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“It occurred to me that I had the duty to give society something in exchange for the free education I was getting.”

Giving Duty Free Education

Author:Mario Bunge

“If we pursue this way, if we are decent, industrious, and honest, if we so loyally and truly fulfill our duty, then it is my conviction that in the future as in the past the Lord God will always help us. In the long run He never leaves decent folk in the lurch. Often He may test them, He may send trials upon them, but in the long run He always lets His sun shine upon them once more and at the end He gives them His blessing.”

Source: The Speeches of Adolf Hitler, April 1922-August 1939: An English Translation of Representative Passages Arranged Under Subjects and Edited by Norman H. Baynes

“May therefore God give us the strength to continue to do our duty and with this prayer we bow in homage before our dead heroes, before those whom they have left behind in bereavement, and before all the other victims of this war.”

Giving May War Left Prayer Behinds Atheism Duty Hero Victim Bows Left Behind Bereavement Homage

Author:Adolf Hitler

“Our time is fixed, and all our days are number'd; How long, how short, we know not:—this we know, Duty requires we calmly wait the summons, Nor dare to stir till Heaven shall give permission.”

Knows Giving Long Heaven Waiting Numbers Duty Dare Fixed Our Time Permission

Book:The Poems of Falconer, Day, Blair, Glynn, and Porteus

Source: The Poems of Falconer, Day, Blair, Glynn, and Porteus

“Religion is faith in an infinite Creator, who delights in and enjoins that rectitude which conscience commands us to seek. This conviction gives a Divine sanction to duty.”

Giving Divine Duty Conscience Infinite Delight Conviction Creator Command Sanctions Rectitude

Book:The Works of William E. Channing

Source: The Works of William E. Channing

“I give extraordinary attention to military active duty, reserve and National Guard, and their families.”

Giving Attention Military Duty Extraordinary Active Reserves National Guard

Author:Sanford Bishop

“WHEREAS it is the duty of all Nations to acknowledge the providence of Almighty God, to obey His will, to be grateful for His benefits, and humbly to implore His protection and favour; and Whereas both Houses of Congress have, by their joint Committee, requested me "to recommend to the people of the United States a DAY OF PUBLICK THANKSGIVING and PRAYER, to be observed by acknowledging with grateful hearts the many signal favors of Almighty God, especially by affording them an opportunity peaceably to establish a form of government for their safety and happiness."”

“If two people have a couple of kids, somebody does have to take care of the kids. Somebody does have to cook dinner; somebody does have to do garbage duty. We need to take some time and give some thought, without being angry, to just thinking about what these new structures are going to look like.”

People Ifs Thinking Needs Giving Looks Doe Two Care Kids Duty Couple Angry Structure Dinner Take Care Cooks Garbage

Author:Debora Spar

“What do you do when other countries' intelligence agencies give you information and you aren't entirely certain about its source? Simply ignore it? That's impossible. We have a duty to guarantee the safety of our citizens.”

Giving Country Certain Impossible Information Duty Source Citizens Safety Agency Guarantees Other Countries Intelligence Agencies

Author:Angela Merkel

“Who can describe the injustice and the cruelties that in the course of centuries the peoples of color of the world have suffered at the hands of Europeans?... We and our civilization are burdened, really, with a great debt. We are not free to confer benefits on these men, or not, as we please; it is our duty. Anything we give them is not benevolence but atonement.”

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Author:Albert Schweitzer

“[T]he kingdom of heaven is of the childlike, of those who are easy to please, who love and who give pleasure. Mighty men of their hands, the smiters and the builders and the judges, have lived long and done sternly and yet preserved this lovely character; and among our carpet interests and twopenny concerns, the shame were indelible if we should lose it. Gentleness and cheerfulness, these come before all morality; they are the perfect duties.”

“As Christians, our duty is to pray for them and ask the Lord to give them the grace of penance, so that they don't die with a corrupt heart, because otherwise the dogs of hell will take their blood.”

Giving Heart Christian Dies Asks Lord Hell Grace Blood Dog Duty Praying Penance

Author:Pope Francis

“I love telling truthful honest stories. I suppose I'd love the opportunity to be a superhero within a realistic dramatic piece. It would have opportunity for humor too of course. And ideally I would be the writer/director? (Though I suppose if I was, it is POSSIBLE I would give myself a meaty but smaller part so I could focus on the latter of my duties... Maybe).”

