Top Duties Quotes
We now consider as fundamental economic functions of the state, many duties that were left a generation ago to chance.
Arthur Capper
Make women rational creatures, and free citizens, and they will quickly become good wives; - that is, if men do not neglect the duties of husbands and fathers.
Mary Wollstonecraft
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.
Joe Lieberman
Discretion is the perfection of reason, and a guide to us in all the duties of life.
Walter Scott
My husband gave up all his work to stay at home with the kids, and we split all the duties at home. I do all the boring stuff - like pay the bills, and he does all the exercising for both of us, which I'm very grateful for... I thank him for it regularly.
Erika Slezak
Walter Scott 
Henrietta Szold 
Kenneth Robert Livingstone 
Humphry Davy 
Princess Diana 
Carl Levin 
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A king, realizing his incompetence, can either delegate or abdicate his duties. A father can do neither. If only sons could see the paradox, they would understand the dilemma.
Marlene Dietrich 
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The real duties of an ambassador are to enter into or follow negotiations between his own government and that of the country to which he is accredited.
David Bruce
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Nothing is more important in the preservation of peace than to secure among the great mass of the people living under constitutional government a just conception of the rights which their nation has against others and of the duties their nation owes to others.
Elihu Root
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The improver of natural knowledge absolutely refuses to acknowledge authority, as such. For him, skepticism is the highest of duties; blind faith the one unpardonable sin.
Thomas Huxley
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I always concentrated on doing the very best that I could in the job and the duties that I was assigned.
Hugh Shelton
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The course that will restore to the workmen a father's duties and responsibilities, between which and themselves the state has now stepped, is for them to reject all forced contributions from others, and to do their own work through their own voluntary combinations.
Auberon Herbert
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It was still quiet in the house, and not a sound was heard from outside, either. Were it not for this silence, my reverie would probably have been disrupted by reminders of daily duties, of getting up and going to school.
Herman Hesse
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A soul occupied with great ideas performs small duties.
Harriet Martineau
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Marcus Tullius CiceroGeorge EliotArthur SchopenhauerThomas HuxleyThomas PaineDenis DiderotCalvin CoolidgeAlfred North WhiteheadRita DovePrincess DianaSydney SmithLaurence SterneImmanuel KantWilliam Ellery ChanningWalter Scott
Marlene DietrichDoug LarsonCharles BabbageCharlotte BronteEduard ShevardnadzeGeorge WhitefieldNick ClooneyRoy MooreWilliam OslerGeorge SorosMary WollstonecraftCharles HodgeElihu RootFelix AdlerHugh Shelton
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