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“Everyone has a special place they store their tension (I'm on shiatsu duty), the same way everyone misspells the same words over and over. Karla stores her tension in her rhomboid muscles, and I remove it. This is making me feel good. That I can do this.”

Way Feels I Can Pain Can Do Special Duty Stores Feel Good Therapy Tension Muscles Injury Remove Special Places I Can Do This

Author:Douglas Coupland

“The constant duty of every man to his fellows is to ascertain his own powers and special gifts, and to strengthen them for the help of others.”

Men Helping Special Duty Fellows Constant Every Man Special Gifts

Book:The Ethics of the Dust

Source: The Ethics of the Dust

“Every hour has its immediate duty, its special injunction which dominates all others.”

Hours Special Duty

Book:Memoirs of Hadrian

Source: Memoirs of Hadrian

“The most radical division that it is possible to make of humanity is that which splits it into two classes of creatures: Those who make great demands on themselves, piling up difficulties and duties; and those who demand nothing special of themselves, but for whom to live is to be every moment what they already are, without imposing on themselves any effort towards perfection, mere buoys that float on the waves.”

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Author:Jose Ortega y Gasset

“Personal prudence, even when dictated by quite other than selfish considerations, surely is no special virtue in a military man; while an excessive love of glory, impassioning a less burning impulse, the honest sense of duty, is the first.”

Men Firsts Virtue Special Honest Military Duty Glory Selfish Burning Impulse Consideration Prudence Military Man Excessive Love

Book:Billy Budd

Source: Billy Budd

“Each state of life has its special duties; by their accomplishments one may find happiness.”

May States Special Duty Accomplishment Finding Happiness

Author:Nicholas of Flue

“The state of mind of the photographer creating is a blank. I might add that this condition exists only at special times, namely when looking for pictures. -Something keeps him from falling off curbs, down open manholes, into bumpers of skidding trucks while in this condition but goes off duty at other times. . . . This is a very special kind of blank. A very active state of mind really, it is a very receptive state. . .”

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Author:Minor White

“The paramount duty of maintaining public order and defending the interests of our own people may require the adoption of measures of restriction, but they should not tolerate the oppression of individuals of a special race.”

People Should May Order Individual Interest Race Special Duty Oppression Tolerate Adoption Maintaining Restriction Paramount

Book:State of the Union Addresses

Source: State of the Union Addresses

“Like most of the movies I have participated in before, it's not a far departure from my actual self. TJ is a Special Forces, hand-to-hand combat expert. He's got a big heart. He has a sense of duty that never ends, whether he is active duty or as you find him in Check Point, retired.”

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Author:Bill Goldberg

“Kant regards the universalizability test for maxims as focused on a very special sort of situation: one where the agent is tempted to make an exception to a recognized duty out of self-preference. The universalizability test is supposed help the agent to see, in a particular case of moral judgment, that self-preference is not a satisfactory reason for exempting yourself from a duty you recognize. Kant thinks, as a matter of human nature, that this situation arises often enough and that we need a canon of judgment to guard against it.”

“I feel a special kinship for our military. Because, unfortunately, I became a wartime president. And committed our military in the defense of our country to difficult assignments. I tell people all the time, I don't miss much about being president; I do miss looking in the eyes of people who volunteered to serve. And so not only do I feel a kinship, I feel an obligation and a duty to help.”

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Author:George W. Bush

“Our innate, built-in human value is the reason we have binding duties or obligations towards each other that we don't have towards any other kind of thing. It's also the reason we have unalienable human rights. If man's God-given, special value falls, then unalienable human rights fall, too.”

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Author:Greg Koukl

“The various roles we incorporate into the criminal justice system as well as the ways in which we construe such roles, lend themselves to the kind of ethical reflection that is open to us all. That said, once we have determined roles and their contours, those who act within them may have special duties and privileges that others may lack. Specific roles may generate ethical inquiries with novel forms, just as new technologies may push us in new directions.”

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Author:John Kleinig

“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.”

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Author:Hillary Clinton