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“I have on my office wall a wise and useful reminder by Anne Morrow Lindbergh concerning one of the realities of life. She wrote, "My life cannot implement in action the demands of all the people to whom my heart responds." That's good counsel for us all, not as an excuse to forgo duty, but as a sage point about pace and the need for quality in relationships.”

People Needs Heart Reality Action Quality Wise Duty Wall My Heart Demand Office Excuse Reality Of Life Pace Sage Reminders Morrow

Author:Neal A. Maxwell

“The cold, cruel reality is that with one current justice now approaching ninety, and four others over seventy, the day will inevitably arrive when a sitting justice lies in an intensive care unit, both unable to resign and unable to resume his or her duties.”

Reality Care Lying Justice Four Duty Cold Sitting Currents Units Seventies Ninety Resumes Intensive Care Unit

Author:Jacob M. Appel

“There's really no such thing as an 'ex-cop' or a cop who's 'off-duty' or 'retired.' Once trained, once indoctrinated, a cop is always alert, assessing reality in terms of its potential for illegal acts.”

Reality Term Duty Illegal Cop Law Enforcement Exes Retired Assessing

Book:H

Source: H

“Life is not theory. It is reality, with inherent duties to everything and everyone.”

Reality Life Is Duty Theory Inherent

Author:Tivadar Kosztka Csontvary

“Divorce exposes absolutely ever buried assumption about marriage ... how a husband's sense of entitlement and a wife's sense of duty turned the principle of 'our money, our kids' into the reality of 'his money, her kids.”

Reality Kids Principles Wife Duty Husband Divorce Assumption Buried Entitlement Sense Of Entitlement

Book:American Mom: Motherhood, Politics, and Humble Pie

Source: American Mom: Motherhood, Politics, and Humble Pie

“Our life is what we make it. An insignificant game or a noble trial; a dream or a reality; a play of the senses worn out in selfish use, and flying "swifter than a weaver's shuttle," or an ascension of the soul, by daily duties and unfaltering faith, to more spiritual relations and to loftier toils.”

Life Soul Play Use Dream Reality Spiritual Life Is Games Our Lives Duty Relation Noble Selfish Senses Flying Trials Worn Toil Insignificant Worn Out Ascension Weavers

Author:Edwin Hubbel Chapin

“Justice, however, never was in reality administered gratis in any country. Lawyers and attornies, at least, must always be paid by the parties; and, if they were not, they would perform their duty still worse than they actually perform it.”

Ifs Stills Country Reality Justice Party Duty Paid Lawyer

Book:An inquiry into the nature and causes of the wealth of nations

Source: An inquiry into the nature and causes of the wealth of nations

“An artist has every right - one may even say a duty - to exhibit his productions as prominently as he can.”

May Reality Artist Duty Productions Exhibits

Author:Jacques Barzun