"My duty is not affected by what others may or may not do to discharge their own."

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Source : David Weber (2002). “On Basilisk Station”, p.86, Baen Books

David Weber

#May Quotes #Duty Quotes

“All right, let's get to work again!-This is the spirit of people of genuine substance. Those who avoid hard work or neglect the things they have to do, who just while away their time, eating, sleeping, playing, watching television-such individuals will never experience true happiness, satisfaction or joy.”
“Sometimes the right thing gets done for the wrong reason and sometimes, unfortunately, the wrong thing gets done for the right reason.”
“I have long since decided if you wait for the perfect time to write, you'll never write. There is no time that isn't flawed somehow.”
“Music is music you don't have to put a label on it”
“Many more children observe attitudes, values and ways different from or in conflict with those of their families, social networks,and institutions. Yet today's young people are no more mature or capable of handling the increased conflicting and often stimulating information they receive than were young people of the past, who received the information and had more adult control of and advice about the information they did receive.”

Source : James P. Comer (1995). “School Power: Implications of an Intervention Project”
“He who doesn't consider himself is seldom considerate of others.”
“Rene, you want us to find you-don't-know-who and to retrieve his you-don't-know-what for you-won't-tell-me-whom?”
“Nature is relentless and unchangeable, and it is indifferent as to whether its hidden reasons and actions are understandable to man or not.”

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