Quotes with duty-first

Quotes 721 till 740 of 1725.

  • Arthur Capper It is our duty to see that our future citizens are well born; that they are properly nourished, and are reared in that environment most likely to develop in them their full capacity and powers.
    Arthur Capper
    American politician (1865 - 1951)
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  • Bill Brandt It is part of the photographer's job to see more intensely than most people do. He must have and keep in him something of the receptiveness of the child who looks at the world for the first time or of the traveler who enters a strange country.
    Bill Brandt, behind the camera: photographs 1928-1983
    Bill Brandt
    British photographer and photojournalist (1904 - 1983)
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  • Bertrand Russell It is possible that mankind is on the threshold of a golden age; but, if so, it will be necessary first to slay the dragon that guards the door, and this dragon is religion.
    Has Religion Made Useful Contributions to Civilization?
    Bertrand Russell
    English philosopher and mathematician (1872 - 1970)
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  • William E. Gladstone It is the duty of government to make it difficult for people to do wrong, easy to do right.
    William E. Gladstone
    British Liberal Prime Minister, Statesman (1809 - 1888)
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  • John Maynard Keynes It is the duty of the long-term investor to endure great losses with equanimity.
    John Maynard Keynes
    British economist (1883 - 1946)
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  • Franklin D. Roosevelt It is the duty of the President to propose and it is the privilege of the Congress to dispose.
    Franklin D. Roosevelt
    American statesman (1882 - 1945)
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  • Thomas Carlyle It is the first of all problems for a man to find out what kind of work he is to do in this universe.
    Thomas Carlyle
    Scottish writer and historicus (1795 - 1881)
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  • Benjamin Banneker It is the indispensable duty of those, who maintain for themselves the rights of human nature, and who possess the obligations of Christianity, to extend their power and influence to the relief of every part of the human race...
    Benjamin Banneker
    African-American almanac author, and surveyor (0 - 1806)
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  • Alfred Adler It is the patriotic duty of every man to lie for his country.
    Alfred Adler
    Austrian psychiatrist (1870 - 1937)
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  • Henry David Thoreau It is usually the imagination that is wounded first, rather than the heart; it being much more sensitive.
    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • Sir Walter Scott It is wonderful what strength of purpose and boldness and energy of will are roused by the assurance that we are doing our duty.
    Sir Walter Scott
    British writer and poet (1771 - 1832)
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  • Fjodor M. Dostojewski It seems, in fact, as though the second half of a man's life is made up of nothing, but the habits he has accumulated during the first half.
    Fjodor M. Dostojewski
    Russisch writer (1821 - 1881)
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  • Jonathan Swift It was a bold person that first ate an oyster.
    Jonathan Swift
    English writer (1667 - 1745)
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  • Carolyn See It was in 'Esquire' in the 1970s that I first learned Nora Ephron's recipe for borscht - certainly an editorial first for that manly magazine.
    Carolyn See
    American writer (1934 - 2016)
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  • Bryn Terfel It was in Cardiff, and the cast was 60 per cent Welsh-speaking. It's the first time I've walked into a rehearsal room speaking my mother tongue, which in itself was a breath of fresh clean air from the Welsh mountains. Singing Hans Sachs is always a milestone, but I was happy to be part of such an achievement, not personally but as a company.
    Bryn Terfel
    Welsh bass-baritone opera singer (1965 - )
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  • Blythe Danner It was in high school that I first became interested in acting. We put on lots of plays.
    Blythe Danner
    American actress (1943 - )
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  • Buzz Aldrin It was interesting to think that the very first liquid ever poured on the Moon, and the first food eaten there, were communion elements.
    Buzz Aldrin
    American former astronaut, engineer and fighter (1930 - )
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  • Bruce Eric Kaplan It was memorable the first time 'The New Yorker' bought a cartoon from me. I had been sending them batches for years every week, and they didn't respond to them.
    Bruce Eric Kaplan
    American cartoonist
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  • Billy Eckstine It was my band. I organized the band and Dizzy was in the band. Dizzy was the first musical director with the band. Charlie Parker was in the band. But, no, no, that was my band.
    Billy Eckstine
    American jazz and pop singer and a bandleader (1914 - 1993)
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  • Bryce Dallas Howard It was such a paradox for me that the only thing I know how to do is act, but that the first thing I abandoned while writing were the characters.
    Bryce Dallas Howard
    American actress and filmmaker (1981 - )
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