"Never mind your happiness; do your duty."

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Will Durant

#Mind Quotes #Duty Quotes

“I'm not gay, and I'm not a transvestite.”

Source : London newspaper, 1984.
“People who refuse to open their minds to new strategies seldom become rich.”
“I can see why she feels left behind. Maybe even discarded. Is that why she refuses to accept my love and return it? Afraid that love doesn't last? Doesn't really exist? Afraid if her own father can withdraw his love (or at least the manifestation of his love), that maybe she somehow isn't worthy of the emotion?”
“All I could think to do was love her. That's all a person can do.”
“The only things that are really permanent are love, family, friendship, and that is a lesson. At the end of the day, that's really what it boils down to. The rest of it is just stuff.”

Source : "'Twilight' Tuesday: Nikki Reed Hopes to Make Us Understand What's Beneath Rosalie's Beautiful, Hard Exterior". Interview with Larry Carroll, www.mtv.com. July 22, 2008.
“Ask how youâ€™d live your life differently if you knew you were going to die soon, then ask yourself who those people you admire are and why you admire them, and then ask yourself what was the most fun time in your life. The answers to these questions, when seen, heard, and felt, provide us with an open doorway into our mission, our destiny, our purpose.”
“Most people lived their lives like criminals: act first, worry about the consequences later.”
“According to my observations, mankind are among the most easily tamable and domesticable of all creatures in the animal world . They are readily reducible to submission, so readily conditionable (to coin a word) as to exhibit an almost incredibly enduring patience under restraint and oppression of the most flagrant character. So far are they from displaying any overweening love of freedom that they show a singular contentment with a condition of servitorship, often showing a curious canine pride in it, and again often simply unaware that they are existing in that condition.”

Source : "Memoirs of a Superfluous Man" by Albert J. Nock, (p. 314), 1943.

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