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In a world where fingerprints and typedefinements swirl like breath on glass, the roots of our digital truth can vanish at touch, revealing that deep behind every pixel lies a promise hand-painted with uncertainty.
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Elara Voss
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In unraveling the complex algorithms of romance and logic, we forge quartiers not merely above morality, but waterways within it.
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Amara Liang
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Of course it's why you want to become a writer - because you have the liberty to do that, but once you have the liberty you also have the obligation to do it.
Author:
Tobias Wolff
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Scripture makes it clear to me that there is an obligation to speak out on behalf of those being persecuted.
Author:
Frank Wolf
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For the Archivist, this role is a result of his obligation to preserve and assure timely and maximum access to our governmental records in the evolving historic saga of the American people.
Author:
Allen Weinstein
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It is an eternal obligation toward the human being not to let him suffer from hunger when one has a chance of coming to his assistance.
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Simone Weil
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As though there were a tie And obligation to posterity. We get them, bear them, breed, and nurse: What has posterity done for us. That we, lest they their rights should lose, Should trust our necks to gripe of noose?
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John Trumbull
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In other words, a democratic government is the only one in which those who vote for a tax can escape the obligation to pay it.
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Alexis Tocqueville
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A democratic government is the only one in which those who vote for a tax can escape the obligation to pay it.
Author:
Alexis Tocqueville
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A good word is an easy obligation; but not to speak ill requires only our silence, which costs us nothing.
Author:
John Tillotson
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Art exists for the human species. I think that all of the people who love art, those who teach art, and all of you should burn with the obligation to save the world.
Author:
Shinichi Suzuki
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Sometimes I feel an obligation to be accessible as a personality, but for me the driving force since the beginning has always been good work, taking risks, trying new things. If the door opens, go through it. Always go forwards.
Author:
David Soul
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Social Security represents an $11 trillion unfunded obligation. And when I say unfunded obligation, I mean we have to come up with $11 trillion at some point to make the system whole.
Author:
John Snow
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I think we'll build a consensus for action on Social Security reform which will reduce that long-term unfunded obligation and put the system on a sustainable basis.
Author:
John Snow
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He has the obligation to society that any human being has. I don't think a satirist has any greater obligation to society than a bricklayer or anybody else.
Author:
Shel Silverstein
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I think you have an obligation to be an optimist. Because if you're not, nothing will change.
Author:
Ron Silver
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We cannot cut and run. If we are to ensure freedom and democracy, it is essential that we follow through on our obligation to bring about stability in Iraq.
Author:
Richard Shelby
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The United States government has the obligation to educate all young people in this country.
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Al Sharpton
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I don't feel the obligation to have a big explosion in the first 20 seconds so the audience doesn't turn on another channel. We are trying to make something that looks like a feature film that was bought for television and I think we are succeeding.
Author:
Tom Selleck
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The president does not have any obligation to make a consensus appointment here. What the president's obligation is, is to pick a judicial conservative, and I believe that's what he's gonna do.
Author:
Jay Sekulow
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So I think we have an obligation with our size to make sure that we are open to what people have to say to us because the people who criticize us, they're not all mean-spirited.
Author:
Lee Scott
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Where we have been incorrect in what we have done, then I think we have an obligation to settle.
Author:
Lee Scott
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One of the problems with even suggesting that purpose of a Federal law is for law enforcement officers to assist in protecting the public outside their jurisdictions is that it may give them encouragement or even a sense of obligation to do so.
Author:
Bobby Scott
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Government's first duty and highest obligation is public safety.
Author:
Arnold Schwarzenegger
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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.
Author:
Adam Schiff
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The decision came from the publisher. It certainly was cleared by Chicago. And then they come out with these fine sounding words about relation to readers and their obligation. It has nothing to do with that.
Author:
Robert Scheer
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What Clinton severed with his welfare reform was the obligation of the federal government to step in when the states failed and to monitor these programs.
Author:
Robert Scheer
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As citizens, we all have an obligation to intervene and become involved - it's the citizen who changes things.
Author:
Jose Saramago
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Daley may not feel a moral responsibility to eliminate discrimination but he has a legal obligation to do so.
Author:
Bobby Rush
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Remember always that you not only have the right to be an individual, you have an obligation to be one.
Author:
Eleanor Roosevelt
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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.
Author:
Dave Ronk
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Every right implies a responsibility; Every opportunity, an obligation, Every possession, a duty.
Author:
John Rockefeller
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I believe that every right implies a responsibility; every opportunity, an obligation; every possession, a duty.
