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We preach the virtues of democracy abroad. We must practice its duties here at home. Voting is the first duty of democracy.

 

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She was the archetypal selfless mother: living only for her children, sheltering them from the consequences of their actions -- and in the end doing them irreparable harm.

 

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Make it a point to do something every day that you don't want to do. This is the golden rule for acquiring the habit of doing your duty without pain.

 

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There are many scapegoats for our sins, but the most popular one is Providence.

 

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Blaming mother is just a negative way of clinging to her still.

 

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Blaming mother is just a negative way of clinging to her still.



Paul Ricoeur:

 

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The moral law commands us to make the highest possible good in a world the final object of all our conduct.

 

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For my own part, I abandon the ethics of duty to the Hegelian critique with no regrets; it would appear to me, indeed, to have been correctly characterized by Hegel as an abstract thought, as a thought of understanding.

 

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Management means, in the last analysis, the substitution of thought for brawn and muscle, of knowledge for folkways and superstition, and of cooperation for force. It means the substitution of responsibility for obedience to rank, and of authority of performance for the authority of rank.

 

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Only do what your heart tells you.

 

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What I must do is all that concerns me, not what the people think. This rule, equally arduous in actual and intellectual life, may serve for the whole distinction between greatness and meanness. It is the harder, because you will always find those who think they know what is your duty better than you know it. It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinion; it is easy in solitude to live after our own; but the great person is one who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude.

 

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Don't waste life in doubts and fears; spend yourself on the work before you, well assured that the right performance of this hour's duties will be the best preparation for the hours and ages that will follow it

 

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There is no duty we so underrate as the duty of being happy. By being happy we sow anonymous benefits upon the world.

 

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The disappearance of a sense of responsibility is the most far-reaching consequence of submission to authority.

 

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We have not passed that subtle line between childhood and adulthood until we move from the passive voice to the active voice -- that is, until we stop saying "It got lost," and say "I lost it."

 

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It is not the critic who counts, not the man who points out how the strong man stumbled, or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly, who errs and comes short again and again, who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, and spends himself in a worthy cause, who at best knows achievement and who at the worst if he fails at least fails while daring greatly so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat.

 

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Instead of saying that man is the creature of circumstance, it would be nearer the mark to say that man is the architect of circumstance.

 

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Genuine politics -- even politics worthy of the name -- the only politics I am willing to devote myself to -- is simply a matter of serving those around us: serving the community and serving those who will come after us. Its deepest roots are moral because it is a responsibility expressed through action, to and for the whole.

 

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A man who becomes conscious of the responsibility he bears toward a human being who affectionately waits for him, or to an unfinished work, will never be able to throw away his life. He knows the "why" for his existence, and will be able to bear almost any "how."

 

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Great bodies of people are never responsible for what they do.