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" Abasement, degradation is simply the manner of life of the man who has refused to be what it is his duty to be. "

Jose Ortega y Gasset

" A common currency imposes on us a duty to cooperate more on policy. "

Gerhard Schroder

" Activate yourself to duty by remembering your position, who you are, and what you have obliged yourself to be. "

Thomas a Kempis

" Admittedly, it is really our duty, as artists, to hold up a mirror to our own era; but, on the other hand, these works have lives of their own, and they're still alive today. "

Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau

" A duty is to be chosen from what is virtuous, and from what is useful, and also from the comparison of the two, one with the other; but nothing is recognized by Christians as virtuous or useful which is not helpful to the future life. "

" A duty to the public must be to stop prisoners reoffending through successful rehabilitation. "

" A Failure in this Duty did once involve our Nation in all the Horrors of Rebellion and Civil War. "

" A fundamental duty of government is to protect its people. "

" A good deed is not just a duty, but above all, a privilege. "

" All Americans have a sacred duty to guarantee Social Security benefits to our nation's senior citizens. "

" All cannot rule, nor can all be ruled. All cannot plow, nor can all sow, nor reap. No more can all neglect such employments, else the race would become extinct. Each has his business to perform, his part to act. It is a duty he owes to the rest as well as to himself. "

Joseph P. Bradley

" All Nigerians of voting age are free to vote based on their convictions. It is our duty to defend and protect that basic right, and - let no one be in doubt - we will. "

Goodluck Jonathan

" Although I had resigned my commission as an officer two years before, I immediately left Switzerland, accompanied by my wife, in order to report for duty. As it happened, a wire reached me a day later calling me to the colors. "

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

" An artist's duty is rather to stay open-minded and in a state where he can receive information and inspiration. You always have to be ready for that little artistic Epiphany. "

" And I definitely wanted to be a writer, but I felt a duty now, having used up those educational resources, I felt a duty to the church and my parents to become a priest. "

Thomas Keneally

" And if this House is to be scared, by whatever influences, from its duty, to receive and hear the petitions of the People, then I shall send my voice beyond the walls of this Capitol for redress. "

" And, Mr. Speaker, if the Governor and Council don't see fit to fall in with us, I say let the general duty law, and all, go to the devil, sir, and go about our business. "

Christopher Gadsden

" And one cannot discharge the duty of loyalty without the patient and an open minded study of the institution that marked the country and defined its character. "

Bainbridge Colby

" And though my Lord hath lost his estate and been banished out of his country, yet neither despised poverty nor pinching necessity could make him break the bonds of friendship or weaken his loyal duty. "

Margaret Cavendish

" An insuperable obstacle to rapid transit in Africa is the want of carriers, and as speed was the main object of the Expedition under my command, my duty was to lessen this difficulty as much as possible. "

Henry Morton Stanley

" Anyway I will go same road because I, I was born in gymnastics. This is my, how to say, my life and my duty. "

" A people do not throw their geniuses away. And if they are thrown away, it is our duty as artists and as witnesses for the future to collect them again for the sake of our children and, if necessary, bone by bone. "

" Applause should be an emotional response to the music, rather than a regulated social duty. "

" As a chef, I feel that it is my duty to make the most of what the earth gives us. "

Lidia Bastianich

" As a civilised society, we have a duty to support those among us who are vulnerable and in need. When times are hard, that duty should be felt more than ever, not disappear or diminish. "

" As a film-maker and a poet, I feel it's my duty to be an eye and an antenna to what's happening around me. I always felt a solidarity with those who are desperate and confused and misused and are seeking a way out of it. "

" As a German citizen, as a German professor, and as a political person, I hold it to be not only my right but also my moral duty to take part in the shaping of our German destiny, to expose and oppose obvious wrongs. "

" As a militant troublemaker, I once wrote that it was the duty of every woman worthy of the description to upset men at least three times a day, on principle. "

" As a writer you have a duty to be a messenger. "

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