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"When you go into court you are putting your fate into the hands of twelve people who weren't smart enough to get out of jury duty." »Norm Crosby
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"The first duty of society is to give each of its members the possibility of fulfilling his destiny. When it becomes incapable of performing this duty it must be transformed." »Alexis Carrel
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"The man who prefers his country before any other duty duty shows the same spirit as the man who surrenders every right to the state. They both deny that right is superior to authority." »Lord Acton
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"duty then is the sublimest word in the English language. You should do your duty in all things. You can never do more, you should never wish to do less." »Robert E. Lee
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"duty then is the sublimest word in the English language. You should do your duty in all things. You can never do more. You should never wish to do less." »Robert E. Lee
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"I consider it a public duty to answer falsifications with facts. I will not pretend that I find this an unpleasant duty. I am an old campaigner, and I love a good fight." »Franklin Delano Roosevelt
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"duty, then, is the sublimest word in our language. Do your duty in all things. You cannot do more, you should never wish to do less." »Robert E. Lee
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"Do the duty which lieth nearest to thee! Thy second duty will already have become clearer." »Thomas Carlyle
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"Always treat people with respect and kindness, for they may be selected to be on your jury." »Steve Pershing
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"duty without love is deplorable.
duty with love is desirable.
Love without duty is Divine." »Bhagawan Sri Sathya Sai Baba
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"A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer." »Robert Frost
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"A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawer." »Robert Frost
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"And now, like the old soldier of that ballad, I now close my military career, and just fade away...an old soldier who tried to do his duty, as God gave him the light to see that duty. Good-bye." »Gen. Douglas MacArthur, Farewell address, quoted on "We Interrupt This Broadcast" CD-ROM
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"We have a criminal jury system which is superior to any in the world and its efficiency is only marred by the difficulty of finding twelve men every day who don't know anything and can't read." »Mark Twain
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"jury: a group of twelve men who, having lied to the judge about their hearing, health and business engagements, have failed to fool him." »H. L. Mencken
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"The penalty for laughing in a courtroom is six months in jail; if it were not for this penalty, the jury would never hear the evidence." »H. L. Mencken
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"The penalty for laughing in a courtroom is six months in jail if it were not for this penalty, the jury would never hear the evidence." »H.L. Mencken
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"To be beneficent when we can is a duty; and besides this, there are many minds so sympathetically constituted that, without any other motive of vanity or self-interest, they find a pleasure in spreading joy around them, and can take delight in the satisfaction of others so far as it is their own work. But I maintain that in such a case an action of this kind, however proper, however amiable it may be, has nevertheless no true moral worth, but is on a level with other inclinations. ... For the maxim lacks the moral import, namely, that such actions be done from duty, not from inclination." »Immanuel Kant, FUNDAMENTAL PRINCIPLES OF THE METAPHYSICS OF ETHICS
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"These people have served a longer sentence than some people who have committed murder. (describing the jury in the OJ Simpson murder trial)" »Jeff Greenfield
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"Thank God I have done my duty." »Horation Nelson, Admiral British Navy, dying words
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"If you want to do your duty properly, you should do just a little more than that." »Bruce Lee
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"I take it as a man's duty to restrain himself." »Lois McMaster Bujold
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"The first duty of a revolutionary is to get away with it." »Abbie Hoffman
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"I know of only one duty, and that is to love." »Albert Camus
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"God always has an angel of help for those who are willing to do their duty." »T. L. Cuyler
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"Thank God, I have done my duty. Kiss me, Hardy." »Adm. Horatio Nelson, last words, 21 Oct 1805.
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"How can you come to know yourself Never by thinking, always by doing. Try to do your duty, and you'll know right away what you amount to." »Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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"England expects that every man will do his duty." »Lord Nelson
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"The first duty of love is to listen." »Paul Tillich
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"There is no duty more obligatory than the repayment of kindness." »Cicero
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