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Poet and sculptor, do the work, / Nor let the modish painter shirk
We have duties to others, and duties to ourselves, and we cannot shirk either.
We cannot shirk responsibility from concerns for the welfare of the next generation.
My desire to devolve authority has nothing to do with a wish to shirk responsibility.
I am mindful of my responsibilities as state treasurer, and I will not shirk those responsibilities.
Everyone must understand that you can't demand solidarity when there's a problem and shirk your duties when there are solutions.
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.
At the height of the Cold War, when Ronald Reagan was president, the Soviets and their allies and satellites did not shirk human rights debates with the West. They had their arguments ready.
If something is being done on a secret basis in national security, that's a great reason for elected officials to not talk about it. And that's a great way to shirk accountability for it with the public.
We are being tough in saying it is a duty on the unemployed in future not only to be available for work - and not to shirk work - but also to get the skills for work. That is a new duty we are introducing.
The New Deal is plainly an attempt to achieve a working socialism and avert a social collapse in America; it is extraordinarily parallel to the successive 'policies' and 'Plans' of the Russian experiment. Americans shirk the word 'socialism', but what else can one call it?
