#duty

Families are nothing other than the idolatry of duty. ↗

— Ann Oakley

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We, the People, recognize that we have responsibilities as well as rights; that our destinies are bound together; that a freedom which only asks what's in it for me, a freedom without a commitment to others, a freedom without love or charity or duty or patriotism, is unworthy of our founding ideals, and those who died in their defense. ↗

— Barack Obama

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Every Christian will allow that sin is an evil, and that it is our duty not to commit sin. ↗

— John Nelson Darby

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The reason the government sells the census as your ticket to getting goodies - rather than as your civic duty - is that distributing goodies is now all the government does. ↗

— Tom G. Palmer

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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

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I kiss the soil as if I placed a kiss on the hands of a mother, for the homeland is our earthly mother. I consider it my duty to be with my compatriots in this sublime and difficult moment. ↗

— Pope John Paul II

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The door might not be opened to a woman again for a long, long time, and I had a kind of duty to other women to walk in and sit down on the chair that was offered, and so establish the right of others long hence and far distant in geography to sit in the high seats. ↗

— Frances Perkins

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Distrust of authority should be the first civic duty. ↗

— Norman Douglas

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We think it would be safer if the Bank of England had responsibility for solvency regulation of UK-based banks, as well as having an overall duty to keep the system solvent. Otherwise, there could be dangerous delays if a banking crisis did hit. ↗

— John Redwood

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I got put on jury duty, which is where I learned how to write. ↗

— David O. Russell

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