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• Such are the Splendors and Miseries of memory: it is proud of its ability to keep truthful track of the logical sequence of past events; but when it comes to how we experienced them at the time, memory feels no obligation to truth.

  Milan Kundera

  Memories, Past, Track

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• Even if you think the tentacles of security have already wrapped themselves around you and you can't move because of your obligations, it's never too late-there are always unlimited ways to follow your dreams, and it is much easier than you think.

  Rhonda Byrne

  Dream, Moving, Thinking

  Rhonda Byrne (2013). “Hero”, p.46, Simon and Schuster

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• Congress has an obligation to protect our country's natural beauty, embodied in our nation's parks, rivers, and breathtaking landscapes.

  Dave Reichert

  Beauty, Country, Rivers

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• The attempt to discover and promulgate the truth is nevertheless an obligation upon all scientists, one that must be persevered in no matter what the rebuffs—for otherwise what is the point in being a scientist?

  Peter Medawar

  Matter, Truth Is, Scientist

  Peter Brian Medawar, J. S. Medawar (1985). “Aristotle to Zoos: A Philosophical Dictionary of Biology”, p.196, Harvard University Press

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• I want a singleness of eye, a purity of intention, a central core to my life that will enable me to carry out these obligations and activities as well as I can.

  Anne Morrow Lindbergh

  Eye, Want, Purity

  Anne Morrow Lindbergh (1975). “GIFT FROM THE SEA”

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• Debunking bad science should be constant obligation of the science community, even if it takes time away from serious research or seems to be a losing battle. One takes comfort from the fact there is no Gresham's laws in science. In the long run, good science drives out bad.

  Martin Gardner

  Running, Law, Long

  "The Night Is Large: Collected Essays, 1938-1995". Book by Martin Gardner (Introduction to Part III "Pseudoscience", p. 171), 1996.

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• What causes homophobia? What is it that makes the heterosexual man worry about this? I think it's because deep down all men know that we have weak sales resistance. We're constantly buying shoes that hurt us, pants that don't fit right. Men think, 'Obviously I can be talked into anything. What if I accidentally wander into some sort of homosexual store thinking it's a shoe store and the salesmen says, 'Just hold this guy's hand, walk around a little bit, see how it feels. No obligation, no pressure, just try it.'

  Jerry Seinfeld

  Hurt, Men, Thinking

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• The merit of Marx is that he suddenly produces a qualitative change in the history of social thought. He interprets history, understands its dynamic, predicts the future, but in addition to predicting it (which would satisfy his scientific obligation), he expresses a revolutionary concept: the world must not only be interpreted, it must be transformed. Man ceases to be the slave and tool of his environment and converts himself into the architect of his own destiny.

  Che Guevara

  Destiny, Men, Tools

  "Notes for the Study of the Ideology of the Cuban Revolution". www.marxists.org. October 08, 1960.

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• Men didn't understand that you couldn't let yourself be consumed with passion when there were so many people needing your attention, when there was so much work to do. Men didn't understand that there was nothing big enough to exempt you from your obligations, which began as soon as the sun rose over the paper company and ended only after you'd finished the day's chores and fell exhausted into sleep against the background noise of I-94.

  Bonnie Jo Campbell

  Passion, Sleep, Men

  Bonnie Jo Campbell (2009). “American Salvage: Stories”, p.35, Wayne State University Press

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• The constitution of the United States declares that "no State shall pass any law impairing the obligation of contracts."

  Lysander Spooner

  Law, Natural, States

  "The Unconstitutionality of Slavery".

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• Man is created to be God's deputy on earth and it is important to realize the obligation to rid ourselves of all illusions and to make our lives a preparation for the next life.

  Cat Stevens

  Men, Preparation, Important

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• We have no obligation to make history. We have no obligation to make art. We have no obligation to make a statement. To make money is our only objective.

  Michael Eisner

  Art, Money, Business

  "Michael Eisner: Monster, inc". www.independent.co.uk. December 07, 2003.

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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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• Self-esteem is something you have to earn! The only way to achieve self-esteem is to work hard. People have an obligation to live up to their potential.

  Bette Midler

  Self Esteem, Hard Work, People

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• If you don't put the spiritual and religious dimension into our political conversation, you won't be asking the really big and important question. If you don't bring in values and religion, you'll be asking superficial questions. What is life all about? What is our relationship to God? These are the important questions. What is our obligation to one another and community? If we don't ask those questions, the residual questions that we're asking aren't as interesting.

  Larry Brilliant

  Spiritual, Religious, Interesting

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• It's not that you don't want to earn as much money as you can - it is your obligation, of course - but companies have obligations beyond that and they certainly have obligations beyond that at certain times, in the times in which they operate. And they also certainly ought to know that meeting and beating expectations is probably yesterday's game and it will be increasingly so, which would be by the way very healthy for companies. Running a company that meets and beats expectations, and that runs their company accordingly, are companies that I would question why anyone would invest in.

  Barry Diller

  Running, Games, Yesterday

  "Diller to profitable companies: Lay off the layoffs" by Ben Klayman, blogs.reuters.com. December 4, 2008.

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• For the Archivist, this role is a result of his obligation to preserve and assure timely and maximum access to our governmental records in the evolving historic saga of the American people.

  Allen Weinstein

  People, Roles, Records

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• Words without deeds violates the moral and legal obligation we have under the genocide convention but, more importantly, violates our sense of right and wrong and the standards we have as human beings about looking to care for one another.

  Jon Corzine

  Care, Deeds, Moral

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• When you move off a point of power, pay all your obligations on the nail, empower all your friends completely and move off with your pockets full of artillery, potential blackmail on every erstwhile rival, unlimited funds in your private account and the addresses of experienced assassins and go live in Bulgravia and bribe the police.

  L. Ron Hubbard

  Moving, Empowering, Police

  "The Church of Scientology Wanted a Balkan Holy Land" by Lily Lynch, balkanist.net. August 27, 2013.

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• Christian obligation cannot be made to accord with a law of expediency. The Christian's maxims are, Do right because you are bound to do right. Do right though the heavens fall. There is a world of difference between You had better and You are bound to.

  Francis Landey Patton

  Christian, Fall, Law

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, p. 200, 1895.

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• It is the obligation of Westboro Baptist Church to put the cup of God's fury to America's lips, and cause America to drink it. And you will drink it!

  Fred Phelps

  America, Church, Lips

  "9/11: God's Wrath Revealed". WBC Video News, September 8, 2006.

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• To be a heretic to-day is almost a human obligation.

  Jane Ellen Harrison

  Humans, Heretic

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• I was given talent, and if you are given it, it is your obligation to use it.

  Dennis Potter

  Use, Talent, Given

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• The only obligation I recognize is to say what I believe to be true [ ] and to say it with kindness. I believe that is how a Christian conversation should proceed.

  Marilynne Robinson

  Christian, Kindness, Believe

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• I don't have the slightest interest in gold. I like understanding what works and what doesn't in human systems. To me that's not optional; that's a moral obligation. If you're capable of understanding the world, you have a moral obligation to become rational. And I don't see how you become rational hoarding gold. Even if it works, you're a jerk.

  Charlie Munger

  Understanding, Gold, Hoarding

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