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"Think of giving not as a duty but as a privilege."
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"To care is our endless sense if duty."

"Life has its demands from every one of us who live on planet earth."

"Your nation needs you. Your world needs you. So, use your education to become endowed with muscles of iron and nerves of steel."

"We have to make it a personal responsibility to eradicate ignorance from our society."

"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!"

"Why was I chosen?''Such questions cannot be answered,' said Gandalf. 'You may be sure that it was not for any merit that others do not possess. But you have been chosen, and you must therefore use such strength and heart and wits as you have."

"If my duty to my parents is a superstition, then so is my duty to posterity. If justice is a superstition, then so is my duty to my country or my race. If the pursuit of scientific knowledge is a real value, then so is conjugal fidelity. The rebellion of new ideologies against the Tao is a rebellion of the branches against the tree: if the rebels could succeed they would find that they had destroyed themselves."

"When we carry out our "religious duties" we are like people digging channels in a waterless land, in order that when at last water comes, it may find them ready."

"There should ne'er be a timeWhen a duty or dimeDoth outshineThe importance of family."
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