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“Beyond all the fires of love through which one passes there is the star of Duty, and happy the individual who can live in its serenity.”

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Book:The Morals of Marcus Ordeyne: A Novel

Source: The Morals of Marcus Ordeyne: A Novel

“It is the inescapable duty of management to fire incompetent people.”

People Fire Duty Management Incompetent

Author:David Ogilvy

“It's my duty to fight those who have chosen to belong to the party of death, those who say they receive their orders from God somewhere and believe they have a duty to set the world on fire to achieve their own salvation.”

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Author:Wole Soyinka

“When sinners are careless and stupid, and sinking into hell unconcerned, it is time the church should bestir themselves. It is as much the duty of the church to awake, as it is for the firemen to awake when a fire breaks out in the night in a great city.”

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Book:Lectures on Revivals of Religion

Source: Lectures on Revivals of Religion

“It is our duty still to endeavor to avoid war; but if it shall actually take place, no matter by whom brought on, we must defend ourselves. If our house be on fire, without inquiring whether it was fired from within or without, we must try to extinguish it.”

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Book:Thomas Jefferson: Thoughts on War and Revolution : Annotated Correspondence

Source: Thomas Jefferson: Thoughts on War and Revolution : Annotated Correspondence

“Even if the civil magistrate is so gifted as to prophesy in the church, yet in the sphere of his civil duties he is forbidden to call down fire from heaven, that is, to procure or inflict any corporal punishment upon offenders in religious doctrine or practice, remembering Christ's admonition that He came not to destroy men's lives, but to save them.”

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Author:Roger Williams