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“In a free country it is the duty of writers to pay no attention to duty.”

Country Pay Attention Duty Free Country

Book:In the Words of E.B. White: Quotations from America's Most Companionable of Writers

Source: In the Words of E.B. White: Quotations from America's Most Companionable of Writers

“I'm a shy guy... I don't enjoy being bothered but I never say no to a fan. I say yes to everybody... even though sometimes you have some days where you don't feel like it, but it's your duty as athlete to do it. Because the fans that pay it's going to make you live, so you have to do it. So I force myself to do it all the time.”

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Author:Georges St-Pierre

“If you lay duties upon people and give them no rights, you must pay them well.”

People Ifs Giving Wells Pay Rights Duty Lays

Book:Maxims and Reflections

Source: Maxims and Reflections

“What acquaintance have the people at large with the arena of political rectitude, with the connections of kingdoms, the resources of national strength, the abilities of ministers, or even with their own dispositions?...I pay no regard whatever to the voice of the people: it is their duty to do what is proper, without considering what may be agreeable.”

People May Political Voice Ability Pay Duty Resources Connections Regard Kingdoms Ministers Considering Disposition Arena Acquaintance Rectitude

Author:Charles James Fox

“We owe to our Mother-Country the Duty of Subjects but will not pay her the Submission of Slaves.”

Country Mother Pay Subjects Duty Slave Submission Mother Country

Author:George Mason

“I have a job to pay attention. It is my number one duty as a human being - to earn an experiment in self-government every day by spotlighting cockroaches who violate their oath to the US constitution and wipe their ass with the US Constitution.”

Humans Self Government Jobs Human Beings Numbers Pay Attention Duty Constitution Experiments Ass Pay Attention Wipe Oath Self-government Cockroaches Us Constitution

Author:Ted Nugent

“The pleasure a man of honor enjoys in the consciousness of having performed his duty is a reward he pays himself for all his pains.”

Men Pain Enjoy Pleasure Pay Consciousness Duty Honor Rewards

Author:Jean de la Bruyere

“Natural Giving: Anything we do in life which is not out of that energy, we pay for and everybody else pays for. Anything we do to avoid punishment, everybody pays for. Everything we do for a reward, everybody pays for. Everything we do to make people like us, everybody pays for. Everything we do out of guilt, shame, duty, or obligation, everybody pays for.”

People Giving Energy Natural Pay Duty Communication Shame Guilt Rewards Punishment Obligation Nonviolent Communication

Author:Marshall B. Rosenberg

“Absolute Evil is not the kingdom of hell. The inhabitants of hell are ourselves, i.e., those who pay our painful, embarrassing, humanistic duties to society and who are compromised by our intellectually dubious commitment to virtue, which can be defined by the perpetual smear-word of French polemic: the bourgeois. (Bourgeois equals humanist.) This word has long been anathema in France where categories are part of the ruling notion of logique. The word cannot be readily matched in England or America.”

“I regard the state of which I am a citizen as a public utility, like the organization that supplies me with water, gas, and electricity. I feel that it is my civic duty to pay my taxes as well as my other bills, and that it is my moral duty to make an honest declaration of my income to the income tax authorities. But I do not feel that I and my fellow citizens have a religious duty to sacrifice our lives in war on behalf of our own state, and, a fortiori, I do not feel that we have an obligation or a right to kill and maim citizens of other states or to devastate their land.”

“People with passion are incredibly inventive and tenacious individuals. They go way beyond the call of duty and frequently either work on their passion without pay or give more of themselves than their pay warrants. And I do not equate passion with workaholism, in which people say they love their work so much they do it all the time. Workaholics are working to fill a vacuum, or to escape, not to connect with their souls.”

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Author:Janet Hagberg

“Pay no attention whatsoever to newspaper nonsense or criticism. Be sincere and do your duty. Everything will come all right. Truth must triumph.”

Motivational Pay Attention Duty Criticism Newspapers Triumph Nonsense Sincere

Book:The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda

Source: The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda

“We will not submit to have our own money taken out of our pockets without our consent; because if any man or any set of men take from us without our consent or that of our representatives one shilling in the pound we have not security for the remaining nineteen. We owe to our mother country the duty of subjects but will not pay her the submission of slaves.”

Ifs Men Country Mother Pay Taken Subjects Security Duty Slave Pockets Pounds Submit Representatives Consent Submission Nineteen Mother Country

Author:George Mason

“In a free country it is the duty of writers to pay no attention to duty. Only under a dictatorship is literature expected to exhibit an harmonious design or an inspirational tone.”

Country Literature Pay Attention Design Duty Expected Tone Dictatorship Harmonious Exhibits Free Country

Book:In the Words of E.B. White: Quotations from America's Most Companionable of Writers

Source: In the Words of E.B. White: Quotations from America's Most Companionable of Writers

“It seemed to me that if the lawyers failed to do their duty, they ought to pay people for waiting upon them, instead of making them pay for it.”

People Ifs Waiting Pay Duty Ought Lawyer

Book:Lorna Doone

Source: Lorna Doone