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If there is to be peace in our industrial life let the employer recognize his obligation to his employees - at least to the degree set forth in existing statutes. (Quote by - John L. Lewis)

So I think we have an obligation with our size to make sure that we are open to what people have to say to us because the people who criticize us, they're not all mean-spirited. (Quote by - Lee Scott)

The president does not have any obligation to make a consensus appointment here. What the president's obligation is, is to pick a judicial conservative, and I believe that's what he's gonna do. (Quote by - Jay Alan Sekulow)

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. (Quote by - Simone Weil)

I think celebrities have an obligation to the public to not just sing or act. (Quote by - Clay Aiken)

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. (Quote by - Tobias Wolff)

But I do believe this - I believe that fundamentally, society is headed in the right direction or wants to head in the right direction, and I think judges have an obligation to try to help it head there. (Quote by - Judge Mills Lane)

Talent is a gift that brings with it an obligation to serve the world, and not ourselves, for it is not of our making. (Quote by - Jose Marti)

Too great haste to repay an obligation is a kind of ingratitude. (Quote by - Francois de La Rochefoucauld)

We've had it very clear to the Bosnians that our obligation to equip and train their forces is completely conditional on the foreign forces being gone. (Quote by - Warren Christopher)

No obligation to do the impossible is binding. (Quote by - Marcus Tullius Cicero)

In other words, a democratic government is the only one in which those who vote for a tax can escape the obligation to pay it. (Quote by - Alexis de Tocqueville)

True guilt is guilt at the obligation one owes to oneself to be oneself. False guilt is guilt felt at not being what other people feel one ought to be or assume that one is. (Quote by - R. D. Laing)

We can be thankful to a friend for a few acres, or a little money; and yet for the freedom and command of the whole earth, and for the great benefits of our being, our life, health, and reason, we look upon ourselves as under no obligation. (Quote by - Lucius Annaeus Seneca)

When we were in the seminary we got a stipend direct from the government and for that stipend we had an obligation to stick to our teaching job for five years. (Quote by - Josef Albers)

Pets are humanizing. They remind us we have an obligation and responsibility to preserve and nurture and care for all life. (Quote by - James Cromwell)

When I hear traditional family values raised, I hear that effort once again to re-establish the man as head and master of his family. Who had the, not only the right, but the obligation to discipline his wife and children to keep them in line? (Quote by - Patricia Ireland)

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. (Quote by - Bob Ney)

There is an apprenticeship system in jazz. You teach the young ones. So even if the musicians weren't personally that likable, they felt an obligation to help the younger musicians. (Quote by - Dave Van Ronk)

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. (Quote by - George Combe)

Daley may not feel a moral responsibility to eliminate discrimination but he has a legal obligation to do so. (Quote by - Bobby Rush)

God primes the pump of obligation. (Quote by - A. P. Martinich)

In those days, reserve duty lasted for six years, which, I might add, was three times as long as service in the regular army, although to be perfectly honest, I was unable to fulfill my entire obligation because I was taking acting classes and they said I could skip my last year. (Quote by - Larry David)

The people of the Middle East share the desire for freedom. We have an opportunity - and an obligation - to help them turn this desire into reality. (Quote by - Condoleezza Rice)

We have an obligation to live in harmony with creation, with our capital... with God's creation. And we need to administer and work that very carefully. (Quote by - Bruce Babbitt)

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