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I like stirring the pot - I think it's part of my duty, to shake people up a bit - make them look at things in a different way. — Nina Bawden

Great love, like great genius, can never be a duty: both are life's gracious gifts to its elect. — Ellen Key

If it is man's privilege to be independent, it is equally his duty to be inter - dependent. — Mahatma Gandhi

But it is a writer's duty to write and speak and record the truth, always the truth, no matter whom may be offended. — Edward Abbey

U.S. corn exports to CAFTA countries will benefit from reduced tariffs and duty-free access for corn products. — John Shimkus

The historian's first duties are sacrilege and the mocking of false gods. They are his indispensable instruments for establishing the truth. — Jules Michelet

A garden is a public service and having one a public duty. It is a man's contribution to the community. — Richardson Wright

This nation's elected leaders owe all Americans the duty of formulating an Iraqi policy based on sound analysis of the actual facts. — Charlie Gonzalez

I have been distracted from my duty as a father to some extent, but there is no greater exercise to a man's talents than the upbringing of his son. — Conn Iggulden

Dammit Sir, it's your duty to get married. You can't always be living for pleasure! — Oscar Wilde

It is not the novelist's job to preach; it is his duty to show. — Anthony Burgess

It is not the world's duty to make your day better. — John Cheese

Let no guilty man escape, if it can he avoided ... No personal consideration should stand in the way of performing a public duty. — Ulysses S. Grant

It is an artist's duty to be on the wrong end of the see-saw. — Billy Childish

I believe it's my pastoral duty to convert friends to atheism. — Gore Vidal

It was my duty as a mother to invade your privacy and search your room. I'm just glad you weren't hiding an illegal drug. — S.A. Tawks

I never see why we should do anything unless it is either a duty or a pleasure! Life's short enough without filling up hours unnecessarily. — C.S. Lewis

On an occasion of this kind it becomes more than a moral duty to speak one's mind. It becomes a pleasure. — Oscar Wilde

That is my job, right? To comfort him. To keep the portrait of what he left behind intact. Isn't that a woman's duty during wartime? — Suzanne Hayes

It's my duty to enlighten people. — Neil DeGrasse Tyson

A leader's first duty is to look after his or her people, especially those who are sick, hungry, or thirsty. — Michael Monroe

It is every one's sacred duty to keep himself in a condition to do the biggest thing possible to him. — Orison Swett Marden

I have learned that to do one's next duty is to take a step toward all that is worth possessing. — J.G. Holland

I'd hate to imply that it's your civic duty to see The House I Live In, but guess what it is. — Ty Burr

the Supreme Alpha Male it's my duty to protect them, so I created this island — Curvy Love Publishing

It's the doctors duty to activate and reactivate the body's own healing mechanism. — Charlotte Gerson

When I'm in heavy-duty writing mode, there's something great about reading a series. Soothing, but not distracting too much. — Lauren Willig

The Holiness of God is something more and other than moral perfection: His claim upon us is something more and other than the claim of moral duty. — C.S. Lewis

It's the soul's duty to be loyal to its own desires. It must abandon itself to its master passion. — Rebecca West

I think it is a man's duty to make all the money he can, keep all that he can and give away all that he can. — John D. Rockefeller

To perform one's duty is the greatest service to God. — Ramana Maharshi

Smiling is not a duty, but a freedom. It's up to you now; you are liberated from the expectations and conformities of youth. — Justine Picardie

Duty is ours and events are God's. — Angelina Grimke

He that takes truth for his guide, and duty for his end, may safely trust to God's providence to lead him aright — Blaise Pascal

For what use are books to anyone whose days are like a rook's nest with every twig a duty. — Mervyn Peake

One's duty is to feel what is great, cherish the beautiful, and to not accept the conventions of society with the ignominy that it imposes upon us. — Gustave Flaubert

It's come to the point where you have people saying it's our Christian duty to embrace the homosexual movement. This is absurd. — Randall Terry

Never tell your resolution beforehand, or it's twice as onerous a duty. — John Selden

Man's highest duty is to protect animals from cruelty. — Emile Zola

I take it as a man's duty to restrain himself. — Lois McMaster Bujold

Prejudice renders a man's virtue his habit, and a series of unconnected arts. Though just prejudice, his duty becomes a part of his nature. — Edmund Burke

It is seldom very hard to do one's duty when one knows what it is, but it is often exceedingly difficult to find this out. — Samuel Butler

Courage meant overcoming fear and doing one's duty in the presence of danger, not being unafraid. — Eugene B. Sledge

As a poet, there is only one political duty, and that is to defend one's language from corruption. — W. H. Auden

It is Ireland's sacred duty to send over, every few years, a playwright to save the English theater from inarticulate glumness. — Kenneth Tynan

Everything we call a trial, a sorrow, or a duty, believe me, that angel's hand is there. — Giovanni Giocondo

The best security for people's doing their duty is that they should not know anything else to do. — Walter Bagehot

Yes. It's our duty to remember the dead. And our duty to let them go. — Kevin Hearne

I think it's your duty to overcome what you inherit in life. — Kelsey Grammer

It is a mother's duty to teach her daughters about the uses of blood, particularly a magical daughter. — Zen Cho

