Quotes with heavy-duty

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  • Bernhard von Bulow Since the German people, with unparalleled heroism, but also at the cost of fearful sacrifices, has waged war against half the world, it is our right and our duty to obtain safety and independence for ourselves at sea.
    Bernhard von Bulow
    German diplomat and politician (1849 - 1929)
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  • John A. Hannah The greatest ability in business is to get along with others and influence their actions. A chip on the shoulder is too heavy a piece of baggage to carry through life.
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  • William R. Alger The line of life is a ragged diagonal between duty and desire.
    William R. Alger
    American writer (1822 - 1905)
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  • Theodore Roosevelt The men and women who have the right ideals... are those who have the courage to strive for the happiness which comes only with labor and effort and self-sacrifice, and those whose joy in life springs in part from power of work and sense of duty.
    Theodore Roosevelt
    American statesman (1858 - 1919)
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  • Lady Mary Wortley Montagu 'Tis a sort of duty to be rich, that it may be in one's power to do good, riches being another word for power.
    Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
    English writer (1689 - 1762)
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  • Franz Kafka A belief is like a guillotine, just as heavy, just as light.
    Franz Kafka
    Chech German-speaking writer (1883 - 1924)
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  • Joseph Fort Newton A duty dodged is like a debt unpaid; it is only deferred, and we must come back and settle the account at last.
    Joseph Fort Newton
    American Baptist minister (1876 - 1950)
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  • Bill Dedman A foundation representing firefighters who die in the line of duty is calling for Congress to strip the Centers for Disease Control of its role investigating firefighter deaths.
    Bill Dedman
    American journalist (1960 - )
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  • Mark Twain A man can seldom - very, very, seldom - fight a winning fight against his training; the odds are too heavy.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • Anthony Trollope A man's love, till it has been chastened and fastened by the feeling of duty which marriage brings with it, is instigated mainly by the difficulty of pursuit.
    Anthony Trollope
    British writer (1815 - 1882)
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  • Carl Gustav Jung A special ability means a heavy expenditure of energy in a particular direction, with a consequent drain from some other side of life.
    Modern Man in Search of a Soul (1933)
    Carl Gustav Jung
    Swiss psychiatrist (1875 - 1961)
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  • Dag Hammarskjöld A task becomes a duty from the moment you suspect it to be an essential part of that integrity which alone entitles a man to assume responsibility.
    Dag Hammarskjöld
    Swedish diplomat (1905 - 1961)
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  • Billy Joel A typical day in the life of a heavy metal musician consists of a round of golf and an AA meeting.
    Billy Joel
    American singer-songwriter and pianist (1949 - )
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  • Charles Dickens A very little key will open a very heavy door.
    Charles Dickens
    English writer (1812 - 1870)
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  • Anton Chekhov A writer is not a confectioner, a cosmetic dealer, or an entertainer. He is a man who has signed a contract with his conscious and his sense of duty.
    Anton Chekhov
    Russian playwright and short story writer
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  • Bill Dedman About 100 firefighters a year die in the line of duty in the U.S. Heart attacks on the job and vehicle accidents on the way to the fires account for about half. The other half are traumatic deaths while fighting fires.
    Bill Dedman
    American journalist (1960 - )
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  • Thomas à Kempis Activate yourself to duty by remembering your position, who you are, and what you have obliged yourself to be.
    Thomas à Kempis
    Dutch medieval Augustinian canon, writer and mystic (1380 - 1471)
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  • Winston Churchill All great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope.
    Winston Churchill
    English statesman (1874 - 1965)
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  • Winston Churchill All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope.
    Winston Churchill
    English statesman (1874 - 1965)
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  • Caleb Cushing And if this House is to be scared, by whatever influences, from its duty, to receive and hear the petitions of the People, then I shall send my voice beyond the walls of this Capitol for redress.
    Caleb Cushing
    American Democratic politician and diplomat (1800 - 1879)
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