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It used to be that if you stood in front of a painting you didn't understand, you'd have some obligation to guess. Now you don't.
Dave Hickey
You
Obligation
Painting
Guess
Some
Understand
Front
Stood
Used
Now
Congress has an obligation to protect our country's natural beauty, embodied in our nation's parks, rivers, and breathtaking landscapes.
Dave Reichert
Natural
Obligation
Country
Beauty
Nation
Natural Beauty
Congress
Our
Embodied
Parks
Rivers
Protect
Breathtaking
Landscapes
There is an apprenticeship system in jazz. You teach the young ones. So even if the musicians weren't personally that likable, they felt an obligation to help the younger musicians.
Dave Van Ronk
You
Musicians
Obligation
Young
Jazz
Apprenticeship
System
Likable
Felt
Were
Personally
Younger
Teach
Help
Even
The responsibility to seek learning by faith rests upon each of us individually, and this obligation will become increasingly important as the world in which we live grows more confused and troubled.
David A. Bednar
Faith
Learning
Obligation
Confused
World
Will
Responsibility
Important
Become
Live
Increasingly
Seek
More
Rests
Troubled
Individually
Which
Us
Each
Grows
You have to go where the truth takes you, and that doesn't always take you in exactly the same place where people you speak to might want,or suspects may want. That's your ultimate obligation.
David Grann
Truth
You
People
Obligation
Speak
Exactly
Exactly The Same
Take
Takes
Always
Go
Ultimate
Same
Suspects
May
Where
Want
Place
Might
Your
I think you have an obligation to share what you know as a writer.
David Guterson
You
Obligation
Think
Writer
Share
Know
It is our moral obligation to give every child the very best education possible.
Desmond Tutu
Education
Best
Obligation
Moral Obligation
Every
Our
Possible
Moral
Give
Very
Child
I was told by my grandfather who was a minister that we all were put here on earth to be of service to one another, and it is quite gratifying to know that if I am able to be of help to one that is not able to help themselves then I am fulfilling my obligation as a human being.
Dionne Warwick
Service
Obligation
Human Being
Earth
Minister
Able
Put
Know
Another
Am
Were
Quite
Human
Being
Grandfather
Themselves
Then
Fulfilling
Help
Who
Gratifying
Here
The Government should be held accountable if it puts soldiers at unnecessary risk, which is why it is vital to retain full transparency in inquests. Governments also have a moral obligation to ensure proper care for the injured and their families.
Dominic Raab
Government
Obligation
Care
Moral Obligation
Soldiers
Ensure
Unnecessary
Moral
Vital
Proper
Risk
Retain
Puts
Also
Governments
Accountable
Families
Which
Held
Should
Full
Transparency
Injured
Why
We have no obligation to make history. We have no obligation to make art. We have no obligation to make a statement. Our obligation is to make money.
Don Simpson
Art
History
Obligation
Money
Our
Statement
Make
I lived in a world where social arrangements were taken for granted and assumed to be timeless. A child's obligation was to learn these usages, not to question them. The complexities of racial deportment were of a piece with learning manners and etiquette more generally.
Drew Gilpin Faust
Learning
Obligation
World
Manners
Assumed
Complexities
More
Generally
Taken
Taken For Granted
Piece
Learn
Arrangements
Were
Question
Timeless
Child
Where
Social
Them
Racial
Etiquette
Granted
Lived
I got married very early, and in no time at all, we had three children. And it seemed to me I had an obligation to support them.
E. L. Doctorow
Time
Me
Obligation
Three
Married
Seemed
No Time
Had
Support
Got
Very
Children
Them
Early
Scoring a goal feels a bit like a liberating act. It is a mix of sensations that only strikers can feel in their own guts. We work for that, to score. It is like a commitment, an obligation we take with ourselves.
Edinson Cavani
Work
Commitment
Obligation
Own
Liberating
Bit
Ourselves
Guts
Only
Take
Feel
Feels
Like
Mix
Goal
Score
Scoring
Sensations
Act
The Chancellor also in effect asks us to bargain away whatever obligation or interest we have as regards the neutrality of Belgium. We could not entertain that bargain either.
