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Tuesday, 14 October 2008
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"You don't have to fool all the people all of the time; you just have to fool enough to get elected." (Barzan, Gerald - Elections)

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Browse Quotations about Duty

A duty dodged is like a debt unpaid; it is only deferred, and we must come back and settle the account at last.
A sense of duty is useful in work but offensive in personal relations. People wish to be liked, not to be endured with patient resignation.
Activate yourself to duty by remembering your position, who you are, and what you have obliged yourself to be.
But in his duty prompt at every call, he watched and wept, he prayed and felt for all.
Consult duty not events.
Do something every day that you don't want to do. This is the golden rule for acquiring the habit of doing your duty without pain.
Do that which is assigned to you and you cannot hope too much or dare too much.
Do the duty which lies nearest to you, the second duty will then become clearer.
Do your duty and leave the rest to heaven.
Duties are not performed for duty's sake, but because their neglect would make the man uncomfortable. A man performs but one duty --the duty of contenting his spirit, the duty of making himself agreeable to himself.
Duty cannot exist without faith.
Duty is the sublimest word in the language. You can never do more than your duty. You should never wish to do less.
Duty largely consists of pretending that the trivial is critical.
Duty. That which sternly impels us in the direction of profit, along the line of desire.
Every right implies a responsibility; Every opportunity, an obligation, Every possession, a duty.


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