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- Feelings
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- Nov 07, 2020
I did not expect to encounter what has beset me since my elevation to the presidency. God knows, I have endeavored to fulfill what I considered to be an honest duty, but I have been mistaken; my motives have been misconstrued and my feelings grossly betrayed.
- Our
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- Nov 07, 2020
In all disputes between conflicting governments, it is our interest not less than our duty to remain strictly neutral.
- Government
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think coercive taxation is theft, and government has a moral duty to keep it to a minimum.
- Path
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- Nov 07, 2020
Let everyone regulate his conduct... by the golden rule of doing to others as in similar circumstances we would have them do to us, and the path of duty will be clear before him.
- Mind
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- Nov 07, 2020
No simplicity of mind, no obscurity of station, can escape the universal duty of questioning all that we believe.
- Government
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- Nov 07, 2020
The Imperial German Government will not expect the Government of the United States to omit any word or any act necessary to the performance of its sacred duty of maintaining the rights of the United States and its citizens and of safeguarding their free exercise and enjoyment.
- Diligence
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- Nov 07, 2020
Having now reached a point where danger might be reasonably apprehended from strolling war parties of Indians, spies were kept in advance and strict diligence observed in the duty of sentinels.
- Catholic Faith
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- Nov 07, 2020
My Catholic faith is the foundation of my worldview, and my judicial duty is governed, from beginning to end, by the law.
- Health
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- Nov 07, 2020
The sexes were made for each other, and only in the wise and loving union of the two is the fullness of health and duty and happiness to be expected.
- Only
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is not only our duty to pray for others, but also to desire the prayers of others for ourselves.
- Government
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is the duty of government to make it difficult for people to do wrong, easy to do right.
- Who
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- Nov 07, 2020
He who is false to the present duty breaks a thread in the loom, and you will see the effect when the weaving of a life-time is unraveled.
- Commonly
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- Nov 07, 2020
The book which you read from a sense of duty, or because for any reason you must, does not commonly make friends with you.
- Free
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- Nov 07, 2020
We all have a fundamental right to live free from fear, free from crime, and free from disorder - but while we share that right, we also share the duty to secure it.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
For this is our most perfect duty and yet least known to us by nature: Whatever we conceive or will should be joined with the good of our neighbor.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
In the time we have it is surely our duty to do all the good we can to all the people we can in all the ways we can.
- Government
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- Nov 07, 2020
I believe deeply that the first duty of government is providing for the personal security of its citizens. Therefore I would naturally place the highest priority on strengthening law enforcement.
- Long
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have long believed that the first duty of government is to protect the safety of our citizens.
- Balances
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- Nov 07, 2020
As a member of Congress, a coequal branch of government designed by our founders to provide checks and balances on the executive branch, I believe that lawmakers must fulfill our oversight duty as well as keep the American people informed of the current danger.
- Only
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- Nov 07, 2020
I only did my duty to my country when I tried to oppose the criminal folly of Hitler.
- Legal
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- Nov 07, 2020
By the fulfillment of my legal and moral duty I think I have earned punishment just as little as the tens of thousands of dutiful German officials who have now been imprisoned only because they carried out their duties.
- End
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- Nov 07, 2020
I like to be able to raise people's consciousness, yes. And to remind that those of us involved in the receiving end of the oppression, we have a duty.
- Country
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- Nov 07, 2020
Next to upholding the Constitution of the United States, the president's highest duty is to protect the security of this country - our national security.
- American
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- Nov 07, 2020
The American public should simply accept no distractions. In our democracy, it is our duty to hold our elected leaders accountable. We do it at the ballot box.
- Men
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- Nov 07, 2020
Our men and women fighting in Iraq are held accountable for their performance and their conduct. On duty and off, twenty-four hours a day. They're fighting for us, for our safety, our rights, and our freedoms.
