Discharge Quotes

• My observation is that whenever one person is found adequate to the discharge of a duty... it is worse executed by two persons, and scarcely done at all if three or more are employed therein.

  George Washington

  4th Of July, Two, Political

  George Washington (1836). “The writings of George Washington: being his correspondence, addresses, messages, and other papers, official and private, selected and published from the original manuscripts; with a life of the author, notes, and illustrations”, p.301

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• In the discharge of the duties of this office, there is one rule of action more important than all others. It consists in never doing anything that someone else can do for you.

  Calvin Coolidge

  Office, Political, Important

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• Test a servant while in the discharge of his duty, a relative in difficulty, a friend in adversity, and a wife in misfortune.

  Chanakya

  Relationship, Adversity, Wife

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• I have found it impossible to carry the heavy burden of responsibility.

  King Edward VIII

  Responsibility, Impossible, Royalty

  Radio broadcast following his abdication, 11 December 1936, in 'The Times' 12 December 1936

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• I have found it impossible to carry the heavy burden of responsibility and to discharge my duties as King as I would wish to do without the help and support of the woman I love.

  King Edward VIII

  Love, Kings, Women

  Radio broadcast following his abdication, 11 December 1936, in 'The Times' 12 December 1936

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• In any regime there is always something that one should agree with, and in Shades there are quite a few notions that, on the face of it, seem like a good thing - the strict adherence to good manners, the fact that learning a musical instrument is compulsory, as is dancing, performing musicals and an hour's Useful Work every day in order to properly discharge your duty to society. But a cage is still a cage, irrespective of the nature of its bars.

  Jasper Fforde

  Order, Dancing, Good Man

  "An interview with Jasper Fforde". Book Browse Interview, www.bookbrowse.com. 2010.

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• Through life let your principal object be the discharge of duty.

  Stonewall Jackson

  Duty, Objects, Principal

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• A living being seeks, above all, to discharge its strength. Life is will to power.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Strength, Life Is, Will Power

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• Discharge my followers; let them hence away, From Richard's night to Bolingbrooke's fair day.

  William Shakespeare

  Night, Followers, Fairs

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• I was by birth a gentleman, living neither in any considerable height, nor yet in obscurity. I have been called to several employments in the nation - to serve in parliaments, - and ( because I would not be over tedious ) I did endeavour to discharge the duty of an honest man in those services, to God, and his people's interest, and of the commonwealth; having, when time was, a competent acceptation in the hearts of men, and some evidence thereof.

  Oliver Cromwell

  Heart, Men, People

  Oliver Cromwell (1901). “Speeches, 1644-1658”

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• A principal fruit of friendship, is the ease and discharge of the fullness and swellings of the heart, which passions of all kinds do cause and induce.

  Francis Bacon

  Real, Passion, Heart

  Francis Bacon, Samuel Weller SINGER (1868). “Essays or Counsels civil and moral”, p.94

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• I will employ my strength for the welfare of the German people, protect the Constitution and laws of the German people, conscientiously discharge the duties imposed on me, and conduct my affairs of office impartially and with justice to everyone.

  Adolf Hitler

  Law, People, Justice

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• The secret of the difficulties of those people who make a great deal of money, and yet are always in want of it, is this-they throw it away as soon as they get it on the first whim or extravagance that strikes them, and have nothing left to meet ordinary expenses or discharge old debts.

  William Hazlitt

  Money, People, Secret

  William Hazlitt (1837). “Characteristics: in the manner of Rochefoucault's Maxims [by W. Hazlitt].”, p.132

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• Mr Brown is a politician of exceptional experience and ability, and I am sure he will discharge the office of Prime Minister with distinction

  Bertie Ahern

  Office, Politician, Prime

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• This is a mighty wonder: in the discharge from the lungs alone, which is not particularly dangerous, the patients do not despair of themselves, even although near the last. Concerning Tuberculosis.

  Aretaeus of Cappadocia

  Science, Despair, Tuberculosis

  On the Causes and Symptoms of Acute Diseases II.II.18 (on Tuberculosis)

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• China has adopted and is implementing its national climate change program. This includes mandatory national targets for reducing energy intensity and discharge of major pollutants and increasing forest coverage and the share of renewable energy for the period of 2005 through 2010.

  Hu Jintao

  Energy, Climate, Target

  Hu Jintao’s Speech on Climate Change, www.nytimes.com. September 22, 2009.

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• We still have people in the active duty, and if people are feeling ill, if they're experiencing various symptoms and they're still in the active duty, they're less likely to come forward because that could result in their medical discharge.

  Bernie Sanders

  People, Feelings, Medical

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Gratitude is like the good faith of traders: it maintains commerce, and we often pay, not because it is just to discharge our debts, but that we may more readily find people to trust us.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Gratitude, People, Debt

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• When a Krishna Conscious person is elevated to a responsible position, he never becomes puffed up. Just like a tree when over-laden with fruits becomes humble and lower down. Similarly, a great soul in Krishna Consciousness becomes humbler than the grass and bowed down like the fruitful trees because a Krishna Conscious person acts as the agent of Krishna, therefore he discharges his duty with great responsibility.

  A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada

  Humble, Humility, Responsibility

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• The rational man finds that his share of the cost of the wastes he discharges into the commons is less than the cost of purifying his wastes before releasing them.

  Garrett Hardin

  Men, Cost, Waste

  Garrett James Hardin (1972). “Exploring new ethics for survival: the voyage of the spaceship Beagle”, Viking Adult

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• Death's the discharge of our debt of sorrow.

  Seneca the Younger

  Death, Sorrow, Debt

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• The constitution regulates our stewardship; the constitution devotes the domain to union, to justice, to defense, to welfare, and to liberty. But there is a higher law than the constitution, which regulates our authority over the domain, and devotes it to the same noble purposes. The territory is a part, no inconsiderable part, of the common heritage of mankind, bestowed upon them by the Creator of the universe. We are his stewards, and must so discharge our trust as to secure in the highest attainable degree their happiness.

  William H. Seward

  Law, Justice, Liberty

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• When some men discharge an obligation, you can hear the report for miles around.

  Mark Twain

  Men, Miles, Obligation

  Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.164, Courier Corporation

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• Many healings of other physical troubles have occurred in my clients after they started to integrate breathing practices into their lives. There is a simple but encompassing reason that may explain this. The human body is designed to discharge 70% of its toxins through breathing. Only a small percentage of toxins are discharged through sweat, defecation and urination. If your breathing is not operating at peak efficiency, you are not ridding yourself of toxins properly.

  Gay Hendricks

  Healing, Simple, Practice

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• If the hand be held between the discharge-tube and the screen, the darker shadow of the bones is seen within the slightly dark shadow-image of the hand itself... For brevity's sake I shall use the expression 'rays'; and to distinguish them from others of this name I shall call them 'X-rays'.

  Wilhelm Rontgen

  Dark, Science, Expression

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