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“The composers could no longer direct all performances in person, and so the responsibility of interpreting their works in the spirit in which they had been conceived was placed upon conductors.”

Persons Spirit Responsibility Direct Performances Composer Conductor Interpreting

Book:On Conducting

Source: On Conducting

“We don't pray for the land. We pray for the humans, all humans... starting with the president, Mohammed Morsi, and all officials, and for God to give everyone wisdom and responsibility to manage the affairs of this country and its people in true Egyptian spirit.”

People Giving Humans Country Wisdom Spirit President Responsibility Land Praying Starting Affair Manage Officials Egyptian

Author:Pope Tawadros II of Alexandria

“Sister Eliza R. Snow was given a charge from the prophet Brigham Young to help lift and teach the sisters of the Church. She “taught that individual women could receive inspiration to guide them in their personal lives, their families, and their Church responsibilities. She said: ‘Tell the sisters to go forth and discharge their duties, in humility and faithfulness and the Spirit of God will rest upon them and they will be blest in their labors. Let them seek for wisdom instead of power and they will have all the power they have wisdom to exercise.’”

“Each of us has the power and responsibility to heal ourselves, to be our own medicine man or woman. Awakening our innate powers of being, loving, knowing, seeing, and healing involves ongoing work at all levels and in all dimensions of our self. Exploring the range of rhythms and emotions, achieving insights into our conditioning and ego, moving through the energy levels of spirit – these are all activities to be integrated into our daily lives.”

Source: Maps to Ecstasy: The Healing Power of Movement

“Tim Kaine has a message of fiscal responsibility and generosity of spirit. That kind of message can sell anywhere.”

Kind Spirit Responsibility Messages Sells Generosity Generosity Of Spirit Fiscal Responsibility

Author:Barack Obama

“Anything that can hurt the convictions of another, particularly religious convictions, must be avoided. Freedom of expression must be exercised in a spirit of responsibility. I condemn all manifest provocation that might dangerously fan passions.”

Might Spirit Passion Hurt Religious Responsibility Fans Expression Conviction Manifest Avoided Freedom Of Expression Provocation

Author:Jacques Chirac

“We hear a constant clamor for rights, rights, always rights, but so very little about responsibility. And we have forgotten God. The need now is for selflessness, for a spirit of sacrifice, for a willingness to put aside personal gains for the salvation of the whole Western world.”

“Morale is not a single instinct. It has many ingredients. A sense of personal responsibility, the natural courage of an individual, the amount of his acquired self-discipline -- and above all his interest in others -- these together make up the spirit of morale.”

Self Together Spirit Individual Interest Natural Responsibility Amount Discipline Instinct Ingredients Self Discipline Personal Responsibility Morale Interest In Others

Book:Survival

Source: Survival

“As a great democratic society, we have a special responsibility to the arts. For art is the great democrat, calling forth creative genius from every sector of society, disregarding race or religion or wealth or color. What freedom alone can bring is the liberation of the human mind and a spirit which finds its greatest flowering in the free society. I see of little more importance to the future of our country and our civilization than the full recognition of the place of the artist.”

“How much ... did the volume of disease in a nation account for its spirit? If so, the eradication of sickness, as far as it was possible, was a responsibility a democracy must assume for its people.”

People Ifs Care Spirit Nations Responsibility Democracy Disease Accounts Assuming Illness Health Care Sickness Volume

Author:Alice Tisdale Hobart

“It is the Fourth Instinct (the spirit - RJ) that urges us to exceed ourselves ... by awakening our intuitive selves, and striving to be all that we were intended to be. It takes us beyond self-centeredness and enables us to resist the combined forces of indifference and meaninglessness. It awakens us to a sense of responsibility for those most in need of our society as well as for that world that future generations will inherit.”

“Wouldn't it be better for the human spirit and for the soul of this nation to encourage people to accept more responsibility to care for each other rather than leaving those tasks to paid bureaucrats.”

People Humans Soul Care Spirit Nations Responsibility Accepting Tasks Paid Leaving Human Spirit Bureaucrats

Book:Ronald Reagan

Source: Ronald Reagan

“The Greeks by their laws, and the Romans by the spirit of their people, took care to put into the hands of their rulers no such engine of oppression as a standing army. Their system was to make every man a soldier, and oblige him to repair to the standard of his country whenever that was reared. This made them invincible; and the same remedy will make us so.”

People Men Made Country Hands Care Age Law Death Spirit Responsibility Military Duty Standards Standing Army Soldier Every Man Oppression Greek Engines Rulers Remedy Invincible

Book:Jefferson: Political Writings

Source: Jefferson: Political Writings