Author:
John Rockefeller
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Too great haste to repay an obligation is a kind of ingratitude.
Author:
Francois Rochefoucauld
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The people of the Middle East share the desire for freedom. We have an opportunity - and an obligation - to help them turn this desire into reality.
Author:
Condoleezza Rice
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It has been, after all, 11 years, more than a decade now, of defiance of U.N. resolutions by Saddam Hussein. Every obligation that he signed onto after the Gulf War, so that he would not be a threat to peace and security, he has ignored and flaunted.
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Condoleezza Rice
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Congress has an obligation to protect our country's natural beauty, embodied in our nation's parks, rivers, and breathtaking landscapes.
Author:
Dave Reichert
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I think that two people who decide to live together in a marriage situation, they have an obligation to make the marriage work for them.
Author:
Helen Reddy
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I was given talent, and if you are given it, it is your obligation to use it.
Author:
Dennis Potter
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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.
Author:
Richard Perle
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If an individual is born with the obligation to obey, who is born with the right to command?
Author:
Tom Palmer
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Each of us knows that we have an obligation to care for the old, the young and the sick. We stand strongest when we stand with the weakest among us.
Author:
Sarah Palin
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It is the solemn obligation of a leader always to be a leader. Even when - perhaps especially when - you don't feel like being a leader.
Author:
Bill Owens
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Basketball is in my blood. It is my obligation to try.
Author:
Hakeem Olajuwon
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We have an obligation and a responsibility to be investing in our students and our schools. We must make sure that people who have the grades, the desire and the will, but not the money, can still get the best education possible.
Author:
Barack Obama
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All sciences are now under the obligation to prepare the ground for the future task of the philosopher, which is to solve the problem of value, to determine the true hierarchy of values.
Author:
Friedrich Nietzsche
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We not only have a legal obligation to honor our commitments, we have a moral obligation to provide the coverage we promised to provide to these people.
Author:
Bob Ney
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Our major obligation is not to mistake slogans for solutions.
Author:
Edward Murrow
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Our ideals, laws and customs should be based on the proposition that each generation in turn becomes the custodian rather than the absolute owner of our resources - and each generation has the obligation to pass this inheritance on in the future.
Author:
Alberto Moravia
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The right of self defense never ceases. It is among the most sacred, and alike necessary to nations and to individuals, and whether the attack be made by Spain herself or by those who abuse her power, its obligation is not the less strong.
Author:
James Monroe
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To impose taxes when the public exigencies require them is an obligation of the most sacred character, especially with a free people.
Author:
James Monroe
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Of two pleasures, if there be one which all or almost all who have experience of both give a decided preference, irrespective of any feeling of moral obligation to prefer it, that is the more desirable pleasure.
Author:
John Mill
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Possession without obligation to the object possessed approaches felicity.
Author:
George Meredith
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Second, there were the discussions and drafts leading up to the White Paper on Employment Policy of 1944 in which the UK government accepted the maintenance of employment as an obligation of governmental policy.
Author:
James Meade
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Some laws are wrong, and we have an obligation to speak out against those laws wherever they are.
Author:
Julian McMahon
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A dinner invitation, once accepted, is a sacred obligation. If you die before the dinner takes place, your executor must attend.
Author:
Ward McAllister
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God primes the pump of obligation.
Author:
A. Martinich
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Talent is a gift that brings with it an obligation to serve the world, and not ourselves, for it is not of our making.
Author:
Jose Marti
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We have a responsibility as a state to protect our most vulnerable citizens: our children, seniors, people with disabilities. That is our moral obligation. But there is an economic justification too - we all pay when the basic needs of our citizens are unmet.
Author:
John Lynch
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The great city can teach something that no university by itself can altogether impart: a vivid sense of the largeness of human brotherhood, a vivid sense of man's increasing obligation to man; a vivid sense of our absolute dependence on one another.
Author:
Seth Low
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I support development and deployment of a limited national missile defense. Few if any of our duties surpass our obligation to provide for the common defense of our nation.
Author:
Joe Lieberman
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Sexuality is a big issue, but there are others - how much you commit to a relationship, to social obligation, to honesty and being honest with yourself.
Author:
Ang Lee
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My only obligation is to keep myself and other people guessing.
Author:
Jude Law
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But I do believe this - I believe that fundamentally, society is headed in the right direction or wants to head in the right direction, and I think judges have an obligation to try to help it head there.
Author:
Judge Lane
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True guilt is guilt at the obligation one owes to oneself to be oneself. False guilt is guilt felt at not being what other people feel one ought to be or assume that one is.
