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“We still have people in the active duty, and if people are feeling ill, if they're experiencing various symptoms and they're still in the active duty, they're less likely to come forward because that could result in their medical discharge.”

People Ifs Stills Feelings Results Duty Ill Various Active Medical Symptoms Discharge

Author:Bernie Sanders

“Ill-luck is, in nine cases out of ten, the result of taking pleasure first and duty second, instead of duty first and pleasure second.”

Firsts Pleasure Results Cases Duty Ten Luck Ill Nine

Author:Theodore T. Munger

“Knowledge of our duties is the most essential part of the philosophy of life. If you escape duty you avoid action. The world demands results.”

Ifs World Life Philosophy Action Results Knowledge Life Philosophy Duty Demand Essentials

Author:George Washington Goethals

“True courage is the result of reasoning. A brave mind is always impregnable. Resolution lies more in the head than in the veins, and a just sense of honor and of infamy, of duty and of religion, will carry us farther than all the force of mechanism.”

Mind Lying Force Results Courage Duty Honor Brave Reasoning Resolution Mechanism Veins Infamy True Courage

Author:Jeremy Collier

“perhaps all this modern ferment of what's known as 'social conscience' or 'civic responsibility' isn't a result of the sense of duty, but of the old, old craving for beauty.”

Social Results Responsibility Known Beauty Modern Duty Conscience Craving Civics Civic Responsibility

Book:The Bent Twig

Source: The Bent Twig

“Duty and to-day are ours; results and futurity belong to God.”

Author:Horace Greeley

“I don't think our fiduciary duty is to put shareholders first. I say the opposite. What we firmly believe is that if we focus our company on improving the lives of the world's citizens and come up with genuine sustainable solutions, we are more in synch with consumers and society and ultimately this will result in good shareholder returns.”

Ifs Thinking World Firsts Believe Results Company Focus Duty Return Citizens Solutions Opposites Come Up Genuine Consumers Improving Shareholders Fiduciary

Author:Paul Polman

“Because the bill vests in the said incorporated church an authority to provide for the support of the poor and the education of poor children of the same, an authority which, being altogether superfluous if the provision is to be the result of pious charity, would be a precedent for giving to religious societies as such a legal agency in carrying into effect a public and civil duty.”

Source: Selected Writings of James Madison

“Faith is the result of the act of the will, following upon a conviction that to believe is a duty.”

Believe Results Duty Following Conviction

Author:John Henry Newman

“He who is ever brooding over result often loses nerve in the performance of his duty.”

Loses Results Duty Performances Nerves Brooding

Book:Gandhi: Selected Writings

Source: Gandhi: Selected Writings

“We are told that Sin consists in acting contrary to God's commands, but we are also told that God is omnipotent. . . . This leads to frightful results. . . . The British State considers it the duty of an Englishman to kill people who are not English whenever a collection of elderly gentlemen in Westminster tells him to do so. . . . Church and State are placable enemies of both intelligence and virtue.”

People States Church Sin Results Acting Enemy Virtue Duty British Contrary Command Gentleman Collections Elderly Church And State Englishmen Omnipotent Westminster

Author:Bertrand Russell

“It turns out that dopamine is a chemical on double duty in the brain. Along with its role in motor commands, it also serves as the main messenger in the reward systems, guiding a person toward food, drink, mates, and all things useful for survival. Because of its role in the reward system, imbalances in dopamine can trigger gambling, overeating, and drug addiction - behaviors that result from a reward system gone awry.”

Source: Incognito: The Secret Lives of The Brain

“Love exercised while duty is neglected will make children headstrong, willful, perverse, selfish, and disobedient. If stern duty is left to stand alone without love to soften and win, it will have a similar result. Duty and love must be blended in order that children may be properly disciplined.”

Ifs May Children Order Winning Left Results Duty And Love Selfish Neglected Without Love Stand Alone Headstrong

Author:Ellen G. White