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Letter "D" » duty
«Talk to me about the truth of religion and I'll listen gladly. Talk to me about the duty of religion and I'll listen submissively. But don't come talking to me about the consolations of religion or I shall suspect that you don't understand.»
Author: C.S. Lewis
(Novelist, Scholar)
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consolations, duty, gladly, listen, religion, shall, submissively, suspect, talk, talking, talking to, talk to, talk to me
«This inescapable duty to observe oneself: if someone else is observing me, naturally I have to observe myself too; if none observe me, I have to observe myself all the closer»
Author: Franz Kafka
(Writer)
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Observation
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closer, duty, inescapable, naturally, observe, observing, Someone else
«To be humble to superiors is duty, to equals courtesy, to inferiors nobleness.»
«The strength of the Constitution lies entirely in the determination of each citizen to defend it. Only if every single citizen feels duty bound to do his share in this defense are the constitutional rights secure.»
Author: Albert Einstein
(Physicist)
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bound, bounded, bounding, citizen, constitution, constitutional, constitutional right, constitutional rights, constitutions, defend, defense, determination, duty-bound, duty, entirely, feels, only if, rights, secure, securing, share
«The right to search for the truth implies also a duty; one must not conceal any part of what one has recognized to be the truth»
«The path of duty lies in the thing that is nearby, but men seek it in things far off»
«Thoughts pay no duty.»
«The honorary duty of a human being is to love.»
«Pleasure is the object, duty and the goal of all rational creatures.»
«There is only one duty, only one safe course, and that is to try to be right.»
Author: Winston Churchill
(Author, Orator, Prime Minister)
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Trying
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duty, safe
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