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An ideal marriage is a true partnership between two imperfect people, each striving to complement the other, to keep the commandments, and to do the will of the Lord [Our Sacred Duty to Honor Woman, Ensign, May 1999). -- Russel M. Nelson
National defense is the sacred duty of the young and all other people. -- Kim Jong Il
All Americans have a sacred duty to guarantee Social Security benefits to our nation's senior citizens. -- Steve King
It is every one's sacred duty to keep himself in a condition to do the biggest thing possible to him. -- Orison Swett Marden
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It is not easy to be sure that being yourself is worth the trouble, but we do know it is our sacred duty. -- Florida Scott-Maxwell
Freedom is not a gift nor does it simply exist for us to have, but rather it is a sacred duty, and its blessed yield of hope is born from none other than the blood of the innocent. -- Bryant H. McGill
Our military leaders don't seize power in coups; our soldiers and sailors don't go on strike for higher pay or benefits; our armed forces don't weigh in on the political process. In return, Americans have a sacred duty to treat them honorably. -- Kathleen Troia McFarland
The Imperial German Government will not expect the Government of the United States to omit any word or any act necessary to the performance of its sacred duty of maintaining the rights of the United States and its citizens and of safeguarding their free exercise and enjoyment. -- William Jennings Bryan
In the priesthood we share the sacred duty to labor for the souls of men. We must do more than learn that this is our duty. It must go down into our hearts so deeply that neither the many demands on our efforts in the bloom of life nor the trials that come with age can turn us from that purpose. -- Henry B. Eyring
Non-cooperatio n with evil is a sacred duty. -- Mahatma Gandhi
A willing spirit, diligently perform the sacred duty. -- Lailah Gifty Akita
Nonviolent non-co-operation, I am convinced, is a sacred duty at times. -- Mahatma Gandhi
A friendly study of the world's religions is a sacred duty. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Civil disobedience becomes a sacred duty when the state becomes lawless or corrupt. -- Mahatma Gandhi
I know of no more sacred duty than to rear and educate a child. -- Ludwig van Beethoven
A divine great spirit put awe-words on my mind; my sacred-duty is the writing. -- Lailah Gifty Akita
Artfulness is not simple entertainment, especially during upheaval, unleashing creative life is sacred duty. -- Clarissa Pinkola Estes
All Americans have a sacred duty to guarantee Social Security benefits to our nation's senior citizens -- Steve King
I know that not only is Swaraj our birthright, but it is our sacred duty to win it. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Teachers who help to open young minds perform a duty which is as near sacred as I will admit. -- Richard Dawkins
The act of giving voice to this spiritual suffering is, in my view, the sacred duty of the writer. -- Mo Yan
Multi-billion-dollar multinational corporations view the exploitation of the world's sick and dying as a sacred duty to their shareholders. -- John le Carre
It is Ireland's sacred duty to send over, every few years, a playwright to save the English theater from inarticulate glumness. -- Kenneth Tynan
Health is a divine gift, and the care of the body is a sacred duty, to neglect which is to sin. -- Eugen Sandow
The most sacred duty, the supreme and urgent work, is to deliver humanity from the malediction of Cain - fratricidal war. -- African Spir
The creation of freedom for oneself and a sacred "No" even to duty -- for that, my brothers, the lion is needed. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
Resolved, That it is the duty of the women of this country to secure to themselves their sacred right to the elective franchise. -- Elizabeth Cady Stanton
It is not easy to be sure that being yourself is worth the trouble, but [we do know] it is our sacred duty. -- Rick Scott
What is the most sacred duty and the greatest source of our security in a Republic? An inviolable respect for the Constitution and Laws. -- Alexander Hamilton
It is our solemn duty, our precious privilege-even our sacred opportunity-to welcome to our homes and to our hearts the children who grace our lives. -- Thomas S. Monson
It is our sacred duty to transmit unimpaired to our posterity the blessings of liberty which were bequeathed to us by the founders of the Republic. -- Andrew Johnson
The little people must be sacred to the big ones, and it is from the rights of the weak that the duty of the strong is comprised. -- Victor Hugo
Our minds and hearts are free to believe everything or nothing at all - and it is our duty to protect and perpetuate this sacred culture of freedom. -- Thomas Jefferson
I am speaking now of the highest duty we owe our friends, the noblest, the most sacred - that of keeping their own nobleness, goodness, pure and incorrupt -- Harriet Beecher Stowe
We cannot and we must not allow ourselves to get distracted from our sacred duty. We cannot and we must not lose focus on the things that matter most. -- Dieter F. Uchtdorf
It is the high privilege and sacred duty of those now living to educate their successors and fit them, by intelligence and virtue, for the inheritance which awaits them. -- James A. Garfield
Civil disobedience becomes a sacred duty when the state has become lawless or corrupt. And a citizen who barters with such a state shares in its corruption and lawlessness. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Families are the Lord's workshop on earth to help us learn and live the gospel. We come into our families with a sacred duty to help strengthen each other spiritually. -- Cheryl A. Esplin

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