Quotes with duty

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  • Robert Green Ingersoll When the will defies fear, when duty throws the gauntlet down to fate, when honor scorns to compromise with death - that is heroism.
    Robert Green Ingersoll
    American lawyer, a Civil War veteran and politician (1833 - 1899)
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  • W. C. Fields When we have lost everything, including hope, life becomes a disgrace, and death a duty.
    W. C. Fields
    American Actor (1880 - 1946)
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  • Maxim Gorky When work is a pleasure, life is joy.! When work is a duty, life is slavery.
    Maxim Gorky
    Russian and Soviet writer (0 - 1936)
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  • Woodrow Wilson When you have read the Bible, you will know it is the word of God, because you have found it the key to your own heart, your own happiness and your own duty.
    Woodrow Wilson
    American president (1856 - 1924)
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  • Antonie van Leeuwenhoek Whenever I found out anything remarkable, I have thought it my duty to put down my discovery on paper, so that all ingenious people might be informed thereof.
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  • Bonnie Bedelia Whenever there's heavy-duty emotional work to be done, they call me. As for playing the completely off-the-wall, sexy, gorgeous lady that I am - no, they don't think of me.
    Bonnie Bedelia
    American actress (1948 - )
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  • Joseph Joubert Without duty, life is sort of boneless; it cannot hold itself together.
    Joseph Joubert
    French writer (1754 - 1824)
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  • Oscar Wilde Woman's first duty in life is to her dressmaker. What the second duty is no one has yet discovered.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Marie Curie You cannot hope to build a better world without improving the individuals. To that end, each of us must work for our own improvement and, at the same time, share a general responsibility for all humanity, our particular duty being to aid those to whom we think we can be most useful.
    Marie Curie
    French physicist, radioactivity pioneer, 2x Nobel Prize winner (1867 - 1934)
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  • Ambrose Bierce Duty. That which sternly impels us in the direction of profit, along the line of desire.
    Ambrose Bierce
    American writer (1842 - 1914)
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  • Helen Keller I long to accomplish a great and noble task, but it is my chief duty to accomplish small tasks as if they were great and noble.
    Helen Keller
    American writer (1880 - 1968)
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  • Caitlin Doughty In America, burial means an embalmed body in a heavy-duty casket with a vault built over it, so that the ground doesn't settle. That body is encased in many layers of denial.
    Caitlin Doughty
    American author, blogger (1984 - )
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  • Ambrose Bierce Suffrage, noun. Expression of opinion by means of a ballot. The right of suffrage (which is held to be both a privilege and a duty) means, as commonly interpreted, the right to vote for the man of another man's choice, and is highly prized.
    Ambrose Bierce
    American writer (1842 - 1914)
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  • Jean Baudrillard The surprises of thought are like those of love: they wear out. But here too you can carry on for a long time doing your conjugal duty.
    Jean Baudrillard
    French sociologist and philosopher. (1929 - 2007)
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  • Richard Brinsley Sheridan There is nothing on earth so easy as to forget, if a person chooses to set about it. I'm sure I have as much forgot your poor, dear uncle, as if he had never existed; and I thought it my duty to do so.
    Richard Brinsley Sheridan
    Anglo-Irish dramatist (1751 - 1816)
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