- Dead
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- Nov 07, 2020
The sorrow for the dead is the only sorrow from which we refuse to be divorced. Every other wound we seek to heal - every other affliction to forget: but this wound we consider it a duty to keep open - this affliction we cherish and brood over in solitude.
- Events
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- Nov 07, 2020
Consult duty not events.
- Hope
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- Nov 07, 2020
When we have lost everything, including hope, life becomes a disgrace, and death a duty.
- Honor
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- Nov 07, 2020
Even if a sense of honor and duty were not the primary motivating factors in the Warren Commission's work, simple self-interest would naturally have induced its members not to try to cover up the existence of a conspiracy if, in fact, they found one.
- Gamer
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm a gamer, so I play '2k,' 'Call of Duty,' and 'Madden.' I think I can play those games every day.
- Jail
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you were summoned for jury duty and you didn't show up, what would happen? You'd be in jail!
- Blown Away
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- Nov 07, 2020
What I have appreciated about the 'Call of Duty' games is the scale of production. It's not an indie game. It's not trying to be an indie game. But I've genuinely been pretty consistently blown away by, wow, what an effort has gone into this.
- Government
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Fighter
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- Nov 07, 2020
Leaving active duty was so I could become the best fighter in the world at my weight class.
- Liberty
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- Nov 07, 2020
He that would make his own liberty secure, must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty, he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself.
- Now
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- Nov 07, 2020
And I definitely wanted to be a writer, but I felt a duty now, having used up those educational resources, I felt a duty to the church and my parents to become a priest.
- Place
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- Nov 07, 2020
No duty the Executive had to perform was so trying as to put the right man in the right place.
- Sacrifice
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- Nov 07, 2020
The treason of which I stand convicted loses all its guilt, has been sanctified as a duty, and will be ennobled as a sacrifice.
- Hope
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is not only our duty to America, but also to Ireland. We could not hope to succeed in our effort to make Ireland a Republic without the moral and material support of the liberty-loving citizens of these United States.
- Exercise
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- Nov 07, 2020
The poverty of a man of benevolence is not to be considered as poverty but only as his temporary inability to exercise his inherent duty.
- Justice
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- Nov 07, 2020
When officers' actions violate their duty, justice should be served in accordance with our legal system.
- You
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- Nov 07, 2020
Activate yourself to duty by remembering your position, who you are, and what you have obliged yourself to be.
- Government
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- Nov 07, 2020
National security is the first duty of government but we are also committed to reversing the substantial erosion of civil liberties.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
The honour of carrying the Canadian flag... brings with it a sense of duty, privilege, and above all, great pride.
- Law
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I served on active duty in the United States Air Force, one of my duties was to teach the Law of War.
- Gun
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- Nov 07, 2020
Congress can pass reasonable gun safety legislation and save lives. We have a duty to the American people to do our job.
- Interaction
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- Nov 07, 2020
I served on active duty and know that active duty personnel have basically zero interaction with the VA.
- Doing
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- Nov 07, 2020
I went to Iraq in 2004 because I believe in doing my duty, not because I agreed with the war.
- Military
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- Nov 07, 2020
Unfortunately, military servicemen and servicewomen often have a difficult time transitioning to jobs in the private sector once their duty is complete.
- Peace
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- Nov 07, 2020
Churchill knew the importance of peace, and he also knew the price of it. Churchill finally got his voice, of course. He stressed strategy, but it was his voice that armed England at last with the old-fashioned moral concepts of honor and duty, justice and mercy.
- Revenge
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- Nov 07, 2020
To exact revenge for yourself or your friends is not only a right, it's an absolute duty.
- Playstation
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- Nov 07, 2020
I can't get enough of 'Call of Duty.' I'm the oldest guy who plays on PlayStation.
- Our
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- Nov 07, 2020
All Americans have a sacred duty to guarantee Social Security benefits to our nation's senior citizens.
- Only
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- Nov 07, 2020
Let the grassroots turn on the hate because that's the only thing that will make them do their duty.
