Quotes with duty-first

Quotes 981 till 1000 of 1725.

  • Herbert Spencer People are beginning to see that the first requisite to success in life is to be a good animal.
    Herbert Spencer
    British Philosopher (1820 - 1903)
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  • Carson Kressley People are much deeper than stereotypes. That's the first place our minds go. Then you get to know them and you hear their stories, and you say, 'I'd have never guessed.'
    Carson Kressley
    American television personality, actor, and designer (1969 - )
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  • Bob Black People aren't as stupid as the politicians think. More and more of us are laughing off our 'civic duty' to vote, rejecting the role of compulsory constituent.
    Source: The Abolition of Work and Other Essays (1986)
    Bob Black
    American author and anarchist (1951 - )
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  • Abdolkarim Soroush People first concern themselves with meeting their basic needs; only afterwards, do they pursue any higher needs.
    Abdolkarim Soroush
    Iranian Islamic thinker and reformer (1945 - )
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  • Beeban Kidron People have a right to have their lives witnessed; if we coexist with the systems that abuse people, then we have a duty to understand.
    Beeban Kidron
    British filmmaker (1961 - )
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  • Carol Moseley Braun People just want to hear some common sense... and I bring to bear the experience in local government and state government and national government - I was the first woman in history on the Senate Finance Committee - not to mention the diplomatic international experience.
    Carol Moseley Braun
    American diplomat, politician, and lawyer (1947 - )
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  • Anthony de Mello People mistakenly assume that their thinking is done by their head; it is actually done by the heart which first dictates the conclusion, then commands the head to provide the reasoning that will defend it.
    Anthony de Mello
    Indian Jesuit priest and psychotherapist (1931 - 1987)
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  • Martin Luther People must have righteous principals in the first, and then they will not fail to perform virtuous actions.
    Martin Luther
    German preacher (1483 - 1546)
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  • Blake Mycoskie People often ask me what I consider my goal to be at TOMS. The truth is that it's changed over the years. When we first began, the goal was to create a for-profit company to help the children that I met in a small village in Argentina.
    Blake Mycoskie
    American entrepreneur, author, and philanthropist (1976 - )
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  • Baltasar Kormakur People talk about Hollywood as a myth, but in reality, when you make Icelandic movies and you want to get them distributed in the U.S., you're not really working with Hollywood. The movies I've been making, the first one I made, I made it with Working Title, but it was financed through Universal, so it became a Hollywood production.
    Baltasar Kormakur
    Icelandic actor, theater and film director (1966 - )
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  • Amy Tan People think it's a terrible tragedy when somebody has Alzheimer's. But in my mother's case, it's different. My mother has been unhappy all her life. For the first time in her life, she's happy.
    Amy Tan
    American author (1952 - )
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  • Ben Elton People who get through life dependent on other people's possessions are always the first to lecture you on how little possessions count.
    Ben Elton
    British-Australian comedian, author, playwright, actor and director (1959 - )
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  • Alistair Cooke People, when they first come to America, whether as travelers or settlers, become aware of a new and agreeable feeling: that the whole country is their oyster.
    Alistair Cooke
    British journalist (1908 - 2004)
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  • Gene Fowler Perhaps no mightier conflict of mind occurs ever again in a lifetime than that first decision to unseat one's own tooth.
    Gene Fowler
    American journalist, author and dramatist (1890 - 1960)
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  • Sir Cecil Beaton Perhaps the world's second worst crime is boredom. The first is being a bore.
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  • Voltaire Pleasure is the object, duty and the goal of all rational creatures.
    Voltaire
    French writer and philosopher (ps. of Fran ois Marie Arouet) (1694 - 1778)
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  • Billy Collins Poems, for me, begin as a social engagement. I want to establish a kind of sociability or even hospitality at the beginning of a poem. The title and the first few lines are a kind of welcome mat where I am inviting the reader inside.
    Billy Collins
    American poet (1941 - )
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  • Adam Michnik Poland is an ally of the United States of America. It was our duty to show that we are a reliable, loyal, and predictable ally. America needed our help, and we had to give it.
    Adam Michnik
    Polish historian, essayist and dissident (1946 - )
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  • Ronald Reagan Politics I supposed to be the second-oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first.
    Ronald Reagan
    American politician and actor (1911 - 2004)
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  • Ronald Reagan Politics is supposed to be the second oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first.
    Ronald Reagan
    American politician and actor (1911 - 2004)
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