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• The duty of the individual farmer, at this time, is to increase his production, particularly of food crops.

  David F. Houston

  Individual, Crops, Increase

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• It [the State] has taken on a vast mass of new duties and responsibilities; it has spread out its powers until they penetrate to every act of the citizen, however secret; it has begun to throw around its operations the high dignity and impeccability of a State religion; its agents become a separate and superior caste, with authority to bind and loose, and their thumbs in every pot. But it still remains, as it was in the beginning, the common enemy of all well-disposed, industrious and decent men.

  H. L. Mencken

  Taken, Responsibility, Men

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• Killing is killing whether done for duty, profit or fun.

  Richard Ramirez

  Fun, Serial Killer, Done

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• In a lifetime among cops since, I've noted that investigators who piece together the aftermaths of home invasion murders tend to keep their guns on all the time after that, even when off duty in their own house, and keep them by the bed when they go to sleep.They have learned from the helplessly-murdered dead

  Massad Ayoob

  Sleep, Home, Gun

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• I'm going with the understanding that I've done my duty.

  Pep Guardiola

  Understanding, Done

  "Pep Guardiola Leaving Barcelona, To Be Replaced As Coach By Tito Vilanova", www.huffingtonpost.com. April 27, 2012.

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• What we need are not prohibitory marriage laws, but a reformed society, an educated public opinion which will teach individual duty in these matters

  Alfred Russel Wallace

  Marriage, Law, Public Opinion

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• Today our duty is to destroy the myth of evolution, considered as a simple, understood, and explained phenomenon which keeps rapidly unfolding before us. Biologists must be encouraged to think about the weaknesses and extrapolations that theoreticians put forward or lay down as established truths. The deceit is sometimes unconscious, but not always, since some people, owing to their sectarianism, purposely overlook reality and refuse to acknowledge the inadequacies and falsity of their beliefs.

  Louis Agassiz

  Simple, Reality, Thinking

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• My duty is to try to reach beauty. Cinema is emotion. When you laugh you cry.

  Roberto Benigni

  Laughing, Trying, Cinema

  The Guardian Interview, www.theguardian.com. November 7, 1998.

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• It is our duty and our privilege to keep America moving forward.

  Bill Frist

  Moving, America, Privilege

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• September 11 impressed upon us that life is a precious gift. Every life has a purpose. And I think we all have a duty to devote at least a small portion of our daily lives to ensuring that neither America nor the world ever forgets September 11.

  Bill Frist

  Thinking, America, September 11

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• My duty as a teacher is to train, educate future programmers.

  Niklaus Wirth

  Education, Teacher, Educate

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• Africa is still lying ready for us it is our duty to take it. It is our duty to seize every opportunity of acquiring more territory and we should keep this one idea steadily before our eyes that more territory simply means more of the Anglo-Saxon race more of the best the most human, most honorable race the world possesses.

  Cecil Rhodes

  Lying, Mean, Eye

  "Confession of Faith". Essay by Cecil Rhodes, 1877.

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• A man who knows a thing, recognizes a given danger, and sees with his own eyes the possibility of a remedy, damned well has the duty and the obligation not to work 'silently', but to stand up openly against the evil and for its cure. If he does not do so then he is a faithless, miserable weakling who fails either from cowardice or from laziness and incompetence....Every last agitator who possesses the courage to defend his opinions with manly forth-rightness, standing on a tavern table among his adversaries, accomplishes more than a thousand of these lying, treacherous sneaks.

  George Lincoln Rockwell

  Lying, Eye, Men

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• And after I started working for the Bureau, most of my translation duties included translations of documents and investigations that actually started way before 9/11.

  Sibel Edmonds

  Way, Investigation, Documents

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• No democratic world will work as it should work until we recognize that we can only enjoy any right so long as we are prepared to discharge its equivalent duty. This applies just as much to states in their dealing with one another as to individuals within the states.

  Anthony Eden

  Work, Justice, Long

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• Every young man should aim at independence and should prepare himself for a vocation; above all, he should so manage his life that the steps of his progress are taken without improper aids; that he calls no one master, that he does not win or deserve the reputation of being a tool of others, and that if called to public service he may assume its duties with the satisfaction of knowing that he is free to rise to the height of his opportunity.

  Charles Evans Hughes

  Taken, Winning, Opportunity

  Charles Evans Hughes (1910). “Conditions of Progress in Democratic Government”

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• Love cannot exists as a duty; to tell a child that it ought to love its parents and its brother and sisters is utterly useless, if not worse.

  Bertrand Russell

  Love, Brother, Children

  Bertrand Russell (2014). “On Education”, p.124, Routledge

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• Do today's duty, fight to-day's temptation; and do not weaken and distract yourself by looking forward to things which you cannot see, and could not understand if you saw them.

  Charles Kingsley

  Fighting, Temptation, Understanding

  "The Good News of God".

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• The duty of the church is to comfort the disturbed and to disturb the comfortable.

  Michael Ramsey

  Comforting, Church, Disturbed

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• It is not your duty or responsibility to change the minds of other people. The nature of their thinking is advanced or limited by their experience. In your presence, they have an opportunity to learn about you and, perhaps, to grow.

  Iyanla Vanzant

  Responsibility, Opportunity, Thinking

  Iyanla Vanzant (2012). “Acts Of Faith: Daily Meditations for People of Colour”, Simon and Schuster

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• It is both the duty and responsibility of the world's fortunate few to help fulfil the legitimate aspirations of the unfortunate many

  Haile Selassie

  Responsibility, World, Helping

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• There is no reason in the world why we shouldn't fight for the preservation of a chance to live freely; no reason why we shouldn't suffer to uphold that which we want to endure... May God give me courage to do my duty and not falter.

  Nile Kinnick

  Fighting, Giving, Suffering

  Letter to his parents regarding World War II, April 25, 1941.

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• In this time of extraordinary pressure, educational and social, perhaps a mother’s first duty to her children is to secure for them a quiet and growing time, a full six years of passive receptive life, the waking part of it for the most part spent out in the fresh air.

  Charlotte Mason

  Mother, Children, Educational

  Charlotte Mason (2013). “The Original Home School Series”, p.42, Simon and Schuster

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• Education is a life; that life is sustained on ideas; ideas are of spiritual origin, and that we get them chiefly as we convey them to one another. The duty of parents is to sustain a child's inner life with ideas as they sustain his body with food.

  Charlotte Mason

  Spiritual, Children, Ideas

  Charlotte Mason (2013). “The Original Home School Series”, p.303, Simon and Schuster

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• Children, by nature, are keen, passionate and curious. What was referred to as laziness is often merely an awakening of sensitivity, a psychological inability to submit to certain absurd duties, and a natural result of the distorted, unbalanced education given to them. This laziness, which leads to an insuperable reluctance to learn, is, contrary to appearances, sometimes proof of intellectual superiority and a condemnation of the teacher.

  Octave Mirbeau

  Teacher, Children, Intellectual

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