Quotes with heavy-duty

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  • Bainbridge Colby It is a high patriotic duty that we support and sustain the men who have been placed in position of difficulty, burden, responsibility, and even danger as the result of our suffrages.
    Bainbridge Colby
    American politician and attorney (1869 - 1950)
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  • Ban Ki-moon It is a sad but undeniable reality that people have died in the line of duty since the earliest days of the United Nations. The first was Ole Bakke, a Norwegian member of the United Nations guard detachment, shot and killed in Palestine in 1948. The toll since then has included colleagues at all levels.
    Ban Ki-moon
    South Korean politician and diplomat (1944 - )
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  • Bhagavad Gita It is better to do thine own duty, however lacking in merit, than to do that of another, even though efficiently. It is better to die doing one's own duty, for to do the duty of another is fraught with danger.
    Bhagavad Gita
    Indian Hindu storybook
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  • Thomas Szasz It is easier to do one's duty to others than to one's self. If you do your duty to others, you are considered reliable. If you do your duty to yourself, you are considered selfish.
    Thomas Szasz
    American psychiatrist (1920 - 2012)
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  • Woodrow Wilson It is just as hard to do your duty when men are sneering at you as when they are shouting at you.
    Woodrow Wilson
    American president (1856 - 1924)
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  • Robert Louis Stevenson It is not enough to be ready to go where duty calls. A man should stand around where he can hear the call!
    Robert Louis Stevenson
    Scottish writer and poet (1850 - 1894)
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  • Ian Mcewan It is not the first duty of the novelist to provide blueprints for insurrection, or uplifting tales of successful resistance for the benefit of the opposition. The naming of what is there is what is important.
    Ian Mcewan
    English novelist and screenwriter (1948 - )
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  • Pierre Teilhard de Chardin It is our duty as men and women to proceed as though the limits of our abilities do not exist.
    Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
    French Christian mystic, author (1881 - 1955)
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  • Assata Shakur It is our duty to fight for our freedom.
    It is our duty to win.
    We must love each other and support each other.
    We have nothing to lose but our chains.
    Assata: An Autobiography (1987) 67
    Assata Shakur
    American activist and former member of the Black Liberation Army (BLA) (1947 - )
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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • Annie Leibovitz It's a heavy weight, the camera. Now we have modern and lightweight, small plastic cameras, but in the '70s they were heavy metal.
    Annie Leibovitz
    American portrait photographer (1949 - )
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  • Blake Farenthold It's Congress' job to keep an eye on the other agencies and the workings of the entire government. It is our constitutional duty.
    Blake Farenthold
    American politician and lobbyist (1961 - )
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  • Brandi Carlile It's really important to me to promote worthy causes. But not in a heavy, obligatory, responsibility way. I really admired that as a kid, learning about the 'Elton John AIDS Foundation.' And I was obsessed with The Indigo Girls. And they are the consummate activist group, always reaching out, especially to Native causes and things like that.
    Brandi Carlile
    American singer-songwriter and producer (1981 - )
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  • Carol Channing Laughter is much more important than applause. Applause is almost a duty. Laughter is a reward.
    Carol Channing
    American actress and singer (1921 - 2019)
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