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"My doctor says that I have a malformed public-duty gland and a natural deficiency in moral fibre, and that I am therefore excused from saving Universes."	Douglas Noel Adams
"Contemplate thy powers, contemplate thy wants and thy connections; so shalt thou discover the duties of life, and be directed in all thy ways."	Akhenaton
"Marriage is that relation between man and woman in which the independence is equal, the dependence mutual, and the obligation reciprocal."	Louis K. Anspacher
"Your only obligation in any lifetime is to be true to yourself."	Richard David Bach
"There has been in recent years excessive emphasis on a citizen's rights and inadequate stress put upon his duties and responsibilities."	Paxton Blair
"Discretion is the perfection of reason, and a guide to us in all the duties of life."	Jean de La Bruyère
"To keep the body in good health is a duty. . . otherwise we shall not be able to keep our mind strong and clear."	Buddha
"It is only Christianity, the great bond of love and duty to God, that makes any existence valuable or even tolerable."	Horace Bushnell
"My time has been passed viciously and agreeably; at thirty-one so few years months days hours or minutes remain that 'Carpe Diem' is not enough. I have been obliged to crop even the seconds-for who can trust to tomorrow?"	George Gordon Byron
"A person I knew use to divide human beings into three categories: Those who prefer have nothing to hide rather than being obliged to lie, those who prefer lying to having nothing to hide, and finally those who like both lying and the hidden."	Albert Camus
"I know of only one duty, and that is to love."	Albert Camus
"You can't divorce religious belief and public service ... I've never detected any conflict between God's will and my political duty. If you violate one, you violate the other."	James Earl "Jimmy" Carter, Jr.
"Every human being has a work to carry on within, duties to perform abroad, influence to exert, which are peculiarly his, and which no conscience but his own can teach."	William Ellery Channing
"Let us therefore brace ourselves to our duty, and so bear ourselves that, if the British Empire and its Commonwealth lasts for a thousand years, men will still say, 'This was their finest hour.'"	Sir Winston Leonard Spenser Churchill
"Let us therefore brace ourselves to our duty, and so bear ourselves that, if the British Commonwealth and the Empire last for a thousand years, men will still say, `This was their finest hour´."	Sir Winston Leonard Spenser Churchill
"As civil rulers, not having their duty to the people duly before them, may attempt to tyrannize, and as the military forces which must be occasionally raised to defend our country, might pervert their power to the injury of their fellow-citizens, the people are confirmed by the next article in their right to keep and bear their private arms."	Tench Coxe
"A man said to the universe: 'Sir, I exist!' 'However,' replied the universe. 'The fact has not created in me A sense of obligation.'"	Stephen Crane
"God never built a Christian strong enough to carry today's duties and tomorrow's anxieties piled on top of them."	Theodore Ledyard Cuyler
"It is no longer my moral duty as a human being to achieve an integrated and unitary set of explanations for my thoughts and feelings."	Bronwyn Davies
"A king, realizing his incompetence, can either delegate or abdicate his duties. A father can do neither. If only sons could see the paradox, they would understand the dilemma."	Marlene Dietrich
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Benjamin Franklin	Bronwyn Davies	Bruce Lee
Buddha	Doug Larson	Douglas Noel Adams
Dr. Samuel Johnson	Galileo Galilei	George Eliot
George Washington	George Gordon Byron	Gerard Hargraves
Helen Adams Keller	Henrik Ibsen	Horace Bushnell
James Earl "Jimmy" Carter, Jr.	Jean de La Bruyère	John Locke
John Fitzgerald Kennedy	John Morley	Joseph Fort Newton
Jose Ortega y Gasset	Lord Nelson	Lord Nelson Horatio
Louis K. Anspacher	Lyndon Baines Johnson	Marian Wright Edelman
Marlene Dietrich	Maxim Gorky	Newell Dwight Hillis
Nikos Kazantzakis	Paxton Blair	Ralph Waldo Emerson
Richard David Bach	Robert Edward Lee	Robert Francis Kennedy
Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy	Sam(uel) James Ervin, Jr.	Sir Winston Leonard Spenser Churchill
Stephen Crane	Tench Coxe	Theodore Ledyard Cuyler
Thomas Jefferson	Thomas Merton	William Ellery Channing