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"My role and my obligation was to conduct criminal investigations."
"Remember always that you not only have the right to be an individual, you have an obligation to be one."
"The human being now simply can't close his elected garment about himself. Obligations to one's fellows perhaps prevent full buttoning by artists."
"All that is 'free of cost' is compulsory (farajeeyat)."
"I'm your enemy, meghan. never forget that. if Mab tells me to kill you in front of the entire court, it's my duty to obey."
"There are things that life demands of every person living on the surface of the earth."
"Ones there is a demand, it is our obligation to supply the answers, give the right responses for us to fully enjoy life."
"You're not obligated to win. You're obligated to keep trying to do the best you can every day."
"A dinner invitation, once accepted, is a sacred obligation. If you die before the dinner takes place, your executor must attend."
"What do you do if you are asked to do a job, first by the Prime Minister, and then by the King? How can you refuse?"
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"Libertarians argue that no normal adult has the right to impose choices on other normal adults, except in abnormal circumstances, such as when one person finds another unconscious and administers medical assistance or calls an ambulance."
"Libertarians recognize the inevitable pluralism of the modern world and for that reason assert that individual liberty is at least part of the common good."
"It is precisely because neither individuals nor small groups can be fully self-sufficient that cooperation is necessary to human survival and flourishing."
"The government has become a mechanism for distributing largess, and your census form is your ticket."
"But there is no obvious reason for holding that some normal adults are entitled to make choices for other normal adults, as paternalists of both left and right believe."
"Equality of rights means that some people cannot simply impose obligations on others, for the moral agency and rights of those others would then be violated."
"The reason the government sells the census as your ticket to getting goodies - rather than as your civic duty - is that distributing goodies is now all the government does."
"The first census in 1790 asked just six questions: the name of the head of the household, the number of free white males older than 16, the number of free white males younger than 16, the number of free white females, the number of other free persons, and the number of slaves."
"If an individual is born with the obligation to obey, who is born with the right to command?"
"Libertarians recognize the difference between adults and children, as well as differences between normal adults and adults who are insane or mentally hindered or retarded."
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