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• I happen to like household chores and resent them only when performing them makes it difficult for me to fulfill my professional duties.

  Kay Boyle

  Difficult, Performing, Chores

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• The primary duty of an exception handler is to get the error out of the lap of the programmer and into the surprised face of the user. Provided you keep this cardinal rule in mind, you can't go far wrong.

  Verity Stob

  Errors, Mind, Lap

  "Catch as Catch Can". www.theregister.co.uk. January 11, 2006.

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• It indicates a person who has not only good manners but who possesses a sense of balance, a sure mastery of himself, a moral discipline that permits him to subordinate voluntarily his own selfish interest to the wider interests of the society in which he lives. The gentleman, therefore is a cultural person in the noblest sense of the word, if by culture we mean not simply wealth of intellectual knowledge but also the ability to fulfil one's duty and understand one's fellow man by respecting / every principle, every opinion, every faith that is sincerely professed.

  Antonio Gramsci

  Selfish, Mean, Men

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• The statistician cannot excuse himself from the duty of getting his head clear on the principles of scientific inference, but equally no other thinking man can avoid a like obligation.

  Ronald Fisher

  Science, Men, Thinking

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• I will do my duty no matter what the price, I've counted up the cost, I know the sacrifice. Oh, and I don't want to die for you, but if dying is asked of me, I'll bear that cross of honor cause freedom don't come free.

  Toby Keith

  Sacrifice, Honor, Dying

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• Someone's looking for a lead, in his duty to a king or creed. Protecting what he feels is right, fights against wrong with his life.

  Robert Palmer

  Kings, Fighting, Politics

  Song: Every Kinda People, Album: Double Fun

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• When God put everybody here, I don't think that he had a master plan of a pecking order. That's not what you see in the Bible. I disagree with that notion, so in my estimation, we've all been put on this planet to share it. It is our duty and our obligation and our responsibility to make sure that we've done so in the proper fashion.

  Corey Feldman

  Fashion, Responsibility, Thinking

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• Nations, like individuals in a state of nature, are equal and independent, possessing certain rights and owing certain duties to each other.

  Millard Fillmore

  Independent, Rights, Owing

  Millard Fillmore (1856). “Biography of M. F.”, p.157

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• We all have the duty to do good.

  Pope Francis

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• Permanent remorse about failing to do your human duty, in my opinion, can be worse than losing your life.

  Miep Gies

  Losing, Opinion, Failing

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• Traditional Albanian society was based on a clan system and was further divided into brotherhoods and bajraks. The bajrak system identified a local leader, called a bajrakar, who could be counted on to provide a certain number of men for military duty.

  Sebastian Junger

  Military, Men, Numbers

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• I'm duty-bound to follow the law and apply to the law to the facts as I find them.

  Stephanie Tubbs Jones

  Law, Facts, Bounds

  "History in the Making: Dems Force Debate on Ohio Voting Irregularities". www.democracynow.org. January 7, 2005.

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• On top of the insult of destroying the geographic places we call home, the chain stores also destroyed people's place in the order of daily life, including the duties, responsibilities, obligations, and ceremonies that prompt citizens to care for each other.

  James Howard Kunstler

  Home, Responsibility, Order

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• I must be informed, that one of my great duties was, to obey the priests in all things; and this I soon learnt, to my utter astonishment and horror, was to live in the practice of criminal intercourse with them.

  Maria Monk

  Practice, Criminals, Astonishment

  Maria MONK, William MONK (pseud?.), Rev. J. J. SLOCUM (1837). “Awful Disclosures ... Second edition, revised by the Rev. J. J. Slocum”, p.47

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• Although I had resigned my commission as an officer two years before, I immediately left Switzerland, accompanied by my wife, in order to report for duty. As it happened, a wire reached me a day later calling me to the colors.

  Fritz Kreisler

  Order, Color, Years

  Fritz Kreisler (2014). “Four Weeks In The Trenches; The War Story Of A Violinist [Illustrated Edition]”, p.9, Pickle Partners Publishing

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• We are all equal children before our mother; and India asks each one of us, in whatsoever role we play in the complex drama of nation-building, to do our duty with integrity, commitment and unflinching loyalty to the values enshrined in our Constitution.

  Pranab Mukherjee

  Loyalty, Mother, Children

  "I will be judged by the critical lens of history: Pranab Mukherjee". www.indiablooms.com. July 24, 2017.

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• I think very poorly of United Russia. United Russia is the party of corruption, the party of crooks and thieves. And it is the duty of every patriot and citizen of our country to make sure that this party is destroyed.

  Alexei Navalny

  Country, Party, Thinking

  "Net Impact". Interview with Julia Ioffe, www.newyorker.com. April 4, 2011.

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• My topics are timely. When an event is happening is when I want to be there... I think it is our duty to challenge the status quo.

  Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy

  Thinking, Challenges, Events

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• This inescapable duty to observe oneself: if someone else is observing me, naturally I have to observe myself too; if none observe me, I have to observe myself all the closer.

  Franz Kafka

  Health, Ifs, Oneself

  Franz Kafka “1914-1923. Tr. by Martin Greenberg, with the co-operation of Hannah Arendt”

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• I have come to light the lamp of Love in your hearts, to see that it shines day by day with added luster. I have not come on behalf of any exclusive religion. I have not come on a mission of publicity for a sect or creed or cause, nor have I come to collect followers for a doctrine. I have no plan to attract disciples or devotees into my fold or any fold. I have come to tell you of this unitary faith, this spiritual principle, this path of Love, this virtue of Love, this duty of Love, this obligation of Love.

  Sathya Sai Baba

  Love, Spiritual, Heart

  FaceBook post by Sri Sathya Sai Baba from Jun 29, 2013

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• ...Jabotinsky insisted that all energies be expended to force the Congress to join the boycott movement. Nothing less than a 'merciless fight' would be acceptable, cried Jabotinsky. 'The present Congress is duty bound to put the Jewish problem in Germany before the entire world...(We [Jews] must) destroy, destroy, destroy them, not only with the boycott, but politically, supporting all existing forces against them to isolate Germany from the civilized world...our enemy [Germany] must be destroyed.

  Ze'ev Jabotinsky

  Fighting, Enemy, Germany

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• I think we all have our own mission, duty, fate in life so for me somehow I think I am always walking on the edge of life and take risks.

  Bai Ling

  Fate, Thinking, Risk

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• There are people who help you in life. I've been given a helping hand, and that's why I feel it's my duty to help younger artists.

  Hugo Pratt

  Artist, Hands, People

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• My vision is that our country should be integrated in the EU, to transfer a part of our independence there. It is also our duty to do it, if we want to establish trade and a sound economy. This is the vision that I am working on and I will continue to work in the future.

  Ibrahim Rugova

  Country, Vision, Independence

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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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