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Law enforcement officers are never 'off duty.' They are dedicated public servants who are sworn to protect public safety at any time and place that the peace is threatened. They need all the help that they can get.

~Barbara Boxer

Topics: Any Dedicated Duty Enforcement Get Help Law Law Enforcement Need Never Off Officers Peace Place Protect Public Public Safety Public Servants Safety Servants Sworn Threatened Time Who

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No matter that patriotism is too often the refuge of scoundrels. Dissent, rebellion, and all-around hell-raising remain the true duty of patriots.

~Barbara Ehrenreich

Topics: All-Around Dissent Duty Matter Often Patriotism Patriots Rebellion Refuge Remain Too True

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Our duty was to try and find the Japanese fleet. We never did find the Japanese fleet and I am awfully glad, because they had attacked us there with six carriers, three battleships, 10 or 15 cruisers, and about 20 destroyers.

~Barney Ross

Topics: About Am Attacked Because Did Duty Find Fleet Glad Had Japanese Never Our Six Three Try Us I Am

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I think of myself as an actor. The duty of an actor is to be able to impersonate anything - a child, an old man, a tree, a chair, a woman.

~Barry Humphries

Topics: Able Actor Anything Chair Child Duty Man Myself Old Old Man Think Tree Woman I Think

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I feel empathy for people who are trapped in a prison of self-consciousness in an uncomfortable way. We can be free, but we're so held back. So perhaps that's why I feel a duty to make my work. I feel liberated when I'm doing it, and I want other people to feel liberated through it.

~Bat For Lashes

Topics: Back Doing Duty Empathy Feel Free Held Liberated Make Other People Perhaps Prison Self-Consciousness Through Trapped Uncomfortable Want Way Who Why Work I Feel

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My duty is that of a chronicler; and if I perform that conscientiously, the lessons which my observations suggest will need no pointing out.

~Bayard Taylor

Topics: Duty Lessons Need Observations Out Perform Pointing Suggest Which Will

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People have a right to have their lives witnessed; if we coexist with the systems that abuse people, then we have a duty to understand.

~Beeban Kidron

Topics: Abuse Coexist Duty Lives People Right Systems Then Understand Witnessed

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There is so much potential out there in young people and they aren't getting the right information or being encouraged in the right ways. This is our duty as a society.

~Ben Carson

Topics: Being Duty Encouraged Getting Information Much Our Out People Potential Right Society Ways Young Young People

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I'm the best PlayStation player you'll ever see. I'll play anything. 'Call of Duty,' 'NBA2K,' 'Grand Theft Auto.'

~Ben Simmons

Topics: Anything Auto Best Call Duty Ever Grand Play Player Playstation See Theft You

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The risk to be perceived defines the duty to be obeyed.

~Benjamin Cardozo

Topics: Defines Duty Obeyed Perceived Risk

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