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Duty Quotes
"No Georgian has the right to evade or neglect his duties and responsibilities."
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"No eulogy is due to him who simply does his duty and nothing more."
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"We'll try to cooperate fully with the IRS, because, as citizens, we feel a strong patriotic duty not to go to jail."
Duty,
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"It is seldom very hard to do one's duty when one knows what it is, but it is often exceedingly difficult to find this out."
Duty,
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"If co-operation is a duty, I hold that non-co-operation also under certain conditions is equally a duty."
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"Do the duty which lies nearest to you, the second duty will then become clearer."
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"Deeply consider that it is your duty and interest to read the Holy Scriptures."
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"Ever notice that the whisper of temptation can be heard farther than the loudest call to duty."
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"Getting out of jury duty is easy. The trick is to say you're prejudiced against all races."
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"In doing what we ought we deserve no praise, because it is our duty."
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"Our grand business undoubtedly is not to see what lies dimly at a distance but to do what lies clearly at hand."
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"Do your duty, that is best; leave unto the Lord the rest."
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"No nation ought to keep a navy larger than is necessary to do police duty."
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"And Gandalf said: "This is your realm, and the heart of the greater realm that shall be. The Third Age of the world is ended, and the new age is begun; and it is your task to order its beginning and to preserve what must be preserved. For though much has been saved, much must now pass away; and the power of the Three Rings also is ended. And all the lands that you see, and those that lie round about them, shall be dwellings of Men. For the time comes of the Dominion of Men, and the Elder Kindred shall fade or depart."
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"The risk to be percieved defines the duty to be obeyed."
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"We never fail when we try to do our duty, we always fail when we neglect to do it."
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"Self-development is a higher duty than self-sacrifice."
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"No simplicity of mind, no obscurity of station, can escape the universal duty of questioning all that we believe."
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"Our duty is to believe that for which we have sufficient evidence, and to suspend our judgment when we have not."
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"The first duty of an historian is to be on guard against his own sympathies."
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"I'm duty-bound to follow the law and apply to the law to the facts as I find them."
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"It is made the duty of every Commanding Officer in the Department, to arrest and send to these Headquarters, under guard, every officer or soldier who may be found absent from his command, without the regular leave in writing, prescribed by Regulations and General Orders."
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"He that would make his own liberty secure, must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty, he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself."
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"Activate yourself to duty by remembering your position, who you are, and what you have obliged yourself to be."
Duty,
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"She had her reward! - that reward of which no enemie could deprive her, which no slanders could make less precious - the eternal reward of knowing that she had done her duty."
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"For this is our most perfect duty and yet least known to us by nature: Whatever we conceive or will should be joined with the good of our neighbor."
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"Even the distribution of rations leaves much to be desired; the fatigue party, well-intentioned and sympathetic though it be, often finds itself short of provisions."
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"It is our duty to see that our future citizens are well born; that they are properly nourished, and are reared in that environment most likely to develop in them their full capacity and powers."
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"I said to my children, 'I'm going to work and do everything that I can do to see that you get a good education. I don't ever want you to forget that there are millions of God's children who will not and cannot get a good education, and I don't want you feeling that you are better than they are. For you will never be what you ought to be until they are what they ought to be."
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"A task becomes a duty from the moment you suspect it to be an essential part of that integrity which alone entitles a man to assume responsibility."
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"I hold it the duty of the executive to insist upon frugality in the expenditure, and a sparing economy is itself a great national source."
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