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I believe in the equality of man; and I believe that religious duties consist in doing justice, loving mercy, and endeavoring to make our fellow-creatures happy.

Man Justice Equality Happy

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

Good Women Men Free

The police are the public and the public are the police; the police being only members of the public who are paid to give full time attention to duties which are incumbent on every citizen in the interests of community welfare and existence.

Time Police Community Attention

Preaching is the expression of the moral sentiment in application to the duties of life.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Life Moral Expression Preaching

Give yourself more opportunities for privacy, when you are not bombarded with duties and obligations. Privacy is not a rejection of those you love; it is your deserved respite for recharging your batteries.

Love You Yourself Rejection

Discretion is the perfection of reason, and a guide to us in all the duties of life.

Life Perfection Reason Us

We should not be so taken up in the search for truth, as to neglect the needful duties of active life; for it is only action that gives a true value and commendation to virtue.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

Life Truth Value Action

In our monogamous part of the world, to marry means to halve one's rights and double one's duties.

Arthur Schopenhauer

World Rights Marry Double

Religion is the recognition of all our duties as divine commands.

Religion Recognition Divine Our

In the discharge of the duties of this office, there is one rule of action more important than all others. It consists in never doing anything that someone else can do for you.

Calvin Coolidge

You Action Someone Never

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Lawyers have their duties as citizens, but they also have special duties as lawyers. Their obligations go far deeper than earning a living as specialists in corporation or tax law. They have a continuing responsibility to uphold the fundamental principles of justice from which the law cannot depart.

Justice Responsibility Law Lawyers

What troubles me most about my lovely country is that its children are seldom taught that American freedom will vanish, if, when they grow up, and in the exercise of their duties as citizens, they insist that our courts and policemen and prisons be guided by divine or natural law.

Freedom Me Children Grow

Soldiers are not policemen, and it's very unfair, even for those soldiers who have some police training, to burden them with police duties. It's not what they're trained for, or equipped for.

Police Training Soldiers Unfair

To my mind, it is the duty of the younger Negro artist, if he accepts any duties at all from outsiders, to change through the force of his art that old whispering 'I want to be white,' hidden in the aspirations of his people, to 'Why should I want to be white? I am a Negro - and beautiful!'

Langston Hughes

Beautiful Change Art I Am

One of the first duties of a Scout is obedience to authority. He must obey his orders in the first place and put his own amusement or desires in the second.

Robert Baden-Powell

Place Own Scout Obedience

We must find our duties in what comes to us, not in what might have been.

Find Us Must Been

At 17, I went to Stanford University to study engineering. My time was occupied with the required reading and the extracurricular duties of managing the baseball and football teams and earning my way.

Time Football Reading Way

One of the first duties of the physician is to educate the masses not to take medicine.

Medicine First Physician Take

The first duties of the physician is to educate the masses not to take medicine.

Medicine First Physician Take

The possibility of divorce renders both marriage partners stricter in their observance of the duties they owe to each other. Divorces help to improve morals and to increase the population.

Marriage Morals Help Divorce

I will fight for my children on any level so they can reach their potential as human beings and in their public duties.

Children Fight Will Reach

Our elected officials must understand that we, the American people, expect them to perform the duties of their office, even when that means working with other elected officials from different parties.

People Understand Office Expect

I'm going to be a happy housewife. I'm going to be washing boxers and cooking and doing all those sorts of housewife duties. I just want to be happy and proud of every single day.

Day Be Happy Cooking Happy

Consistency, madam, is the first of Christian duties.

Charlotte Bronte

Consistency Christian First Madam

It is the business of the future to be dangerous; and it is among the merits of science that it equips the future for its duties.

Alfred North Whitehead

Science Future Business Dangerous

One of the duties of fortitude is to keep the weak from receiving injury; another, to check the wrong motions of our own souls; a third, both to disregard humiliations, and to do what is right with an even mind. All these clearly ought to be fulfilled by all Christians, and especially by the clergy.

Mind Wrong Own Weak

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