"We require from buildings two kinds of goodness: first, the doing their practical duty well: then that they be graceful and pleasing in doing it."

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"We require from buildings two kinds of goodness: first, the doing their practical duty well: then that they be graceful and pleasing in doing it."

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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."

Amit Kalantri, Indian Author

Duty, Responsibility, Sacrifice, Life

"To care is our endless sense if duty."

Debasish Mridha, American Author

Duty, Care, Responsibility, Selflessness

"He was simply and staunchly true to his duty alike in the large case and in the small. So all true souls ever are. So every true soul ever was, ever is, and ever will be. There is nothing little to the really great in spirit."

Charles Dickens, English Novelist

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

Sunday Adelaja, Nigerian Author

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"If you try to do that which is not 'our' duty [the Self's duty], it will create interference."

Dada Bhagwan, Indian Spiritual Leader

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

Abhijit Naskar, Indian Author

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"Everyone in this world perform their 'duty'. But when one performs the 'duty' and he also intimidates [scolds] someone in the process, he will reincarnate in the animal life form. If he carries out his duties with understanding, he will return to the human life form. And if he performs them with humbleness, he will reincarnate into the celestial world."

Dada Bhagwan, Indian Spiritual Leader

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

Sunday Adelaja, Nigerian Author

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"Thou shalt not stand idly by."

Anonymous, Unknown Unknown

Duty, Stand, Idleness, Action, Obedience

"Nothing could be more important than that the work of a soldier is well done. No tools will make a man a skilled workmen, or master of defense, or be of any use to him who has not learned how to handle them and has never bestowed any attention on them."

Plato, Greek Philosopher

Duty, Work, Skill, Defense, Attention

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"Remember that the most beautiful things in the world are the most useless; peacocks and lilies for instance."

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"There is hardly anything in the world that some man cannot make a little worse and sell a little cheaper, and the people who consider price only are this man's lawful prey."

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"Cursing is invoking the assistance of a spirit to help you inflict suffering. Swearing on the other hand, is invoking, only the witness of a spirit to an statement you wish to make."

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"How long most people would look at the best book before they would give the price of a large turbot for it?"

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"The art which we may call generally art of the wayside, as opposed to that which is the business of men's lives, is, in the best sense of the word, Grotesque."

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"There is no wealth but life."

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"To make your children capable of honesty is the beginning of education."

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"I have not written in vain if I have heretofore done anything towards diminishing the reputation of the Renaissance landscape painting."

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"The strength and power of a country depends absolutely on the quantity of good men and women in it."

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"Every great person is always being helped by everybody; for their gift is to get good out of all things and all persons."

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