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My parents had this relationship that was really terrifying. I mean, the level of hatred that they had, and the level of physical abuse - my mother would beat up my father, basically - and I think I was drawn to images on television that were bright and reflective.
Augusten Burroughs
No duty the Executive had to perform was so trying as to put the right man in the right place.
Thomas Jefferson
Conscientious people are apt to see their duty in that which is the most painful course.
George Eliot
I have here stated my purpose according to my view of official duty; and I intend no modification of my oft-expressed personal wish that all men every where could be free.
Abraham Lincoln
Be with a leader when he is right, stay with him when he is still right, but, leave him when he is wrong.
So long as there is death there will be sorrow, and so long as there is sorrow it can be no part of the duty of human beings to increase its amount, in spite of the fact that a few rare spirits know how to transmute it.
Bertrand Russell
As it is necessary not to invite robbery by supineness, so it is our duty not to suppress tenderness by suspicion; it is better to suffer wrong than to do it, and happier to be sometimes cheated than not to trust.
Samuel Johnson
Duty - that which sternly impels us in the direction of profit, along the line of desire.
Ambrose Bierce
Our duty, as men and women, is to proceed as if limits to our ability did not exist. We are collaborators in creation.
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
Do the duty which lieth nearest to thee! Thy second duty will already have become clearer
Thomas Carlyle
Suffrage, noun. Expression of opinion by means of a ballot. The right of suffrage (which is held to be both a privilege and a duty) means, as commonly interpreted, the right to vote for the man of another man's choice, and is highly prized.
Sometimes the first duty of intelligent men is the restatement of the obvious.
George Orwell
How do you know if your mission in life is finished? If you're still alive, it isn't.
Richard Bach
Never step over one duty to perform another.
English Proverb
Soldiers -- You are about to return to your homes and your friends, after having, as I learn, performed in camp a comparatively short term of duty in this great contest. I am greatly obliged to you, and to all who have come forward at the call of their country.
Mr. Henry James writes fiction as if it were a painful duty.
Oscar Wilde
Make your life a mission-not an intermission.
Arnold Glasgow
Do that which is assigned to you and you cannot hope too much or dare too much.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Consult duty not events.
Walter Savage Landor
No eulogy is due to him who simply does his duty and nothing more.
Saint Augustine of Hippo
