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"Everything in the society that is wrong is our responsibility to fix."
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Personal Development
"She had her reward! - that reward of which no enemie could deprive her, which no slanders could make less precious - the eternal reward of knowing that she had done her duty."
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Personal Development
"I shall never ask never refuse nor ever resign an office."
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Personal Development
"Duty largely consists of pretending that the trivial is critical."
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Personal Development
"By his [God's] help I will arise and address myself diligently to my appointed duty. If happiness in this world is not for me, I will endeavor to promote the welfare of those around me, and my reward shall be hereafter."
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Personal Development
"England expects that every man will do his duty."
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Personal Development
"Justice is the sum of all moral duty."
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Personal Development
"Not observation of a duty but liberty itself is the pledge that assures fidelity."
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Personal Development
"He had sprung from a rigid Puritan stock, and had been brought up to think much more intently of the duties of this life than of its privileges and pleasures."
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Personal Development
"Do your duty and leave the rest to heaven."
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"It's despair at the lack of (I'm cheating, I didn't say all these things - but I'm going to write what I want to say as well as what I did) feeling, of love, of reason in the world. It's despair that anyone can even contemplate the idea of dropping a bomb or ordering that it should be dropped. It's despair that so few of us care. It's despair that there's so much brutality and callousness in the world."
Despair
"We talked for hours. He talked and I listened. It was like wind and sunlight. It blew all the cobwebs away."
Connection
"There comes a time in each life like a point of fulcrum. At that time you must accept yourself. It is not anymore what you will become. It is what you are and always will be."
Life
"When I was going on one day in the car about not having any close friends - using my favourite metaphor: the cage of glass between me and the rest of the world - she just laughed. 'You like it,' she said. 'You say you're isolated, boyo, but you really think you're different."
Isolation
"Because they died, we know we still live. Because a star explodes and a thousand worlds like ours die, we know this world is. That is the smile: that what might not be, is."
Life
"I needed a new mystery."
Mystery
"Content is a word unknown to life; it is also a word unknown to man."
Life
"Girls possess sexual tact in inverse proportion to their standard of education."
Society
"Each death laid a dreadful charge of complicity on the living; each death was incongenerous, its guilt irreducible, its sadness immortal; a bracelet of bright hair about the bone. I did not pray for her, because prayer has no efficacy; I did not cry for her, because only extroverts cry twice; I sat in the silence of that night, that infinite hostility to man, to permanence, to love, remembering her, remembering her."
Philosophy
"Now I understand why you grow so many flowers."She shifted her head, not understanding.I said, "To cover the stink of sulphur."
Nature
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