Duty Quotes - Page 18

• We have the duty of formulating, of summarizing, and of communicating our conclusions, in intelligible form, in recognition of the right of other free minds to utilize them in making their own decisions.

  Ronald Fisher

  Decision, Mind, Summarizing

  "Chances Are: Adventures in Probability". Book by Michael Kaplan and Ellen Kaplan, 2003.

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• In 1833, protection was abandoned, and a tariff was established by which it was provided that we should, in a few years, have a system of merely revenue duties.

  Henry Charles Carey

  Years, Tariffs, Protection

  Henry Charles Carey (1859). “The Slave Trade, Domestic and Foreign: Why it Exists, and how it May be Extinguished”, p.365

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• What a fearful object a long-neglected duty gets to be

  Chauncey Wright

  Long, Neglected, Fearful

  Chauncey Wright (2000). “The Evolutionary Philosophy of Chauncey Wright”, p.32, A&C Black

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• Most reporters who come to me get their stories directly from press releases. Very few do what one would consider to be their professional duty.

  Joey Skaggs

  Aggravation, Stories, Release

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• Art is life seen through man's inner craving for perfection and beauty--
  his escape from the sordid realities of life into a world of his imagining. Art accounts for at least a third of our civilization,
  and it is one of the artist's principal duties to do more than merely record life or nature.
  To the artist is given the privilege of pointing the way and inspiring towards a better life.

  Paul Outerbridge

  Art, Reality, Men

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• The duty of a philosopher is clear. He must take every pain to ascertain the truth; and, having arrived at a conclusion, he should noise it abroad far and wide, utterly regardless of what opinions he shocks.

  Henry Thomas Buckle

  Pain, Noise, Opinion

  Henry Thomas Buckle (1861). “History of civilization in England”, p.476

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• It is not a woman’s duty to disclose that she’s trans to every person she meets. This is not safe for a myriad of reasons. We must shift the burden of coming out from trans women, and accusing them of hiding or lying, and focus on why it is unsafe for women to be trans.

  Janet Mock

  Lying, Focus, Safe

  Janet Mock (2014). “Redefining Realness: My Path to Womanhood, Identity, Love & So Much More”, p.257, Simon and Schuster

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• Having now reached a point where danger might be reasonably apprehended from strolling war parties of Indians, spies were kept in advance and strict diligence observed in the duty of sentinels.

  William Henry Ashley

  War, Party, Spy

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• 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

  Wall, Voice, People

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• I am ready to serve the people of Afghanistan, particularly in order to restore peace. I will be ready to assume any duty at the service of my people.

  Ahmad

  Order, People, Assuming

  Meeting with European legislators, June 11, 000.

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• People have a right to have their lives witnessed; if we coexist with the systems that abuse people, then we have a duty to understand.

  Beeban Kidron

  People, Abuse, Coexist

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• You don’t free yourself from duty by running away. That only increases the weight on your shoulders.

  James Alan Gardner

  Running, Weight, Free Yourself

  James Alan Gardner (1997). “Expendable”, p.168, Harper Collins

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• National defense is the sacred duty of the young and all other people.

  Kim Jong Il

  People, Defense, Politics

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• TO fear God, is one of the first and greatest Duties of his rational Creatures.

  Charles Inglis

  Firsts, Fear God, Rational

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• I believe in the United States of America as a government of the people, by the people, for the people, whose just powers are derived from the consent of the governed; a democracy in a republic; a sovereign Nation of many sovereign States; a perfect Union, one and inseparable, established upon those principles of freedom, equality, justice, and humanity for which American patriots sacrificed their lives and fortunes. I therefore believe it is my duty to my country to love it, to support its Constitution, to obey its laws, to respect its flag, and to defend it against all enemies.

  William Tyler

  Country, Believe, America

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• I therefore believe it is my duty to my country to love it, to support its Constitution, to obey its laws, to respect its flag, and to defend it against all enemies.

  William Tyler

  Country, Believe, Law

  The American's Creed, www.ushistory.org. 1917.

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• He would still see it as his duty to shut up and get on with it, not cause any trouble. In our own time we've made a hero of the rebel, and it's more heroic to speak up.

  Eddie Campbell

  Hero, Uprising, Rebel

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• For my own part, I abandon the ethics of duty to the Hegelian critique with no regrets; it would appear to me, indeed, to have been correctly characterized by Hegel as an abstract thought, as a thought of understanding.

  Paul Ricoeur

  Regret, Understanding, Ethics

  Paul Ricoeur (2005). “The EPZ Conflict of Interpretations”, p.408, A&C Black

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• The first and foremost duty of the high school in teaching mathematics is to emphasize methodical work in problem solving...The teacher who wishes to serve equally all his students, future users and nonusers of mathematics, should teach problem solving so that it is about one-third mathematics and two-thirds common sense.

  George Polya

  Education, Teacher, Teaching

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• The denial of our duty to act in this case is a denial of our right to act; and if we have no right to act, then may we well be termed the white slaves of the North, for like our brethren in bonds, we must seal our lips in silence and despair.

  Angelina Grimke

  White, Silence, Despair

  Sarah Grimke, Angelina Grimke (2015). “On Slavery and Abolitionism: Essays and Letters”, p.116, Penguin

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• The first duty of a newspaper is to be accurate. If it be accurate, it follows that it is fair.

  Herbert Bayard Swope

  Firsts, Newspapers, Accuracy

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• The troops are therefore empowered and are in duty bound in this war to use without mitigation even against women and children any means that will lead to success.

  Wilhelm Keitel

  Children, War, Mean

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• The first duty of every soul is to find not its freedom but its Master.

  Peter Forsyth

  Soul, Firsts, Masters

  Peter Taylor Forsyth (1948). “Peter Taylor Forsyth (1848-1921) Director of Souls”

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• The duty of a good Cuisinier is to transmit to the next generation everything he has learned and experienced.

  Fernand Point

  Food, Cooking, Generations

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• It is not only our duty to America, but also to Ireland. We could not hope to succeed in our effort to make Ireland a Republic without the moral and material support of the liberty-loving citizens of these United States.

  Thomas Francis Meagher

  America, Support, Effort

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