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“Whatever may be the position in life of a parent, it is his duty to share his crust with his children. If you want a thing done well, do it yourself.”

Ifs Want Wells May Children Done Parent Share Position Duty Things Done Do It Yourself

Author:Napoleon Bonaparte

“A political life, I've often said, is a continuing education in human nature, including one's own. My involvement on the ground floor of two presidential campaigns and my duties as First Lady took me to every state in our union and to seventy-eight nations. In each place, I met someone or saw something that caused me to open my mind and my heart and deepen my understanding of the universal concerns that most of humanity shares.”

“I'm really glad that I'm not Anna because I don't want to be there again. I've been there. But when something does happen to me, whether it's that movie or whether it's actually happened to me, I feel that it's my duty to actually share that with all of you guys. I want to immediately go to my desk and start writing about it.”

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Author:Stevie Nicks

“Indeed, men never know how to love. nothing satisfies them. All they know is to dream, to imagine new duties, to look for new countries and new homes. While we women, we know that we must hasten to love, to share the same bed, hold hands, and fear absence. When we women love, we dream of nothing.”

Knows Men Love Looks Country Home Dream Hands Know How Imagine Share Duty Bed Men And Women Absence Holding Hands How To Love New Home

Author:Albert Camus

“I trust the time is coming, when the occupation of an instructer [sic] to children will be deemed the most honorable of human employment. If it is a drudgery to teach these little ones, then it is the duty of men to bear a part of that burthen; if it is a privilege and an honor, then we generously invite them to share that honor and privilege with us.”

Ifs Men Humans Children Littles Teach Share Duty Bears Honor Privilege Employment Occupation Invites Honorable Drudgery

Author:Angelina Grimke

“Parenting can be established as a time-share job, but mothers are less good "switching off" their parent identity and turning to something else. Many women envy the father's ability to set clear boundaries between home and work, between being an on-duty and an off-duty parent.... Women work very hard to maintain a closeness to their child. Father's value intimacy with a child, but often do not know how to work to maintain it.”

Knows Children Hard Home Jobs Mother Values Father Parent Ability Know How Clear Share Identity Duty Envy Boundaries Intimacy Closeness Switching Switching Off

Author:Terri E Apter

“True gentleness is founded on a sense of what we owe to him who made us and to the common nature which we all share. It arises from reflection on our own failings and wants, and from just views of the condition and duty of man. It is native feeling heightened and improved by principle.”

Men Want Made Feelings Views Common Principles Failing Share Conditions Duty Reflection Arise Native Gentleness

Book:Sermons. ...: To which is Prefixed a Short Account of the Life and Character of the Author

Source: Sermons. ...: To which is Prefixed a Short Account of the Life and Character of the Author

“We make mistakes, we have our faults, and God knows some of us have more than our share, but when danger threatens and duty calls, we go smiling to our own funeral.”

Knows Mistake Share Danger Duty Faults Smile Making Mistakes Funeral God Knows We Make Mistakes

Author:James Larkin

“In the purer ages of the commonwealth, the use of arms was reserved for those ranks of citizens who had a country to love, a property to defend, and some share in enacting those laws which it was their interest, as well as duty, to maintain. But in proportion as the public freedom was lost in extent of conquest, war was gradually improved into an art, and degraded into a trade.”

Source: THE HISTORY OF THE DECLINE AND FALL OF THE ROMAN EMPIRE (All 6 Volumes): From the Height of the Roman Empire, the Age of Trajan and the Antonines - to the Fall of Byzantium; Including a Review of the Crusades, and the State of Rome during the Middle Ages

“I hold it to be our duty to see that the wage-worker, the small producer, the ordinary consumer, shall get their fair share of business prosperity. But it either is or ought to be evident to everyone that business has to prosper before anybody can get any benefit from it.”

Share Duty Ought Benefits Ordinary Fairs Workers Prosperity Producers Consumers Evident Fair Share

Author:Theodore Roosevelt

“What the political left, even in democratic countries, share is the notion that knowledgeable and virtuous people like themselves have both a right and a duty to use the power of government to impose their superior knowledge and virtue on others.”

People Country Use Government Political Left Virtue Share Duty Democratic Notion Superiors Virtuous Knowledgeable Democratic Country

Author:Thomas Sowell

“Those who grumble at the little thing that has fallen to their lot to do will grumble at everything. Always grumbling, they will lead a miserable life, and everything will be a failure. But those who do their duties as they go, putting their shoulders to the wheel, will see the light, and higher duties will fall to their share.”

Littles Light Fall Share Duty Higher Shoulders Miserable Fallen Wheels Little Things Miserable Life Grumbling

Author:Swami Vivekananda

“Thus the call to follow Christ always means a call to share the work of forgiving men their sins. Forgiveness is the Christlike suffering which it is the Christian's duty to bear.”

Men Mean Christian Suffering Christ Sin Share Duty Bears Forgiving

Book:The Cost of Discipleship

Source: The Cost of Discipleship

“I do a program called Fast Twitch twice a week, basically my lifting and strength training, I'm working with a spine specialist, which has been a new addition for me since my surgery to really get some great support for my shoulder, and I really love the way my body feels. It takes the pressure off my lower back and kind of just shares duties, really, with my body.”

Way Feels Kind Has Beens Body Support Week Share Duty Training Program Pressure Shoulders Surgery Lifting Spine Specialists Strength Training

Author:Kerri Walsh

“I feel it is a blessing, a duty, an honor, that we give the love that we have, and we share the lives that we have with our fullest heart.”

Giving Feels Heart Share Duty Honor Blessing

Author:Bellamy Young

“I believe it is my duty to share the gifts I have learned. How dare I have the tools for finding serenity and not share them with the world?”

World Believe I Believe Share Duty Findings Tools Dare Serenity I Have Learned

Author:Gabrielle Bernstein

“There must be something here for me to get or to share or to do. So I have the duty that I do, the dharma that I do - which I love - with my teaching, with my family, my son, my students, my girlfriend.”

Share Teaching Students Son Duty My Family Girlfriend My Son Dharma My Girlfriend

Author:Gary Kraftsow

“When you love someone, you want to share everything with him or her. So it is your duty to say, "I suffer and I want you to know" - and he will, she will, appreciate it.”

Knows Want Suffering Share Duty Appreciate I Want You Love Someone When You Love Someone

Author:Nhat Hanh

“I think that is a responsibility we all share as Americans. But as State Department employees, we have a special duty to guard ourselves and our sensitive information. Complying with department policies and being alert to potential threats will help protect all of us.”

Thinking Helping Responsibility Share Special Policy Duty Protect Threat Sensitive Employee

Author:Hillary Clinton

“I believe musicians have a duty, a responsibility to reach out, to share your love or pain with others.”

Believe Pain I Believe Stars Responsibility Music Share Duty Musician Musical Reach Out

Author:James Taylor

“I have a duty to speak the truth as I see it and share not just my triumphs, not just the things that felt good, but the pain, the intense, often unmitigated pain. It is important to share how I know survival is survival and not just a walk throught the rain.”

Knows Important Pain Speak Felt Walks Share Duty Survival Rain Intense Triumph Speak The Truth

Book:Conversations with Audre Lorde

Source: Conversations with Audre Lorde

“You cannot hope to build a better world without improving the individuals. To that end each of us must work for our own improvement, and at the same time share a genaral responsibility for all humanity, our particular duty being to aid those to whom we think can be most useful.”

Thinking World Ends Science Time Humanity Individual Work Responsibility Share Particular Duty Aids Improvement Improving Marie

Author:Marie Curie