If you can take advantage of a situation in some way, it's your duty as an American to do it. — John Swartzwelder

Take no duty of the Guard lightly. Friends must not be enemies
Just as enemies must not be friends.
Discerning the two is a life's work. — David Petersen

It's every American's duty to support his government but not necessarily in the style to which it has become accustomed. — Thomas C. Mann

Must's a schoolroom in the month of may — E. E. Cummings

There's life alone in duty done, And rest alone in striving. — John Greenleaf Whittier

There is no such thing as luck. It's a fancy name for being always at our duty, and so sure to be ready when good time comes. — Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

It's the duty of art to ask questions, not to provide answers. And if you want a clearer answer, I'll have to pass. — Michael Haneke

A man's first duty is to keep himself alive. Then comes what everyone calls honor. — Mario Puzo

Political systems are run by self-selecting politicians. We don't draft people; it's not jury duty. — P. J. O'Rourke

A writer's duty is to register what it is like for him or her to be in the world. — Zadie Smith

One only says it is one's duty when one has something disagreeable to do ... — Margaret Oliphant

There is nothing about our duties that necessitates like or dislike. You have your purpose and I have mine. That's the end of the matter. — Dawn Jayne

To grasp the full significance of life is the actor's duty, to interpret it is his problem, and to express it his dedication. — Marlon Brando

Duty is the essence of manhood. — George S. Patton

Even a prison the size of a universe is still a prison. And it is every prisoner's duty to escape. — John C. Wright

In most places in the country, voting is looked upon as a right and a duty, but in Chicago it's a sport. — Dick Gregory

It's my duty as a guardian to protect Cross Academy, day and night. — Yuki

The times are squalid. They always were. It is a poet's duty to hold the line. — Basil Bunting

The statesman's duty is to bridge the gap between his nation's experience and his vision. — Henry A. Kissinger

To praise oneself is considered improper, immodest; to praise one's own sect, one's own philosophy, is considered the highest duty. — Lev Shestov

A soldier's first duty is to obey, otherwise you might as well do away with soldiering. — Albert Kesselring

Once imbued with the idea of a mission, a great nation easily assumes that it has the means as well as the duty to do God's work. — J. William Fulbright

Reading was very important; the proper exercise and development of one's mind was a paramount duty. — Elizabeth Von Arnim

The soil is actually the greatest technology we have for adapting to climate change. And I feel it's our generation's duty to build it back up. — Jason Mraz

It is the government's fundamental duty to ensure the security of every individual citizen. — Charles Kennedy

It seems to me it's a painter's duty to try to put an idea into his work. — Vincent Van Gogh

There's no rest when you're on planetary duty. — Paul Watson

Voting is the least arduous of a citizen's duties. He has the prior and harder duty of making up his mind. — Ralph Barton Perry

Prayer wonderfully clears the vision; steadies the nerves; defines duty; stiffens the purpose; sweetens and strengthens the spirit. — S.D. Gordon

It is not for us to calculate our victory or fear our defeat, but to do our duty and leave the rest in God's hands. — Alan Keyes

Hasting - There are times when it is one's duty to assert oneself. — Agatha Christie

Part of a soldier's duty is to fill gaps ... one must be willing to be nothing, as something. — Amy Carmichael

I don't often agree with the RSPCA as I believe it is an animal's duty to be on my plate at supper time. — Jeremy Clarkson

All social life, stability, progress, depend upon each man's confidence in his neighbor, a reliance upon him to do his duty. — Abbott Lawrence Lowell

Officers must be made to care for their men. That is the sole duty of all officers. — George S. Patton

There is little sense in pitting a lesser sense of duty against a greater one. No leader could expect loyalty to hold under those circumstances. — C.S. Pacat

A woman's duty: To look the whole world in the face with a go-to-hell look in the eyes ... to speak and act in defiance of convention. — Margaret Sanger

A Christian's duty, Lewis believed, is not simply to tolerate "X" but to make life with "X" an occasion to work on one's own character flaws. — Philip Zaleski

Whenever man attempts to do what he knows to be the Master's will, a power will be given him equal to the duty. — Fulton J. Sheen

The duty of helping one's self in the highest sense involves the helping of one's neighbors. — Samuel Smiles

If you have the ability, give as if it's life's duty. — Debasish Mridha

It is one's duty to make the most of the best that is in him. — Stuart Duncan

The needs are too great, and there are too few of us. We have a duty, a responsibility to help others. It's not all about fun. It's not always easy. — Leland Dirks

Man's duty is to improve himself; to cultivate his mind; and, when he finds himself going astray, to bring the moral law to bear upon himself. — Immanuel Kant

When you lose interest in a program, your last duty to it is to hand it off to a competent successor. — Eric S. Raymond

We can't just run away. It's our land. Our people. We have a duty. — Selma Dabbagh

Love is the outlaw's duty. — Jayne Anne Phillips

I felt that America's duty was not to try to do everything itself, but to foster a sense of commitment that would bring out the best in every country. — Madeleine Albright

There are people who help you in life. I've been given a helping hand, and that's why I feel it's my duty to help younger artists. — Hugo Pratt

All of us must be saints in this world. Holiness is a duty for you and me. So let's be saints and so give glory to the Father. — Mother Teresa