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• Words without deeds violates the moral and legal obligation we have under the genocide convention but, more importantly, violates our sense of right and wrong and the standards we have as human beings about looking to care for one another.

  Jon Corzine

  Care, Deeds, Moral

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• When you move off a point of power, pay all your obligations on the nail, empower all your friends completely and move off with your pockets full of artillery, potential blackmail on every erstwhile rival, unlimited funds in your private account and the addresses of experienced assassins and go live in Bulgravia and bribe the police.

  L. Ron Hubbard

  Moving, Empowering, Police

  "The Church of Scientology Wanted a Balkan Holy Land" by Lily Lynch, balkanist.net. August 27, 2013.

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• We writers  – and especially writers for children, but all writers –  have an obligation to our readers: it's the obligation to write true things, especially important when we are creating tales of people who do not exist in places that never were – to understand that truth is not in what happens but what it tells us about who we are. Fiction is the lie that tells the truth, after all.

  Neil Gaiman

  Children, Lying, Writing

  Neil Gaiman (2016). “The View from the Cheap Seats: Selected Nonfiction”, p.15, HarperCollins

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• The only obligation I recognize is to say what I believe to be true [ ] and to say it with kindness. I believe that is how a Christian conversation should proceed.

  Marilynne Robinson

  Christian, Kindness, Believe

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• I don't have the slightest interest in gold. I like understanding what works and what doesn't in human systems. To me that's not optional; that's a moral obligation. If you're capable of understanding the world, you have a moral obligation to become rational. And I don't see how you become rational hoarding gold. Even if it works, you're a jerk.

  Charlie Munger

  Understanding, Gold, Hoarding

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• When the individual is relieved of the obligation of self-respect, he acquires the habits of helplessness; he is inclined to retreat to the security of the prenatal state. The more he is taken care of the more he wants care.

  Frank Chodorov

  Taken, Self, Care

  Frank Chodorov (2007). “Income Tax: Root of All Evil”, p.59, Ludwig von Mises Institute

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• I know I have the mental capacity of a thousand bloggers, but because of that, my obligation to serve God is also that of a thousand bloggers

  Mickey Kaus

  Capacity, Serving God, Thousand

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• We should feel grateful instead of entitled. We have a moral obligation to give back.

  Bill Courtney

  Grateful, Giving, Moral

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• Ethical obligation has to subordinate itself to the totalitarian nature of war.

  Karl Brandt

  War, Ethical, Subordinates

  "Ethics of Nazi doctors analyzed in telecast" by Joanna Arnold, October 17, 2007.

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• I don't care if they're licensed legal firearms, people who are not highly trained putting guns in their hands is a recipe for disaster. So I'll train our officers that there is a concealed carry law, but when somebody turns with a firearm in their hand the officer does not have an obligation to wait to get shot to return fire and we're going to have tragedies as a result of that. I'm telling you right up front.

  Garry McCarthy

  Gun, Fire, Hands

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• I have always thought music as a way out of the ordinary mundane obligations of life.

  Martha Reeves

  Ordinary, Mundane Life, Way

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• Friendship is not always the sequel of obligation.

  Samuel Johnson

  Friendship, Sequels

  'The Lives of the English Poets' (1779-81) 'James Thomson'

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• Life does not have meaning through mere existence or acquisition or fun. The meaning of life is inherent in the connections we make to others through honor and obligation.

  Laura Schlessinger

  Life, Fun, Honor

  Dr. Laura Schlessinger (2009). “How Could You Do That?!: Abdication of Character, Courage, Consci”, p.4, Harper Collins

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• I have to deplore the systematic manner in which the literature of Europe has continued to put out of sight our obligations to the Muhammadans. Surely they cannot be much longer hidden. Injustice founded on religious rancour and national conceit cannot be perpetuated forever. The Arab has left his intellectual impress on Europe. He has indelibly written it on the heavens as any one may see who reads the names of the stars on a common celestial globe.

  John William Draper

  Religious, Stars, Sight

  "A History of the Intellectual Development of Europe". Book by John William Draper, Harper & brothers, p. 356, 1863.

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• We must never try to escape the obligation of living at our best.

  Janet Erskine Stuart

  Trying

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• Perhaps it is our obligation to be noble before it is our obligation to be happy.

  Kathleen McGowan

  Noble

  Kathleen McGowan (2010). “The Poet Prince”, p.115, Simon and Schuster

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• There are millions of people out there ignoring disabilities and accomplishing incredible feats. I learned you can learn to do things differently, but do them just as well. I've learned that it's not the disability that defines you, it's how you deal with the challenges the disability presents you with. And I've learned that we have an obligation to the abilities we DO have, not the disability.

  Jim Abbott

  People, Challenges, Disability

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• In ordinary life, the action of a third party does not free the contractor from an obligation; but the advantage of making a contract with heaven is that intentions are valid currency.

  Machado de Assis

  Party, Heaven, Ordinary

  Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis, Machado de Assis, John A. Gledson (1998). “Dom Casmurro”, p.146, Oxford University Press

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• I've always tried to present a positive view of the world in my work. It's so much easier to be negative and cynical and predict doom for the world than it is to try and figure out how to make things better. We have an obligation to do the latter.

  Jim Henson

  Views, Cynical, Trying

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

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• The universalist approach is roughly: 'What is good and right can be defined and always applies.' In particularist cultures far greater attention is given to the obligations of relationships and unique circumstances.

  Fons Trompenaars

  Unique, Culture, Attention

  Fons Trompenaars, Charles Hampden-Turner (2011). “Riding the Waves of Culture: Understanding Diversity in Global Business”, p.16, Nicholas Brealey Publishing

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• From the right to know and the duty to inquire flows the obligation to act.

  Sandra Steingraber

  Flow, Duty, Knows

  Sandra Steingraber (2010). “Living Downstream: An Ecologist's Personal Investigation of Cancer and the Environment”, p.122, Da Capo Press

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• Football is a religion and Saturday is the holy day of obligation.

  Bob Ufer

  Football, Holy Days, Saturday

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• They just want to continue playing their little game of power. And I feel that us people have the responsibility and also the obligation to demand to our leaders to give us the pacifist solutions. To give us a world in peace.

  Shakira

  Responsibility, Games, People

  "Shakira Calls For Peace, Explains Mongoose Mystery" by Corey Moss, www.mtv.com. February 4, 2003.

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• The chief moral obligation of the 21st Century is to build a green economy that is strong enough to lift people out of poverty. Those communities that were locked out of the last century's pollution-based economy must be locked into the new, clean and renewable economy. Our youth need green-collar jobs, not jails.

  Van Jones

  Strong, Jobs, Jail

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• I almost feel like its an obligation to not further the status quo if you become somebody with influence and exposure. I dont want to paint the same painting again. I dont want to make the same sculpture again. Why shouldnt a big movie studio be able to make those small independent kinds of pictures? Why not change it up?

  Andrew Stanton

  Independent, Want, Able

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