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"Contemplate thy powers, contemplate thy wants and thy connections; so shalt thou discover the duties of life, and be directed in all thy ways."	Akhenaton
"A person I knew use to divide human beings into three categories: Those who prefer have nothing to hide rather than being obliged to lie, those who prefer lying to having nothing to hide, and finally those who like both lying and the hidden."	Albert Camus
"I know of only one duty, and that is to love."	Albert Camus
"We scientists, whose tragic destiny it has been to make the methods of annihilation ever more gruesome and more effective, must consider it our solemn and transcendent duty to do all in our power in preventing these weapons from being used for the brutal purpose for which they were invented."	Albert Einstein
"The strength of the Constitution lies entirely in the determination of each citizen to defend it. Only if every single citizen feels duty bound to do his share in this defense are the constitutional rights secure."	Albert Einstein
"It is in fact nothing short of a miracle that the modern methods of instruction have not yet entirely strangled the holy curiosity of inquiry; for what this delicate little plant needs more than anything, besides stimulation, is freedom. It is a very grave mistake to think that the enjoyment of seeing and searching can be promoted by means of coercion and a sense of duty."	Albert Einstein
"By academic freedom I understand the right to search for truth and to publish and teach what one holds to be true. This right implies also a duty: one must not conceal any part of what on has recognized to be true. It is evident that any restriction on academic freedom acts in such a way as to hamper the dissemination of knowledge among the people and thereby impedes national judgment and action."	Albert Einstein
"Never regard study as a duty but as an enviable opportunity to learn to know the liberating influence of beauty in the realm of the spirit for your own personal joy and to the profit of the community to which your later works belong."	Albert Einstein
"Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocre minds. The latter cannot understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices but honestly and courageously uses his intelligence and fulfills the duty to express the results of his thoughts in clear form."	Albert Einstein
"When one's ill or unhappy, one needs something outside oneself to hold one up. It is a good thing, I think, when one has been knocked out of one's balance . to have some external job or duty to hang on to."	Aldous Leonard Huxley
"In framing a government which is to be administered by men over men the great difficulty lies in this: You must first enable the government to control the governed, and in the next place, oblige it to control itself."	Alexander Hamilton
"When occasions present themselves, in which the interests of the people are at variance with their inclinations, it is the duty of the persons whom they have appointed to be the guardians of those interests, to withstand the temporary delusion, in order to give them time and opportunity for more cool and sedate reflection."	Alexander Hamilton
"The First Amendment is often inconvenient. But that is besides the point. Inconvenience does not absolve the government of its obligation to tolerate speech."	Anthony M. Kennedy
"To be humble to superiors is duty, to equals courtesy, to inferiors nobleness."	Benjamin Franklin
"It is no longer my moral duty as a human being to achieve an integrated and unitary set of explanations for my thoughts and feelings."	Bronwyn Davies
"If you want to do your duty properly, you should do just a little more than that."	Bruce Lee
"To keep the body in good health is a duty. . . otherwise we shall not be able to keep our mind strong and clear."	Buddha
"Accomplishing the impossible means only that the boss will add it to your regular duties."	Doug Larson
"My doctor says that I have a malformed public-duty gland and a natural deficiency in moral fibre, and that I am therefore excused from saving Universes."	Douglas Noel Adams
"To hear complaints with patience, even when complaints are vain, is one of the duties of friendship."	Dr. Samuel Johnson
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Dr. Samuel Johnson	Galileo Galilei	George Eliot
George Washington	George Gordon Byron	Gerard Hargraves
Helen Adams Keller	Henrik Ibsen	Horace Bushnell
James Earl "Jimmy" Carter, Jr.	Jean de La Bruyère	John Locke
John Fitzgerald Kennedy	John Morley	Joseph Fort Newton
Jose Ortega y Gasset	Lord Nelson	Lord Nelson Horatio
Louis K. Anspacher	Lyndon Baines Johnson	Marian Wright Edelman
Marlene Dietrich	Maxim Gorky	Newell Dwight Hillis
Nikos Kazantzakis	Paxton Blair	Ralph Waldo Emerson
Richard David Bach	Robert Edward Lee	Robert Francis Kennedy
Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy	Sam(uel) James Ervin, Jr.	Sir Winston Leonard Spenser Churchill
Stephen Crane	Tench Coxe	Theodore Ledyard Cuyler
Thomas Jefferson	Thomas Merton	William Ellery Channing