Edward Grey
Obligation
Neutrality
Whatever
Entertain
Could
Also
Effect
Regards
Either
Interest
Ask
Us
Bargain
Belgium
Away
Chancellor
I wanted to fight in the Iraq war because I felt like I had an obligation as a human being to help free people from oppression.
Edward Snowden
War
Fight
People
Obligation
Oppression
Human Being
Free
Free People
Had
Like
Because
Felt
Iraq
Iraq War
Human
Being
Wanted
Help
I have an obligation to try to live as long as I can for my family.
Elizabeth Edwards
Family
Obligation
Try
Long
Live
Trump errs on the side of bluster sometimes for effect, but I don't think that the people who voted for him, most of them, would ever be for not caring for immigrants or refugees. People in the church know it's our obligation.
Eric Metaxas
People
Obligation
Sometimes
Church
Think
Side
Caring
Our
Immigrants
Would
Voted
Know
Most
Him
Trump
Effect
Refugees
Not Caring
Them
Who
Ever
The only duty an artist has is in the quality of the art. There is no moral obligation to denounce. An artist confronted with a tremendous injustice sometimes feels inclined to say something. Denouncing the situation is the artist's choice.
Fernando Botero
Art
Injustice
Quality
Obligation
Sometimes
Moral Obligation
Situation
Duty
Tremendous
Say
Moral
Something
Only
Feels
Denounce
Artist
Confronted
Choice
Inclined
The U.S. can become carbon neutral in our lifetimes. In the process, we will put millions of Americans to work, make our companies more competitive, and shield our communities from extreme weather. And we will honor our obligation to leave the world a better place for future generations.
Frances Beinecke
Work
Future
Obligation
World
Better
Honor
Will
Weather
Become
Our
Extreme
Future Generations
More
Neutral
Better Place
Lifetimes
Put
Generations
Make
Leave
Shield
American
Process
Place
Communities
Companies
Carbon
Millions
Competitive
Climate change is the central environmental ill of our time. We have an obligation to protect our children from the dangers of this widening scourge, and we aren't yet doing enough about it.
Frances Beinecke
Environmental
Time
Change
Obligation
Enough
Our
Dangers
Our Time
About
Protect
Climate
Climate Change
Doing
Scourge
Children
Central
Ill
Widening
I will give a proof to demonstrate with facts that there are no rules in painting and that oppression or servile obligation of making all study or follow the same path is a great impediment for the young who profess this very difficult art.
Francisco Goya
Art
Great
Obligation
Oppression
Path
Will
Young
Painting
Difficult
Rules
Follow
Proof
Give
Impediment
No Rules
Facts
Study
Making
Demonstrate
Very
Same
Profess
Who
My obligation, if I become president, is to give another direction to Europe than the one that is being forced upon us today.
Francois Hollande
Today
Obligation
Become
President
Give
Direction
Forced
Another
Than
Being
Us
Europe
I'm a true believer that you have a moral obligation to keep your employees honest, and that is why you have controls, so I'm never tempted or put in a position where I could do something to defraud my employer.
Frank Abagnale
You
Obligation
Moral Obligation
Employees
Moral
Tempted
Something
Could
Never
Put
True
True Believer
Employer
Controls
Where
Your
Keep
Believer
Why
Honest
Position
Today and always, there will be an obligation to pass on to the new generation the tradition of liberal scholarship - scientific or in the humanities - and to bring the understanding of things and human actions to everyone.
Frank Macfarlane Burnet
Today
Generation
Obligation
Will
Understanding
Humanities
Liberal
Everyone
Scholarship
New
Scientific
New Generation
Pass
Always
Tradition
Human
Human Actions
Actions
Things
Bring
Scripture makes it clear to me that there is an obligation to speak out on behalf of those being persecuted.
Frank Wolf
Me
Obligation
Speak
Those
Out
Clear
Makes
Persecuted
Behalf
Being
Scripture
My whole obligation was to West Indies cricket. As I have always said, I have never made a run for me. Records meant nothing. The team was important.
Garfield Sobers
Me
Obligation
Made
Important
Nothing
Cricket
Run
Indies
Records
Never
Said
Always
West
Meant
Team
Whole
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