Duty quotes - page 59
When Kepler found his long-cherished belief did not agree with the most precise observation, he accepted the uncomfortable fact. He preferred the hard truth to his dearest illusions, that is the heart of science.
The writer's only responsibility is to his art...If a writer has to rob his mother, he will not hesitate; the 'Ode on a Grecian Urn' is worth any number of old ladies.
William Faulkner
It is wrong and immoral to seek to escape the consequences of one's acts.
We've somehow allowed ourselves to think it's okay to neglect and abandon our responsibility to ourselves and to our community. Everything cannot be blamed on the system.
T.I.
I make money because I have to pay for everything apart from my school fees. My mother even makes me pay my own telephone bill.
Ivanka Trump
In order to achieve something great, you'll have to sacrifice something great.
David Harley
....to abuse the intellect for reasons of pride, vanity, or escape from responsibility, is the fruit of that same tree.
Walter M. Miller, Jr.
When we know deep down that we're acting with integrity despite impulses to do otherwise, we feel gates of higher energy and inspiration open inside of us.
Dan Millman
Freedom always carries a burden of proof, always throws us back on ourselves.
Shelby Steele
Net neutrality was essential for our economy; it was essential to preserve freedom and openness, both for economic reasons and free speech reasons, and the government had a role in ensuring that Internet freedom was protected.
Julius Genachowski
I think that the whole thing, the crux of the whole psychedelic issue, is that it accentuates personal responsibility by making people take their own experiences seriously.
Even without reforms, the Social Security fund will be able to meet 100 percent of its obligations until 2042.
Grace Napolitano
To be an atheist you have to have ten thousand times more imagination than if you are a religious fundamentalist. You must take the responsibility to acquire information, digest and use it to understand what you can.
Peter Greenaway
If someone robs a 7-11, they took $500 and they were able to settle the next day for $50 and no admission of wrongdoing, they'd knock over that 7-11 again.
Phil Angelides
I take full responsibility here and now for everything I experience, for it is my own programming that creates my actions and also influences the reactions of people around me.
Ken Keyes Jr.
The best remedy for a sick church is to put it on a missionary diet.
David Livingstone
Visit USA.gov and you'll find thousands of directorates, agencies, boards, offices, and services replete with overlapping responsibilities, ancient priorities, and divided accountability.
Lou Gerstner
