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Duty Quotes
"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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"The rule of joy and the law of duty seem to me all one."
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"Without the Guard and Reserve, our active duty troops could hardly deploy."
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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 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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"Those who want to reap the benefits of this great nation must bear the fatigue of supporting it."
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"My duty as a teacher is to train, educate future programmers."
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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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"When the fabric of the universe becomes unknown, it is the duty of the university to produce weavers."
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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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"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 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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"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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"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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"The first duty of a newspaper is to be accurate. If it be accurate, it follows that it is fair."
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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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"The worst of doing one's duty was that it apparently unfitted one for doing anything else."
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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"We require from buildings two kinds of goodness: first, the doing their practical duty well: then that they be graceful and pleasing in doing 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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"When I'm not thanked at all, I'm thanked enough, I've done my duty, and I've done no more."
Duty,
10
"Families are nothing other than the idolatry of 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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"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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"The first duty of a revolutionary is to get away with it."
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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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"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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"The man who passes the sentence should swing the sword. If you would take a man's life, you owe it to him to look into his eyes and hear his final words. And if you cannot bear to do that, then perhaps the man does not deserve to die."
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"The negligence of a few could easily send a ship to the bottom, but if it is properly manned and every man does his duty, the ship can be safely brought to port."
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