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There are events which are so great that if a writer has participated in them his obligation is to write truly rather than assume the presumption of altering them with invention.
Ernest Hemingway
Great
Obligation
Events
Invention
Assume
Presumption
Rather
Write
Writer
Altering
His
Truly
Than
Which
Them
The clearest actions come from truth, not obligation.
Gerard Way
Truth
Obligation
Clearest
Come
Actions
Basketball is in my blood. It is my obligation to try.
Hakeem Olajuwon
Obligation
Try
Blood
Basketball
Freedom is not the absence of obligation or restraint, but the freedom of movement within healthy, chosen parameters.
Kristin Armstrong
Freedom
Obligation
Healthy
Parameters
Restraint
Absence
Within
Movement
Chosen
We have an obligation to help people that cannot help themselves. The mentally retarded, the physically retarded, et cetera.
Lou Holtz
People
Obligation
Physically
Mentally
Retarded
Cannot
Themselves
Help
Help People
We can be thankful to a friend for a few acres, or a little money; and yet for the freedom and command of the whole earth, and for the great benefits of our being, our life, health, and reason, we look upon ourselves as under no obligation.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Life
Thankful
Health
Great
Freedom
Obligation
Money
Benefits
Few
Our
Earth
Ourselves
Be Thankful
Look
Command
Friend
Being
Little
Acres
Little Money
Reason
Whole
No obligation to do the impossible is binding.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
Obligation
Impossible
Binding
As my dad said, you have an obligation to leave the world better than how you found it. And he also reminded us to be givers in this life, and not takers.
Phil Crane
Life
You
Obligation
World
Better
Givers
He
Takers
Reminded
Also
Said
How
Leave
Than
Us
Dad
Found
Since the women are the ones who bear the babies, and there's nothing we can do about that, our laws and customs then make it the financial obligation of the husband to provide the support. It is his obligation and his sole obligation. And this is exactly and precisely what we will lose if the Equal Rights Amendment is passed.
Phyllis Schlafly
Rights
Women
Obligation
Financial
Will
Husband
Lose
Nothing
Babies
Our
Sole
Exactly
About
Laws
Bear
Support
Since
Equal
Make
Equal Rights
Passed
His
Provide
Women Are
Amendment
Precisely
Customs
Then
Who
National sovereignty is an obligation as well as an entitlement. A government that will not perform the role of a government forfeits the rights of a government.
Richard Perle
Government
Rights
Obligation
Entitlement
Will
National
Perform
Well
Role
National Sovereignty
Sovereignty
Scoutcraft is a means through which the veriest hooligan can be brought to higher thought and to the elements of faith in God; and, coupled with the Scout's obligation to do a good turn every day, it gives the base of Duty to God and to Neighbour on which the parent or pastor can build with greater ease the form of belief that is desired.
Robert Baden-Powell
God
Faith
Good
Day
Every Day
Obligation
Thought
Build
Duty
Every
Ease
Neighbour
Brought
Parent
Gives
Higher
Through
Coupled
Greater
Pastor
Scout
Form
Which
Turn
Means
Base
Belief
Elements
Desired
I think the man who eats the bread of idleness is under a certain obligation to speak well of labor.
Robert Green Ingersoll
Man
Obligation
Speak
Think
Eats
Well
Idleness
Labor
Bread
Certain
Who
We have a moral obligation to get healthcare to people who need it.
Ron Williams
People
Obligation
Moral Obligation
Moral
Healthcare
Get
Who
Need
When I went to school - Pasadena Playhouse - we were taught that the obligation of the actor is twofold: to entertain and to educate.
Sid Haig
Obligation
School
Twofold
Entertain
Pasadena
Educate
Were
Taught
Actor
So I had to be careful. I recognized the responsibility that, whether I liked it or not, I had to accept whatever the obligation was. That was to behave in a manner, to carry myself in such a professional way, as if there ever is a reflection, it's a positive one.
Sidney Poitier
Positive
Myself
Obligation
Reflection
Responsibility
Whatever
Way
Recognized
Carry
Be Careful
Had
Liked
Accept
Behave
Whether
Manner
Professional
Ever
Careful
I know for certain of only one commandment, one obligation, that God imposes upon us, and that is to be compassionate toward other human beings.
Theodore Bikel
God
Obligation
Other
Only
Toward
Know
Commandment
Human
Human Beings
Us
Certain
Beings
Compassionate
Americans are blessed with great plenty; we are a generous people and we have a moral obligation to assist those who are suffering from poverty, disease, war and famine.
Adam Schiff
War
Great
Suffering
People
Obligation
Moral Obligation
Poverty
Blessed
Those
Plenty
Moral
Generous
American
Disease
Famine
Who
Assist
As someone who's spent time with our troops in Iraq and Afghanistan on USO tours and met wounded warriors at Walter Reed and Bethesda, I feel a deep obligation to the men and women who have risked life and limb on our behalf.
Al Franken
Life
Time
Women
Obligation
Men
Men And Women
Met
Our
Spent
Wounded
Someone
Risked
Troops
Tours
Feel
Limb
Reed
Iraq
Behalf
Afghanistan
Warriors
Who
Deep
A Syriza government will respect Greece's obligation as a eurozone member to maintain a balanced budget and will commit to quantitative targets.
Alexis Tsipras
Government
Respect
Obligation
Will
Member
Maintain
Budget
Balanced
Balanced Budget
Quantitative
Greece
Targets
Commit
Eurozone
I believe that if you are elderly, physically or mentally handicapped we have an obligation too you, but if you are able-bodied, you should be working.
Alphonso Jackson
You
Obligation
Believe
Too
Physically
Mentally
Handicapped
Elderly
Should
Working
Being a black belt from the Nogueira brothers, I have the obligation to always defend myself well on the ground.
Anderson Silva
Myself
Obligation
Black
Brothers
Well
Always
Being
Ground
Defend
Belt
I wouldn't say you worry about your health when you run. I would say a quarterback as an obligation to protect yourself as a runner, whether it's getting out of bounds, sliding or getting down, whatever it might be.
Andrew Luck
Health
You
Yourself
Obligation
Whatever
Down
Worry
Sliding
Say
Out
Run
Runner
Would
About
Bounds
Protect
Quarterback
Getting
Whether
Might
Your
Each is under the most sacred obligation not to squander the material committed to him, not to sap his strength in folly and vice, and to see at the least that he delivers a product worthy the labor and cost which have been expended on him.
Anna Julia Cooper
Strength
Obligation
Worthy
See
Cost
Folly
Sacred
He
Most
Him
Material
Least
Been
His
Labor
Squander
Committed
Vice
Which
Product
Sap
Each
My only description for me is that there's no throwaway people. That's the creed that I live by. It doesn't matter if I'm singing or not. That's the kind of person that my father and mother wanted me to be. The end obligation is to make people feel good about who they are.
Arlo Guthrie
Good
Me
Feel Good
People
Obligation
Mother
Matter
Father
Singing
Live
Kind
About
Only
Feel
Make
End
Person
Wanted
Who
Description
Creed
True luxury is being able to own your time - to be able to take a walk, sit on your porch, read the paper, not take the call, not be compelled by obligation.
Ashton Kutcher
Time
Obligation
Walk
Luxury
Sit
Own
Paper
Able
Take
True
Call
Read
Being
Your
Porch
Compelled
When I went to college, it became more of a hobby, and that's when I think I got the realest music education. It wasn't something that I had to do. It wasn't an obligation.
Awkwafina
Education
Music
Obligation
College
Think
Something
More
Had
Became
Got
Hobby
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