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• 1934 - Garry Wills
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• I was given talent, and if you are given it, it is your obligation to use it.

  Dennis Potter

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• Of course it’s why you want to become a writer – because you have the liberty to do that, but once you have the liberty you also have the obligation to do it.

  Tobias Wolff

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• I think you have an obligation to share what you know as a writer.

  David Guterson

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• December 25th has become guilt and obligation.

  Phil Donahue

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• We not only have a legal obligation to honor our commitments, we have a moral obligation to provide the coverage we promised to provide to these people.

  Bob Ney

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• We as a Congress have a moral obligation to bring justice to the families of these victims. Furthermore, as a society based on laws, we have a responsibility to ensure that criminals don’t go unpunished.

  Bob Filner

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• It is the solemn obligation of a leader always to be a leader. Even when – perhaps especially when – you don’t feel like being a leader.

  Bill Owens

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• The people who did the collateralized mortgage obligations, sold them to pension funds, then sold them short, then bought credit default swap insurance on them, are just amazing. They are a law unto themselves.

  Ben Stein

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• You do feel a certain obligation to shows that raise your profile like ‘Downton’ has. But there are definitely other exciting opportunities out there.

  Dan Stevens

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• For the United States to recommit itself to the obligation that we undertook in the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty that many other states undertook, which was to work towards disarmament and the eventual elimination of nuclear weapons, is something that manifestly serves our national security interests.

  Susan Rice

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• Possession without obligation to the object possessed approaches felicity.

  George Meredith

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• The nation’s obligation to her defenders is as old as that defense itself.

  Steve Buyer

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• Teaching civility is an obligation of the family.

  Stephen L Carter

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• It’s the government’s obligation to look really to the third parties to get the support to govern.

  Stephen Joseph Harper

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• The Leader of the Opposition’s constitutional obligation – the obligation to Parliament – it’s the reason we did the merger! – is to make sure Canadians have an alternative for government.

  Stephen Joseph Harper

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• I was raised by my parents to believe that you had a moral obligation to try and help save the world.

  Anne Lamott

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• While some of them acknowledge the obligation of natural morality in their mode of conducting their cases, and preserve their individual character as gentlemen, there are others who acknowledge no law, human or divine, but the law of Scotland.

  George Combe

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• It is an eternal obligation toward the human being not to let him suffer from hunger when one has a chance of coming to his assistance.

  Simone Weil

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• He has the obligation to society that any human being has. I don’t think a satirist has any greater obligation to society than a bricklayer or anybody else.

  Shel Silverstein

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• My first obligation is my job. It’s very hard to really get into campaign mode when you’ve got to focus on doing the work.

  Claire McCaskill

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