Obligation Quotes - Page 34

• No obligation. Nor any restriction or limitation, nor any guidelines or rules. Nor are you bound by any circumstances or situations, nor constrained by any Code or law. Nor are you punishable for any offense, nor capable of any-for there is no such thing as being "offensive" in the eyes of God.

  Neale Donald Walsch

  Inspirational, Religious, Eye

  Neale Donald Walsch (2005). “The Complete Conversations with God: An Uncommon Dialogue”, p.131, Penguin

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• We rarely use much debt and, when we do, we attempt to structure it on a long-term fixed rate basis. We will reject interesting opportunities rather than over-leverage our balance sheet. This conservatism has penalized our results but it is the only behavior that leaves us comfortable, considering our fiduciary obligations to policyholders, depositors, lenders and the many equity holders who have committed unusually large portions of their net worth to our care.

  Warren Buffett

  Opportunity, Interesting, Long

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• Sharing our meals should be a joyful and a trustful act, rather than the cursory fulfillment of our social obligations.

  M. F. K. Fisher

  Meals, Eating, Joyful

  Joan Reardon, M.F.K. Fisher (2014). “The Art of Eating”, p.77, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The law of liberty tends to abolish the reign of race over race, of faith over faith, of class over class. It is not the realisation of a political ideal: it is the discharge of a moral obligation.

  Lord Acton

  Race, Law, Class

  "Letters of Lord Acton to Mary Gladstone". Book by John Emerich Edward Dalberg-Acton, 1913.

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• All duties are matters of conscience, with this restriction that a superior obligation suspends the force of an inferior one.

  Roger L'Estrange

  Matter, Restriction, Force

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• ... so large a portion of those who hold much capital, instead of using their various advantages for the greatest good of those around them, employ the chief of them for mere selfish indulgences; thus inflicting as much mischief on themselves, as results to others from their culpable neglect. A great portion of the rich seem to be acting on the principle, that the more God bestows on them, the less are they under obligation to practise any self-denial, in fulfilling his benevolent plan of raising our race to intelligence and holiness.

  Catharine Beecher

  Selfish, Responsibility, Race

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• Experience, however, shows that neither a state nor a bank ever have [sic] had the unrestricted power of issuing paper money without abusing that power; in all states, therefore, the issue of paper money ought to be under some check and control; and none seems so proper for that purpose as that of subjecting the issuers of paper money to the obligation of paying their notes either in gold coin or bullion.

  David Ricardo

  Issues, Gold, Purpose

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• There is one thing diviner than duty, namely, the bond of obligation transmuted into liberty.

  William Rounseville Alger

  Liberty, Duty, One Thing

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• It would not be correct to say that every moral obligation involves a legal duty; but every legal duty is founded on a moral obligation.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Moral, Duty, Moral Obligation

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• The magnanimous know very well that they who give time, or money, or shelter, to the stranger--so it be done for love, and not forostentation--do, as it were, put God under obligation to them, so perfect are the compensations of the universe.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Character, Giving, Perfect

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• While the feds ... leave Social Security off their books, the government's obligation to make benefit payments to current and near-term Social Security recipients is certainly no less real than its obligation to pay interest on its Treasury bonds.

  Laurence Kotlikoff

  Real, Book, Government

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• I regard the state of which I am a citizen as a public utility, like the organization that supplies me with water, gas, and electricity. I feel that it is my civic duty to pay my taxes as well as my other bills, and that it is my moral duty to make an honest declaration of my income to the income tax authorities. But I do not feel that I and my fellow citizens have a religious duty to sacrifice our lives in war on behalf of our own state, and, a fortiori, I do not feel that we have an obligation or a right to kill and maim citizens of other states or to devastate their land.

  Arnold J. Toynbee

  Religious, War, Sacrifice

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• The parent who loves his child dearly but asks for nothing in return might qualify as a saint, but he will not qualify as a parent. For a child who can claim love without meeting any of the obligations of love will be a self-centered child and many such children have grown up in our time to become petulant lovers and sullen marriage partners because the promise of unconditional love has not been fulfilled.