Ifs Giving Stories Would Be Courses Opportunity Focus Pieces Honest Duty Directors Dramatic Latter Telling The Truth Realistic Truthful Superhero

Author:E.J. Bonilla

“It is our daily duty to consider that in all circumstances of life, pleasurable, painful, or otherwise, the conduct of others, especially of those in the same house; and that, as life is made up, for the most part, not of great occasions, but of small everyday moments, it is the giving to those moments their greatest amount of peace, pleasantness, and security, that contributes most to the sum of human good. Be peaceable. Be cheerful. Be true.”

Giving Humans Made Moments Life Is House Security Duty Amount Circumstances Everyday Painful Being True Occasions Cheerful Everyday Moments

Author:Leigh Hunt

“The overwhelming joy of conversion or a new calling is often followed by feelings of being overwhelmed with duties and doctrines. The first joyous feelings are real and give one much-needed initial momentum. But the genuine exhilaration is soon followed by the need to perspire and to pedal.”

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Author:Neal A. Maxwell

“Those of us who have been very fortunate have a duty to give back. Whether one gives a lot as one goes along as I do or a little and then a lot [when one dies] as Warrendoes is a matter of personal preference. I would hate to have people ask me for money all day long.”

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Author:Charlie Munger

“It is our duty to give support to the brother leader ... especially in regards to the sanctions which are not hitting just him, they are hitting the ordinary masses of the people ... our African brothers and sisters.”

People Giving Leader Support Brother Duty Mass Ordinary Regard Hitting Brothers And Sisters Sanctions

Author:Nelson Mandela

“Now the man on duty used to be changed from time to time. Once one of these men, without giving me the slightest warning, without even asking me to leave the footpath, pushed and kicked me into the street. I was dismayed. Before I could question him as to his behaviour, Mr Coates, who happened to be passing the spot on horseback, hailed me and said: 'Gandhi, I have seen everything. I shall gladly be your witness in court if you proceed against the man. I am very sorry you have been so rudely assaulted.'”

Source: All Men are Brothers: Autobiographical Reflections

“It's everybody's duty to give the world a reason to dance.”

World Giving Reason Duty

Author:Brad Montague

“Only aim to do your duty, and mankind will give you credit where you fail.”

Giving Government Failing Mankind Duty Failure Aim Credit

Book:Paine and Jefferson on Liberty

Source: Paine and Jefferson on Liberty

“There's going to be a lot of eating. My listeners have tweeted me and said "You've just got to keep eating, keep your energy up and have someone on duty to give you a massage if you need it." It will be a case of getting it done and making sure I don't get too cold, because that's crucial for the muscles. So that's all going to be taken care of. But really there's not much you can do - if you start cramping up you've just got to get on with it.”

Ifs Needs Giving Said Done Care Energy Can Do Cases Taken Duty Cold Eating Muscles Crucial Listeners Massage

Author:Greg James

“In our family, at this point,[Sunday School] its not a choice for my kids. It's a duty for us as parents to give them faith as a foundation and hope that when they bemuse older teens and young adults they will choose the same thing for themselves.”

Giving Kids School Young Choices Parent Duty Adults Foundation Young Adult Our Family Sunday Teens Sunday School

Author:Gretchen Carlson

“I feel it is a blessing, a duty, an honor, that we give the love that we have, and we share the lives that we have with our fullest heart.”

Giving Feels Heart Share Duty Honor Blessing

Author:Bellamy Young

“If all individuals were conditioned to machine efficiency in the performance of their duties there would have to be at least one person outside the machine to give the necessary orders; if the machine absorbed or eliminated all those outside the machine, the machine will slow down and stop forever.”

Ifs Giving Persons Order Individual Forever Duty Machines Performances Down And Efficiency Slow Down

Author:William S. Burroughs

“Tony Bennett is still giving concerts, still singing. It's keeping him alive. He's in his late 80s now and he keeps going and going. I maintain, God bless him, it's this devotion to duty and working and being in front his audience.”

Giving Stills Audience Alive Fronts Duty Late Singing Devotion Keep Going Bless Concerts 80s God Bless Devotion To Duty

Author:Frank Sinatra, Jr.

