The Executive is charged officially in the Departments under it with the disbursement of the public money, and is responsible for the… — James Monroe Copy Share Image
This is a precious possession which we cannot afford to tarnish, but society always is attempting to make the physician into a… — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
I have always believed that art should be a deep pleasure...ther e is always, everywhere, an enormous amount of suffering. But I… — David Hockney Copy Share Image
Kant regards the universalizability test for maxims as focused on a very special sort of situation: one where the agent is tempted… — Allen W. Wood Copy Share Image
I think that it is useless to fight directly against natural weaknesses. One has to force oneself to act as though one… — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
“As a young man, he had instinctively husbanded the freshness of his powers. At the time, it was too soon to see… — Ivan Goncharov Copy Share Image
True belief is not about blind submission. It is about open-eyed acceptance, and acceptance requires persistent distance from the truth, and that… — Andrew Sullivan Copy Share Image
Sin is what you do when your heart is not satisfied with God. No one sins out of duty. We sin because… — John Piper Copy Share Image
Holiness is the sum of a million little things — the avoidance of little evils and little foibles, the setting aside of… — Kevin DeYoung Copy Share Image
The grateful applause of the clergy has consecrated the memory of a prince, who indulged their passions and promoted their interest. Constantine… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
The immigration system in America today has been misrepresented, misunderstood to mean: "Anybody who wants to come can come. The world is… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
Spirituality is best manifested on the ground, not in the air. Rapturous day-dreams, flights of heavenly fancy, longings to see the Invisible,… — Maltbie Davenport Babcock Copy Share Image
Armenians, as a people that have survived the Genocide, have a moral duty towards mankind and history in the prevention of genocides.… — Serzh Sargsyan Copy Share Image
Sybil's female forebears had valiantly backed up their husbands as distant embassies were besieged, had given birth on a camel or in… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
That distrust which intrudes so often on your mind is a mode of melancholy, which, if it be the business of a… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
The terrible, cold, cruel part is Wall Street. Rivers of gold flow there from all over the earth, and death comes with… — Federico Garcia Lorca Copy Share Image
I expected this reception. All men hate the wretched; how, then, must I be hated, who am miserable beyond all living things!… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Inspectors do not have the duty or the ability to uncover terrible weapons hidden in a vast country. The responsibility of inspectors… — Donald Rumsfeld Copy Share Image
The person who is working on his or her family history fits the description of one who is fulfilling his or her… — Thomas S. Monson Copy Share Image
Love exercised while duty is neglected will make children headstrong, willful, perverse, selfish, and disobedient. If stern duty is left to stand… — Ellen G. White Copy Share Image
At this moment, I have in my heart a prayer. As I have assumed my heavy duties, I humbly pray, Almighty God,… — Harry S. Truman Copy Share Image
“The rain began to fall harder, and it distracted him, but he tried to pull himself back because he felt on the… — Robert Boswell Copy Share Image
Why had we let it go? Why had we both been condemned...to an exile among dreary strangers who had made us give… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
While the scientist, on the one hand, is concerned with giving a faithful description of facts, on the other, he has the… — Marie Taylor Collins Swabey Copy Share Image
The artist brain is the sensory brain: sight and sound, smell and taste, touch. These are the elements of magic, and magic… — Julia Cameron Copy Share Image
Canada, having few indigenous prejudices, has been compelled to import them from elsewhere, duty-free, and it is the rare Canadian who is… — Robertson Davies Copy Share Image
This is not to say that the government should confiscate from the "haves" and bestow upon the "have-nots", beyond the requirements of… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
I think each village was meant to feel pity for its own sick and poor whom it can help and I doubt… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Surely it wasn't possible that Vin diPietro was the first assignment. "Hello?" DiPietro waved. "You in there?" Nah, Jim thought. Can't be.… — J.R. Ward Copy Share Image
An American leader would be derelict of duty if he did not seek to understand all his options in such unprecedented circumstances.… — John Yoo Copy Share Image
It is a very grave mistake to think that the enjoyment of seeing and searching can be promoted by means of coercion… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
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I believe in the United States of America as a government of the people, by the people, for the people, whose just… — William Tyler Copy Share Image
We all have obligations and duties toward our fellow men. But it does seem curious enough that in modern neurotic society, men's… — Lin Yutang Copy Share Image
... since birth control roots in a species of selfishness, the spiritual life of the user of contraceptives is also weakened. Women… — John Andreas Widtsoe Copy Share Image
It is the prime responsibility of every citizen to feel that his country is free and to defend its freedom is his… — Vallabhbhai Patel Copy Share Image
Acquiring weapons for the defense of Muslims is a religious duty. If I have indeed acquired these weapons, then I thank God… — Osama bin Laden Copy Share Image
Like all good things, prayer requires some discipline. Yet I believe that life with God should seem more like friendship than duty.… — Philip Yancey Copy Share Image
There will be little drudgery in this better ordered world. Natural power harnessed in machines will be the general drudge. What drudgery… — H. G. Wells Copy Share Image
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