been disrupted by reminders of daily duties, of getting up and going to school.
Hermann Hesse
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Knowledge of our duties is the most essential part of the philosophy of life. If you escape duty you avoid action. The world demands results.
George Washington Goethals