"Self-development is a higher duty than self-sacrifice."

Elizabeth Cady Stanton, American Activist

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Debasish Mridha, American Author

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Sunday Adelaja, Nigerian Author

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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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"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

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"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."

J. R. R. Tolkien, English Novelist

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"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."

C. S. Lewis, British Author

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"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."

C. S. Lewis, British Author

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

Richelle E. Goodrich, American Poet

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"He who wishes to serve his country must have not only the power to think, but the will to act."

Plato, Greek Philosopher

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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."

"Thou shalt not stand idly by."

"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."

"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."

"He who wishes to serve his country must have not only the power to think, but the will to act."

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"The history of the past is but one long struggle upward to equality."

"Words cannot describe the indignation a proud woman feels for her sex in disfranchisement."

"The Bible and the Church have been the greatest stumbling blocks in the way of women's emancipation."

"Human beings lose their logic in their vindictiveness."

"We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men and women are created equal."

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"Surely the immutable laws of the universe can teach more impressive and exalted lessons than the holy books of all the religions on earth."

"To live for a principle, for the triumph of some reform by which all mankind are to be lifted up to be wedded to an idea may be, after all, the holiest and happiest of marriages."