#duties

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We must find our duties in what comes to us, not in what might have been.


George Eliot


#comes #duties #find #might #must

The Jews are the living embodiment of the minority, the constant reminder of what duties societies owe their minorities, whoever they might be.


Abba Eban


#duties #embodiment #jews #living #might

The real duties of an ambassador are to enter into or follow negotiations between his own government and that of the country to which he is accredited.


David Bruce


#between #country #duties #enter #follow

One of the pleasant duties of America's most famous announcers during the relatively short swing era of the big bands was to host late-night remotes from some of the most famous ballrooms throughout the country.


Nick Clooney


#announcers #ballrooms #bands #big #big bands

Your freedom to be you includes my freedom to be free from you.


Andrew Wilkow


#personal-responsibility #rights #freedom

Writing of only one small part of the broader problem, namely the single-minded pursuit of individualistic 'rights,' [Don] Feder is not wrong to conclude: Absent a delicate balance--rights and duties, freedom and order--the social fabric begins to unravel. The rights explosion of the past three decades has taken us on a rapid descent to a culture without civility, decency, or even that degree of discipline necessary to maintain an advanced industrial civilization. Our cities are cesspools, our urban schools terrorist training camps, our legislatures brothels where rights are sold to the highest electoral bidder.


D.A. Carson


#freedom #individualism #rights #the-twentieth-century #freedom

In the discharge of the duties of this office, there is one rule of action more important than all others. It consists in never doing anything that someone else can do for you.


Calvin Coolidge


#anything #consists #discharge #doing #duties

And after I started working for the Bureau, most of my translation duties included translations of documents and investigations that actually started way before 9/11.


Sibel Edmonds


#after #before #bureau #documents #duties

It was still quiet in the house, and not a sound was heard from outside, either. Were it not for this silence, my reverie would probably have been disrupted by reminders of daily duties, of getting up and going to school.


Herman Hesse


#daily #disrupted #duties #either #getting

Christ has not only ordained that there shall be such officers in his Church - he has not only specified their duties and prerogatives - but he gives the requisite qualifications, and calls those thus qualified, and by that call gives them their official authority.


Charles Hodge


#call #calls #christ #church #duties