Obligation Quotes - Page 23

• Libertarians typically argue that particular obligations, at least under normal circumstances, must be created by consent; they cannot be unilaterally imposed by others.

  Tom G. Palmer

  Libertarian, Normal, Arguing

  Tom G. Palmer (2009). “Realizing Freedom: Libertarian Theory, History, and Practice”, p.36, Cato Institute

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• There is an apprenticeship system in jazz. You teach the young ones. So even if the musicians weren't personally that likable, they felt an obligation to help the younger musicians.

  Dave Van Ronk

  Musician, Helping, Jazz

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• Chefs have a new opportunity - and perhaps even an obligation - to inform the public about what is good to eat, and why.

  Rene Redzepi

  Opportunity, Chef, New Opportunity

  "The innovators: arts and entertainment". www.theguardian.com. September 24, 2011.

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• I made the decision a long time ago that I had an obligation to my children that I happily fulfilled.

  Connie Stevens

  Children, Long, Decision

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• My only obligation is to keep myself and other people guessing.

  Jude Law

  People, Guessing

  "Jude Law". Book by John McVicar, Alex Hannaford, 2006.

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• The best thing I have are 5 percent bonds from 1780, denominated from $1 to $20. As far as I can tell, they are obligations from the United States of America, so I should be able to walk down to the Federal Reserve and redeem the uncanceled ones. With 217 years of accrued interest, for a $20 bond, that's about $800,000.

  Andrew Tobias

  Years, America, United States

  "'I Have to Take a Call from My Russian Broker': Andrew Tobias Talks About His 'Vast Fortune'". Interview with Deborah Stead, www.nytimes.com. November 2, 1997.

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• To live forever should not be an obligation. In fact, eternal life should only be for those who wish for it, because if we are depressed and unhappy with our lives, just the idea of living forever is an unbearable source of suffering.

  Claude Vorilhon

  Ideas, Forever, Suffering

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• Words are deceptive. You think you understand something because it's explained to you and now you are under no obligation to do anything because you understand it.

  Frederick Lenz

  Inspirational, Buddhism, Thinking

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• Do not allow obligation or immediacy to bind you to physical things or specific actions.

  Mary Anne Radmacher

  Sunshine, Redemption, Action

  Mary Anne Radmacher (2008). “Live Boldly: Cultivate the Qualities That Can Change Your Life”, Conari Press

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• Choose the whole of your environment, things and events, based upon the value, meaning and function they hold. Do not allow obligation or immediacy to bind you to physical things or specific actions.

  Mary Anne Radmacher

  Cancer, Events, Action

  Mary Anne Radmacher (2008). “Live Boldly: Cultivate the Qualities That Can Change Your Life”, Conari Press

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• Manage the remarkable balance between acting from your heart and close to your gifts with completing the obligations that your labor and tasks require of you. Leverage opportunity AND seize joy.

  Mary Anne Radmacher

  Heart, Opportunity, Joy

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• RESPONSIBILITY: Fulfill the obligations that the past posts to me. Embrace the opportunity for service based in love.

  Mary Anne Radmacher

  Responsibility, Past, Opportunity

  Jonathan Huie, Mary Anne Radmacher (2009). “Simply An Inspired Life: Consciously Choosing Unbounded Happiness in Good Times & Bad”, p.159, Conari Press

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• My first obligation is my job. It's very hard to really get into campaign mode when you've got to focus on doing the work.

  Claire McCaskill

  Jobs, Focus, Campaigns

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• I have a lot of obligations.

  Isaac Mizrahi

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• America pays its bills. It always has. It always will. The fact that Washington is now debating whether to honor its debts and obligations, then, should come as a surprise. But playing political football with a necessary vote to raise the nation's debt ceiling has become as predictable as a Twitter rant from Charlie Sheen.

  Peter Welch

  Football, America, Political

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• If you ask the question of Americans, should we pay our bills? One hundred percent would say yes. There's a significant misunderstanding on the debt ceiling. People think it's authorizing new spending. The debt ceiling doesn't authorize new spending; it allows us to pay obligations already incurred.

  Peter Welch

  Thinking, People, Pay

  "Rep. Peter Welch". Interview with Seung Min Kim, www.politico.com. April 21, 2011.

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• Man is without doubt the most interesting fool there is. He concedes that God made the angels immune from pain and death, and that he could have been similarly kind to man, but denies that he was under any moral obligation to do so.

  Mark Twain

  Pain, Angel, Men

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• Muslims consider the honor of the Prophet Muhammad to be dearer to them than that of their parents or even themselves. To defend it is considered to be an obligation upon them. The strict punishment if found guilty of this crime under sharia, the Islamic law, is capital punishment implementable by an Islamic State. This is because the Messenger Muhammad said, ‘Whoever insults a Prophet, kill him.’

  Anjem Choudary

  Islamic, Punishment, Law

  "Anjem Choudary says woman who organised Muhammed cartoon contest should face death penalty under Sharia Law" by Christopher Bucktin, www.mirror.co.uk. May 7, 2015.

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• When a drug comes in from Canada, I wanna make sure it cures ya, not kill ya... I've got an obligation to make sure our government does everything we can to protect you. And one - my worry is that it looks like it's from Canada, and it might be from a third world.

  George W. Bush

  Government, Worry, Drug

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• We, as artists, we have the right to express ourselves. That is our first amendment, freedom of speech. But I also believe that we have an obligation to the youth to be somewhat responsible in what we say on records. But I think that comes with age. I think that comes with artists growing up and becoming assured of who they are as people.

  Ja Rule

  Growing Up, Believe, Thinking

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

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• We must look at what immigration to America involves. To the new arrivals, the change is excruciating. Learning a new language and dealing with strange customs make the first years of life in the new land painful...
  The economic system of the United States is a mighty engine of persuasion. It motivates people to do what otherwise they never would in return for fulfilling their dreams. In the process, people learn that there is no sharp line between physical well-being and the higher purposes of life. The comfort of owning a house is at once meeting the obligation to care for one

  John Lachs

  Dream, Years, Land

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• It's a Cyprus of misery and soup kitchens and a state which cannot meet basic obligations. It can only cause me grief.

  Nicos Anastasiades

  Grief, Soup Kitchens, Cyprus

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• But I think the global economy will understand that the United States has the ability to meet its obligations. But it's not going to be able to do it over the long term if we can't control the growth of government.

  Charles Bass

  Thinking, Government, Long

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• At every moment of his life the Shoshone must be careful to observe the complicated folkways of his group, to do reverence to superhuman powers, to remember the courtesies and obligations of family, to pay homage to certain sacred plants, or to avoid particular places.

  Peter Farb

  Pay, Sacred, Groups

  Peter Farb (1968). “Man's rise to civilization as shown by the Indians of North America from primeval times to the coming of the industrial state”, Secker & Warburg

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• In the medium and long term. Spain is solvent and able to pay its high debts. In the short-term, we have the capacity to meet our obligations.

  Luis de Guindos

  Long, Spain, Debt

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