"Nonviolent non-co-operation, I am convinced, is a sacred duty at times."
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"No people have risen who thought only of rights. Only those did so who thought of duties."
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"If we all discharge our duties, rights will not be far to seek."
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"Means to be means must always be within our reach, and so ahimsa is our supreme duty."
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"Non-cooperation with tyrants is a duty."
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"India is essentially a karmabhumi (land of duty) in contradistinction to bhogabhumi (land of enjoyment)."
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"Against destiny I fulfilled my duty. Uselessly? No, for I fulfilled it."
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"The pleasure that is granted to me from a sense of duty ceases to be a pleasure at all."
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"It's my duty to enlighten people."
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"It was fear that was then making you a good citizen, which is never a lasting teacher of duty."
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"It is our duty, my young friends, to resist old age."
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"There is not a moment without some duty."
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"Making change tolerable is one of the duties of Government."
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"You know I have duties──we both have duties──before which feeling must be sacrificed."
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"There is no nobler deed than the performance of one's duty."
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"Gratitude, being nearly the greatest of human duties, is also nearly the most difficult."
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"Do not be duped by little duties. Do not be a chore man all your days."
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"He gives only the worthless gold who gives from a sense of duty."
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"The great happiness of life, I find, after all, to consist in the regular discharge of some mechanical duty."
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"The thing for us to do is just to do our duty, and not worry about whether anybody sees us do it or not."
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