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You can not divorce religious belief and public service. I've never detected any conflict between God's will and my political duty. If you violate one, you violate the other.
Jimmy Carter
Service
God
You
Conflict
Political
Will
Duty
Other
Religious
Religious Belief
Never
Divorce
Between
Any
Public
Public Service
Belief
Violate
Helping others is the key duty for everyone on this earth who is remotely capable to do so.
Joanna Krupa
Key
Duty
Others
Everyone
Earth
Remotely
Capable
Who
Helping
Every American soldier wants as much public support as he can possibly have. That's the soldiers on duty in Iraq, and that's me, as well. We fight better knowing that our people back home support us, back us, and understand what we're doing. It's hugely important.
John Abizaid
Home
Me
Patriotism
Fight
People
Better
Important
Duty
Every
Back
Our
Soldier
Soldiers
Our People
Possibly
He
Support
Knowing
Well
Understand
Doing
Iraq
Hugely
American
Wants
Public
Us
Much
Public Support
Every American
But, you know, I'm sorry, I think democracy requires participation. I mean, I don't want to proselytize but I do feel some sort of duty to participate in the process in some way other than just blindly getting behind a political party.
John Cusack
Democracy
You
Political
Sorry
Party
Blindly
Duty
Think
Other
Way
Some
Feel
Participate
Participation
Know
Sort
Political Party
Than
Getting
Behind
Just
Want
Process
Mean
Requires
Duty largely consists of pretending that the trivial is critical.
John Fowles
Pretending
Duty
Consists
Critical
Trivial
Largely
This idea of the transcendent power of the Supreme Being is essentially connected with that by which the whole duty of man is summed up: obedience to His will.
John Quincy Adams
Man
Obedience
Will
Power
Duty
Idea
Supreme
Supreme Being
His
Up
Essentially
Being
Transcendent
Which
Connected
Whole
The first duty of government is to see that people have food, fuel, and clothes. The second, that they have means of moral and intellectual education.
John Ruskin
Education
Government
Food
People
First
Duty
Clothes
Moral
See
Intellectual
Fuel
Means
Second
Abasement, degradation is simply the manner of life of the man who has refused to be what it is his duty to be.
Jose Ortega y Gasset
Life
Man
Duty
Degradation
Simply
His
Refused
Manner
Who
It is the duty and high privilege of every human being to endeavor to improve himself. Effort at self-improvement is the definition sometimes given for religion. It may relate to our actions or to our convictions. In our actions we should aim at goodness; in our convictions, at truth.
Joseph P. Bradley
Truth
Religion
Human Being
Sometimes
Goodness
Endeavor
Duty
Convictions
Every
Relate
Aim
Our
Definition
High
Given
Himself
Self-Improvement
Privilege
Effort
Improve
May
Human
Being
Should
Actions
My duty is to call for free elections because there is an abuse of power, and we live in a dictatorship.
Juan Guaido
Abuse Of Power
Dictatorship
Free
Power
Duty
Live
Abuse
Call
Because
Elections
I think it's your duty to overcome what you inherit in life.
Kelsey Grammer
Life
You
Overcome
Duty
Think
Your
Inherit
Government lawyers have a duty to disclose evidence of wrongdoing in the government.
Ken Starr
Government
Disclose
Duty
Evidence
Lawyers
Wrongdoing
We would consider it our moral duty to lend all support to the ending of colonialism and imperialism so that people everywhere are free to mould their own destiny.
Lal Bahadur Shastri
People
Ending
Free
Colonialism
Own
Duty
Consider
Our
Everywhere
Destiny
Moral
Would
Moral Duty
Imperialism
Support
Mould
Lend
To my mind, it is the duty of the younger Negro artist, if he accepts any duties at all from outsiders, to change through the force of his art that old whispering 'I want to be white,' hidden in the aspirations of his people, to 'Why should I want to be white? I am a Negro - and beautiful!'
