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Duty Quotes
"No eulogy is due to him who simply does his duty and nothing more."
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"No Georgian has the right to evade or neglect his duties and responsibilities."
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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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"Ever notice that the whisper of temptation can be heard farther than the loudest call to 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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"In doing what we ought we deserve no praise, because it is our 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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"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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"Deeply consider that it is your duty and interest to read the Holy Scriptures."
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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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"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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"The risk to be percieved defines the duty to be obeyed."
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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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"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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"Do your duty, that is best; leave unto the Lord the rest."
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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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"No nation ought to keep a navy larger than is necessary to do police duty."
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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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"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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"Getting out of jury duty is easy. The trick is to say you're prejudiced against all races."
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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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"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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"Force is the duty of the state, not Hizbullah."
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"I expect that on the 1st of August, the SA will be once more ready for duty."
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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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"No simplicity of mind, no obscurity of station, can escape the universal duty of questioning all that we believe."
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"Our task was doing maintenance and repairs to keep the station in a good state for the return of the shuttle flights and resumption of major ISS construction."
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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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