#duty

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When you go into court you are putting your fate into the hands of twelve people who weren't smart enough to get out of jury duty.


Norm Crosby


#duty #enough #fate #get #go

In 2002, having spent more than three years in one residence for the first time in my life, I got called for jury duty. I show up on time, ready to serve. When we get to the voir dire, the lawyer says to me, “I see you’re an astrophysicist. What’s that?” I answer, “Astrophysics is the laws of physics, applied to the universe—the Big Bang, black holes, that sort of thing.” Then he asks, “What do you teach at Princeton?” and I say, “I teach a class on the evaluation of evidence and the relative unreliability of eyewitness testimony.” Five minutes later, I’m on the street. A few years later, jury duty again. The judge states that the defendant is charged with possession of 1,700 milligrams of cocaine. It was found on his body, he was arrested, and he is now on trial. This time, after the Q&A is over, the judge asks us whether there are any questions we’d like to ask the court, and I say, “Yes, Your Honor. Why did you say he was in possession of 1,700 milligrams of cocaine? That equals 1.7 grams. The ‘thousand’ cancels with the ‘milli-’ and you get 1.7 grams, which is less than the weight of a dime.” Again I’m out on the street.


Neil deGrasse Tyson


#astrophysics #eyewitness #jury-duty #science #universe

But, you know, I'm sorry, I think democracy requires participation. I mean, I don't want to proselytize but I do feel some sort of duty to participate in the process in some way other than just blindly getting behind a political party.


John Cusack


#blindly #democracy #duty #feel #getting

Two ideas are opposed — not concepts or abstractions, but Ideas which were in the blood of men before they were formulated by the minds of men. The Resurgence of Authority stands opposed to the Rule of Money; Order to Social Chaos, Hierarchy to Equality, socio-economico-political Stability to constant Flux; glad assumption of Duties to whining for Rights; Socialism to Capitalism, ethically, economically, politically; the Rebirth of Religion to Materialism; Fertility to Sterility; the spirit of Heroism to the spirit of Trade; the principle of Responsibility to Parliamentarism; the idea of Polarity of Man and Woman to Feminism; the idea of the individual task to the ideal of ‘happiness’; Discipline to Propaganda-compulsion; the higher unities of family, society, State to social atomism; Marriage to the Communistic ideal of free love; economic self-sufficiency to senseless trade as an end in itself; the inner imperative to Rationalism.


Francis Parker Yockey


#authority #culture #duty #economics #equality

Duty largely consists of pretending that the trivial is critical.


John Fowles


#critical #duty #largely #pretending #trivial

By the fulfillment of my legal and moral duty I think I have earned punishment just as little as the tens of thousands of dutiful German officials who have now been imprisoned only because they carried out their duties.


Wilhelm Frick


#been #carried #duties #dutiful #duty

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


#duty #easily #god #great #great nation

I don't understand people who like to work and talk about it like it was some sort of goddamn duty. Doing nothing feels like floating on warm water to me. Delightful, perfect.


Ava Gardner


#delightful #doing #duty #feels #floating

It is not my duty to spend my money in my country, but it is what I want to do. There is nowhere else I would like to invest.


Haile Gebrselassie


#duty #else #i #invest #like

When the fabric of the universe becomes unknown, it is the duty of the university to produce weavers.


Gordon Gee


#duty #fabric #produce #universe #university