Quotes with duty-first

Quotes 1321 till 1340 of 1725.

  • Buzz Aldrin The purpose of going to Mars is for humans to first begin to occupy, permanently, another planet in the solar system. The astronauts or pilgrims, whatever you might call them, are going to be very historically unique human beings.
    Buzz Aldrin
    American former astronaut, engineer and fighter (1930 - )
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  • Calvin Trillin The question about those aromatic advertisements that perfume companies are having stitched into magazines these days is this: under the freedoms guaranteed by the First Amendment, is smelling up the place a constitutionally protected form of expression?
    Calvin Trillin
    American journalist, humorist, food writer and poet (1935 - )
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  • Joseph Brodsky The real history of consciousness starts with one's first lie.
    Joseph Brodsky
    Russian-born American Poet, Critic (1940 - 1996)
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  • Juliene Berk The real trick is to make the moves in your head first, as a way of testing them out.
    Juliene Berk
    American author
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  • George Eliot The reward of one's duty is the power to fulfill another.
    George Eliot
    English writer and poet (1819 - 1880)
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  • Oliver Wendell Holmes The rule of joy and the law of duty seem to me all one.
    Oliver Wendell Holmes
    American writer and poet (1809 - 1894)
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  • Reinhold Niebuhr The sad duty of politics is to establish justice in a sinful world.
    Reinhold Niebuhr
    American theologist, historian (1892 - 1971)
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  • Eileen Caddy The secret of making something work in your lives is, first of all, the deep desire to make it work: then the faith and belief that it can work: then to hold that clear definite vision in your consciousness and see it working out step by step, without one thought of doubt or disbelief.
    Eileen Caddy
    Scottisch spiritual teacher (1917 - 2006)
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  • Abraham Lincoln The sense of obligation to continue is present in all of us. A duty to strive is the duty of us all. I felt a call to that duty.
    Abraham Lincoln
    American statesman (1809 - 1865)
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  • Henry Bolingbroke The shortest and surest way of arriving at real knowledge is to unlearn the lessons we have been taught, to mount the first principles, and take nobody's word about them.
    Henry Bolingbroke
    British politician (1678 - 1751)
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  • Alfred N. Whitehead The silly question is the first intimation of some totally new development.
    Alfred N. Whitehead
    English philosopher and mathematician (1861 - 1947)
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  • Washington Irving The sorrow for the dead is the only sorrow from which we refuse to be divorced. Every other wound we seek to heal - every other affliction to forget: but this wound we consider it a duty to keep open - this affliction we cherish and brood over in solitude.
    Washington Irving
    American writer (1783 - 1859)
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  • Boris Yeltsin The Soviet Union could not exist without the image of the empire. The image of the empire could not exist without the image of force. The USSR ended the moment the first hammer pounded the Berlin Wall.
    Boris Yeltsin
    Russian politician (1931 - 2007)
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  • David Lloyd George The stern hand of fate has scourged us to an elevation where we can see the great everlasting things which matter for a nation - the great peaks we had forgotten, of Honor, Duty, Patriotism, and clad in glittering white, the great pinnacle of Sacrifice pointing like a rugged finger to Heaven.
    David Lloyd George
    Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1916 to 1922 (1863 - 1945)
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  • Bob Shacochis The stories are there first, and they come from my experiences wandering around in the world. They will resonate into bigger things, forces sweeping the planet, themes and archetypes, but I'm not smart enough to have lucid integration of all that in my head as I'm writing.
    Bob Shacochis
    American writer (1951 - )
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  • Abe Fortas The story of man is the history, first, of the acceptance and imposition of restraints necessary to permit communal life; and second, of the emancipation of the individual within that system of necessary restraints.
    Abe Fortas
    American lawyer and jurist (1910 - 1982)
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  • Bob Seger The studio is really fun because I don't make it into the studio unless I've got something I really like. I love working with different musicians in the studio; that's a real joy, working with someone for the first time.
    Bob Seger
    American singer, songwriter and musician (1945 - )
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  • Charles Dickens The sun himself is weak when he first rises, and gathers strength and courage as the day gets on.
    Charles Dickens
    English writer (1812 - 1870)
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  • F. Scott Fitzgerald The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function.
    F. Scott Fitzgerald
    American writer (1896 - 1940)
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  • Ben Vereen The theater was my first training ground. It taught me discipline, dedication and appreciation of hard work.
    Ben Vereen
    American actor, dancer and singer (1946 - )
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