Duty Quotes - Page 15

• The reason the government sells the census as your ticket to getting goodies - rather than as your civic duty - is that distributing goodies is now all the government does.

  Tom G. Palmer

  Government, Doe, Tickets

  Tom G. Palmer (2009). “Realizing Freedom: Libertarian Theory, History, and Practice”, p.401, Cato Institute

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• It is a high patriotic duty that we support and sustain the men who have been placed in position of difficulty, burden, responsibility, and even danger as the result of our suffrages.

  Bainbridge Colby

  Patriotic, Responsibility, Men

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• I have sometimes been haunted with the idea that it was an imperative duty, knowing what I know, and having seen what I have seen, to do all that lies in my power to show the dangers and the evils of this frightful institution.

  Fanny Kemble

  Fear, Lying, Knowing

  Fanny Kemble (1961). “Journal of a Residence on a Georgian Plantation in 1838-1839”, p.44, University of Georgia Press

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• There is not a moment in which God does not present Himself under the cover of some pain to be endured, of some consolation to be enjoyed, or of some duty to be performed. All that takes place within us, around us, or through us, contains and conceals His divine action.

  Jean-Pierre de Caussade

  Pain, Doe, Action

  Jean-Pierre De Caussade (2007). “Abandonment to Divine Providence”, p.15, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Every Christian will allow that sin is an evil, and that it is our duty not to commit sin.

  John Nelson Darby

  Christian, Evil, Sin

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• I go farther, and say, that it is plainly our duty to desire pastors and teachers to take the care of such congregations, and that God did raise up such in the church as we see it in the word.

  John Nelson Darby

  Teacher, Church, Desire

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• It is our duty to do all we can to introduce every generation to Christ.

  Henrietta Mears

  Generations, Christ, Introducing

  Dr. Henrietta C. Mears (2016). “Sunday School Changes Everything”, p.15, NavPress

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• Insurrection is the most sacred of rights and the most indispensable of duties.

  Marquis de Lafayette

  Rights, Sacred, Indispensable

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• I think it is every woman's duty to make herself as attractive as her time and means permit. After all, there you are, in your person- a living symbol of the progress of art, science and imagination. To be as attractive as we can be is almost a civic duty; there are so many sad and ugly things in the world that I think women should say to themselves humbly, not with vanity, 'I will try to be as pretty as I can, so that when people look at me, they will feel refreshed. I will make an effort to be easy on the eye.'

  Ilka Chase

  Art, Mean, Eye

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• I still held fast to my determination to become a minister; it still seemed to me that that was my duty. I had pledged myself, in my prayers I had given my word to God. How could I therefore break my vow?

  Pierre Loti

  Determination, Prayer, Vow

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• Put your heart aside. Duty comes first. But when fulfilling your duty, put your heart into it. It helps.

  Josemaria Escriva

  Heart, Firsts, Helping

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• To be well skilled in the mystery of Christian contentment is the duty, glory and excellence of a Christian.

  Jeremiah Burroughs

  Christian, Excellence, Contentment

  Jeremiah Burroughs, Rev Terry Kulakowski, Editor (2015). “The Rare Jewel of Christian Contentment”, p.15, Lulu.com

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• You stand now between anarchy and law. The Police have done their duty. Let the jury have the same courage so that the police can indeed rest in peace. The flowers of spring shall bloom upon their graves moistened by the tears of a great city. Outraged and violated law shall be redeemed and in their martyrdom anarchy shall be buried forever.

  Jason Epstein

  Rest In Peace, Spring, Flower

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• I absolutely am a big Call of Duty fan. Every time a new Call of Duty comes out – I never play the games online, but I play the solo version super fast. My family knows not to interrupt me the day they come out, they know it's a sacred date for me. I think my favorite visually, of all of the Call of Duty games -- even if it's not as sassy and high tech -- is World at War because. That game has some really incredible episodes in Berlin and the Japanese fields. It's really quite arresting for me, visually, and it was very immersive. But I love Modern Warfare, too.

  Guillermo del Toro

  War, Sassy, Thinking

  "Guillermo Del Toro Talks Call Of Duty". Interview with John Gaudiosi, www.ign.com. August 31, 2011.

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• It is the duty of all magicians to give entertainment.

  John Henry Anderson

  Giving, Entertainment, Magician

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• If we wish that the name Israel be not extinguished, then we are in duty bound
  to create something which may serve as a center for our entire people, like the
  heart in an organism, from which the blood will stream into all the arteries of
  the national body and fill it with life.

  Eliezer Ben-Yehuda

  Life, Heart, Israel

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• Those who believe that liberal democracy and the free market can be defended by the force of law and regulation alone, without an internalised sense of duty and morality, are tragically mistaken.

  Jonathan Sacks

  Believe, Law, Democracy

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• The act of giving voice to this spiritual suffering is, in my view, the sacred duty of the writer.

  Mo Yan

  Spiritual, Views, Voice

  Mo Yan (2013). “Shifu, You'll Do Anything for a Laugh: A Novel”, p.14, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• Applause should be an emotional response to the music, rather than a regulated social duty.

  Emanuel Ax

  Emotional, Social, Should

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• And though my Lord hath lost his estate and been banished out of his country, yet neither despised poverty nor pinching necessity could make him break the bonds of friendship or weaken his loyal duty.

  Margaret Cavendish

  Friendship, Country, Ties

  Margaret Cavendish (2002). “Bell in Campo and The Sociable Companions”, p.206, Broadview Press

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• I think I have a repressed bent for the military, I like discipline without question, specific schedules and duties.

  Anne Desclos

  Military, Thinking, Discipline

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• Keep me rather in this cage, and feed me sparingly, if you dare. Anything that brings me closer to illness and the edge of death makes me more faithful. It is only when you make me suffer that I feel safe and secure. You should never have agreed to be a god for me if you were afraid to assume the duties of a god, and we know that they are not as tender as all that. You have already seen me cry. Now you must learn to relish my tears.

  Anne Desclos

  Faithful, Suffering, Tears

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• God is weaving His tapestry according to his own grand design. All flesh is in His hands. We have no need to fear. We have no need to worry. Our imperative need is to be found doing our duty.

  Gordon B. Hinckley

  Hands, Worry, Design

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• I am very defective in all duties... In prayer I wander and am formal... I soon tire; devotion languishes; and I do not walk with God.

  William Carey

  Prayer, Missionary, Tire

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• This is strength; this is peace; to feel, in entering on every day, that all its duties and trials have been committed to the Lord Jesus - that, come what may, He will use us for His own glory and our real good!

  John Gibson Paton

  Jesus, Real, Missionary

  John Gibson Paton, James Paton (1891). “John G. Paton: Missionary to the New Hebrides”

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