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• Our major obligation is not to mistake slogans for solutions.

  Edward R. Murrow

  Mistake, Problem Solving, English Language

  Edward R. Murrow (1967). “In Search of Light: The Broadcasts of Edward R. Murrow, 1938-1961”

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• Russia under President Putin is less democratic and less free today than when he assumed office. If Russia cannot fulfill its obligation to the G-8 and maintain a high standard of democratic governance then its membership should be suspended.

  Vito Fossella

  Russia, Office, President

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• It's the government's obligation to look really to the third parties to get the support to govern.

  Stephen Harper

  Party, Government, Support

  "Harper appears open to working with Bloc in 2004 CBC interview". Interview with Evan Solomon, www.theglobeandmail.com. December 5, 2008.

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• Those who perceive in themselves... the artistic vocation as poet, writer, sculptor, painter, musician, and actor feel at the same time an obligation not to waste this talent but to develop it, in order to put it to service of their neighbour and the humanity as a whole.

  Pope John Paul II

  Order, Humanity, Actors

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• I feel a big obligation to the audience, almost in a moral sense, to say something useful. If I'm going to spend a year of my life on these things, I want something that I feel that strongly about.

  Harold Ramis

  Years, Want Something, Moral

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• Can you worship a God who isn't obligated to explain His actions to you? Could it be your arrogance that makes you think God owes you an explanation?

  Francis Chan

  God, Christian, Religious

  Francis Chan, Preston Sprinkle (2014). “The Francis Chan Collection: Crazy Love, Forgotten God, Erasing Hell, and Multiply”, p.22, David C Cook

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• We can be thankful to a friend for a few acres or a little money; and yet for the freedom and command of the whole earth, and for the great benefits of our being, our life, health, and reason, we look upon ourselves as under no obligation.

  Seneca the Elder

  Life, Gratitude, Money

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• You have no obligation under the sun other than to discover your real needs, to fulfill them, and to rejoice in doing so.

  Francois Rabelais

  Real, Over You, Needs

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• Everything you have, whether it's money or stuff, is an obligation. It is as much your duty to care for and nurture any object you own as it would be if that object were your child. All possessions come with responsibilities. More possessions equals greater responsibility.

  Brad Warner

  Money, Children, Responsibility

  Brad Warner (2010). “Zen Wrapped in Karma Dipped in Chocolate: A Trip Through Death, Sex, Divorce, and Spiritual Celebrity in Search of the True Dharma”, p.22, New World Library

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• The soldier is the Army. No army is better than its soldiers. The Soldier is also a citizen. In fact, the highest obligation and privilege of citizenship is that of bearing arms for one’s country

  George S. Patton

  Country, Military, Army

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• A man must not deny his manifest abilities, for that is to evade his obligations.

  William Feather

  Men, Deny, Ability

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• I think we have a moral obligation to our children that can be easily summarized: number one, protect them from harm.

  Tom Allen

  Children, Thinking, Numbers

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• I believe that a religious conversion is the only way to stimulate the peoples of the industrialized nations to be willing to make sacrifices for the sake of esho funi (the oneness of self and environment). ... I wish the entire world would accept as an item of religious faith the concept of esho funi and its moral obligations.

  Arnold J. Toynbee

  Religious, Believe, Sacrifice

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• No university ought to be merely a national institution....The universities should have their common ideals, they should have their common obligations toward each other. They should be independent of the governments of the countries in which they are situated. They should not be institutions for the training of an efficient bureaucracy, or for equipping scientists to get the better of foreign scientists; they should stand for the preservation of learning, for the pursuit of truth, and in so far as men are capable of it, the attainment of wisdom.

  T. S. Eliot

  Country, Independent, Men

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• Do not confuse "duty" with what other people expect of you; they are utterly different. Duty is a debt you owe to yourself to fulfill obligations you have assumed voluntarily. Paying that debt can entail anything from years of patient work to instant willingness to die. Difficult it may be, but the reward is self-respect.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Self, Years, People

  Robert A. Heinlein (1987). “Time Enough for Love”, p.331, Penguin

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• The three basic material rights -- continuity, mutual obligation, and the pursuit of happiness.

  David Brin

  Pursuit Of Happiness, Rights, Three

  David Brin (2016). “Insistence of Vision”, p.61, Fiction Studio Books

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• No matter how we suffer, we have an obligation to others. We have to be unselfish enough to try to live in the right way, so others can get through their own lives without us fouling them up.

  Charlaine Harris

  Suffering, Trying, Matter

  Charlaine Harris (2010). “Dead in the Family: A Sookie Stackhouse Novel”, p.214, Penguin

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• The sacred obligation to the Union soldiers must not - will not be forgotten nor neglected. But those who fought against the Nation cannot and do not look to it for relief. Confederate soldiers and their descendants are to share with us and our descendants the destiny of America. Whatever, therefore, we their fellow citizens can do to remove burdens from their shoulders and to brighten their lives is surely in the pathway of humanity and patriotism.

  Rutherford B. Hayes

  Destiny, America, Soldier

  Letter to Oliver Downing. "Diary and Letters of Rutherford Birchard Hayes: Nineteenth President of the United States". Book edited by Charles Richard Williams, The Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society, March 15, 1889.

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• Everyone has the obligation to ponder well his own specific traits of character. He must also regulate them adequately and not wonder whether someone else's traits might suit him better. The more definitely his own a man's character is, the better it fits him.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Character, Men, Suits

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• The only obligation which I have a right to assume is to do at any time what I think right.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Life Changing, Thinking, Assuming

  Civil Disobedience (1849)

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• When habit has strengthened our sense of duties, they leave us no time for other things; but when young we neglect them and this gives us time for anything.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Giving, Habit, Neglect

  Thomas Jefferson, Richard Holland Johnston, Thomas Jefferson Memorial Association of the United States (1903). “The writings of Thomas Jefferson”

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• Where is the security for property, for reputation, for life, if the sense of religious obligation deserts the oaths . . . ?

  George Washington

  Religious, Religion, Desert

  George Washington (1837). “The Writings of George Washington: Being His Correspondence, Addresses, Messages, and Other Papers, Official and Private, Selected and Published from the Original Manuscripts; with a Life of the Author, Notes, and Illustrations”, p.227

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• There is something going on in time and space, and beyond time and space, which, whether we like it or not, spells duty.

  Winston Churchill

  Space, Duty, Peace Through Strength

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• Ants are good citizens; they place group interest first. But they carry it so far, they have few or no political rights. An ant doesn't have the vote, apparently; he just has his duties.

  Clarence Day

  Rights, Political, Groups

  Clarence Day (1997). “This Simian World”, p.6, Courier Corporation

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• If you are under obligations to many, it is prudent to postpone the recompensing of one, until it be in your power to remunerate all; otherwise you will make more enemies by what you give, than by what you withhold.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Giving, Enemy, Prudent

  Charles Caleb Colton (1824). “Lacon, Or, Many Things in a Few Words: Addressed to Those who Think”, p.115

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