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• 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.
  -- Albert Einstei...
• In a bureaucratic system, useless work drives out useful work. -- Milton Friedma
• To be idle requires a strong sense of personal identity. -- Robert Lewis Stevenso
• Morality in sexual relations, when it is free from superstitio
  consists essentially of respect for the other person, and unwillingness to use the person solely as means of personal gratification, without regard to his or her desires....
• Defending the truth is not something one does out of a sense of duty or to allay guilt complexes, but is a reward in itself.
  -- Peter Bechma...
• Four innate sentiments dispose people to a universal moral sense.
  These are sympathy, fairness, self-control and duty. -- James Q Wilso...
• No sense being pessimistic, it wouldn't work anyway.
• Few young men of high gifts and fine tastes look forward to entering public life
  for the probability of disappointments and vexations of a life in Congress so far outweigh its attractions that nothing but exceptional ambition or a strong sense of public duty suffices to draw such men into it....
• Let no guilty man escape, if it can be avoided. No personal considerations should stand in the way of performing a duty.
  -- Ulysses S....