Author:
R. Laing
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To state the facts frankly is not to despair the future nor indict the past. The prudent heir takes careful inventory of his legacies and gives a faithful accounting to those whom he owes an obligation of trust.
Author:
John Kennedy
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I know I have the mental capacity of a thousand bloggers, but because of that, my obligation to serve God is also that of a thousand bloggers.
Author:
Mickey Kaus
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There are minds so impatient of inferiority that their gratitude is a species of revenge, and they return benefits, not because recompense is a pleasure, but because obligation is a pain.
Author:
Samuel Johnson
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I came up in a family oriented towards the sick, so I always felt an obligation for doing something.
Author:
Eddie Johnson
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We English are good at forgiving our enemies; it releases us from the obligation of liking our friends.
Author:
P. James
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The only obligation to which in advance we may hold a novel, without incurring the accusation of being arbitrary, is that it be interesting.
Author:
Henry James
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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.
Author:
Alphonso Jackson
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When I hear traditional family values raised, I hear that effort once again to re-establish the man as head and master of his family. Who had the, not only the right, but the obligation to discipline his wife and children to keep them in line?
Author:
Patricia Ireland
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Besides, there were 50,000 fans or more there, and they wanted to see the best you've got. There was an obligation to the people, as well as to ourselves, to go all out.
Author:
Carl Hubbell
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The obligation of subjects to the sovereign is understood to last as long, and no longer, than the power lasteth by which he is able to protect them.
Author:
Thomas Hobbes
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Since the world has existed, there has been injustice. But it is one world, the more so as it becomes smaller, more accessible. There is just no question that there is more obligation that those who have should give to those who have nothing.
Author:
Audrey Hepburn
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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.
Author:
Ernest Hemingway
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The first thing I see is the obligation to serve peace.
Author:
Gustav Heinemann
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I am very proud of the quality of public education in Nebraska, but I believe we have an obligation to continually assess whether our system is meeting 21st Century education needs.
Author:
Dave Heineman
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The most basic obligation we have to our veterans is that we keep the promises that were made to them. That is what makes the recent failures of the Veterans Administration so shameful.
Author:
Doc Hastings
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It's the government's obligation to look really to the third parties to get the support to govern.
Author:
Stephen Harper
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The Leader of the Opposition's constitutional obligation - the obligation to Parliament - it's the reason we did the merger! - is to make sure Canadians have an alternative for government.
Author:
Stephen Harper
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A coldly rationalist individualist can deny that he has any obligation to make sacrifices for the future.
Author:
Garrett Hardin
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If a policy is wrongheaded, feckless and corrupt, I take it personally and consider it a moral obligation to sound off and not shut up until it's fixed.
Author:
David Hackworth
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I think you have an obligation to share what you know as a writer.
Author:
David Guterson
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My role and my obligation was to conduct criminal investigations.
Author:
Louis Freeh
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Russia under President Putin is less democratic and less free today than when he assumed office. If Russia cannot fulfill its obligation to the G-8 and maintain a high standard of democratic governance then its membership should be suspended.
Author:
Vito Fossella
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We as a Congress have a moral obligation to bring justice to the families of these victims. Furthermore, as a society based on laws, we have a responsibility to ensure that criminals don't go unpunished.
Author:
Bob Filner
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To know that everything we say and do to this new little human being may have a profound effect on him or her is a daunting obligation.
Author:
Gloria Estefan
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We have no more fundamental obligation in government than to ensure the safety of our citizens.
Author:
Robert. Ehrlich
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We have to remind the people: Congress has the constitutional obligation and public responsibility to oversee these issues and the Department of Justice's operations.
Author:
Sibel Edmonds
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If you don't like the way the world is, you change it. You have an obligation to change it. You just do it one step at a time.
Author:
Marian Edelman
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If you are living out of a sense of obligation you are slave.
Author:
Wayne Dyer
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Relationships based on obligation lack dignity.
Author:
Wayne Dyer
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Every day President Bush and Congress refuse to fulfill their obligation to special ed is another day Wisconsin property taxpayers are stuck with the bill. It's unfair, irresponsible and must stop.
Author:
Jim Doyle
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When we ask American men and women in uniform to fight for this country and to defend this country's interest and then to send them overseas, there is no question we have an obligation to protect them and provide for their safety.
Author:
Byron Dorgan
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December 25th has become guilt and obligation.
Author:
Phil Donahue
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The BBC has the obligation to think big. And at the moment, that clarion call sounds an uncertain note to me.