Langston Hughes
Beautiful
Art
Change
People
Old
Mind
Duty
White
Hidden
Through
Outsiders
He
Force
Accepts
Am
His
Any
Artist
Duties
Want
Younger
Whispering
Should
Aspirations
Why
As a chef, I feel that it is my duty to make the most of what the earth gives us.
Lidia Bastianich
Duty
Earth
Gives
Feel
Most
Make
Chef
Us
For me, personally, I feel like that's my duty while I'm on this earth is to serve others and use my blessing to bless others. If I'm not doing that, I feel like I'm not serving my purpose. That's my goal, that's my passion, and that's what I intend to do for the rest of my life.
Malcolm Brogdon
Life
Me
Blessing
Passion
Rest
My Life
Duty
Others
Earth
Purpose
Feel
Bless
Like
Doing
Goal
Intend
While
Personally
Use
Serve
Serving
The respect and protection of woman and of maternity should be raised to the position of an inalienable social duty and should become one of the principles of human morality.
Maria Montessori
Respect
Woman
Protection
Become
Duty
Morality
Principles
Maternity
Human
Social
Inalienable
Should
Raised
Position
For myself, therefore, I desire to declare that the principle that will govern me in the high duty to which my country calls me is a strict adherence to the letter and spirit of the Constitution as it was designed by those who framed it.
Martin Van Buren
Myself
Me
Constitution
Strict
Will
Country
Duty
Framed
Those
Adherence
High
Spirit
Principle
Calls
Govern
Which
Declare
Who
Therefore
Letter
Designed
Desire
Permanent remorse about failing to do your human duty, in my opinion, can be worse than losing your life.
Miep Gies
Life
Losing
Duty
Worse
About
Failing
Remorse
Opinion
Permanent
Than
Human
In My Opinion
Your
I have a reputation for drinking a lot. Indeed, I drink quite much. However, I give it up when I wish to do so. I never, ever drink while on duty. The drinking is only for my pleasure. I do not remember neglecting my duties because of drinking even once.
Mustafa Kemal Ataturk
Remember
Drinking
Wish
Duty
Reputation
Neglecting
Once
Indeed
Pleasure
Give
Only
Drink
Never
Because
However
Lot
Up
Quite
Duties
While
Much
Even
Ever
It's the duty of all novelists, all painters, all musicians, all people who try to make art move: to look for something they feel authentically, without paying attention to styles.
Nathalie Sarraute
Art
Musicians
People
Try
Duty
All People
Something
Attention
Feel
Look
Make
Without
Styles
Move
Paying
Who
Painters
Novelists
I see it as my duty in some way is to be out in the world as an Australian putting forward what I consider to be authentic Australian music.
Nick Cave
Music
World
Duty
Consider
Way
Out
See
Some
Putting
Australian
Authentic
Forward
A weak soul does not have the endurance to resist the flesh for very long. It grows heavy, becomes flesh itself, and the contest ends. But among responsible men, men who keep their eyes riveted day and night upon the Supreme Duty, the conflict between flesh and spirit breaks out mercilessly and may last until death.
Nikos Kazantzakis
Death
Day
Soul
Eyes
Conflict
Men
Long
Duty
Weak
Out
Responsible
Spirit
Day And Night
Between
Until
Supreme
Contest
Becomes
Does
Itself
Very
May
Ends
Endurance
Heavy
Breaks
Flesh
Who
Keep
Among
Grows
Resist
Last
Night
Distrust of authority should be the first civic duty.
Norman Douglas
First
Duty
Civic
Distrust
Be The First
Authority
Should
I was raised to believe that we all have a civic duty and a responsibility as Americans to improve our neighborhoods and our nation.
Paul Cook
Responsibility
Nation
Duty
Believe
Our
Neighborhoods
Civic
Improve
American
Raised
Every State has the primary duty to protect its own population from grave and sustained violations of human rights, as well as from the consequences of humanitarian crises, whether natural or man-made.
Pope Benedict XVI
Rights
Natural
Own
Duty
Human Rights
Every
Consequences
State
Crises
Primary
Protect
Well
Man-Made
Human
Sustained
Whether
Population
Grave
Humanitarian
Violations
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