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"My time has been passed viciously and agreeably; at thirty-one so few years months days hours or minutes remain that 'Carpe Diem' is not enough. I have been obliged to crop even the seconds-for who can trust to tomorrow?"	George Gordon Byron
"I know of only one duty, and that is to love."	Albert Camus
"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
"The most radical division that it is possible to make of humanity is that which splits it into two classes of creatures: Those who make great demands on themselves, piling up difficulties and duties; and those who demand nothing special of themselves, bu"	Jose Ortega y Gasset
"England expects that every man will do his duty."	Lord Nelson Horatio
"What, then is our duty? It is to carefully distinguish the historic moment in which we live and to consciously assign our small energies to a specific battlefield. The more we are in phase with the current which leads the way, the more we aid man in his difficult, uncertain, danger-fraught ascent toward salvation."	Nikos Kazantzakis
"England expects every man to do his duty."	Lord Nelson
"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
"Happiness and moral duty are inseparably connected."	George Washington
"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
"I long to accomplish a great and noble task, but it is my chief duty to accomplish small tasks as if they were great and noble."	Helen Adams Keller
"Accomplishing the impossible means only that the boss will add it to your regular duties."	Doug Larson
"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
"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
"I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use."	Galileo Galilei
"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
"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
"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
"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
"If you want to do your duty properly, you should do just a little more than that."	Bruce Lee
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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