“Now the good of political life is a great political good. It is not a secular good specified by a comprehensive doctrine like those of Kant or Mill. You could characterize this political good as the good of free and equal citizens recognizing the duty of civility to one another: the duty to give citizens public reasons for one's political actions.”

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Author:John Rawls

“I have always been generous because I know that I have done well in life and I believe it is part of my duty to give back. So I am always been philanthropic.”

Knows Giving Believe Wells Done I Believe Duty Generous Giving Back Philanthropic

Author:Malcolm Turnbull

“I do not believe that it is necessarily the duty of the writer to give a voice to his community. If a writer is true to his vocation, to his or her vocation, the very process of creativity enlarges these human horizons. It provides insights, even when you're not writing, when your writing's not dealing with a concrete political situation.”

Ifs Giving Writing Believe Humans Political Process Voice Community Situation Creativity Duty Insight Horizon Concrete Vocation

Author:Wole Soyinka

“I think if you've been given something in life you have a moral duty to give things back.”

Ifs Thinking Giving Given Moral Duty Moral Duty

Author:Marco Pierre White

“The president has a duty and a right to oversee the FBI, and you know, he properly delegate the law enforcement to the FBI and try to insulate it from politics. But that's not to curb the president's authority over the FBI. So if he wants to meet with the FBI and give his opinion or even talk about his hopes, if indeed, he said that, he has every right to do so.”

Giving Trying President Opinion Duty Authority Law Enforcement Fbi Curb

Author:Laura Ingraham

“Give voluntarily. When we catch a vision of God's grace, we will give beyond our duty.”

Giving Vision Grace Duty

Author:Randy Alcorn

“I was doing just my duty, but that was impacting a lot of people and making them proud. So, I feel so grateful to Allah for giving me that opportunity while I had that chance to make that impact. And thankfully it impacted all the people - more than I realized.”

People Giving Opportunity Chance Duty Proud Grateful I Realized So Grateful

Author:Hakeem Olajuwon

“I felt like it was a sense of duty for me to give these women a voice.”

Author:Gretchen Carlson

“Duty is the great business of a sea officer; all private considerations must give way to it, however painful it may be.”

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Author:Horatio Nelson

“The police are the public and the public are the police; the police being only members of the public who are paid to give full time attention to duties which are incumbent on every citizen in the interests of community welfare and existence.”

Giving Interest Community Existence Attention Society Duty Citizens Members Paid Police Welfare Law Enforcement Policemen Incumbents

Author:Robert Peel

“The duty of helping one's self in the highest sense involves the helping of one's neighbors.”

Giving Self Helping Kindness Duty Highest Neighbor Helping Others Public Service

Book:Self-help: With Illustrations of Characters, Conduct, and Perseverance

Source: Self-help: With Illustrations of Characters, Conduct, and Perseverance

“It is the duty of every citizen according to his best capacities to give validity to his convictions in political affairs.”

Giving Character Political Politics Church Courage Virtue Honesty Duty Citizens Politician Integrity Capacity Affair Conviction Obligation Validity Best Political

Author:Albert Einstein

“And what is true education? It is awakening a love for truth; giving a just sense of duty; opening the eyes of the soul to the great purpose and end of life. It is not so much giving words, as thoughts; or mere maxims, as living principles. It is not teaching to be honest, because 'honesty is the best policy'; but because it is right. It is teaching the individual to love the good, for the sake of the good; to be virtuous in action because one is so in heart; to love and serve God supremely, not from fear, but from delight in his perfect character.”

“There is a way of losing that is finding. When soul overmasters sense. When the noble and divine self overcomes the lower self. When duty and honor and love immortal things bid the mortal perish. It is only when a man supremely gives that he supremely finds”

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Author:Joshua Chamberlain

“We speak much of the duty of making others happy. No day should pass, we say, on which we do not put a little cheer into some discouraged heart, make the path a little smoother for someone’s tired feet, or help some fainting robin unto its nest again. This is right. We cannot put too great emphasis upon the duty of giving happiness and cheer to others. But it is no less a duty that we should be happy and cheerful ourselves.”

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Author:J.R. Miller

“Don't bother to give God instructions; just report for duty.”

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Author:Corrie Ten Boom