“Moving to the forefront of advanced nations is not a choice but a national duty. This requires, among other things, erecting the best industrial property protection systems despite all challenges, particularly in the transition phase that we must endure.” MovingChoicesNationsChallengesDutyPropertyEndureProtectionDespiteTransitionPhases Author:Talal Abu-Ghazaleh
“It is important that Miers not be confirmed unless, in her 61st year, she suddenly and unexpectedly is found to have hitherto undisclosed interests and talents pertinent to the court's role. Otherwise the sound principle of substantial deference to a president's choice of judicial nominees will dissolve into a rationalization for senatorial abdication of the duty to hold presidents to some standards of seriousness that will prevent them from reducing the Supreme Court to a private plaything useful for fulfilling whims on behalf of friends.” YearsImportantChoicesFoundSoundPresidentInterestPrinciplesRolesTalentDutyStandardsCourtSupremeFulfillingSupreme CourtBehalfSeriousnessReducingJudicialWhimDeferencePertinentAbdication Author:George Will
“One could even argue that we have a duty to create and pass on stories about choice because once a person knows such stories, they can't be taken away from him. He may lose his possessions, his home, his loved ones, but if he holds on to a story about choice, he retains the ability to practice choice.” IfsKnowsMayPersonsStoriesHomeChoicesLosesAbilityPracticeTakenDutyPossessionArguingLoved Ones Author:Sheena Iyengar
“If a poet has any obligation toward society, it is to write well. Being in the minority, he has no other choice. Failing this duty, he sinks into oblivion. Society, on the other hand, has no obligation toward the poet.” IfsWritingWellsHandsChoicesFailingPoetDutyObligationWell BeingMinoritiesOblivion Author:Joseph Brodsky
“Nobody is so constituted as to be able to live everywhere and anywhere; and he who has great duties to perform, which lay claim toall his strength, has, in this respect, a very limited choice. The influence of climate upon the bodily functionsextends so far, that a blunder in the choice of locality and climate is able not only to alienate a man from his actual duty, but also to withhold it from him altogether, so that he never even comes face to face with it.” MenAbleFacesChoicesInfluenceDutyClaimsLaysClimateFace To FaceBlundersLocality Author:Friedrich Nietzsche
“The choice before us is plain: Christ or chaos, conviction or compromise, discipline or disintegration. I am rather tired of hearing about our rights and privileges as Americans. The time is come - it is now - when we ought to hear about the duties and responsibilities of our citizenship. America's future depends upon her accepting and demonstrating God's government.” GodGovernmentAmericaChoicesJesusChristResponsibilityAcceptingRightsAcceptanceDutyDependsOughtDisciplineSpeechTiredChaosPrivilegeConvictionHearingCompromiseCitizenshipDemonstratingDisintegrationPlainnessRights And Privileges Author:Peter Marshall