- Country
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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
- 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