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“Aging people should know that their lives are not mounting and unfolding but that an inexorable inner process forces the contraction of life. For a young person it is almost a sin and certainly a danger to be too much occupied with himself; but for the aging person it is a duty and a necessity to give serious attention to himself.”

People Knows Giving Should Persons Young Force Process Sin Attention Too Much Danger Serious Duty Aging Unfolding Memories Dreams Reflections Inexorable Contractions

Author:Carl Jung

“Idonot likebeingmoved:for thewill isexcited;andaction Is a most dangerous thing: I tremble for something factitious, Some malpractice of heart and illegitimate process; We are so proneto thesethings with our terrible notions of duty.”

Heart Process Dangerous Duty Terrible Notion Dangerous Things Malpractice

Author:Arthur Hugh Clough

“I do not believe that the deeper problems of living can ever be answered by the process of thought. I believe that life itself teaches us either patience with regard to them, or reveals to us possible solutions when our hearts are pressed close against duties and sorrows and experiences of all kinds.”

Believe Heart Kind Problem I Believe Process Teach Duty Sorrow Solutions Regard Deeper All Kinds

Book:My Study Fire: First Series

Source: My Study Fire: First Series

“This is a business meal. The calories do not count. I am mentally labeling these as 'business calories' so my body will know they were eaten in the line of duty and will process them differently.”

Knows Body Process Lines Duty Eating Weight Meals Calories Labeling

Author:Cathy Guisewite

“Between the ages of twenty and forty we are engaged in the process of discovering who we are, which involves learning the differences between accidental limitations which it is our duty to outgrow and the necessary limitations of our nature beyond which we cannot trespass with impunity.”

Age Process Differences Duty Twenties Limitation Engaged Who We Are Forty Discovering Impunity

Author:W. H. Auden

“At last a vision has been vouchsafed to us of our life as a whole. We see the bad with the good.... With this vision we approach new affairs. Our duty is to cleanse, to reconsider, to restore, to correct the evil without impairing the good, to purify and humanize every process of our common life, without weakening or sentimentalizing it.”

Has Beens Whole Lasts Evil Process Common Vision Our Lives Duty Approach Affair Weakening Common Life

Author:Woodrow Wilson

“No person shall be restrained of his liberty but by regular process from a court of justice, authorized by a general law. . . . On complaint of an unlawful imprisonment to any judge whatsoever, he shall have the prisoner immediately brought before him and shall discharge him if his imprisonment be unlawful. The officer in whose custody the prisoner is shall obey the order of the judge, and both judge and officer shall be responsible civilly and criminally for a failure of duty herein.”

Ifs Persons Law Order Process Justice Liberty Judging Duty Responsible Court Prisoner Officers Complaints Being Responsible Imprisonment Discharge Custody Unlawful

Author:Thomas Jefferson

“There are men charged with the duty of examining the construction of the plants, animals, and soils which are the instruments of the great orchestra. These men are called professors. Each selects one instrument and spends his life taking it apart and describing its strings and sounding boards. This process of dismemberment is called research. The place for dismemberment is called a university.”

Men Process Animal Duty Research Instruments Plant University Boards Soil Strings Professors Construction Orchestra Describing Examining

Book:Aldo Leopold: A Sand County Almanac & Other Writings on Conservation and Ecology: (Library of America #238)

Source: Aldo Leopold: A Sand County Almanac & Other Writings on Conservation and Ecology: (Library of America #238)

“We have a duty to our country to participate in the political process. See, if you believe in freedom, you have a duty to exercise your right to vote to begin with. I'm [here] to encourage people to do their duty, to go to the polls. I want all people, no matter what their political party is or whether they even like a political party, to exercise their obligation to vote.”

People Ifs Want Believe Country Matter Political Process Party Duty Exercise Vote No Matter What Obligation Our Country Political Parties Polls If You Believe Right To Vote

Author:George W. Bush

“I did feel a sense of duty. I felt that it could be a great asset to the future of Jordan, and those continuing the process of building the country, to concentrate on that humanitarian, peace-building legacy.”

Feels Country Felt Process Building Duty Humanitarian Legacy Assets Continuing Jordan Peace Building

Author:Queen Noor of Jordan

“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

“Cooking can be rewarding when it is a choice and no longer the onerous duty of the housewife, and when a dishwasher can lighten the load at the other end of the process.”

Ends Choices Process Duty Cooking Load Housewife Dishwashers

Author:Julian Baggini