- Lie
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- Nov 07, 2020
Only enemies speak the truth; friends and lovers lie endlessly, caught in the web of duty.
- Something
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- Nov 07, 2020
Defending the truth is not something one does out of a sense of duty or to allay guilt complexes, but is a reward in itself.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
I know I am not only the bad conscience of the Nazis. I am also the bad conscience of the Jews. Because what I have taken up as my duty was everybody's duty.
- Loved
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- Nov 07, 2020
Moses Montefiore loved Jerusalem, lived for Jerusalem, and even made it our family motto. A Zionist before the word was invented, he believed in the sacred idea of Jewish return as a religious Jew's duty, and in Jewish statehood.
- Behaviors
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- Nov 07, 2020
Everyone living under the social contract we call democracy has a duty to act responsibly, to obey the laws, and to abandon certain types of self-interested behaviors that conflict with the general good.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
For me, growing up, I felt like there was something fatally and tragically flawed in my nature and that it was my duty to try to avoid falling for that vice.
- Just
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- Nov 07, 2020
A good deed is not just a duty, but above all, a privilege.
- Only
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am available to play in foreign leagues only when not required on national duty.
- Nov 07, 2020
The duty of helping one's self in the highest sense involves the helping of one's neighbors.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I directed the men in our barque to approach near the savages, and hold their arms in readiness to do their duty in case they notice any movement of these people against us.
- Long
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- Nov 07, 2020
Economic, social, and other kinds of regional cooperation are not possible so long as there is apartheid. Therefore, it seems the duty of all mankind to destroy it.
- Country
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- Nov 07, 2020
The liberties of our country, the freedom of our civil constitution, are worth defending against all hazards: And it is our duty to defend them against all attacks.
- Look
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- Nov 07, 2020
I believe it is my duty as a performer to raise issues in the world of things we're afraid to look at.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
A duty is to be chosen from what is virtuous, and from what is useful, and also from the comparison of the two, one with the other; but nothing is recognized by Christians as virtuous or useful which is not helpful to the future life.
- Country
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think it is our duty towards the people of Lebanon to stabilize the country.
- Research
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think that when you're making a story... that's based on somebody, the filmmaker has his duty to do his research.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
To vote is like the payment of a debt, a duty never to be neglected, if its performance is possible.
- Must
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- Nov 07, 2020
To do my duty, I must obey God.
- Own
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- Nov 07, 2020
We have the duty of formulating, of summarizing, and of communicating our conclusions, in intelligible form, in recognition of the right of other free minds to utilize them in making their own decisions.
- Purple
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- Nov 07, 2020
I served two tours of duty in Vietnam. I won the Bronze Star. I won the Purple Heart.
- Elastic
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- Nov 07, 2020
Our conception of 1950s underwear is a lovely vintage aesthetic, but actually, wearing stockings with no elastic and a girdle was heavy duty.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
I promised never to let the Rwandan Genocide die because I knew the Rwandans didn't have much power internationally and certainly didn't have the resources. I felt it was my duty having witnessed it, and having stayed to witness it, that I had to talk about it and keep it going.
- Morality
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- Nov 07, 2020
If we allow the consideration of heathen morality and heathen religion to absolve us from the duty of preaching the gospel we are really deposing Christ from His throne in our own souls.
- Culture
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- Nov 07, 2020
Unquestionably, it is the duty of every master to watch over the religious and moral culture of his slaves, and to give them every comfort and privilege that is not incompatible with the continued existence of the relations between them.
- Pride
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- Nov 07, 2020
My husband is a former Air Force pilot and my son is an active duty Army surgeon, recently returned from Iraq, so my pride in our military is passionate... and personal.
- Decide
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- Nov 07, 2020
The duty of the grand jury is to separate fact from fiction, after a full and impartial examination of all the evidence involved, and decide if evidence supported the filing of any criminal charges against Darren Wilson. They accepted and completed this monumental responsibility in a conscientious and expeditious manner.
- Happy
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- Nov 07, 2020