#duties

Certainly it is wrong to be cruel to animals and the destruction of a whole species can be a great evil. The capacity for feelings of pleasure and pain and for the form of life of which animals are capable clearly impose duties of compassion and humanity in their case. ↗

— John Rawls

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Nothing is more important in the preservation of peace than to secure among the great mass of the people living under constitutional government a just conception of the rights which their nation has against others and of the duties their nation owes to others. ↗

— Elihu Root

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Neither praise or blame is the object of true criticism. Justly to discriminate, firmly to establish, wisely to prescribe, and honestly to award. These are the true aims and duties of criticism. ↗

— William Gilmore Simms

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Among the smaller duties of life I hardly know any one more important than that of not praising where praise is not due. ↗

— Sydney Smith

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Bush's war in Iraq has done untold damage to the United States. It has impaired our military power and undermined the morale of our armed forces. Our troops were trained to project overwhelming power. They were not trained for occupation duties. ↗

— George Soros

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I feel incompetent to perform duties... which have been so unexpectedly thrown upon me. ↗

— Andrew Johnson

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I always concentrated on doing the very best that I could in the job and the duties that I was assigned. ↗

— Hugh Shelton

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Of all duties, prayer certainly is the sweetest and most easy. ↗

— Laurence Sterne

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One of the first duties of the physician is to educate the masses not to take medicine. ↗

— William Osler

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I have no intention of resigning, and confidently expect to resume official duties within three months. ↗

— Frederick William Borden

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