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No Georgian has the right to evade or neglect his duties and responsibilities.
Eduard Shevardnadze
Neglect
Responsibilities
His
Georgian
Duties
Right
Nothing is more important in the preservation of peace than to secure among the great mass of the people living under constitutional government a just conception of the rights which their nation has against others and of the duties their nation owes to others.
Elihu Root
Government
Great
Peace
Rights
People
Important
Nation
Owes
Nothing
Living
Others
Secure
Constitutional
Constitutional Government
More
Mass
Conception
Than
Duties
Just
Which
Against
Among
Preservation
It is not the straining for great things that is most effective; it is the doing the little things, the common duties, a little better and better.
Elizabeth Stuart Phelps
Great
Little Things
Better
Great Things
Most
Doing
Effective
Duties
Common
Little
Things
In the end, a new Americanization movement can't just be about listing our privileges and immunities, which we catalog in our laws. It also has to be about reinforcing our duties, which we convey in our habits.
Eric Liu
Just Be
Our
About
Laws
Habits
Catalog
New
Also
End
Privileges
Duties
Just
Listing
Movement
In The End
Which
Convey
My husband gave up all his work to stay at home with the kids, and we split all the duties at home. I do all the boring stuff - like pay the bills, and he does all the exercising for both of us, which I'm very grateful for... I thank him for it regularly.
Erika Slezak
Work
Home
Grateful
Husband
Pay
Gave
Kids
Stay
Boring
Stay-At-Home
Both
Split
He
Stuff
Like
Him
Exercising
Does
His
Up
Very
Thank
Duties
Which
Us
Regularly
Bills
Across the country military families are facing dire financial circumstances due to longer than expected tours of duties. They are being penalized for their patriotism - no one should have to choose between doing right by their country and doing right by their families.
Evan Bayh
Patriotism
Financial
Country
Military
Penalized
Circumstances
Dire
Facing
No-One
Tours
Between
Longer
Due
Doing
Families
Than
Expected
Duties
Being
Should
Across
Choose
Right
In my own situation, I cannot show anything... And I believe that everybody now understands that, president or not president, one is entitled to have a private life. But of course when one is president, this creates duties and obligations.
Francois Hollande
Life
Obligations
Entitled
Own
Situation
Believe
Everybody
President
My Own
Course
Understands
Private
Private Life
Duties
Anything
Cannot
Creates
Show
Now
We must find our duties in what comes to us, not in what might have been.
George Eliot
Our
Must
Find
Been
Duties
Might
Us
To be able to take the next generation, my daughters and my granddaughters, to better understand and respect the people in the Outback and experience the wonders of our country, would definitely be one of my favourite duties.
Gina Rinehart
Respect
Generation
Experience
People
Better
Country
Our
Definitely
Would
Favourite
Able
Daughters
Take
Understand
Wonders
Duties
Granddaughter
Next
Next Generation
It is better for the Arab countries themselves to interfere out of their national, humanitarian, political and military duties and to do what is necessary to stop the bloodshed in Syria.
Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani
Better
Political
National
Military
Syria
Arab
Arab Countries
Out
Countries
Bloodshed
Duties
Stop
Themselves
Interfere
Humanitarian
Necessary
Our duties and responsibilities as human beings must be shown to be so incontrovertible that even atheists must recognize them. There are ultimate taboos.
Hans Jonas
Our
Recognize
Responsibilities
Must
Atheists
Taboos
Ultimate
Duties
Human
Human Beings
Them
Beings
Shown
Even
Incontrovertible
I look upon another's insistence on the merits of his or her life - duties, intellect, accomplishment - and see that most of it is nonsense.
Harold Brodkey
Life
See
Insistence
Merits
Look
Most
Another
Nonsense
His
Intellect
Accomplishment
Duties
Her
A soul occupied with great ideas performs small duties.
Harriet Martineau
Great
Soul
Great Ideas
Small
Performs
Ideas
Occupied
Duties
I pray that wherever we are and whatever duties we have in the priesthood of God, we will be united in the cause to bring the gospel to all the world.
Henry B. Eyring
God
World
Cause
Will
Priesthood
Whatever
All The World
Gospel
Pray
Duties
Wherever
United
Bring
In 1833, protection was abandoned, and a tariff was established by which it was provided that we should, in a few years, have a system of merely revenue duties.
