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“A speculative despair is unpardonable where it our duty to act.”

Book:Selected Letters of Edmund Burke

Source: Selected Letters of Edmund Burke

“Life is a tragedy filled with suffering and despair and yet some people do manage to avoid jury duty.”

People Life Is Suffering Human Nature Duty Despair Tragedy Filled Manage Jury Jury Duty

Author:Woody Allen

“Only when it is a duty to love, only then is love eternally and happily secured against despair.”

Duty Despair Secured

Author:Soren Kierkegaard

“The Tax Court is independent, and its neutrality is not clouded by prosecuting duties. Its procedures assure fair hearings. Its deliberations are evidenced by careful opinions. All guides to judgment available to judges are habitually consulted and respected. It has established a tradition of freedom from bias and pressures. It deals with a subject that is highly specialized and so complex as to be the despair of judges. It is relatively better staffed for its task than is the judiciary.”

“Because I remember, I despair. Because I remember, I have the duty to reject despair.”

Life Remember Duty Despair Rejects Utter Despair

Author:Elie Wiesel

“Literature was not promulgated by a pale and emasculated critical priesthood singing their litanies in empty churches - nor is it a game for the cloistered elect, the tinhorn mendicants of low calorie despair. Literature is as old as speech. It grew out of human need for it, and it has not changed except to become more needed. The skalds, the bards, the writers are not separate and exclusive. From the beginning, their functions, their duties, their responsibilities have been decreed by our species. --speech at the Nobel Banquet at the City Hall in Stockholm, December 10, 1962”

Source: A Life in Letters