"I know of no more sacred duty than to rear and educate a child."
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"O hard, when love and duty clash!"
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"It is not my duty to spend my money in my country, but it is what I want to do. There is nowhere else I would like to invest."
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"When dictatorship is a fact, revolution is a duty!"
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"Duty is not collective; it is personal."
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"New occasions teach new duties."
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"Do the duty which lies nearest to you, the second duty will then become clearer."
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"What is the duty of the circumstances God has put me into?"
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"It's gotten to a point where everybody is concerned about their rights and nobody is concerned about their duties."
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"Only Lawyers and mental defectives are automatically exempt for jury duty."
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"The government, both state and federal, has a duty to be reasonable and accommodating."
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"Duty cannot exist without faith"
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"The quest for peace is the statesman's most exacting duty... Practical progress to lasting peace is his fondest hope."
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"Privilege, in any society, is the reward of duties performed."
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"Duties are what make life most worth living. Lacking them, you are not necessary to anyone."
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"As your attorney, it is my duty to inform you that it is not important that you understand what I'm doing or why you're paying me so much money. What's important is that you continue to do so."
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"No displeasure, even of the dearest friends, can put me off the duty I see clearly in front of me."
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"I felt this was my duty, my sole duty: to reconcile the irreconcilables, to draw the thick ancestral darkness out of my loins and transform it, to the best of my ability, into light."
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"The National defense is one of the cardinal duties of a statesman."
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"Rights that do not flow from duty well performed are not worth having."
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