The application requisite to the duties of the office I hold [governor of Virginia] is so excessive, and the execution of them… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
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I cannot stand Tolstoy, and reading him was the most boring literary duty I ever had to perform, his philosophy and his… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
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[If not re-elected in 1864] then it will be my duty to so co-operate with the President elect, as to save the… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
For us, holding on to religious rules, and following them, and refraining from what's forbidden, and being diligent with our duties, what… — Muqtada al Sadr Copy Share Image
The first duty to children is to make them happy. If you have not made them so, you have wronged them. No… — Charles Buxton Copy Share Image
I want you to understand that your first duty is to humanity. I want others to look at us and see that… — Madam C. J. Walker Copy Share Image
I'm not on Twitter for abuse. I don't think anyone's gotten on Twitter so that they can be abused, but people do… — Anika Noni Rose Copy Share Image
Religion has ever filled the mind of man with darkness, and kept him in ignorance of his real duties and true interests.… — Baron d'Holbach Copy Share Image
The teaching of the Sermon on the Mount is not--Do your duty, but--Do what is not your duty. It is not your… — Oswald Chambers Copy Share Image
At the beginning of the war, and for some time, the use of colored troops was not contemplated; and how the change… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
We are told that Sin consists in acting contrary to God's commands, but we are also told that God is omnipotent. .… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
People thought I was trying to say that women had no say, no rights. I was not saying that. I was saying… — Fela Kuti Copy Share Image
Countless innocent American lives have been stolen because our politicians have failed in their duty to secure our borders and enforce our… — Donald Trump Copy Share Image
Today our duty is to destroy the myth of evolution, considered as a simple, understood, and explained phenomenon which keeps rapidly unfolding… — Louis Agassiz Copy Share Image
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“duty at the naval station there. A sorrowful welcome awaited him, however, for his brother had died just before his arrival. The… — Mabel Beebe Copy Share Image
Enduring and forgiving are two different things. You must not forgive the cruelty of this world. It's our duty as human beings… — Hiromu Arakawa Copy Share Image
It is, and long has been my opinion, and I have heard honourable members in this House declare it to be theirs… — Joseph Hume Copy Share Image
I have a way of life that I don't change just because I am a president. I earn more than I need,… — Jose Mujica Copy Share Image
You have no sense of your true duty, which is to be a man and preserve humanity. You imitate wise men so… — Wilhelm Reich Copy Share Image
When there throbs in the heart of an individual Latter-day Saint a great and vital testimony of the truth of this work,… — Gordon B. Hinckley Copy Share Image
This is strength; this is peace; to feel, in entering on every day, that all its duties and trials have been committed… — John Gibson Paton Copy Share Image
I have always said if there ever came a day when I could no longer meet my duties and expectations as Apple's… — Steve Jobs Copy Share Image
What comes forth from you as an artist cannot be controlled. But you have responsibilities as a global citizen. Your history dictates… — August Wilson Copy Share Image
Man is clearly made to think. It is his whole dignity and his whole merit; and his whole duty is to think… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
Every right is married to a duty; every freedom owes a corresponding responsibility; and there cannot be genuine freedom unless there exists… — Russell Kirk Copy Share Image
The most practical teaching of the Gita, and one for which it is of abiding interest and value to the men of… — Bal Gangadhar Tilak Copy Share Image
The artist is not a 'Sunday child' for whom everything immediately succeeds. He does not have the right to live without duty.… — Wassily Kandinsky Copy Share Image
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The duties I ask of myself are obligatory for absolutely every individual, everywhere. Moreover, just as I recognize these rights and duties… — Ameen Rihani Copy Share Image
You are very fortunate to be assigned to duty at Fortress Monroe on Chesapeake Bay; it is just the season for soft… — Winfield Scott Copy Share Image
To love someone is madness and, to be loved by someone is gift, Loving someone who loves u is duty, but loved… — Wasteofspace Copy Share Image
Peace with the Palestinians will open ports of peace all around the Mediterranean. The duty of leaders is to pursue freedom ceaselessly,… — Shimon Peres Copy Share Image
I love the Holy Spirit. I can't stand to see it being disrespected. It's been there for me at times when I… — Sinead O'Connor Copy Share Image
Even if so inclined, an artist has no business to marry. For a man, it may be well enough, but for a… — Harriet Hosmer Copy Share Image
Fantasy is escapist, and that is its glory. If a soldier is imprisioned by the enemy, don't we consider it his duty… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Transitioning out of the military after a decade or more of service can be exciting and scary. Even more so when you… — Brandon Webb Copy Share Image
It is one of the noblest duties of a university to advance knowledge, and to diffuse it not merely among those who… — Daniel Coit Gilman Copy Share Image
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