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It is a common saying that many pecks of salt must be eaten before the duties of friendship can be discharged.
To keep the body in good health is a duty... otherwise we shall not be able to keep our mind strong and clear.
Transparency is for those who carry out public duties and exercise public power. Privacy is for everyone else.
Activate yourself to duty by remembering your position, who you are, and what you have obliged yourself to be.
Minimum sales prices for alcohol are a startlingly bad idea. As with excise duties, the effects are regressive.
What are the aims which are at the same time duties? They are perfecting of ourselves, the happiness of others.
A sahib has got to act like a sahib; he has got to appear resolute, to know his own mind and do definite things.
If my duty does involve heralding His law in every arena, then the Church in America is failing radically today.
Labor, therefore, is a duty from which no man living is exempt, without forfeiting his right to his daily bread.
The first duty in life is to be as artificial as possible. What the second duty is no one has as yet discovered.
It is your duty to examine the conduct of public figures and to place them in the spotlight - that is your duty.
I believe that every right implies a responsibility; every opportunity, an obligation; every possession, a duty.
She had looked her duty courageously in the face and found it a friend - as duty ever is when we meet it frankly.
It is a duty we owe to posterity to see that our children shall know the virtues, and rise worthy of their sires.
It occurred to me that I had the duty to give society something in exchange for the free education I was getting.
It is the surgeon’s duty to tranquillize the temper, to beget cheerfulness, and to impart confidence of recovery.
Be content with doing calmly the little which depends upon yourself, and let all else be to you as if it were not.
The first duty of a woman is to be pretty, the second is to be well-groomed, and the third is never to contradict.
It's gotten to a point where everybody is concerned about their rights and nobody is concerned about their duties.
We'll try to cooperate fully with the IRS, because, as citizens, we feel a strong patriotic duty not to go to jail.
The whole duty of a writer is to please and satisfy himself, and the true writer always plays to an audience of one.
I would have 'Call of Duty' be an online subscription service tomorrow. I think our audiences are clamouring for it.
The quest for peace is the statesman's most exacting duty... Practical progress to lasting peace is his fondest hope.
For it is the duty of an astronomer to compose the history of the celestial motions through careful and expert study.
We must give ourselves more earnestly and intelligently and generously than we have to the happy duty of appreciation.
In the discharge of duties my guide will be the Constitution, which I this day swear to preserve, protect, and defend.
Whatever is my right as a man is also the right of another; and it becomes my duty to guarantee as well as to possess.
Lets have faith that right makes might; and in that faith let us, to the end, dare to do our duty as we understand it.
It is only in times of great and grievous dullness that the believer regards prayer as a duty, and not as a privilege.
I know of no power, indeed, of which a free people ought to be more jealous, than of that of levying taxes and duties.
Insist on your life, never imitate... do that which is assigned to you, and you cannot hope too much or dare too much.
Duty is the great business of a sea officer; all private considerations must give way to it, however painful it may be.
Animals are sentient, intelligent, perceptive, funny and entertaining. We owe them a duty of care as we do to children.
He has honor if he holds himself to an ideal of conduct though it is inconvenient, unprofitable, or dangerous to do so.
Among the smaller duties of life I hardly know any one more important than that of not praising where praise is not due.
All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope.
There is something going on in time and space, and beyond time and space, which, whether we like it or not, spells duty.
Congress can pass reasonable gun safety legislation and save lives. We have a duty to the American people to do our job.
I've achieved 'the American dream.' I feel it's my duty to help others achieve their vision, too - especially the youth.
Even before the concentration camps, I felt it was my duty to my ancestors to preserve a world that might cease to exist.
Love likes to extend itself. If you receive it in a book - or however you get it - then your duty is to extend it beyond.
Hollywood has always been political. They consider it their right and duty to tell us what is politically good and right.
It is an author's primary duty to entertain. Sling out all the philosophical terms, but keep the reader turning the page.
Honorable industry always travels the same road with enjoyment and duty, and progress is altogether impossible without it.
It is undeniably the duty of the opposition party to field a credible slate of candidates for the nation's highest office.
Doing what you do well is death. Your duty is to keep trying to do things that you don't do well, in the hope of learning.
We are not here in this world to drift like seaweed. Whatever intelligence we have, it is our duty to drive to the utmost.
To grasp the full significance of life is the actor's duty; to interpret it his problem; and to express it his dedication.
There is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy. By being happy we sow anonymous benefits upon the world.
It is the the duty of a Webmaster to allocate URIs which you will be able to stand by in 2 years, in 20 years, in 200 years.