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"The most difficult challenge an honest man will ever face is having to choose between duty and love.One creates a man of honorable character-a life worth dying for.The other creates a vulnerable soul that madly yearns for either death or immortality."
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"The man who passes the sentence should swing the sword. If you would take a man's life, you owe it to him to look into his eyes and hear his final words. And if you cannot bear to do that, then perhaps the man does not deserve to die."
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"It is your duty to do your best. It is not, however, your birth-right to prevail."
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"NEITHER RAIN NOR SNOW NOR GLOM OF NIT CAN STAY THESE MESENGERS ABOT THEIR DUTY."
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"We have one great assignment: to fully accomplish what we have been divinely charged by God to the very limit of our sincere strength, with due fear and courage, in wit and in truth, and within the scope of our Assigner: Jehovah!"
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"Responsibility and duty are different things, you can sacrifice your responsibility for your duty but you cannot sacrifice your duty for your responsibility."
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"I must not forget that these coarsely-clad little peasants are of flesh and blood as good as the scions of the gentlest genealogy; and that the germs of native excellence, refinement, intelligence, kind feeling, are as likely to exist in their hearts as in those of the best born. My duty will be to develop these germs: surely I shall find some happiness in discharging that office."
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"Your first duty as a writer is to write to please yourself. And you have no duty towards anyone else."
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"To care is our endless sense if duty."
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"To avoid being blamed after here, do what you must do as a must do whilst you are here!"
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"The task is to learn to live in peace with one's own nature."
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"Never follow any impulse to teach, however strong it might be. The command to teach is not felt as an impulsion."
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"The bird which has no knowledge of pure water, has his beak in salt water all year round."
Knowledge


"They asked Abboud of Omdurman: 'Which is better, to be young or to be old?' He said: 'To be old is to have less time before you and more mistakes behind. I leave you to decide whether this is better than the reverse."
Aging


"Man (and woman) has an infinite capacity for self-development. Equally, he has an infinite capacity for self-destruction. A human being may be clinically alive and yet, despite all appearances, spiritually dead."
Psychology


"Three things cannot be retrieved:The arrow once sped from the bowThe word spoken in hasteThe missed opportunity. Ali, the Lion of Islam."
Life


"A MOTTO OF THE HUMAN RACE: Tell me what to do, but it must be what I want you to tell me."
Philosophy


"It is as true as anything else which can be spoken to say that all knowledge is really available everywhere."
Knowledge


"When Fortune knocks, open the door,' they say. But why should one make fortune knock, by keeping the door shut?"
Opportunity
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