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sense of duty
«Sherman made the terrible discovery that men make about their fathers sooner or later...that the man before him was not an aging father but a boy, a boy much like himself, a boy who grew up and had a child of his own and, as best he could, out of a sense of duty and, perhaps love, adopted a role called Being a Father so that his child would have something mythical and infinitely important: a Protector, who would keep a lid on all the chaotic and catastrophic possibilities of life. The Bonfire of the Vanities»
Author: Thomas Wolfe
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adopted, bonfire, catastrophic, lid, lids, mythical, mythical being, protector, sense of duty, Sherman, vanities
«The book which you read from a sense of duty, or because for any reason you must, does not commonly make friends with you.»
Author: William Dean Howells
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sense of duty
«A sense of duty is useful in work but offensive in personal relations»
Author: Bertrand Russell
(Logician, Philosopher)
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personal relation, Personal relations, sense of duty
«Nothing truly valuable arises from ambition or from a mere sense of duty; it stems rather from love and devotion towards men and towards objective things.»
«It is our American habit if we find the foundations of our educational structure unsatisfactory to add another story or wing. We find it easier to add a new study or course or kind of school than to recognize existing conditions so as to meet the need. strangled the holy curious of inquiry. It is a very grave mistake to think that the enjoyment of seeing and searching can be promoted by means of coercion and a sense of duty.»
Author: Albert Einstein
(Physicist)
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ADD, Another Story, coercion, conditions, curious, educational, enjoyment, existing, foundations, grave, holy, inquiry, Meet The, New American, promoted, promotes, recognize, searching, sense of duty, so as to, strangle, strangled, strangles, strangling, structure, The New American, unsatisfactory, wing
«It is a very grave mistake to think that the enjoyment of seeing and searching can be promoted by means of coercion and a sense of duty.»
«Battle is the most magnificent competition in which a human being can indulge. It brings out all that is best; it removes all that is base. All men are afraid in battle. The coward is the one who lets his fear overcome his sense of duty. Duty is the essence of manhood.»
Author: General George S. Patton
(General)
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Competition
| Keywords:
competition, indulge, magnificent, removes, sense of duty
«Courage that grows from constitution often forsakes a man when he has occasion for it courage which arises from a sense of duty acts in a uniform manner»
Author: Joseph Addison
(Dramatist, Essayist, Poet, Statesman)
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Courage
| Keywords:
arises, forsakes, sense of duty
«The men and women who have the right ideals... are those who have the courage to strive for the happiness which comes only with labor and effort and self-sacrifice, and those whose joy in life springs in part from power of work and sense of duty.»
Author: Theodore Roosevelt
(President)
| Keywords:
ideals, self-sacrifice, self-sacrificing, sense of duty
