"Artists have a right to be modest and a duty to be vain."
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"Thoughts are not subject to duty."
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"I hold that while a man exists, it is his duty to improve not only his own condition, but to assist in ameliorating mankind."
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"Duty is not beneficial because it is commanded, but is commanded because it is beneficial."
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"It is the duty of mankind on all suitable occasions to acknowledge their dependence on the Divine Being."
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"My ambition in the Army was to make everybody I worked for regretful when I was ordered to other duty."
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"I vote and I do jury duty."
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"It is false to suggest that men must turn away from his desires in the interest of a higher duty. Men only responds to duty if he desires to do so. To understand men, you must understand their desires and the relative strength of those desires."
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"A lawyer's duty is to read the law well himself, then tell the people what it is, and let them act upon it."
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"By academic freedom I understand the right to search for truth and to publish and teach what one holds to be true. This right also implies a duty: one must not conceal any part of what one has recognized to be true."
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"There is no such thing as duty. If you know that a thing is right, you want to do it. If you don't want to do it - it isn't right. If it's right and you don't want to do it - you don't know what right is and you're not a man."
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"One of the most destructive anti-concepts in the history of moral philosophy is the term 'duty."
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"Don't consider our interests or desires. You have no duty to anyone but yourself."
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"No man can have a right to impose an unchosen obligation , an unrewarded duty or an involuntary servitude on another man. There can be no such thing as " the right to enslave ."
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"Duty is ours and events are God's."
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"If we learn more than the doctor in areas of value to our health, it is our duty to apply this knowledge to the betterment of ourselves and our families."
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"Neither the few nor the many have a right to act merely by their will, in any matter connected with duty, trust, engagement, or obligation."
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"The first duty of a woman is to be pretty, the second is to be well-groomed, and the third is never to contradict."
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"Every good lawyer knows that if there is something in his client's cause that so personally offends you, morally, religiously, or if it so offends you that you think it would undermine your ability to do your duty as a lawyer, then you shouldn't take it on."
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"In the modesty of fearful duty, I read as much as from the rattling tongue of saucy and audacious eloquence."
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