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Everyone living under the social contract we call democracy has a duty to act responsibly, to obey the laws, and to abandon certain types of self-interested behaviors that conflict with the general good.
Simon Mainwaring
Good
Democracy
Conflict
Obey
Duty
Living
Types
Everyone
Abandon
Responsibly
General
Laws
General Good
Call
Contract
Behaviors
Social
Social Contract
Certain
Act
Moses Montefiore loved Jerusalem, lived for Jerusalem, and even made it our family motto. A Zionist before the word was invented, he believed in the sacred idea of Jewish return as a religious Jew's duty, and in Jewish statehood.
Simon Sebag Montefiore
Family
Word
Made
Before
Duty
Our
Religious
Invented
Sacred
He
Idea
Moses
Return
Motto
Loved
Even
Lived
Believed
Jerusalem
Zionist
Jew
Jewish
My husband's duty is to the country, and mine is to the family.
Sonia Gandhi
Family
Husband
Country
Duty
Mine
I think women should inspire. It is our duty to inspire young girls to play a sport, whether it's just for enjoyment and keeping fit or to actually go on and try and make a career out of it.
Steph Houghton
Women
Inspire
Try
Girl
Young
Duty
Think
Our
Out
Sport
Make
Go
Fit
Just
Young Girls
Whether
Should
Play
Keeping
Actually
Enjoyment
Career
Vision looks inward and becomes duty.
Stephen Samuel Wise
Vision
Duty
Inward
Looks
Becomes
Let the grassroots turn on the hate because that's the only thing that will make them do their duty.
Steve Bannon
Hate
Will
Duty
Only
Make
Because
The Only Thing
Them
Turn
Turn-On
Grassroots
Thing
I can't get enough of 'Call of Duty.' I'm the oldest guy who plays on PlayStation.
Steve Jones
Duty
Enough
Guy
Call
Get
Who
Oldest
Plays
Playstation
If you are a Christian, you want to give as much as you can away. It sounds pious, but it's not a duty; it's a kind of joy.
Susan Howatch
You
Joy
Duty
Christian
Kind
Give
Sounds
Pious
Want
Much
Away
Churchill knew the importance of peace, and he also knew the price of it. Churchill finally got his voice, of course. He stressed strategy, but it was his voice that armed England at last with the old-fashioned moral concepts of honor and duty, justice and mercy.
Suzanne Fields
Justice
Peace
Honor
Mercy
Duty
Strategy
Finally
Churchill
Moral
Voice
Price
He
Knew
Armed
Importance
Concepts
Also
Course
Got
His
England
Old-Fashioned
Last
Stressed
Unfortunately, military servicemen and servicewomen often have a difficult time transitioning to jobs in the private sector once their duty is complete.
Tae Yoo
Time
Duty
Military
Difficult
Complete
Once
Sector
Jobs
Private
Private Sector
Often
Unfortunately
Transitioning
Servicemen
Difficult Time
I went to Iraq in 2004 because I believe in doing my duty, not because I agreed with the war.
Tammy Duckworth
War
Duty
Believe
Because
Doing
Iraq
Agreed
My parents were/are straight-edge hippies. Mom roamed around gardening so we would have fresh food, and Dad was on wood-chopping duty to heat our passive solar home that they figured out how to design and build together. I was the kid with green peppers in my lunch, and I liked them!
Tara Stiles
Food
Home
Mom
Together
Gardening
Solar
Parents
Build
Duty
Design
Lunch
Our
Kid
Out
Would
Peppers
Liked
Around
Fresh
Fresh Food
How
Hippies
Passive
Green
Heat
Them
Figured
Dad
I was brought up to do my duty. Not to be vain, not to shout from the rooftops about my virtues - to be modest and well-behaved. I'm totally wrong for show business.
Terry Wogan
Business
Duty
Vain
Virtues
Brought
Totally
About
Wrong
Up
Rooftops
Modest
Shout
Show
Show Business
We know of officers who develop inappropriate relationships with victims of domestic abuse. They have ignored their professional duty and their moral responsibility.
Theresa May
Responsibility
Moral Responsibility
Duty
Relationships
Moral
Develop
Abuse
Know
Domestic
Officers
Victims
Inappropriate
Ignored
Who
Professional
When officers' actions violate their duty, justice should be served in accordance with our legal system.
Thom Tillis
Justice
Legal
Duty
Our
System
Accordance
Legal System
Officers
Should
Actions
Served
Violate
It is not only our duty to America, but also to Ireland. We could not hope to succeed in our effort to make Ireland a Republic without the moral and material support of the liberty-loving citizens of these United States.
Thomas Francis Meagher
Hope
Duty
Our
States
Moral
Citizens
Only
Could
Support
Also
Make
Without
Material
Ireland
Effort
America
Republic
Succeed
United
United States
And I definitely wanted to be a writer, but I felt a duty now, having used up those educational resources, I felt a duty to the church and my parents to become a priest.
Thomas Keneally
Church
Parents
Become
Duty
Resources
Those
Definitely
Having
Writer
Priest
Felt
Educational
Up
Wanted
Used
Now
Waterpolo is my life. Our relationship is that of predetermination I'll never be better at anything than waterpolo and that is why it is my duty to pursue this sport as long as I can, and to the best of my abilities.
Tibor Benedek
Life
Best
Relationship
Better
My Life
Long
Duty
Our
Ability
Pursue
Never
Sport
Than
Anything
Why
I worked in a petrol station on the A1 one summer. I enjoyed it except when I was on latrine duty.
Tim Rice
Duty
Summer
Station
Except
Worked
Petrol
Enjoyed
The most sacred duty of the President of the United States of America is to defend and protect the Constitution and the principles it enshrines: freedom, fairness, and equality.
Tom Steyer
Freedom
Constitution
Equality
Duty
President
States
Sacred
Sacred Duty
Most
Protect
Fairness
Principles
America
United
United States
United States Of America
Defend
The president and the administration had a duty to defend the Defense of Marriage Act, but powerful constituencies of the president did not want the president to defend it. And unfortunately, politics trumped duty.
Trent Franks
Politics
Marriage
Duty
Defense
President
Administration
Had
Powerful
Did
Want
Unfortunately
Act
Defend
I'm a gamer, so I play '2k,' 'Call of Duty,' and 'Madden.' I think I can play those games every day.
Trey Burke
Day
Every Day
Gamer
Duty
Every
Think
Those
Madden
Call
Games
Play
If you were summoned for jury duty and you didn't show up, what would happen? You'd be in jail!
Trey Gowdy
You
Duty
Summoned
Would
Were
Up
Jury
Jury Duty
Jail
Happen
Show
Seek happiness for its own sake, and you will not find it; seek for duty, and happiness will follow as the shadow comes with the sunshine.
Tryon Edwards
Happiness
You
Sunshine
Will
Own
Duty
Find
Follow
Seek
Shadow
Sake
With acting, when you're reading a script, you're regurgitating someone else's words. There's a whole part of your brain that's off duty.
Vanessa Lachey
You
Words
Reading
Duty
Else
Someone
Part
Brain
Off
Script
Acting
Your
Whole
As an actor, if you want to explore something new inside you, you need to do something different that you don't do in your regular life. You need to think in a different way. It is my duty to think like the character that I am given and believe in his mindset; only then I will be able to portray it.
Vicky Kaushal
Life
Character
You
Will
Duty
Believe
Think
Mindset
Way
Inside
Able
Something
Given
Only
Something New
New
Like
Am
His
Different
Want
Then
Regular
Explore
Your
Different Way
Actor
Portray
Need
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