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• You have to give access to people with disabilities but there is no requirement to hire them. What I mean by affirmative obligation is that producers must take the necessary steps to include opportunities for people with disabilities and a vast majority of them do.

  Richard Masur

  Mean, Opportunity, People

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• The intrusions of the white race and the non- compliance with treaty obligations have been followed by atrocities that could alone satisfy a savage and revengeful spirit.

  Nelson A. Miles

  Race, White, Atrocities

  NELSON A. MILES (1911). “SERVING THE REPUBLIC”

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• We feel the need to emphasize with greater clarity the obligation for members of the Church to become more independent and self reliant.

  Gordon B. Hinckley

  Religious, Independent, Self

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• The Chancellor also in effect asks us to bargain away whatever obligation or interest we have as regards the neutrality of Belgium. We could not entertain that bargain either.

  Edward Grey, 1st Viscount Grey of Fallodon

  Neutrality, Host, Belgium

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• Our ideals, laws and customs should be based on the proposition that each generation in turn becomes the custodian rather than the absolute owner of our resources - and each generation has the obligation to pass this inheritance on in the future.

  Alberto Moravia

  Law, Custodians, Generations

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• I'm a tireless worker; I don't consider painting a work, it is not an obligation, I do it for pleasure; I haven't found anything that amuses me more than painting.

  Fernando Botero

  Painting, Pleasure, Found

  "10 Things You Didn’t Know About Colombian Artist Fernando Botero" by Veronique de Miguel, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 29, 2013.

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• Happiness is a moral obligation

  Dennis Prager

  Moral, Moral Obligation

  Dennis Prager (2009). “Happiness Is a Serious Problem: A Human Nature Repair Manual”, p.3, Harper Collins

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• A person who is really saved by Grace does not need to be told that he is under solemn obligations to serve Christ. The new life within him tells him that. Instead of regarding it as a burden, he gladly surrenders himself, body, soul, and spirit, to the Lord.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Soul, Grace, Body

  Charles Haddon Spurgeon (1988). “Spurgeon at His Best: Over 2200 Striking Quotations from the World's Most Exhaustive and Widely-read Sermon Series”, Baker Publishing Group

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• Would you take a billion dollars, if as part of the deal the Earth were made uninhabitable a year after your death? ... well, of course not; you care about your friends, above all your children, any grandchildren. But ... what if the deal calls for the planet to be poisoned a thousand years later? We feel strong obligations to generations in the near future - should we not feel the same way about our children's great-grandchildren and generations beyond them?

  John Cleese

  Strong, Children, Years

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• Friendship, if somebody holds out his hand toward you, you've got to reach and take it... There are too many people alone, and if you're lucky enough for somebody to want you as a friend, it's an obligation.

  Katharine Hepburn

  Friendship, Hands, People

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• Animals do feel like us, also joy, love, fear and pain but they cannot grasp the spoken word. It is our obligation to take their part and continue to resist the people who profit by them, who slaughter them and who torture them.

  Denis de Rougemont

  Pain, Animal, People

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• When something in life occurs that is troubling, we are supposed to not dwell on the thing itself. Instead, the focus should be on our obligation to turn this bad thing into something beautiful. It's not easy. But, if you focus your creative energy away from self-torture and onto ‘how you can turn this into something beautiful’ pretty remarkable things start to happen.

  Matt Smith

  Beautiful, Self, Focus

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• All of us are driven by a simple belief that the world as it is just won't do - that we have an obligation to fight for the world as it should be.

  Michelle Obama

  Fighting, Simple, World

  "Michelle Obama: My husband will be 'extraordinary president'", www.cnn.com. August 25, 2008.

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• If you believe your product or service can fulfill a true need, it's your moral obligation to sell it.

  Zig Ziglar

  Believe, Needs, Moral

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• Your first obligation, I suppose, is to your God. Your second is to your family. And your third is to your community. And you ought to try to fulfill all of those in your life.

  Dick Murphy

  Community, Trying, Firsts

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• It is a privilege to serve people, a privilege that must be earned, and once earned, there is an obligation to do something good with it.

  Barbara Jordan

  People, Privilege, Philanthropy

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• The United States government has the obligation to educate all young people in this country.

  Al Sharpton

  Education, Country, Government

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• As a human rights issue, the effort to end violence against women becomes a government's obligation, not just a good idea.

  Charlotte Bunch

  Rights, Government, Ideas

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• I think the great power of Bette Davis was she always knew who she was. She had an obligation to herself and her audience. When you think of what she was compelled to do, the power she put on the screen, the fact that she took upon herself a much greater task.

  James Woods

  Thinking, Tasks, Facts

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• I don’t mind expressing my opinions and speaking out against injustice. I would be doing this even if I wasn’t a writer. I grew up in a household that believed in social justice. I have always understood myself as having an obligation to stand on the side of the silenced, the oppressed, and the mistreated.

  Tayari Jones

  Justice, Mind, Sides

  "Tayari Jones Knows Why She Sings". Interview with Ru Freeman, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 9, 2012.

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• Being a startup entrepreneur is not for everybody and it’s not the only desirable career choice. I also know that many people have families and cost obligations that don’t allow the kinds of financial risks associated with starting a company. And for others the hours, stresses and sacrifices in personal relationships are not worth it.

  Mark Suster

  Stress, Sacrifice, Careers

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• I believe we have an obligation to read for pleasure, in private and in public places. If we read for pleasure, if others see us reading, then we learn, we exercise our imaginations. We show others that reading is a good thing.

  Neil Gaiman

  Believe, Reading, Exercise

  Neil Gaiman (2016). “The View from the Cheap Seats: Selected Nonfiction”, p.14, HarperCollins

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• We have a greater responsibility to act than those who live in ignorance. Once you become knowledgeable, you have an obligation to do something about it.

  Ron Paul

  Ignorance, Responsibility, Knowledgeable

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• True solitude is found in the wild places, where one is without human obligation. One's inner voices become audible... In consequence, one responds more clearly to other lives.

  Wendell Berry

  Wild Places, Voice, Solitude

  Wendell Berry (2010). “What Are People For?: Essays”, p.11, Counterpoint

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• Today I detach from other people's dramas. I love them and pray for them. I am a role model of peace for them. But I no longer rescue them, or put my own needs last. It is my right to be happy and to help others as I feel lovingly guided instead from guilt or obligation. I respect my feelings and expect others to do so too. And so it is!

  Doreen Virtue

  Drama, Helping Others, Role Models

  FaceBook post by Doreen Virtue from Aug 15, 2012

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