  Selma Fraiberg

  Children, Unconditional Love, Self

  Selma Fraiberg (1996). “The Magic Years: Understanding and Handling the Problems of Early Childhood”, p.282, Simon and Schuster

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• As a reader, I don't feel a story has an obligation to make me happy. I want stories to show me a bigger world than the one I know.

  John Green

  Want, Stories, World

  Twitter post from Oct 24, 2013

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• Reports to the Surgeon General represent the final word upon the efficient and devoted sense of responsibility of our people in this obligation to our fellow citizens. Overwhelmingly they confirm the fact that the general mortality rate, infant mortality rate, epidemics, the disease rate - are less than in normal times. There is but one explanation. That is, that through an aroused sense of public responsibility, those in destitution and their children are receiving actually more adequate care than even in normal times.

  Herbert Hoover

  Children, Responsibility, Epidemics

  "The Hoover Policies". Book by Ray Lyman Wilbur and Arthur N. Hyde, 1937.

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• Our land of new promise will be a nation that meets its obligations, a nation that balances its budget, but never loses the balance of its values.

  William J. Clinton

  Land, Promise, Balance

  Clinton, William J. (1998). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: William J. Clinton, 1997”, p.45, Best Books on

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• I think both freedom of religion and freedom of expression are both fundamental human rights, everyone has not only the freedom and the right but the obligation to say what Pope Francis thinks for the common good... we have the right to have this freedom openly without offending.

  Pope Francis

  Freedom, Thinking, Rights

  "After Paris attacks, Pope speaks out against insulting religions" by Philip Pullella, www.reuters.com. January 15, 2015.

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• A good marriage ... is a sweet association in life: full of constancy, trust, and an infinite number of useful and solid services and mutual obligations.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Trust, Marriage, Sweet

  Michel de Montaigne (1980). “Essays”

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• People who make films don't think they have any obligation to help bring (perpetrators) to justice. They are only interested in art, not in justice.

  Efraim Zuroff

  Art, Thinking, People

  "Filmmaker's email claimed BBC 'policy' barred him from revealing hundreds of living Nazis". www.foxnews.com. February 2, 2015.

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• It's our job to do everything possible to keep the international community's focus on MH17. That's our obligation to the victims and their loved ones.

  Sergey Lavrov

  Jobs, Community, Focus

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• We must act now and wake up to our moral obligations. The poor and vulnerable are members of God's family and are the most severely affected by droughts, high temperatures, the flooding of coastal cities, and more severe and unpredictable weather events resulting from climate change. We, who should have been responsible stewards preserving our vulnerable, fragile planet home, have been wantonly wasteful through our reckless consumerism, devouring irreplaceable natural resources.

  Desmond Tutu

  Home, Should Have, Cities

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• We can be confident that action which is in accord with a few basic beliefs cannot be wrong and can at least testify to the values we will need to cultivate. These are the beliefs that the human race is a family that has inherited a place on the earth in common, that its members have an obligation to work toward sharing it so that none is deprived of the elementary needs for life, and that all have a responsibility to leave it undegraded for those who follow.

  Gilbert F. White

  Responsibility, Race, Environmental

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• Our doctrinal obligation is to our own ancestors. This is because the celestial organization of heaven is based on families. The First Presidency has encouraged members, especially youth and young single adults, to emphasize family history work and ordinances for their own family names or the names of ancestors of their ward and stake members. We need to be connected to both our roots and branches. The thought of being associated in the eternal realm is indeed glorious.

  Quentin L. Cook

  Names, Organization, Roots

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• I have an obligation to use what I know to try to bring real, usable medical science to every doctor and bedside and patient.

  Patrick Soon-Shiong

  Real, Doctors, Trying

  "Meet Patrick Soon-Shiong, The LA Billionaire Reinventing Your Health Care". Interview with Howard Fineman, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 1, 2013.

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• Modern science is under no obligation to satisfy the expectations of your five senses.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Expectations, Five Senses, Modern

  Reddit AMA, www.reddit.com. November 13, 2011.

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