#duty

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

#duty #held #live #their

I vote and I do jury duty. ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

#i #i do #jury #jury duty #vote

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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It is our duty still to endeavor to avoid war; but if it shall actually take place, no matter by whom brought on, we must defend ourselves. If our house be on fire, without inquiring whether it was fired from within or without, we must try to extinguish it. ↗

— Thomas Jefferson

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