#duty

My mother speaks of my step being a source of life-long pain to her, that it is a living death, etc. By the same post I had several letters from anxious relatives, telling me that it was my duty to come home and thus ease my mother's anxiety. ↗

— Elizabeth Garrett Anderson

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If I am going to pick and choose the laws I defend, I wouldn't be doing my duty as attorney general. ↗

— Kelly Ayotte

#attorney #attorney general #choose #defend #doing

Reading is not a duty, and has consequently no business to be made disagreeable. ↗

— Aneurin Bevan

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If it is the duty of the State to educate, it is the duty of the State also to bear the burden of education, namely, the taxation out of which education is provided. ↗

— Edmund Barton

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There are 40,000 Iraqi police on duty around the country. If they detect an attack about to happen, the police are the ones who are supposed to stop it. ↗

— Paul Bremer

#around #attack #country #detect #duty

I think it's a short story writer's duty, as well as writing well about emotions and characters, to write story. ↗

— Eric Brown

#characters #duty #emotions #i #i think

To send light into the darkness of men's hearts - such is the duty of the artist. ↗

— Robert Schumann

#artist #darkness #duty #hearts #into

Leadership to me means duty, honor, country. It means character, and it means listening from time to time. ↗

— George W. Bush

#country #duty #from time to time #honor #leadership

When I have had such men before my camera my whole soul has endeavored to do its duty towards them in recording faithfully the greatness of the inner as well as the features of the outer man. The photograph thus taken has been almost the embodiment of a prayer. ↗

— Julia Margaret Cameron

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He would still see it as his duty to shut up and get on with it, not cause any trouble. In our own time we've made a hero of the rebel, and it's more heroic to speak up. ↗

— Eddie Campbell

#cause #duty #get #hero #heroic