- God
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- Nov 07, 2020
Duty Quotes
Doing what's owed, quietly and consistently.
Several lines here connect duty to public life — holding elected leaders accountable through voting, or a president's duty to protect national security. See Responsibility quotes for a closer look at that theme.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Happy
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- Nov 07, 2020
Remember that happiness is as contagious as gloom. It should be the first duty of those who are happy to let others know of their gladness.
- Challenge
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- Nov 07, 2020
We need to recognize our agreements and disagreements with whomever is chosen as president, but we can't continue to just stall out in Washington just because it's not who I voted for. We have still an obligation and duty to challenge and to work through.
- Day
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- Nov 07, 2020
Once you start playing 'Call of Duty,' you better watch out, because before you know it, you've lost four or five hours out of your day.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
I love the line of Flaubert about observing things very intensely. I think our duty as writers begins not with our own feelings, but with the powers of observing.
- Nothing
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- Nov 07, 2020
There is nothing in the universe that I fear, but that I shall not know all my duty, or shall fail to do it.
- Framed
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- Nov 07, 2020
For myself, therefore, I desire to declare that the principle that will govern me in the high duty to which my country calls me is a strict adherence to the letter and spirit of the Constitution as it was designed by those who framed it.
- Go
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- Nov 07, 2020
I know there were many good policemen who died doing their duty. Some of the cops were even friends of ours. But a cop can go both ways.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
The chief duty of our federal government is the safety and security of the American people.
- House
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- Nov 07, 2020
Congress, of course, is not bound to accept the president's budget figures, but the House has the sole power to appropriate funds for spending, and it is a duty that should not be ignored.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
To grasp the full significance of life is the actor's duty, to interpret it is his problem, and to express it his dedication.
- Job
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think that the press has a duty and an obligation to report on local government, state government, federal government - to be aggressive, to do its job. And its job is to report on whatever it's covering.
- Crime Fiction
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- Nov 07, 2020
There are a number of writers who believe it is their duty to throw as many curve balls at the reader as possible. To twist and twist again. These are the Chubby Checkers of crime fiction and, while I admire the craft, I think that it can actually work against genuine suspense.
- Job
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- Nov 07, 2020
As a young player, national duty always felt kind of like... a duty. It was always there, it was normal, it was part of the job.
- Practice
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- Nov 07, 2020