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1 " There is no intensity of love or feeling that does not involve the risk of crippling hurt. It is a duty to take this risk, to love and feel without defense or reserve. "
― William S. Burroughs
2 " I have come from the End of the World. From the River of Dreams, through the gauntlet and the Briar and the Deep Wyld, in order to stand before you today. I have but one request—to take my place at your side. To resume my duty as your knight, and to protect you and your kingdom for as long as I draw breath. "
― Julie Kagawa , The Iron Knight (The Iron Fey, #4)
3 " Vladimir did great things—so could she. Besides, they come first, right?" " Not always." I stared. I'd had they come first drilled into me since I was a child. It was what all guardians believed. Only the dhampirs who'd run away from their duty didn't subscribe to that. What he said was almost like treason." Sometimes, Rose, you have to know when to put yourself first. "
4 " You were given life; it is your duty (and also your entitlement as a human being) to find something beautiful within life, no matter how slight. "
― Elizabeth Gilbert
5 " That’s the duty of the old, to be anxious on behalf of the young. And the duty of the young is to scorn the anxiety of the old. "
― Philip Pullman , The Golden Compass (His Dark Materials, #1)
6 " The duty of youth is to challenge corruption. "
― Kurt Cobain
7 " I long to accomplish a great and noble task, but it is my chief duty to accomplish small tasks as if they were great and noble. "
― Helen Keller
8 " since i will not send this, i also feel it is my duty to inform you that almost six months on I think I still love you and that makes me sad becaue love shouldn’t feel this way. is like getting kicked in the stomach every time i think of you and it makes me want to roll my face across this keyboardbiu;///ubEWdcfhugiov’byhi;.//////-=‘-0i9juh8ygtfdcsaazs34defg7uefg7u8hi9o0p8hi9o0p-[[09ju8dcsaazs34d9o0p-[[09. "
― Amie Kaufman , Illuminae (The Illuminae Files, #1)
9 " I think it's the duty of the comedian to find out where the line is drawn and cross it deliberately. "
10 " Fantasy is escapist, and that is its glory. If a soldier is imprisioned by the enemy, don't we consider it his duty to escape?. . .If we value the freedom of mind and soul, if we're partisans of liberty, then it's our plain duty to escape, and to take as many people with us as we can! "
― J.R.R. Tolkien
11 " The first duty of a man is to think for himself "
― José Martí
12 " For the survivor who chooses to testify, it is clear: his duty is to bear witness for the dead and for the living. He has no right to deprive future generations of a past that belongs to our collective memory. To forget would be not only dangerous but offensive; to forget the dead would be akin to killing them a second time. "
― Elie Wiesel , Night (The Night Trilogy, #1)
13 " Reverence the highest, have patience with the lowest. Let this day's performance of the meanest duty be thy religion. Are the stars too distant, pick up the pebble that lies at thy feet, and from it learn the all. "
― Margaret Fuller
14 " Perfection is something we should all strive for. It's a duty and a joy to perfect one's nature... The most difficult thing is love. A loveless, driving person that just competes in the rat race is far from perfection in my book. "
― R.D. Laing
15 " Business people - Your business - is your greatest prejudice: it ties you to your locality, to the company you keep, to the inclinations you feel. Diligent in business - but indolent in spirit, content with your inadequacy, and with the cloak of duty hung over this contentment: that is how you live, that is how you want your children to live! "
― Friedrich Nietzsche , Daybreak: Thoughts on the Prejudices of Morality
16 " We have now sunk to a depth at which restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men. "
― George Orwell
17 " Teaching the layperson (divulgare) is not distorting (tergiversare) the subject, but educating the public; and it is our duty as scientists to educate without distorting the essence of the scientific knowledge attained by humanity. The future of our society depends upon this premise. "
― Felix Alba-Juez , Galloping with Light - Einstein, Relativity, and Folklore
18 " I have a duty to speak the truth as I see it and share not just my triumphs, not just the things that felt good, but the pain, the intense, often unmitigated pain. It is important to share how I know survival is survival and not just a walk throught the rain. "
― Audre Lorde
19 " But it is a writer's duty to write and speak and record the truth, always the truth, no matter whom may be offended. "
― Edward Abbey , Postcards from Ed: Dispatches and Salvos from an American Iconoclast
20 " He that takes truth for his guide, and duty for his end, may safely trust to God's providence to lead him aright "
― Blaise Pascal
