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You always have certain strengths and certain weaknesses, and you want to compensate for your weaknesses... I have a real duty to earn the trust of the faculty. I don't just deserve it. I have to earn it.

~Erskine Bowles

Topics: Always Certain Compensate Deserve Duty Earn Faculty Just Real Strengths Trust Want Weaknesses You Your

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Ultimately, we have just one moral duty: to reclaim large areas of peace in ourselves, more and more peace, and to reflect it towards others. And the more peace there is in us, the more peace there will be in our troubled world.

~Etty Hillesum

Topics: Area Duty Just Just One Large Moral More More And More Others Our Ourselves Peace Reclaim Reflect Towards Troubled Ultimately Us Will World

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Companies that are publicly held have a fiduciary duty to their shareholders to try to maximize their profits within ethical reasons.

~Evan Bayh

Topics: Companies Duty Ethical Held Maximize Profits Publicly Reasons Shareholders Try Within

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As Democrats, we have a patriotic duty and political imperative to lay out our ideas for protecting America.

~Evan Bayh

Topics: America Democrats Duty Ideas Imperative Lay Our Out Patriotic Political Protecting

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Even though disciplined sleeping habits and the adrenalin of live radio ensures that we are very awake while on duty, there is evidence of a phenomenon called circadian desynchronosis which causes one's brain to function slowly at those times of day when it thinks it should be asleep, regardless how wide awake the body is.

~Evan Davis

Topics: Adrenalin Asleep Awake Body Brain Causes Day Disciplined Duty Even Evidence Function Habits How Live Phenomenon Radio Regardless Should Sleeping Slowly Thinks Those Though Times Very Which While Wide

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Professional reviewers read so many bad books in the course of duty that they get an unhealthy craving for arresting phrases.

~Evelyn Waugh

Topics: Bad Books Course Craving Duty Get Many Phrases Professional Read Reviewers Unhealthy

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Taking care of people is the duty of every politician.

~Ewa Kopacz

Topics: Care Duty Every People Politician Taking

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My dear, the duty that devolved wholly on you in my absence of guiding and expanding the minds of our dear children is a laborious one and a responsible one.

~Ezra Cornell

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Surely no child should fear his own father - especially a priesthood father. A father's duty is to make his home a place of happiness and joy.

~Ezra Taft Benson

Topics: Child Duty Father Fear Happiness His Home Joy Make Own Place Priesthood Should Surely

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If you're an independent voter, I'm willing to bet that you were not too happy at the prospect of hitting the polls on November 8, 2016. But let me guess - you did it anyway because after all, it's your civic duty, right?

~Fabrizio Moreira

Topics: After Anyway Because Bet Civic Did Duty Guess Happy Hitting Independent Me November Polls Prospect Right Too Voter Were Willing You Your

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