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"Thou shalt not stand idly by."
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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."
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"When you've finished your own toilet in the morning, then it is time to attend to the toilet of your planet, just so, with the greatest care."
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"Duty largely consists of pretending that the trivial is critical."
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"Sons, any man who is considered a success in life owes a lot to society. We have been very blessed, my dear sons. We have to show our appreciation to our society for making that possible. A time will come when you will meet other Kamerunians who share the same vision for this land. I am advising you to make them partners in our common goals when that time comes. We shouldn't shy away from playing a formidable role in financing that political force that shall emerge. We must use our influence to ensure that it succeeds."
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"I've never cheated on a lover. I'm faithful, always. But the war comes before anyone's feelings. Every time.Wow. Battle before love. Without a doubt, he was the most unromantic male she'd ever met. Even more so than her great-grandfather, who had laughingly burned her great-grandmother to death after she'd given birth to Gwen's grandmother."
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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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"The negligence of a few could easily send a ship to the bottom, but if it is properly manned and every man does his duty, the ship can be safely brought to port."
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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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"You may be sure that it was not for any merit that others do not possess: not for power or wisdom, at any rate. But you have been chosen, and you must therefore use such strength and heart and wits as you have."
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"The French and the British are such good enemies that they can't resist being friends."
Being
"Once we are destined to live out our lives in the prison of our mind, our duty is to furnish it well."
Duty
"To refuse awards is another way of accepting them with more noise than is normal."
Awards
"People who reach the top of the tree are only those who haven't got the qualifications to detain them at the bottom."
People
"The habit of religion is oppressive, an easy way out of thought."
Religion
"I am an optimist, unrepentant and militant. After all, in order not to be a fool an optimist must know how sad a place the world can be. It is only the pessimist who finds this out anew every day."
Day
"I'm convinced there's a small room in the attic of the Foreign Office where future diplomats are taught to stammer."
Future
"If the world should blow itself up, the last audible voice would be that of an expert saying it can't be done."
Saying
"A diplomat these days in nothing, but a head waiter who is allowed to sit down occasionally."
Nothing
"The truth is an ambition which is beyond us."
Truth
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