#duty

The dead cannot cry out for justice. It is a duty of the living to do so for them. ↗

— Lois McMaster Bujold

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I know General Grant better than any other person in the country can know him. It was my duty to study him, and I did so day and night, when I saw him and when I did not see him, and now I tell you what I know, he cannot govern this country. ↗

— Edwin M. Stanton

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They held it their duty to live but for their country. ↗

— William Godwin

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I vote and I do jury duty. ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

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The duty of the individual farmer, at this time, is to increase his production, particularly of food crops. ↗

— David F. Houston

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Man is a living duty, a depository of powers that he must not leave in a brute state. Man is a wing. ↗

— Jose Marti

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To do my duty, I must obey God. ↗

— Roy Moore

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The sorrow for the dead is the only sorrow from which we refuse to be divorced. Every other wound we seek to heal - every other affliction to forget: but this wound we consider it a duty to keep open - this affliction we cherish and brood over in solitude. ↗

— Washington Irving

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Sometimes you have to go places with characters and emotions within yourself you don't want to do, but you have a duty to the story and as a storyteller to do it. ↗

— Hugh Jackman

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The constitutions of most of our States assert that all power is inherent in the people; that... it is their right and duty to be at all times armed. ↗

— Thomas Jefferson

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