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Duty Quotes
"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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"No nation ought to keep a navy larger than is necessary to do police duty."
6
"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."
6
"I expect that on the 1st of August, the SA will be once more ready for 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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"Mr. Henry James writes fiction as if it were a painful duty."
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"The risk to be percieved defines the duty to be obeyed."
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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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"If co-operation is a duty, I hold that non-co-operation also under certain conditions is equally a duty."
Duty,
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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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"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."
5
"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."
5
"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."
5
"The rule of joy and the law of duty seem to me all one."
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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 payment of taxes is an obvious and insistent duty, and its sanction is usually punitive."
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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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"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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"Think of giving not as a duty but as a privilege."
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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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"Families are nothing other than the idolatry of duty."
4
"I got put on jury duty, which is where I learned how to write."
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"The philosopher ought never to try to avoid the duty of making up his mind."
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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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"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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"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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"If my duty to my parents is a superstition, then so is my duty to posterity. If justice is a superstition, then so is my duty to my country or my race. If the pursuit of scientific knowledge is a real value, then so is conjugal fidelity. The rebellion of new ideologies against the Tao is a rebellion of the branches against the tree: if the rebels could succeed they would find that they had destroyed themselves."
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"When we carry out our "religious duties" we are like people digging channels in a waterless land, in order that when at last water comes, it may find them ready."
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