"It is your duty to examine the conduct of public figures and to place them in the spotlight - that is your duty."
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"It is man's peculiar duty to love even those who wrong him."
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"Man cannot choose his duties."
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"Duty is one and invariable; it requires no impossibilities, nor can it ever be disregarded with impunity."
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"Alas! When duty grows thy law, enjoyment fades away."
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"Always resignation and acceptance. Always prudence and honour and duty. Elinor, where is your heart?"
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"What then is your duty? What the day demands."
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"But what is your duty? What the day demands. [Ger., Was aber ist deine Pflicht? Die Forderung des Tages.]"
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"Duty is the demand of the hour."
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"Love can do much, but duty more."
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"Our duty is to preach the gospel to all men.... This is what God expects of us"
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"We have an intuitive sense of our duty."
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"On religion in particular the time appears to me to have come when it is the duty of all who, being qualified in point of knowledge, have on mature consideration satisfied themselves that the current opinions are not only false but hurtful, to make their dissent known."
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"God never imposes a duty without giving time to do it."
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"The duty of an Opposition is to oppose."
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"A genius is always on duty; even his dreams are tax deductible."
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"Poverty has its duties as well as its rights."
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"Only he who is uncompromising as to his rights maintains the sense of duty."
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"The right to search for truth implies also a duty."
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"Love likes to extend itself. If you receive it in a book - or however you get it - then your duty is to extend it beyond."
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