"Death, they say, acquits us of all obligations."
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"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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"In many ways, when you're a Nobel peace laureate, you have an obligation to humankind, to society."
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"Every claim creates an obligation."
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"My obligation is to do the right thing. The rest is in God's hands."
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"An obligation to feel can freeze feelings."
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"I do have an obligation to make sure that I am following some of the rules. I can't simply ignore laws that are out there."
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"You have an obligation to challenge your fans and your viewers."
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"Sir,' I said to the universe, 'I exist.' 'That,' said the universe, 'creates no sense of obligation in me whatsoever."
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"Although I have a variety of obligations, the climate crisis is my central concern."
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"Every nation has a moral obligation to safeguard the future."
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"Somewhere there's a score being kept, so you have an obligation to live life as well as you can, be as engaged as you can."
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"I always felt a weird obligation to be adventurous."
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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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"The obligation of a society as prosperous as ours is to figure out how nobody gets left too far behind."
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"There's an obligation to let people know where their money is going, so the tour has an educational aspect, mostly as a way to thank people. But the most practical use is to raise money and do the research to figure out the proper ways to spend it. You want to make sure that the money doesn't just go somewhere where it does more harm than good."
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"Revolution is our obligation: our hope of evolution."
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"Friendship is not always the sequel of obligation."
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"The only obligation any artist can have is to himself. His work means nothing, otherwise. It has no meaning."
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"You find in some a sort of graceless modesty, that makes them ashamed to requite an obligation."
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