"There is something going on in time and space, and beyond time and space, which, whether we like it or not, spells duty."
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"Much has been given us, and much will rightfully be expected from us. We have duties to others and duties to ourselves; and we can shrink neither."
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"The duty of a politician for me is to be a representative: a politician is not an expert, experts are experts, hired for their expertise and so on."
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"Our supreme duty is to advance toward freedom - physical, mental, and spiritual - and help others to do so."
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"Harijan service is a duty the caste Hindus owe to themselves."
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"The nation's non-co-operation is an invitation to the Government to co-operate with it on its own terms, as is every nation's right and every good government's duty."
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"The true source of rights is duty."
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"It is the duty of men to love even those who injure them."
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"A sahib has got to act like a sahib; he has got to appear resolute, to know his own mind and do definite things."
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"Love is the bane of honor, the death of duty."
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"Preachers are always pleasant company when they are off duty."
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"Without duty, life is soft and boneless."
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"To mind your own business incorporates the whole duty of man."
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"Insist on your life, never imitate... do that which is assigned to you, and you cannot hope too much or dare too much."
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"A historian has many duties... the first is not to slander; the second is not to bore"
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"But in a radically atheist universe, you are not only responsible for doing your duty, You are also responsible for deciding what is your duty."
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"Only when it is a duty to love, only then is love eternally and happily secured against despair."
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"Do not disturb the faith of any. . . Our duty is not to disturb the faith of others."
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"A writer's duty is to register what it is like for him or her to be in the world."
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"A duty religiously performed carries with it several other important consequences."
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