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Isn't the fulfillment of our duty towards our neighbor an expression of deepest desire?
— Dag Hammarskjold
The most difficult place in the world to get a clear and open perspective of the country as a whole is Washington.
— Franklin D. Roosevelt
Who would you impress if the world was blind?
— Shannon L. Alder
Duty - that which sternly impels us in the direction of profit, along the line of desire.
— Ambrose Bierce
...the greatest gift one human can give to another is heartfelt time, where true togetherness is born from desire versus duty.
— Tony Dincau
The American dream has now morphed into an expectation. And if it isn't provided, or if it doesn't happen, then people feel cheated.
— Rush Limbaugh
God doesn't want your crises-mode promises.
— Darrin Patrick
Reincarnation? There is such a thing. What could be more Mozartian than the Nutcracker Suite?
— Edward Abbey
All good men are cleaved by the struggle between duty and desire
— Melissa McPhail
Basically, if reverse engineering is banned, then a lot of the open source community is doomed to fail.
— Jon Johansen
Religion may be defined thus: a belief in, and homage rendered to, existences unseen and causes unknown.
— Frances Wright
without desire, there is only duty.
— Amy Harmon
I didn't grasp that desire and duty could rival each other, least of all that they most often did.
— Susan Choi
You live by whatever rules you need to govern your life the best you think. Let's just try not to encroach.
— S.A. Tawks
The tragedy of being both rational and animal seems to consist in having to choose between duty and desire rather than in making any particular choice
— Mortimer J. Adler
It is not a matter of desire, but of coercion and duty.
— Franz Grillparzer
If a man cannot tell what he wants to do, then he must find out what he ought to do. If desire has become complicated, then hold fast to duty.
— Julian Barnes
Positive thinkers use sentences like "I can do it"; "I am qualified for it"; they think of things as possible.
— Israelmore Ayivor
Live so that thou mayest desire to live again - that is thy duty - for in any case thou wilt live again!
— Friedrich Nietzsche
It is not only our duty to pray for others, but also to desire the prayers of others for ourselves.
— William Gurnall
We hold on to what we are trying to avoid.
— Deborah Sandella
Mexican writer and diplomat, "Pasado en claro" ("A Draft of Shadows") You learn something the day you die. You learn how to die.
— Katherine Anne Porter
The most important duty of a teacher is to not only teach but to also inspire and enhance the desire for learning.
— Debasish Mridha
Our duty is to be useful, not according to our desires but according to our powers.
— Henri Frederic Amiel
A wife loves out of duty, and duty leads to constraint, and constraint kills desire.
— Jean Giraudoux
There are some people in life that you can't get over.
— Stephanie Perkins
A duty which becomes a desire will ultimately become a delight.
— George Gritter
Warner laces his boots and sings the songs and marches the marches, acting less out of duty than out of a time worn desire to be dutiful.
— Anthony Doerr
90% of what we do daily is not what we think, it's just driven by our desires and not potentials.
— Auliq Ice
A poignant paradox is that sometimes the very desire to be a good mother or father will lead the parent to mistake duty for love.
— William Watson Purkey
I love the American dream. I feel this is the place I was supposed to be in. It's beautiful. I love it.
— Immaculee Ilibagiza
Let others laugh when you sacrifice desire to duty, if they will. You have time and eternity to rejoice in.
— Theodore Parker
The line of life is a ragged diagonal between duty and desire.
— William R. Alger