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I was a fat kid who didn't discover the joys of active play at the time of life when we're supposed to be imprinted with a love of movement. That means that I'd rather be called for jury duty than go to the gym, but I go anyway.
Victoria Moran
Life
Love
Time
Duty
Active
Kid
Rather
Gym
Supposed
Joys
Go
Discover
Imprinted
Than
Jury
Jury Duty
Movement
Anyway
Means
Who
Play
Fat
If you are irresponsible as a parent and don't know what your kids are watching, that's your problem. It's not the creator's duty to create every show in a way that a six-year-old can watch it.
Vikramaditya Motwane
You
Problem
Duty
Every
Way
Kids
Parent
Know
Irresponsible
Create
Your
Show
Creator
Watch
Watching
Even if a sense of honor and duty were not the primary motivating factors in the Warren Commission's work, simple self-interest would naturally have induced its members not to try to cover up the existence of a conspiracy if, in fact, they found one.
Vincent Bugliosi
Work
Simple
Cover-Up
Try
Honor
Conspiracy
Duty
Sense
Members
Would
Fact
Factors
Primary
Induced
Self-Interest
Cover
Motivating
Were
Existence
Up
Commission
In Fact
Warren
Naturally
Even
Found
Beyond being timely, an obituary has a more subjective duty: to assess its subject's impact.
Walter Cronkite
Duty
Impact
Obituary
More
Beyond
Subject
Subjective
Timely
Being
Assess
We at the NRA embrace and hold dear what makes us uniquely American. Family, responsibility, patriotism, mutual respect, honesty, civic duty.
Wayne LaPierre
Family
Respect
Patriotism
Honesty
Responsibility
Duty
Embrace
Civic
Mutual
Mutual Respect
Makes
Dear
American
American Family
Hold
Us
Uniquely
Next to upholding the Constitution of the United States, the president's highest duty is to protect the security of this country - our national security.
Wesley Clark
Constitution
Country
National
Duty
President
Our
States
Security
Constitution Of The United States
Highest
Protect
National Security
Upholding
Next
United
United States
By the fulfillment of my legal and moral duty I think I have earned punishment just as little as the tens of thousands of dutiful German officials who have now been imprisoned only because they carried out their duties.
Wilhelm Frick
Legal
Duty
Think
Earned
Punishment
Carried
Out
Moral
Thousands
Moral Duty
Only
Tens
Tens Of Thousands
Because
Been
German
Imprisoned
Officials
Duties
Dutiful
Just
Little
Fulfillment
Who
Now
The troops are therefore empowered and are in duty bound in this war to use without mitigation even against women and children any means that will lead to success.
Wilhelm Keitel
Success
War
Women
Will
Duty
Troops
Lead
Bound
Empowered
Without
Women And Children
Any
Children
Against
Means
Use
Therefore
Even
I've watched my duty, straight an' true, an' tried to do it well; Part of the time kept heaven in view, An' part steered clear of hell.
Will Carleton
Time
Duty
Hell
Tried
Steered
Part
Clear
True
Well
Heaven
Straight
View
Watched
Kept
As a member of Congress, a coequal branch of government designed by our founders to provide checks and balances on the executive branch, I believe that lawmakers must fulfill our oversight duty as well as keep the American people informed of the current danger.
Will Hurd
Government
People
Duty
Congress
Believe
Our
Danger
Member
Must
Lawmakers
Checks
Checks And Balances
Executive
Well
Executive Branch
Balances
Provide
Oversight
Branch
American
Current
Informed
American People
Fulfill
Keep
Founders
Designed
For this is our most perfect duty and yet least known to us by nature: Whatever we conceive or will should be joined with the good of our neighbor.
William Ames
Good
Nature
Will
Whatever
Duty
Our
Neighbor
Perfect
Joined
Conceive
Most
Known
Least
Us
Should
From a very early age I had imbibed the opinion that it was every man's duty to do all that lay in his power to leave his country as good as he had found it.
