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Duties are what make life most worth living. Lacking them, you are not necessary to anyone.
Growing other leaders from the ranks isn't just the duty of the leader, it's an obligation.
It is the duty of government to make it difficult for people to do wrong, easy to do right.
When she was rested. she'd find a way to escape. It was the duty of the captive, wasn't it?
It is better to expose ourselves to ingratitude than to neglect our duty to the distressed.
Part of a soldier's duty is to fill gaps...one must be willing to be nothing, as something.
The first duty of a university is to teach wisdom, not trade; character, not technicalities.
In the United States, politics is a profession, whereas in Europe it is a right and a duty .
To promote knowledge is thus an inescapable duty imposed on every one of the friends of God.
It is man's duty to love and to fear God, even without hope of reward or fear of punishment.
It's my damn duty and obligation to do everything possible for Europe to find a united path.
I'd hate to imply that it's your civic duty to see The House I Live In, but guess what it is.
I feel it's a person's duty to participate in the governing of the country in which he lives.
What we have to do, what at any rate it is our duty to do, is to revive the old art of Lying.
If you can take advantage of a situation in some way, it's your duty as an American to do it.
Teachers who help to open young minds perform a duty which is as near sacred as I will admit.
There is one thing diviner than duty, namely, the bond of obligation transmuted into liberty.
Ever notice that the whisper of temptation can be heard farther than the loudest call to duty.
It was fear that was then making you a good citizen, which is never a lasting teacher of duty.
In our community, we have a duty to strengthen the weakest among us to build a better society.
When a stupid man is doing something he is ashamed of, he always declares that it is his duty.
The chief duty of government is to keep the peace and stand out of the sunshine of the people.
Everyone has to have a sense of duty. A duty to society, to their family. I mean, you name it.
It is our duty as men and women to proceed as though the limits of our abilities do not exist.
It is my duty to voice the suffering of men, the never-ending sufferings heaped mountain-high.
To me, the Presidency and the Vice-Presidency were not prizes to be won, but a duty to be done.
Reason shows us our duty; he who can make us love our duty is more powerful than reason itself.
Reading should not be presented to children as a chore, a duty. It should be offered as a gift.
The first duty of a newspaper is to be accurate. If it be accurate, it follows that it is fair.
The first and principal duty of a pastor is to feed the flock by diligent preaching of the word
Duty is but a pot. It holds whatever is put in it, from the greatest evil to the greatest good.
If you were summoned for jury duty and you didn't show up, what would happen? You'd be in jail!
Prayer is to the Christian what breath is to life, yet no duty of the Christian is so neglected.
My whole religion is this: do every duty, and expect no reward for it, either here or hereafter.
I have learned that to do one's next duty is to take a step toward all that is worth possessing.
Only when it is a duty to love, only then is love eternally and happily secured against despair.
As we all know, it is the proper duty of every British subject to come to the aid of the TARDIS.
I was in Moldova airport and I went into the duty-free shop - and there wasn't a duty-free shop.
The best security for people's doing their duty is that they should not know anything else to do.
Every right implies a responsibility; Every opportunity, an obligation, Every possession, a duty.
When you read, you think, and when you smoke, you think. It's a pleasurable thing, and not a duty.
No displeasure, even of the dearest friends, can put me off the duty I see clearly in front of me.
You're an Attorney. It's your duty to lie, conceal, and distort everything, and slander everybody.
Where it is a duty to worship the sun it is pretty sure to be a crime to examine the laws of heat.
The interests of a nation, when well understood, will be found to coincide with their moral duties.
I have always done my duty. I am ready to die. My only regret is for the friends I leave behind me.
The citizens must be certain that the governor is attending to the duties for which he was elected.
Not only is health a normal condition, but it is our duty not only to attain it but to maintain it.
Political systems are run by self-selecting politicians. We don't draft people; it's not jury duty.
It is the soul's duty to be loyal to its own desires. It must abandon itself to its master passion.