Henry Charles Carey
Protection
Few
System
Abandoned
Merely
Revenue
Years
Provided
Tariff
Duties
Established
Which
Should
It was still quiet in the house, and not a sound was heard from outside, either. Were it not for this silence, my reverie would probably have been disrupted by reminders of daily duties, of getting up and going to school.
Hermann Hesse
Daily
Silence
School
Would
Outside
Reminders
House
Sound
Still
Reverie
Were
Been
Heard
Up
Quiet
Getting
Going
Duties
Either
Disrupted
'Lord of the Rings' was about saving the world, big time, big duties.
Ian Mckellen
Time
World
Big
Saving
Rings
About
Lord
Lord Of The Rings
Duties
Big Time
Please, please, stop referring to yourselves as 'consumers.' OK? Consumers are different than citizens. Consumers do not have obligations, responsibilities and duties to their fellow human beings.
James Howard Kunstler
Obligations
Please
OK
Responsibilities
Citizens
Consumers
Fellow
Fellow Human Beings
Referring
Than
Duties
Human
Stop
Different
Human Beings
Beings
It's now up to the full Senate to move swiftly to confirm John Roberts so he can assume his duties and responsibilities as chief justice when the Supreme Court begins its new term in a matter of weeks. We call on the Senate to confirm John Roberts without delay.
Jay Alan Sekulow
Justice
Matter
Delay
Assume
Responsibilities
John
John Roberts
Weeks
He
Term
New
Supreme
Roberts
Call
Supreme Court
Court
Without
His
Up
Chief
Chief Justice
Begins
Senate
Duties
Move
Confirm
Full
Swiftly
Now
In 1828 we raised the duties, on an average, to nearly fifty per cent, when the debt was on the eve of being discharged, and thereby flooded the country with a revenue, when discharged, which could not be absorbed by the most lavish expenditures.
John C. Calhoun
Country
Lavish
Per
Could
Absorb
Most
Revenue
Debt
Duties
Expenditures
Being
Cent
Which
Average
Fifty
Thereby
Eve
Flooded
Nearly
Raised
Every increase of protective duties is necessarily followed, in the present condition of our country, by an expansion of the currency, which must continue to increase till the increased price of production, caused by the expansion, shall be equal to the duty imposed, when a new tariff will be required.
John C. Calhoun
Will
Country
Duty
Every
Increase
Increased
Our
Must
Followed
Shall
Price
New
Equal
Protective
Till
Caused
Continue
Imposed
Condition
Tariff
Expansion
Currency
Duties
Which
Required
Production
Present
Necessarily
I Kenneth Robert Livingstone, having been elected to the office of mayor of London, declare that I take that office upon myself, and will duly and faithfully fulfil the duties of it to the best of my judgement and ability.
Ken Livingstone
Best
Myself
Will
Ability
London
Having
Take
Robert
Judgement
Faithfully
Been
Office
Duties
Mayor
Declare
Elected
Fulfil
Kenneth
I don't feel I'm at liberty to speak about the actions of any one CEO. That's not fair; given CEOs have duties to their shareholders.
Kenneth C. Griffin
Speak
Liberty
About
Given
Shareholders
Feel
Fair
Any
Duties
Not Fair
CEO
CEOs
Actions
In high school, despite my involvement on four different sports teams, I threw my duties of being a jock out the window and spent my spare time in wrestling training or on the PS2.
Kenny Omega
Time
Sports
Training
School
Despite
Spent
Out
High
Jock
High School
Window
Threw
Wrestling
Involvement
Duties
Being
Different
Spare
Spare Time
Teams
Four
Our communities will become more - not less - dangerous when local police officers are pulled from their duties to arrest otherwise law-abiding maids, busboys, and day laborers for immigration violations.
Kevin de Leon
Day
Dangerous
Immigration
Police
Will
Become
Otherwise
Local
Our
Law-Abiding
More
Maids
Police Officers
Arrest
Laborers
Officers
Duties
Communities
Less
Violations
Pulled
The great Comrade Kim Jong Il provided energetic guidance to defend and honour Comrade Kim Il Sung's idea of and exploits in socialist rural construction and make UAWK organizations creditably perform their duties as organizations for ideological education.
Kim Jong-un
Education
Great
Construction
Guidance
Honour
Kim
Sung
Rural
Comrade
Idea
Perform
Make
Ideological
Provided
Duties
Energetic
Exploits
Organizations
Socialist
Defend
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