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“There's a duty and an obligation to community that we must teach our children to honor no matter how far they go. Life is like baseball: You only score when you leave home and return home.”

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Author:Rhymefest

“We have a duty to warn on an individual basis if we are treating someone who may be dangerous to herself or to others - a duty to warn people who are in danger from that person. We feel it's our duty to warn the country about the danger of this president. If we think we have learned something about Donald Trump and his psychology that is dangerous to the country, yes, we have an obligation to say so.”

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Author:Robert Jay Lifton

“If a Pope clearly realizes that he is no longer physically, psychologically, and spiritually capable of handling the duties of his office, then he has a right and, under some circumstances, also an obligation to resign.”

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Author:Pope Benedict XVI

“Every right implies a responsibility; Every opportunity, an obligation, Every possession, a duty.”

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Book:John D. Rockefeller on Making Money: Advice and Words of Wisdom on Building and Sharing Wealth

Source: John D. Rockefeller on Making Money: Advice and Words of Wisdom on Building and Sharing Wealth

“A sense of duty is useful in work but offensive in personal relations. People wish to be liked, not to be endured with patient resignation.”

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Author:Bertrand Russell

“Government's first duty and highest obligation is public safety.”

Firsts Government Duty Highest Safety Obligation Public Safety

Author:Arnold Schwarzenegger

“Now a slave is not 'held' by any legal contract, obligation, duty, or authority, which the laws will enforce. He is 'held' only by brute force. One person beats another until the latter will obey him, work for him, if he require it, or do nothing if he require it.”

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Book:A Defence for Fugitive Slaves

Source: A Defence for Fugitive Slaves

“Why had such a promising world been crucified on the tree of obligation, thorned by duties, hanged by hypocrisy, smothered by customs?”

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Author:Richard Bach

“The moral duty of the free writer is to begin his work at home: to be a critic of his own community, his own country, his own government, his own culture. The more freedom the writer possesses, the greater the moral obligation to play the role of critic.”

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Book:The Serpents of Paradise: A Reader

Source: The Serpents of Paradise: A Reader

“You are the only thing I have that is neither duty nor obligation, the only thing I chose for myself. The only thing I want.”

Want Duty Obligation

Author:Holly Black

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

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Author:Albert Einstein

“The important consideration is not how long we can live but how well we can learn the lesson of life, and discharge our duties and obligations to God and to one another.”

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Author:Joseph Smith, Jr.

“And when you sense a faint potentiality for happiness after such dark times you must grab onto the ankles of that happiness and not let go until it drags you face-first out of the dirt - this is not selfishness, but obligation. You were given life; it is your duty to find something beautiful within life no matter how slight.”

Source: The Complete Elizabeth Gilbert: Eat, Pray, Love; Committed; The Last American Man; Stern Men & Pilgrims

“...It is a proud privilege to be a soldier – a good soldier … [with] discipline, self-respect, pride in his unit and his country, a high sense of duty and obligation to comrades and to his superiors, and a self confidence born of demonstrated ability.”

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Author:George S. Patton

“Beside all this I think there was something personal, being Muslim myself who lived in the West I felt that it was my obligation, my duty, to tell the truth about Islam. It is a religion that has a 700-million following, yet it's so little known about it, which surprised me.”

Thinking Littles Felt Known Millions Duty West Islam Following Obligation Telling The Truth

Author:Moustapha Akkad

“Along with voting, jury duty, and paying taxes, goofing off is one of the central obligations of American citizenship.”

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Book:The Partly Cloudy Patriot

Source: The Partly Cloudy Patriot

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