William Cobbett
Good
Man
Age
Power
Country
Duty
Every
Lay
Had
He
Opinion
Leave
His
Very
Very Early Age
Found
Early
Early Age
The book which you read from a sense of duty, or because for any reason you must, does not commonly make friends with you.
William Dean Howells
You
Book
Duty
Sense
Must
Make
Read
Because
Does
Friends
Any
Which
Commonly
Reason
He who is false to the present duty breaks a thread in the loom, and you will see the effect when the weaving of a life-time is unraveled.
William Ellery Channing
You
Will
Duty
Thread
See
Weaving
He
Loom
False
Effect
Breaks
Who
Present
We have, all of us, our duties. Every action of our lives, and every word that we utter, will either conduce to or detract from the discharge of our duty.
William Godwin
Word
Will
Duty
Action
Every
Our
Our Lives
Discharge
Duties
Either
Us
Lives
Utter
Duty is that mode of action which constitutes the best application of the capacity of the individual to the general advantage.
William Godwin
Best
Duty
Action
General
Individual
Advantage
Mode
Which
Capacity
Application
It is not only our duty to pray for others, but also to desire the prayers of others for ourselves.
William Gurnall
Duty
Others
Our
Ourselves
Only
Also
Pray
Pray For
Prayers
Desire
The soldier is summoned to a life of active duty and so is the Christian.
William Gurnall
Life
Duty
Active
Christian
Soldier
Summoned
Look at my record. I have done my duty.
William H. Pryor
Duty
Record
Look
Done
The sexes were made for each other, and only in the wise and loving union of the two is the fullness of health and duty and happiness to be expected.
William Hall
Happiness
Health
Wise
Made
Duty
Other
Sexes
Only
Were
Expected
Loving
Union
Fullness
Each
Two
Having now reached a point where danger might be reasonably apprehended from strolling war parties of Indians, spies were kept in advance and strict diligence observed in the duty of sentinels.
William Henry Ashley
War
Strict
Duty
Diligence
Danger
Spies
Indians
Having
Point
Advance
Observed
Reached
Parties
Were
Where
Might
Reasonably
Now
Kept
The Imperial German Government will not expect the Government of the United States to omit any word or any act necessary to the performance of its sacred duty of maintaining the rights of the United States and its citizens and of safeguarding their free exercise and enjoyment.
William Jennings Bryan
Government
Rights
Word
Will
Free
Duty
Omit
States
Citizens
Imperial
Sacred
Sacred Duty
Performance
Maintaining
Safeguarding
Exercise
German
Expect
Any
Act
United
United States
Enjoyment
Necessary
No simplicity of mind, no obscurity of station, can escape the universal duty of questioning all that we believe.
William Kingdon Clifford
Simplicity
Mind
Duty
Believe
Station
Obscurity
Questioning
Escape
Universal
The writer's duty is to keep on writing.
William Styron
Writing
Duty
Writer
Keep
So far, I've never missed a deadline for a term paper, a review, a manuscript. I perform the mumbo-jumbo of voting with belief in my heart, I've not yet won even a jaywalking ticket, and unlike my father, whom I fault in this respect, I refrain from opting out of jury duty; instead, they mostly kick me out.
William T. Vollmann
Me
Respect
Heart
Fault
Voting
Father
Duty
Unlike
Kick
Paper
Out
Never
Instead
Perform
Missed
Term
Ticket
Mostly
Deadline
Review
Won
Refrain
Jury
Jury Duty
Far
Manuscript
Even
Belief
Whom
Writers and intellectuals have a duty to humanity. It is to insist that the human entity remains the primary asset in overall development; thus, it must be safeguarded.
Wole Soyinka
Humanity
Insist
Duty
Must
Entity
Remains
Writers
Primary
Development
Thus
Overall
Intellectuals
Human
Asset
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