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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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"Death is as light as a feather; duty as heavy as a mountain." »Robert Jordan, The Wheel of Time
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"Ever since we crawled out of that primordial slime, that's been our unifying cry, More light. Sunlight. Torchlight. Candlight. Neon, incandescent lights that banish the darkness from our caves to illuminate our roads, the insides of our refrigerators. Big floods for the night games at Soldier's field. Little tiny flashlights for those books we read under the covers when we're supposed to be asleep. Light is more than watts and footcandles. Light is metaphor. Light is knowledge, light is life, light is light." »Andrew Schneider
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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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"Do the duty which lieth nearest to thee! Thy second duty will already have become clearer." »Thomas Carlyle
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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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"Duty without love is deplorable.
Duty with love is desirable.
Love without duty is Divine." »Bhagawan Sri Sathya Sai Baba
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"Are you feeling helpless when you think about the dark roads of the future? Then read the biographies of the great men! Learn their life stories; they will lead you to the light! Buddha will lead you to the light; Gandhi will lead you to the light! Men of wider horizons will broaden our own horizons!" »Mehmet Murat ildan
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"Begin today No matter how feeble the light, let it shine as best it may. The world may need just that quality of light which you have." »Henry C. Blinn
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"Sometimes our light goes out but is blown into flame by another human being. Each of us owes deepest thanks to those who have rekindled this light." »Albert Schweitzer
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"When you admire the light, remember to give the darkness its due as well, because without it, the beauty of the light will disappear!" »Mehmet Murat ildan
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"Light is the first of painters. There is no object so foul that intense light will not make it beautiful." »Ralph Waldo Emerson
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"Have you ever been at sea in a dense fog, when it seemed as if a tangible white darkness shut you in and the great ship, tense and anxious, groped her way toward the shore with plummet and sounding-line, and you waited with beating heart for something to happen I was like that ship before my education began, only I was without compass or sounding line, and no way of knowing how near the harbor was. 'Light Give me light' was the wordless cry of my soul, and the light of love shone on me in that very hour." »Helen Keller
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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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"My wife is a light eater ... as soon as it's light, she starts to eat." »Henny Youngman
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"May you never know hunger
May you love with a full heart
The light burn in your eyes
May the fire be your friend
And the sea rock you gently
May the moon light your way
Till the wind sets you free" »Shriekback, "Cradle Song"
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"And I said to the one who stood at the gate of the year, 'Give me a light that I may tread safely into the Unknown.' And he replied, 'Go out into the darkness and put your hand into the hand of God. That shall be to you better than light and safer than a known way.'" »Minnie Haskins
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"You do not examine legislation in the light of the benefits it will convey if properly administered, but in the light of the wrongs it would do and the harms it would cause if improperly administered." »Lyndon Johnson
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"We do not first get all the answers and then live in the light of our understanding. We must rather plunge into life meeting what we have to meet and experiencing what we have to experience and in the light of living try to understand. if insight comes at all, it will not before, but only through and after experience." »John Claypool
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"Solitude, though it may be silent as light, is like light, the mightiest of agencies for solitude is essential to man. All men come into this world alone all leave it alone." »Thomas De Quincey
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"In light of knowledge attained, the happy achievement seems almost a matter of course, and any intelligent student can grasp it without too much trouble. But the years of anxious searching in the dark, with their intense longing, their alterations of confidence and exhaustion and the final emergence into the light -- only those who have experienced it can understand it." »Albert Einstein
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"When Alexander the Great visited Diogenes and asked whether he could do anything for the famed teacher, Diogenes replied 'Only stand out of my light.' Perhaps some day we shall know how to heighten creativity. Until then, one of the best things we can do for creative men and women is to stand out of their light." »John W. Gardner
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"The sea rises, the light fails, lovers cling to each other, and children cling to us. The moment we cease to hold each other, the moment we break faith with one another, the sea engulfs us and the light goes out." »James Arthur Baldwin
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"How can you bring more light to the ephemeras who are plunged into the fire, because they have already had the light of the fire then.
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"Master Plato once said that Lux est umbra Dei; light is the shadow of God. I say this way: Light is the god of shadow!" »Mehmet Murat ildan
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"There are two ways of passing from this world - one in light and one in darkness. When one passes in light, he does not come back but when one passes in darkness, he returns." »Bhagavad Gita
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