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To vote is like the payment of a debt, a duty never to be neglected, if its performance is possible.

In should be the duty of every soldier to reflect on the experiences of the past, in the endeavor to discover improvements, in his particular sphere of action, which are practicable in the immediate future.

B. H. Liddell Hart

Only when the voice of duty is silent, or when it has already spoken, may we allowably think of the consequences of a particular action.

A task becomes a duty from the moment you suspect it to be an essential part of that integrity which alone entitles a man to assume responsibility.

Your position never gives you the right to command. It only imposes on you the duty of so living your life that others can receive your orders without being humiliated.

I think the first duty of society is justice.

The sexes were made for each other, and only in the wise and loving union of the two is the fullness of health and duty and happiness to be expected.

I write because something inner and unconscious forces me to. That is the first compulsion. The second is one of ethical and moral duty. I feel responsible to tell stories that inspire readers to consider more deeply who they are.

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

Hath the spirit of all beauty Kissed you in the path of duty?

We may take it to be the accepted idea that the Mosaic books were not handed down to us for our instruction in scientific knowledge, and that it is our duty to ground our scientific beliefs upon observation and inference, unmixed with considerations of a different order.

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

Kelsey Grammer

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