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Letter "D" » duty
«Our duty, as men and women, is to proceed as if limits to our ability did not exist. We are collaborators in creation.»
Author: Teilhard de Chardin
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Geologist,
Mystic,
Philosopher,
Priest)
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Keywords:
ability,
As If,
collaborator,
collaborators,
Creation,
Did,
duty,
exist,
limits,
proceed,
proceeding,
to the limit,
women
«I know of only one duty, and that is to love»
«I long to accomplish a great and noble task; but it is my chief duty to accomplish small tasks as if they were great and noble»
«Painting is a faith, and it imposes the duty to disregard public opinion.»
«I hope it will not be irreverent in me to say, that if it be probable that God would reveal his will to others, on a point so connected with my duty, it might be supposed he would reveal it directly to me»
«Love is a better teacher than duty.»
«Never regard study as a duty, but as the enviable opportunity to learn to know the liberating influence of beauty in the realm of the spirit for your own personal joy and to the profit of the community to which your later work belongs.»
Author: Albert Einstein
(
Physicist)
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Keywords:
beauty,
belongs,
community,
duty,
enviable,
influence,
influencing,
in regard to,
In the Realm,
joy,
later,
liberating,
opportunity,
personal,
profit,
profiting,
realm,
regard,
regard as,
spirit,
study
«Nothing truly valuable arises from ambition or from a mere sense of duty; it stems rather from love and devotion towards men and towards objective things.»
Author: Albert Einstein
(
Physicist)
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About:
Ambition
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Keywords:
ambition,
arises,
devotion,
devotions,
duty,
men,
mere,
merest,
objective,
rather,
sense,
sensed,
sense an,
sense of duty,
sensing,
stemmed,
stems,
truly,
valuable,
with ambition
«Infinite striving to be the best is man's duty; it is its own reward. Everything else is in God's hands.»
«If we are to respect others' religions as we would have them to respect our own, a friendly study of the world's religion is a sacred duty.»