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Theodore Roosevelt: “It is not the critic who counts, not the man who points out how the strong man stumbled, or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly, who errs and comes short again and again, who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, and spends himself in a worthy cause, who at best knows achievement and who at the worst if he fails at least fails while daring greatly so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat.” more

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Vaclav Havel: “Genuine politics -- every politics worthy of the name -- the only politics I am willing to devote myself to -- is simply a matter of serving those around us: serving the community and serving those who will come after us. Its deepest roots are moral because it is a responsibility expressed through action, to and for the whole.”

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Henri-Frederic Amiel: “Our duty is to be useful, not according to our desires but according to our powers.”

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Marie Curie: “You cannot hope to build a better world without improving the individuals. To that end each of us must work for his own improvement, and at the same time share a general responsibility for all humanity, our particular duty being to aid those to whom we think we can be most useful.”

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Madame de Stael: “Search for the truth is the noblest occupation of man; its publication is a duty.”

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Albert Einstein: “Love is a better teacher than duty.”

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Madame de Stael: “Conscience is doubtless sufficient to conduct the coldest character into the road of virtue; but enthusiasm is to conscience what honor is to duty; there is in us a superfluity of soul, which it is sweet to consecrate to the beautiful when the good has been accomplished.”

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Paul Ricoeur: “For my own part, I abandon the ethics of duty to the Hegelian critique with no regrets; it would appear to me, indeed, to have been correctly characterized by Hegel as an abstract thought, as a thought of understanding.”

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Lyndon B. Johnson: “We preach the virtues of democracy abroad. We must practice its duties here at home. Voting is the first duty of democracy.”

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Lillian Hellman: “For every man who lives without freedom, the rest of us must face the guilt.”

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Elie Wiesel: “This is the duty of our generation as we enter the twenty-first century -- solidarity with the weak, the persecuted, the lonely, the sick, and those in despair. It is expressed by the desire to give a noble and humanizing meaning to a community in which all members will define themselves not by their own identity but by that of others. ”

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Albert Schweitzer: “Ethics cannot be based upon our obligations toward [people], but they are complete and natural only when we feel this Reverence for Life and the desire to have compassion for and to help all creatures insofar as it is in our power. I think that this ethic will become more and more recognized because of its great naturalness and because it is the foundation of a true humanism toward which we must strive if our culture is to become truly ethical.”

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Bertrand Russell: “A sense of duty is useful in work, but offensive in personal relations. People wish to be liked, not be endured with patient resignation.”

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Princess Diana: “Only do what your heart tells you.”

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Denis Diderot: “There is no moral precept that does not have something inconvenient about it.”

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Epictetus: “In a word, neither death, nor exile, nor pain, nor anything of this kind is the real cause of our doing or not doing any action, but our inward opinions and principles.”

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Paul Ricoeur: “The moral law commands us to make the highest possible good in a world the final object of all our conduct.”

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Thomas Carlyle: “Instead of saying that man is the creature of circumstance, it would be nearer the mark to say that man is the architect of circumstance.”

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Eleanor Roosevelt: “Remember always that you not only have the right to be an individual, you have an obligation to be one.”

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Eleanor Roosevelt: “When will our consciences grow so tender that we will act to prevent human misery rather than avenge it?”

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Ralph Waldo Emerson: “Don't waste life in doubts and fears; spend yourself on the work before you, well assured that the right performance of this hour's duties will be the best preparation for the hours and ages that will follow it.”

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Rebecca West: “Motherhood is neither a duty nor a privilege, but simply the way that humanity can satisfy the desire for physical immortality and triumph over the fear of death.”

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Immanuel Kant: “Religion is the recognition of all our duties as divine commands.”

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Mark Twain: “Make it a point to do something every day that you don't want to do. This is the golden rule for acquiring the habit of doing your duty without pain.”

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Mark Twain: “There are many scapegoats for our sins, but the most popular one is Providence.”

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Winter BelViso: “As far as I know, to date, this Earth is the only thing we have at our disposal. The trick is to NOT dispose of it, yanno?”

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Ralph Waldo Emerson: “What I must do is all that concerns me, not what the people think. This rule, equally arduous in actual and intellectual life, may serve for the whole distinction between greatness and meanness. It is the harder, because you will always find those who think they know what is your duty better than you know it. It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinion; it is easy in solitude to live after our own; but the great person is one who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude.”

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Victor Frankl: “A man who becomes conscious of the responsibility he bears toward a human being who affectionately waits for him, or to an unfinished work, will never be able to throw away his life. He knows the 'why' for his existence, and will be able to bear almost any 'how.'”

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Sydney J. Harris: “We have not passed that subtle line between childhood and adulthood until we move from the passive voice to the active voice -- that is, until we stop saying 'It got lost,' and say 'I lost it.'”

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Robert Louis Stevenson: “There is no duty we so underrate as the duty of being happy. By being happy we sow anonymous benefits upon the world.”

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