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"You're not obligated to win. You're obligated to keep trying to do the best you can every day."

"All that is 'free of cost' is compulsory (farajeeyat)."

"My role and my obligation was to conduct criminal investigations."

"Ones there is a demand, it is our obligation to supply the answers, give the right responses for us to fully enjoy life."

"There are things that life demands of every person living on the surface of the earth."

"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."

"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?"

"Remember always that you not only have the right to be an individual, you have an obligation to be one."
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"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."

"What libertarians assert is simply that differences among normal adults do not imply different fundamental rights."

"Guardians are necessary for children and abnormal adults, because they cannot make responsible choices for themselves."

"Libertarians typically argue that particular obligations, at least under normal circumstances, must be created by consent; they cannot be unilaterally imposed by others."

"It is precisely because neither individuals nor small groups can be fully self-sufficient that cooperation is necessary to human survival and flourishing."

"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."

"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."

"Abstraction is a mental process we use when trying to discern what is essential or relevant to a problem; it does not require a belief in abstract entities."
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