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• I consider it to be the meaning of my whole life and my obligation to serve my fatherland and our people.

  Vladimir Putin

  People, Whole Life, Fatherland

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• Individuals have international duties which transcend the national obligations of obedience. Therefore individual citizens have the duty to violate domestic laws to prevent crimes against peace and humanity from occurring.

  Edward Snowden

  Law, Humanity, Citizens

  "Snowden meets with rights groups, seeks temporary asylum in Russia" by Phil Black, Laura Smith-Spark, Michael Martinez, www.cnn.com. July 13, 2013.

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• The obligation to earn one's bread by the sweat of one's brow also presumes the right to do so. A society in which this right is systematically denied, in which economic policies do not allow workers to reach satisfactory levels of employment, cannot be justified from an ethical point of view, nor can that society attain social peace.

  Pope John Paul II

  Sweat, Views, Bread

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• I am under obligations to most of those advisers for the pains and interest they took in my case; but only to one for an effectual remedy.

  William Banting

  Pain, Cases, Interest

  William Banting (1864). “Letter on Corpulence: Addressed to the Public”, p.13

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• If you're deaf, dumb, and blind to what's happening in the world, you're under no obligation to do anything. But if you know what's happening and you don't do anything but sit on your ass, then you're nothing but a punk

  Assata Shakur

  Dumb, World, Blind

  Assata Shakur (1987). “Assata: An Autobiography”, p.222, Zed Books

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• When you are faced with prejudice, logic and justice are impotent. Still, we may have an obligation to argue directly into the face of the prejudice, even though there is no chance to win.

  Gerry Spence

  Winning, Justice, Prejudice

  "How to Argue and Win Every Time: At Home, at Work, in Court, Everywhere, Every Day". Book by Gerry Spence, March 1995.

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• Globalization is the result of powerful governments, especially that of the United States, pushing trade deals and other accords down the throats of the world’s people to make it easier for corporations and the wealthy to dominate the economies of nations around the world without having obligations to the peoples of those nations.

  Noam Chomsky

  Powerful, Government, People

  Noam Chomsky (2011). “Profit Over People: Neoliberalism and Global Order”, p.10, Seven Stories Press

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• But obligation, I eventually saw, is not the same as commitment, and it's certainly not an acceptable reason to stick with something that isn't working

  Twyla Tharp

  Commitment, Saws, Sticks

  Twyla Tharp, Mark Reiter (2003). “The Creative Habit: Learn It and Use It for Life”, Simon and Schuster

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• Obligation is a flimsy base for creativity, way down the list behind passion, courage, instinct, and the desire to do something great.

  Twyla Tharp

  Passion, Creativity, Desire

  Twyla Tharp, Mark Reiter (2003). “The Creative Habit: Learn It and Use It for Life”, Simon and Schuster

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• Religious liberalism affirms the moral obligation to direct one's effort toward the establishment of a just and *loving* community.

  James Luther Adams

  Religious, Effort, Community

  James Luther Adams (1976). “On being human religiously: selected essays in religion and society”, Beacon Press (MA)

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• There are always lessons to be found in the darkest moments. It's a moral obligation to dig deep and find that little glimmer of hope or pearl of wisdom.

  Andrea Pirlo

  Lessons, Pearls, Littles

  "ANDREA PIRLO EXCLUSIVE: I almost quit after losing to Liverpool in the Champions League final, Ferguson was a purple-nosed boss of 'battleship', how I nearly won the double at Chelsea... and why Hodgson called me a '****head'". www.dailymail.co.uk. April 14, 2014.

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• Mathematics, in the development of its ideas, has only to take account of the immanent reality of its concepts and has absolutely no obligation to examine their transient reality.

  Georg Cantor

  Reality, Ideas, Development

  "From Kant to Hilbert: A Source Book in the Foundations of Mathematics". Book by William Bragg Ewald, 1996.

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• Humans have made a huge hole in nature in the last 10,000 years. [With de-extinction,] we have the ability now, and maybe the moral obligation, to repair some of the damage.

  Stewart Brand

  Years, Extinction, Lasts

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• France must not be the only country to have a high level of welfare protection and few obligations incumbent on those who receive benefits.

  Nicolas Sarkozy

  Country, Benefits, Levels

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• I suspect that most of the individuals who have religious faith are content with blind faith. They feel no obligation to understand what they believe. They may even wish not to have their beliefs disturbed by thought.

  Mortimer Adler

  Religious, Believe, Intellectual

  "A Second Look in the Rearview Mirror: Further Autobiographical Reflections of a Philosopher at Large".

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• The great city can teach something that no university by itself can altogether impart: a vivid sense of the largeness of human brotherhood, a vivid sense of man's increasing obligation to man; a vivid sense of our absolute dependence on one another.

  Seth Low

  Men, Brotherhood Of Man, Cities

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• In relation to the immense sacrifices that the state demands of the individual through the blood tax, it seems rather incidental whether it compensates the soldier more or less abundantly for the loss of time that he suffers from his military-service obligation.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Military, Loss, Sacrifice

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• I support development and deployment of a limited national missile defense. Few if any of our duties surpass our obligation to provide for the common defense of our nation.

  Joe Lieberman

  Deployment, Support, Defense

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• I believe that the United States has a moral obligation to stand up for those citizens of the world who cannot stand up for themselves, and I am proud to have authored the bill signed into law today that continues to put significant pressure on the brutal Burmese military junta.

  Joseph Crowley

  Military, Believe, Law

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• We have an opportunity, but we have an obligation to senior citizens and to the younger people who are entering the workforce today to help ensure that they are going to be able to trust the government to have a workable program that benefits them as well

  Thad Cochran

  Senior, Opportunity, Government

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• We've trained and trained for a reason: to be better at the craft of war than our enemy, to use our skill to perform the mission, and to accept the risks. As American warriors, it's our obligation to protect the innocent. And that means, sometimes, that we're the ones who need to be put on the disadvantaged side of the threat cycle.

  Marcus Luttrell

  War, Mean, Skills

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• What happened to our friendship? I really think it's our obligation as friends to be brutally honest and be frank with them and say, 'Look, I'm sorry, but your baby is fking boring.'

  David Cross

  Baby, Sorry, Thinking

  The Best Fatherhood "Advice (from Comedians)" by Chris Giblin, www.esquire.com. August 28, 2013.

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• If there is any one thing that will bring peace and contentment into the human heart, and into the family, it is to live within our means. And if there is any one thing that is grinding and discouraging and disheartening, it is to have debts and obligations that one cannot meet.

  Heber J. Grant

  Heart, Mean, Contentment

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• Kindness and good nature unite men more effectually and with greater strength than any agreements whatsoever, since thereby the engagements of men's hearts become stronger than the bond and obligation of words.

  Thomas More

  Kindness, Heart, Men

  Thomas More (2009). “Utopia”, p.64, Cosimo, Inc.

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• You don’t have a right to the cards you believe you should have been dealt with. You have an obligation to play the hell out of the ones you’re holding and my dear one, you and I have been granted a mighty generous one.

  Cheryl Strayed

  Believe, Should Have, Play

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