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• I feel it is an obligation to help people understand the relation of food to agriculture and the relationship of food to culture.

  Alice Waters

  Agriculture, People, Helping

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• Our fiat currency is under increasing stress with our large and growing trade deficits. We have a federal deficit that is calculated in the trillions when we take into account the net present value of the future Social Security and Medicaid obligations we are creating today.

  George Noory

  Stress, Creating, Growing

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• We want our teachers to be trained so they can meet the obligations, their obligations as teachers. We want them to know how to teach the science of reading. In order to make sure there's not this kind of federal-federal cufflink.

  George W. Bush

  Teacher, Reading, Humor

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• Yet the arts of Severus cannot be justified by the most ample privileges of state reason. He promised only to betray; he flattered only to ruin; and however he might occasionally bind himself by oaths and treaties, his conscience, obsequious to his interest, always released him from the inconvenient obligation.

  Edward Gibbon

  Art, History, Might

  Edward Gibbon (1998). “Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire”, p.100, Wordsworth Editions

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• But the severe rules of discipline which the prudence of the bishops had instituted were relaxed by the same prudence in favour of an Imperial proselyte, whom it was so important to allure, by every gentle condescension, into the pale of the church; and Constantine was permitted, at least by a tacit dispensation, to enjoy most of the privileges, before he had contracted any of the obligations, of a Christian.

  Edward Gibbon

  Christian, Discipline, History

  Edward Gibbon, François Guizot (1859). “Guizot's Gibbon: History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire”, p.258

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• Natural Giving: Anything we do in life which is not out of that energy, we pay for and everybody else pays for. Anything we do to avoid punishment, everybody pays for. Everything we do for a reward, everybody pays for. Everything we do to make people like us, everybody pays for. Everything we do out of guilt, shame, duty, or obligation, everybody pays for.

  Marshall B. Rosenberg

  Communication, Punishment, People

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• Being a sports fan is a complex matter, in part irrational but not unworthy; a relief from the seriousness of the real world, with its unending pressures and often grave obligations.

  Richard Gilman

  Sports, Real, Fans

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• For the United States to recommit itself to the obligation that we undertook in the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty that many other states undertook, which was to work towards disarmament and the eventual elimination of nuclear weapons, is something that manifestly serves our national security interests.

  Susan Rice

  Proliferation Treaty, Nuclear Disarmament, United States

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• Im concerned about the cost, just like everybody else. Theres no question that we have an obligation to help the people of Louisiana and Mississippi to rebuild.

  Saxby Chambliss

  People, Louisiana, Cost

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• It is the collective responsibility of the citizens in a modern state to ensure by all means necessary that its government adheres to the rule of law, not just domestically, but internationally. There are no bystanders. No one is entitled to an 'apolitical' exemption from such obligation. Where default occurs, either by citizens endorsement of official criminality or by the failure of citizens to effectively oppose it, liability is incurred by all

  Ward Churchill

  Mean, Responsibility, Bystanders

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• When we look upon lives so human and yet so small, we feel as if we ourselves were enlarged to an embarrassing bigness of stature. We feel the same kind of obligation to these creatures that a deity might feel if he had created something that he could not understand.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Deities, Looks, Might

  "The Defendant". Book by Gilbert K. Chesterton, 1901.

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• We, The People is more than a statement of purpose. It is an acknowledgement of an obligation to each other.

  Charlie Pierce

  People, Purpose, Acknowledgement

  "I Dream of Common Wealth" by Charles P. Pierce, www.esquire.com. March 29, 2012.

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• You don't ever earn a right to stop doing anything if you feel there is an obligation to move in terms of public service.

  Douglas Wilder

  Moving, Public Service, Term

  "Then & Now: Douglas Wilder". www.cnn.com. June 19, 2005.

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• America is still a free country - nobody is saying it isn't - but we accept that, in the face of discernible risk, or even imaginable risk, the government has an obligation to step in and save us.

  Patrick Bedard

  Country, America, Government

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• I think every leader has an obligation - the absolute obligation - to treat everyone fairly. But they also have the obligation to treat everyone differently. Because people aren't all the same, and the last thing you ever want to do, in my opinion, is let the best in your organization be treated like the worst in your organization. It does nothing for your future.

  Jack Welch

  Thinking, Organization, People

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• I feel an obligation to myself to entertain myself and if other people get something out of it, I'm like, right on.

  RuPaul

  People, Feels, Ifs

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• The first obligation I have is to be funny; it's my first impulse and an instinct. I like being funny and finding the jokes.

  George Carlin

  Firsts, Instinct, Impulse

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Maybe it's your obligation to use your celebrity for more than just your new BMW. I use mine to make people smile.

  Wendy Williams

  Bmw, People, Use

  Source: www.hollywoodreporter.com

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• The real world has no obligation to be convincing, so it throws up some very weird moments sometimes.

  Neil Gaiman

  Real, World, Sometimes

  "Exclusive Interview: Neil Gaiman on The Weird". WeirdFictionReview.com Interview, weirdfictionreview.com. November 1, 2011.

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• I have no regrets about my political activity, only that I sometimes got carried away with it and didn't find the right balance between obligations to my family and my need to be involved in social movements.

  Howard Zinn

  Regret, Political, Balance

  "Zinn Speaks". Interview with Wajahat Ali, www.counterpunch.org. April 19, 2008.

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• We have an obligation to give something back to the community that gives so much to us.

  Ray Kroc

  Giving, Community

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• I've always felt obligated to help those less fortunate than me. It's an obligation that anyone who has a chance to be in the NBA should feel and act upon.

  Dikembe Mutombo

  Nba, Helping, Chance

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• If you know something is morally reprehensible, then it is your moral obligation to stop it as soon as possible.

  Jane Velez-Mitchell

  Moral, Ifs, Knows

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• None of us is in a position to eliminate war, but it is our obligation to denounce it and expose it in all its hideousness. War leaves no victors, only victims.

  Elie Wiesel

  War, Victim, Position

  Elie Wiesel (2011). “From the Kingdom of Memory: Reminiscences”, p.182, Schocken

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• Im particularly interested in the public role that all buildings play. I believe that we architects should try to go beyond our basic obligations to the public, and our opportunities to do so are many.

  Cesar Pelli

  Believe, Opportunity, Play

  César Pelli (1999). “Observations for young architects”, Monacelli Pr

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