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"A duty dodged is like a debt unpaid; it is only deferred, and we must come back and settle the account at last."	Joseph Fort Newton
"A king, realizing his incompetence, can either delegate or abdicate his duties. A father can do neither. If only sons could see the paradox, they would understand the dilemma."	Marlene Dietrich
"A man said to the universe: 'Sir, I exist!' 'However,' replied the universe. 'The fact has not created in me A sense of obligation.'"	Stephen Crane
"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
"Abiding happiness is not simply a possibility, but a duty; all may live above the troubles of life; worry is a poison and happiness is a medicine."	Newell Dwight Hillis
"Accomplishing the impossible means only that the boss will add it to your regular duties."	Doug Larson
"As civil rulers, not having their duty to the people duly before them, may attempt to tyrannize, and as the military forces which must be occasionally raised to defend our country, might pervert their power to the injury of their fellow-citizens, the people are confirmed by the next article in their right to keep and bear their private arms."	Tench Coxe
"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
"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
"Did is a word of achievement Won't is a word of defeat Might is a word of bereavement Can't is a word of defeat Ought is a word of duty Try is a word each hour Will is a word of beauty Can is a word of power."	Gerard Hargraves
"Different people have different duties assigned to them by Nature; Nature has given one the power or the desire to do this, and the other that. Each bird must sing with his own throat."	Henrik Ibsen
"Discretion is the perfection of reason, and a guide to us in all the duties of life."	Jean de La Bruyère
"Duty then is the sublimest word in the English language. You should do your duty in all things. You can never do more, you should never wish to do less."	Robert Edward Lee
"England expects every man to do his duty."	Lord Nelson
"England expects that every man will do his duty."	Lord Nelson Horatio
"Every human being has a work to carry on within, duties to perform abroad, influence to exert, which are peculiarly his, and which no conscience but his own can teach."	William Ellery Channing
"God never built a Christian strong enough to carry today's duties and tomorrow's anxieties piled on top of them."	Theodore Ledyard Cuyler
"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
"Happiness and moral duty are inseparably connected."	George Washington
"I do not feel obliged to believe that that same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forego their use."	Galileo Galilei
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Buddha	Doug Larson	Douglas Noel Adams
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