"As a writer you have a duty to…" — Jay Griffiths
"As a writer you have a duty to be a messenger."
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25 Quotes by Jay Griffiths
Jay Griffiths has 25 quotes on this site.
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A wild creature is not subject to any will except its own
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All humans are essentially wild creatures and hate confinement. We need what is wild, and we thrill to it, our…
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Being adequately informed is a democratic duty, just as the vote is a democratic right. A misinformed electorate, voting without…
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We are animal in our blood and in our skin. We were not born for pavements and escalators but for…
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A functional media is as important to democratic freedom as voting.
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Children say they are unhappy in every language they have. They say it in silence, and they say it in…
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Clock measurement is not time itself. In fact, so opposed are they that one could argue the clock is not…
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I don't write quickly, and I don't want to.
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If people can't acknowledge the wisdom of indigenous cultures, then that's their loss.
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Just because Galileo was a heretic doesn't make every heretic a Galileo.
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The losses of the natural world are our loss, their silence silences something within the human mind.
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The silencing of the rainforests is a double deforestation, not only of trees but a deforestation of the mind's music,…
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More Duty Quotes
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In doing what we ought we deserve no praise, because it is our duty.
— Saint Augustine
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No eulogy is due to him who simply does his duty and nothing more.
— Saint Augustine
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A powerful attraction exists, therefore, to the promotion of a study and of duties of all others engrossing the time…
— Charles Babbage
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Those from whose pocket the salary is drawn, and by whose appointment the officer was made, have always a right…
— Charles Babbage
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We never fail when we try to do our duty, we always fail when we neglect to do it.
— Robert Baden-Powell
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Doing what you do well is death. Your duty is to keep trying to do things that you don't do…
— John Banville
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We are all one - or at least we should be - and it is our job, our duty, and…
— Roy Barnes
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We'll try to cooperate fully with the IRS, because, as citizens, we feel a strong patriotic duty not to go…
— Dave Barry
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An artist has every right - one may even say a duty - to exhibit his productions as prominently as…
— Jacques Barzun
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The liberties of our country, the freedom of our civil constitution, are worth defending against all hazards: And it is…
— Samuel Adams
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Presidents have the right to nominate their own cabinet secretaries. But their nominees don't have a right to confirmation. Senators…
— Gary Bauer
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Defending the truth is not something one does out of a sense of duty or to allay guilt complexes, but…
— Simone de Beauvoir
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