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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
- 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
There is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy. By being happy we sow anonymous benefits upon the world.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
Do your duty in all things, like the old Puritan. You cannot do more; you should never wish to do less.
- Liberty
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- Nov 07, 2020
To the American people I say, awaken to what is happening. It is the duty of each citizen to be vigilant, to protect liberty, to speak out, left and right and disagree lest be trampled underfoot by misguided zealotry and extreme partisanship.
- Neglect
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- Nov 07, 2020
We never fail when we try to do our duty, we always fail when we neglect to do it.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
Presidents are always also storytellers, purveyors of useful national mythologies. And surprisingly enough, Richard Nixon, this awkward man who didn't even really like people, had not been so bad at this duty - at least in the first four years of his presidency.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
We've got a duty to die and get out of the way with all of our machines and artificial hearts and everything else like that and let the other society, our kids, build a reasonable life.
- Push
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- Nov 07, 2020