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Duty Quotes
"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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"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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"I took upon myself to enact the part of a poor, unfortunate crazy girl, and felt it my duty not to shirk any of the disagreeable results that should follow."
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"The rule of joy and the law of duty seem to me all one."
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"And then the second thing you have to do is go and see your son. That is a duty of love, Andrew. It's as simple as that. A duty of love. Do you understand what I'm saying to you?"
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"Today nearly every combat brigade located within the United States would report that they are not ready for duty. They are at the lowest levels of readiness."
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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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"Without the Guard and Reserve, our active duty troops could hardly deploy."
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"Those who want to reap the benefits of this great nation must bear the fatigue of supporting it."
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"I write because something inner and unconscious forces me to. That is the first compulsion. The second is one of ethical and moral duty. I feel responsible to tell stories that inspire readers to consider more deeply who they are."
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"The first duty of a revolutionary is to get away with it."
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"I got put on jury duty, which is where I learned how to write."
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"The best preparation for the future is the present well seen to, and the last duty done."
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"My duty as a teacher is to train, educate future programmers."
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"When the fabric of the universe becomes unknown, it is the duty of the university to produce weavers."
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"Partisanship is our great curse. We too readily assume that everything has two sides and that it is our duty to be on one or the other."
Duty,
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"When I'm not thanked at all, I'm thanked enough, I've done my duty, and I've done no more."
Duty,
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"Families are nothing other than the idolatry of duty."
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"The first duty of a newspaper is to be accurate. If it be accurate, it follows that it is fair."
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"We have one great assignment: to fully accomplish what we have been divinely charged by God to the very limit of our sincere strength with due fear courage, in wit and in truth, and within the scope of our Assigner: Jehovah!"
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"Sometimes you have to go places with characters and emotions within yourself you don't want to do, but you have a duty to the story and as a storyteller to do it."
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"It is easier to do one's duty to others than to one's self. If you do your duty to others, you are considered reliable. If you do your duty to yourself, you are considered selfish."
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"If adversity and hopeless grief have quite taken away the taste for life; if an unfortunate man, strong of soul and more indignant about his fate than despondent or dejected, wishes for death and yet preserves his life without loving it, not from inclination or fear but from duty, then his maxim has moral content."
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"Our duty was to try and find the Japanese fleet. We never did find the Japanese fleet and I am awfully glad, because they had attacked us there with six carriers, three battleships, 10 or 15 cruisers, and about 20 destroyers."
Duty,
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"Most reporters who come to me get their stories directly from press releases. Very few do what one would consider to be their professional duty."
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"The worst of doing one's duty was that it apparently unfitted one for doing anything else."
Duty,
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"Hydrogen is the most common element in the universe, and has the potential to become an inexpensive source of energy for neighborhoods, light and heavy duty vehicles, and industry."
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"The philosopher ought never to try to avoid the duty of making up his mind."
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