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• I am ready to serve the people of Afghanistan, particularly in order to restore peace. I will be ready to assume any duty at the service of my people.

  Ahmad

  Order, People, Assuming

  Meeting with European legislators, June 11, 000.

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• Don't confuse drive and passion. Drive pushes you forward. It's a duty, an obligation. Passion pulls you. It's the sense of connection you feel when the work you do expresses who you are. Only passion will get you through the tough times.

  Randy Komisar

  Passion, Tough Times, Connections

  Randy Komisar, Kent L. Lineback (2001). “The Monk and the Riddle: The Art of Creating a Life While Making a Living”, p.93, Harvard Business Press

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• Health is a divine gift, and the care of the body is a sacred duty, to neglect which is to sin.

  Eugen Sandow

  Body, Care, Sacred

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• I feel a real sense of duty to use the voice and the platform I've been afforded by my fame to speak out for those whose voices don't get a chance to be heard.

  Shakira

  Real, Speaks Out, Voice

  "Glamour's February Cover Star, Shakira, Tells Us: "I'm Not on Earth Just to Shake It and Shake It Endlessly" By Jason Sheeler, www.glamour.com. January 7, 2014.

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• I feel it's a person's duty to participate in the governing of the country in which he lives.

  David McCallum

  Country, Feels, Persons

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Each and every one of us who is still lucky enough to have our parents has a duty to them. We do owe them.

  Ann Jillian

  Parent, Lucky, Enough

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• Siddharth accepts me in the way I am. In the first few months of marriage I got bogged down by the
  notion that I had to juggle between handling home duties and starting work on a new film. He explained
  I needn't be a superwoman. He understands that if he could go out to work and end up neglecting things
  at home, so could I.

  Vidya Balan

  Home, Firsts, Way

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• Of all the old prejudices that cling to the hem of the woman's garments and persistently impede her progress, none holds faster than this. The idea that she owes service to a man instead of to herself, and that it is her highest duty to aid his development rather than her own, will be the last to die.

  Susan B. Anthony

  Men, Ideas, Progress

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• As a lifelong student of the world’s wisdom literature, it is my duty to inform students that “ridding the world of evil” is a goal very different from any recommended by Jesus, Buddha, or Muhammad, though not so different from some recommended by the Josephs Stalin and McCarthy and by Mao Tse Tung.

  David James Duncan

  Jesus, Evil, Goal

  "When Compassion Becomes Dissent". orionmagazine.org.

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• Everything we call a trial, a sorrow, or a duty, believe me, that angel's hand is there.

  Giovanni Giocondo

  Believe, Angel, Hands

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• We have many responsibilities, and one cannot expect the full blessings of a kind Providence if he neglects any major duty. A man has duties to his church, his home, his country, and his profession or job.

  Ezra Taft Benson

  Country, Jobs, Home

  Ezra Taft Benson (1969). “An enemy hath done this”

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• I hope it will not be irreverent in me to say, that if it be probable that God would reveal his will to others, on a point so connected with my duty, it might be supposed he would reveal it directly to me

  Abraham Lincoln

  Might, Belief, Irreverent

  Abraham Lincoln (1989). “Abraham Lincoln: Speeches & Writings Part 2: 1859-1865: Library of America #46”, p.361, Library of America

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• The first duty of a wise advocate is to convince his opponents that he understands their arguments, and sympathies with their just feelings.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Wise, Feelings, Opponents

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• If a person wants to enjoy the Spirit of the Lord...always cultivate a spirit of gratitude. It is the duty of every Latter-day Saint to cultivate a spirit of gratitude.

  Lorenzo Snow

  Gratitude, Saint, Want

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• There is only one duty, only one safe course, and that is to try to be right and not to fear to do or say what you believe to be right. That is the only way to deserve and to win the confidence of our great people in these days of trouble.

  Winston Churchill

  Leadership, Believe, Winning

  Winston Churchill (1952). “War Speeches: From June 25, 1941 to September 6, 1943”

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• Children, by nature, are keen, passionate and curious. What was referred to as laziness is often merely an awakening of sensitivity, a psychological inability to submit to certain absurd duties, and a natural result of the distorted, unbalanced education given to them. This laziness, which leads to an insuperable reluctance to learn, is, contrary to appearances, sometimes proof of intellectual superiority and a condemnation of the teacher.

  Octave Mirbeau

  Teacher, Children, Intellectual

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• Education is a life; that life is sustained on ideas; ideas are of spiritual origin, and that we get them chiefly as we convey them to one another. The duty of parents is to sustain a child's inner life with ideas as they sustain his body with food.

  Charlotte Mason

  Spiritual, Children, Ideas

  Charlotte Mason (2013). “The Original Home School Series”, p.303, Simon and Schuster

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• And if this House is to be scared, by whatever influences, from its duty, to receive and hear the petitions of the People, then I shall send my voice beyond the walls of this Capitol for redress.

  Caleb Cushing

  Wall, Voice, People

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• TO fear God, is one of the first and greatest Duties of his rational Creatures.

  Charles Inglis

  Firsts, Fear God, Rational

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• I believe in the United States of America as a government of the people, by the people, for the people, whose just powers are derived from the consent of the governed; a democracy in a republic; a sovereign Nation of many sovereign States; a perfect Union, one and inseparable, established upon those principles of freedom, equality, justice, and humanity for which American patriots sacrificed their lives and fortunes. I therefore believe it is my duty to my country to love it, to support its Constitution, to obey its laws, to respect its flag, and to defend it against all enemies.

  William Tyler

  Country, Believe, America

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• He would still see it as his duty to shut up and get on with it, not cause any trouble. In our own time we've made a hero of the rebel, and it's more heroic to speak up.

  Eddie Campbell

  Hero, Uprising, Rebel

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• The first and foremost duty of the high school in teaching mathematics is to emphasize methodical work in problem solving...The teacher who wishes to serve equally all his students, future users and nonusers of mathematics, should teach problem solving so that it is about one-third mathematics and two-thirds common sense.

  George Polya

  Education, Teacher, Teaching

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• The denial of our duty to act in this case is a denial of our right to act; and if we have no right to act, then may we well be termed the white slaves of the North, for like our brethren in bonds, we must seal our lips in silence and despair.

  Angelina Grimke

  White, Silence, Despair

  Sarah Grimke, Angelina Grimke (2015). “On Slavery and Abolitionism: Essays and Letters”, p.116, Penguin

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• The first duty of a newspaper is to be accurate. If it be accurate, it follows that it is fair.

  Herbert Bayard Swope

  Firsts, Newspapers, Accuracy

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• The troops are therefore empowered and are in duty bound in this war to use without mitigation even against women and children any means that will lead to success.

  Wilhelm Keitel

  Children, War, Mean

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