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“Knowledge of our duties is the most essential part of the philosophy of life. If you escape duty you avoid action. The world demands results.”

Ifs World Life Philosophy Action Results Knowledge Life Philosophy Duty Demand Essentials

Author:George Washington Goethals

“What I prized most was freedom, freedom to do my work, to give myself spontaneously and not out of duty or by command. I could not submit to such demands; rather would I choose the path of a homeless wanderer; yes, even go without love.”

Giving Path Duty Demand Command Submit Homeless Without Love Wanderers

Book:Living My Life (Two Volumes in One)

Source: Living My Life (Two Volumes in One)

“Is it not our duty to find the symphonic formula which fits our time, one which progress, daring and modern victory demand? The century of airplanes has a right to its own music.”

Progress Modern Century Duty Victory Fit Demand Our Time Formulas Daring Airplane

Author:Claude Debussy

“I have on my office wall a wise and useful reminder by Anne Morrow Lindbergh concerning one of the realities of life. She wrote, "My life cannot implement in action the demands of all the people to whom my heart responds." That's good counsel for us all, not as an excuse to forgo duty, but as a sage point about pace and the need for quality in relationships.”

People Needs Heart Reality Action Quality Wise Duty Wall My Heart Demand Office Excuse Reality Of Life Pace Sage Reminders Morrow

Author:Neal A. Maxwell

“To be born with a unique instinct, will demand 'unique duties'. If you didn't think about being an artist before 7 years of age you probably don't have it and you will be able to paint what you want to paint.”

Ifs Thinking Want Years Age Able Artist Born Duty Demand Unique Instinct Paint What You Want Being An Artist

Author:David Luiz

“Duty is the demand of the hour.”

Hours Duty Demand

Book:The Wisdom of Goethe

Source: The Wisdom of Goethe

“But what is your duty? What the day demands. [Ger., Was aber ist deine Pflicht? Die Forderung des Tages.]”

Dies Duty Demand

Author:Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“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, but for whom to live is to be every moment what they already are, without imposing on themselves any effort towards perfection, mere buoys that float on the waves.”

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Author:Jose Ortega y Gasset

“The duty I owe to the slave, to truth, and to God, demands that I should use my pen and tongue so long as life and health are vouchsafed to me to employ them, or until the last chain shall fall from the limbs of the last slave in America and the world.”

World Should Long Use Lasts America Fall Duty Demand Slave Tongue Chains Pens Limbs

Author:William Wells Brown

“The ways of living have been rendered vastly easier by a multitude of inventions, by the increasing wealth of the country, by better and more intelligent service; and yet life is by no means easier, but indeed hard. The demands on time, whether real or imagined, have increased in a greater ratio than the supply of facilities for answering them, and as the earth provokingly continues to revolve on its axis just as rapidly as of old, the days are never long enough for all the duties which they bring.”

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Author:Anna Brackett

“It is not because we have been free, but because we have a right to be free, that we ought to demand freedom. Justice and liberty have neither birth nor race, youth nor age.”

Has Beens Age Individual Justice Freedom Race Responsibility Liberty Rights Youth Duty Ought Birth Honor Demand Individual Rights

Book:History of the Revolution in England in 1688: Comprising a View of the Reign of James II. from His Accession, to the Enterprise of the Prince of Orange

Source: History of the Revolution in England in 1688: Comprising a View of the Reign of James II. from His Accession, to the Enterprise of the Prince of Orange

“There is generally no such thing as duty to the people who do it. They simply take life as it comes, meeting, not, shirking its demands, whether pleasant or unpleasant; and that is pretty much all there is of it.”

People Duty Demand Meetings Pleasant

Book:Woman's Worth and Worthlessness: The Complement to

Source: Woman's Worth and Worthlessness: The Complement to

“When someone who wields political power does something you dislike or disagree with, it's incumbent upon you to object, criticize, and demand a different course. Those who refuse to do so are abdicating the most basic duty of citizenship and rendering themselves impotent.”

Doe Different Political Courses Objects Duty Demand Refuse Criticize Disagree Dislike Citizenship Political Power Rendering Incumbents

Author:Glenn Greenwald

“My husband and I each had careers and two babies at home. They just demand everything from you. All the domestic duties fell to me and this resentment builds, as I think happens to a lot of young parents who have competing careers.”

Thinking Two Home Happens Young Parent Careers Duty Baby Husband Demand My Husband Resentment Competing Young Parents

Author:Paula Broadwell

“I currently perform the most important political duties an American has the responsibility to perform - I experiment in self-government on a daily basis, fulfilling my "we the people" duties to monitor and guide our elected employees to adhere to their oath to the U.S. Constitution and demand accountability from them.”

People Important Self Government Political Responsibility Duty Demand Bases Constitution Guides Experiments Employee Accountability Fulfilling Oath Self-government

Author:Ted Nugent