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"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
"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
"The Greeks by their laws, and the Romans by the spirit of their people, took care to put into the hands of their rulers no such engine of oppression as a standing army. Their system was to make every man a soldier, and oblige him to repair to the standard of his country whenever that was reared. This made them invincible; and the same remedy will make us so."	Thomas Jefferson
"To hear complaints with patience, even when complaints are vain, is one of the duties of friendship."	Dr. Samuel Johnson
"In this age when there can be no losers in peace and no victors in war, we must recognize the obligation to match national strength with national restraint."	Lyndon Baines Johnson
"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
"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
"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 state the facts frankly is not to despair the future nor indict the past. The prudent heir takes careful inventory of his legacies and gives a faithful accounting to those whom he owes an obligation of trust."	John Fitzgerald Kennedy
"The statesman's duty is to bridge the gap between his nation's experience and his vision."	Robert Francis Kennedy
"I looked on child rearing not only as a work of love and duty but as a profession that was fully as interesting and challenging as any honorable profession in the world and one that demanded the best that I could bring to it."	Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy
"Accomplishing the impossible means only that the boss will add it to your regular duties."	Doug Larson
"If you want to do your duty properly, you should do just a little more than that."	Bruce Lee
"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
"I think it every man's indispensable duty to do all the service he can to his country; and I see not what difference he puts between himself and his cattle who lives without that thought."	John Locke
"It is in the ordinary duties and labors of life that the Christian can and should develop his spiritual union with God."	Thomas Merton
"Where it is duty to worship the sun, it is pretty sure to be a crime to examine the laws of heat."	John Morley
"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
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Benjamin Franklin	Bronwyn Davies	Bruce Lee
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