Author:
Jonathan Dimbleby
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In those days, reserve duty lasted for six years, which, I might add, was three times as long as service in the regular army, although to be perfectly honest, I was unable to fulfill my entire obligation because I was taking acting classes and they said I could skip my last year.
Author:
Larry David
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The Declaration of Independence says when government fails, the people have the right to replace it. Well, New York State government has failed and the people have the right, indeed the people have the the people have the obligation, to act.
Author:
Andrew Cuomo
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You have to pick the stories that you want to be involved with and the end game is you'd like to be a part of a hit. But I think your moral obligation is to follow your own heart.
Author:
Kevin Costner
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Words without deeds violates the moral and legal obligation we have under the genocide convention but, more importantly, violates our sense of right and wrong and the standards we have as human beings about looking to care for one another.
Author:
Jon Corzine
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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.
Author:
Anna Cooper
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While some of them acknowledge the obligation of natural morality in their mode of conducting their cases, and preserve their individual character as gentlemen, there are others who acknowledge no law, human or divine, but the law of Scotland.
Author:
George Combe
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Given the choice, children who don't want for anything will not save... We have an obligation as parents to give our children what they need. What they want we can give them as a special gift, or they can save their money for it.
Author:
Barbara Coloroso
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Our mother was a very religious and observant Jew, our father less so. She was kind of driving the religious education, so for us it was more a burden and an obligation when we were kids at that age.
Author:
Joel Coen
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We have an opportunity, but we have an obligation to senior citizens and to the younger people who are entering the workforce today to help ensure that they are going to be able to trust the government to have a workable program that benefits them as well.
Author:
Thad Cochran
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Voting is the most precious right of every citizen, and we have a moral obligation to ensure the integrity of our voting process.
Author:
Hillary Clinton
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No obligation to do the impossible is binding.
Author:
Marcus Cicero
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We've had it very clear to the Bosnians that our obligation to equip and train their forces is completely conditional on the foreign forces being gone.
Author:
Warren Christopher
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Resistance is feasible even for those who are not heroes by nature, and it is an obligation, I believe, for those who fear the consequences and detest the reality of the attempt to impose American hegemony.
Author:
Noam Chomsky
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I'm concerned about the cost, just like everybody else. There's no question that we have an obligation to help the people of Louisiana and Mississippi to rebuild.
Author:
Saxby Chambliss
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I've always had an obligation to creation, above all.
Author:
Nick Cave
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Teaching civility is an obligation of the family.
Author:
Stephen Carter
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If I don't feel like writing today or for a few days, I don't. And I don't think about it. It is not an obligation-it is the greatest privilege.
Author:
Jonathan Carroll
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The nation's obligation to her defenders is as old as that defense itself.
Author:
Steve Buyer
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As a human rights issue, the effort to end violence against women becomes a government's obligation, not just a good idea.
Author:
Charlotte Bunch
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Our obligation at the network is where do we fit into that and how can we best capitalize on that to make sure that our piece of that remains important to those young people.
Author:
Tom Brokaw
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Hollywood has an obligation to watch what they put out there. Kids do imitate what they see - good or bad.
Author:
Morgan Brittany
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Understand, when you eat meat, that something did die. You have an obligation to value it - not just the sirloin but also all those wonderful tough little bits.
Author:
Anthony Bourdain
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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.
Author:
Theodore Bikel
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In itself, homosexuality is as limiting as heterosexuality: the ideal should be to be capable of loving a woman or a man; either, a human being, without feeling fear, restraint, or obligation.
Author:
Simone Beauvoir
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All of the muscles were gone, so that was a real tough time of rebuilding all of that. But you have a deadline, you have an obligation. You've said that you will commit to this part, and I just can't live with myself for not really giving it as much as I can.
Author:
Christian Bale
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Your only obligation in any lifetime is to be true to yourself. Being true to anyone else or anything else is not only impossible, but the mark of a fake messiah.
Author:
Richard Bach
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We have an obligation to live in harmony with creation, with our capital... with God's creation. And we need to administer and work that very carefully.
Author:
Bruce Babbitt
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I think we have a moral obligation to our children that can be easily summarized: number one, protect them from harm.
Author:
Tom Allen
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A judge can't have any preferred outcome in any particular case. The judge's only obligation - and it's a solemn obligation - is to the rule of law.
Author:
Samuel Alito
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Beside all this I think there was something personal, being Muslim myself who lived in the west I felt that it was my obligation my duty to tell the truth about Islam. It is a religion that has a 700 million following, yet it's so little known about it which surprised me.
Author:
Moustapha Akkad
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I think celebrities have an obligation to the public to not just sing or act.
Author:
Clay Aiken
