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Charles Horton Cooley : When one has come to accept a certain course as duty he has a pleasant sense of relief and of lifted responsibility, even if the course involves pain and renunciation. It is like obedience to some external authority; any clear way, though it lead to death, is mentally preferable to the tangle of uncertainty. # Duty # Death and Dying # Pain

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Ira Glasser : " You will be pleased to know I stand obediently for the national anthem, though of course I would defend your right to remain seated should you so decide. " # Duty # Death and Dying # Pain

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Lord Acton : " The man who prefers his country before any other duty duty shows the same spirit as the man who surrenders every right to the state. They both deny that right is superior to authority. " # Duty # Death and Dying # Pain

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Jean Jacques Rousseau : " The strongest is never strong enough to be always the master, unless he transforms strength into right, and obedience into duty. " # Duty # Death and Dying # Pain

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Stanley Milgram : " The disappearance of a sense of responsibility is the most far-reaching consequence of submission to authority. " # Duty # Death and Dying # Pain

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Daniel C Dennett : " The distinction between responsible moral agents and beings with diminished or no responsibility is coherent, real, and important. It is coherent, even if in many instances it is hard to apply; it draws an empirically real line, in that we don't all fall on one side; and, most important, the distinction matters: the use we make of it plays a crucial role in the quality and meaning of our lives. [...] We want to hold ourselves and others responsible, but we recognize that our intuitions often support the judgement that a particular individual has "diminished responsibility" because of his or her infirmities, or because of particularly dire circumstances upon upbringing or at the time of action. We also find it plausible to judge that nonhuman animals, infants, and those who are severely handicapped mentally are not responsible at all. But since we are all more or less imperfect, will there be anyone left to be responsible after we have excused all those with good excuses? [...] We must set up some efficiently determinable threshold for legal competence, never for a moment supposing that there couldn't be intuitively persuasive "counterexamples" to whatever line we draw, but declaring in advance that such pleas will not be entertained. [...] The effect of such an institution [...] is to create [...] a class of legally culpable agents whose subsequent liability to punishment maintains the credibility of the sanctions of the laws. The institution, if it is to maintain itself, must provide for the fine tuning of its arbitrary thresholds as new information (or misinformation) emerges that might undercut its credibility. One can speculate that there is an optimal setting of the competence threshold (for any particular combination of social circumstances, degree of public sophistication, and so on) that maximizes the bracing effect of the law. A higher than optimal threshold would encourage a sort of malingering on the part of the defendants, which, if recognized by the populace, would diminish their respect for the law and hence diminish its deterrent effect. And a lower than optimal threshold would yield a diminishing return of deterrence and lead to the punishment of individuals who, in the eyes of society, "really couldn't help it." The public perception of the fairness of the law is a critical factor in its effectiveness. " # Duty # Death and Dying # Pain

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John D Rockefeller : " Every right implies a responsibility; Every opportunity, an obligation, Every possession, a duty. " # Duty # Death and Dying # Pain

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Swami Vivekananda : " Our supreme duty is to advance toward freedom—physical, mental, and spiritual—and help others to do so. " # Duty # Death and Dying # Pain

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Abraham Lincoln : " The sense of obligation to continue is present in all of us. A duty to strive is the duty of us all. I felt a call to that duty. " # Duty # Death and Dying # Pain

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Mark Twain : " Do something every day that you don't want to do. This is the golden rule for acquiring the habit of doing your duty without pain. " # Duty # Death and Dying # Pain

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Horatio Nelson : " Duty is the great business of a sea officer; all private considerations must give way to it, however painful it may be. " # Duty # Death and Dying # Pain

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Charles Horton Cooley: " An artist cannot fail it is a success to be one." # Arts and Artists

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Charles Horton Cooley: " Our individual lives cannot, generally, be works of art unless the social order is also." # Arts and Artists

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Charles Horton Cooley: " We cannot feel strongly toward the totally unlike because it is unimaginable, unrealizable; nor yet toward the wholly like because it is stale -- identity must always be dull company. The power of other natures over us lies in a stimulating difference which causes excitement and opens communication, in ideas similar to our own but not identical, in states of mind attainable but not actual." # Diversity # Books - Reading # Life and Living

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Charles Horton Cooley: " The chief misery of the decline of the faculties, and a main cause of the irritability that often goes with it, is evidently the isolation, the lack of customary appreciation and influence, which only the rarest tact and thoughtfulness on the part of others can alleviate." # Disability # Tact and Tactfulness # Philosophers and Philosophy

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Charles Horton Cooley: " In most cases a favorite writer is more with us in his book than he ever could have been in the flesh; since, being a writer, he is one who has studied and perfected this particular mode of personal incarnation, very likely to the detriment of any other. I should like as a matter of curiosity to see and hear for a moment the men whose works I admire; but I should hardly expect to find further intercourse particularly profitable." # Writers and Writing # Curiosity # Books - Reading

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Charles Horton Cooley: " Simplicity is a pleasant thing in children, or at any age, but it is not necessarily admirable, nor is affectation altogether a thing of evil. To be normal, to be at home in the world, with a prospect of power, usefulness, or success, the person must have that imaginative insight into other minds that underlies tact and savoir-faire, morality and beneficence. This insight involves sophistication, some understanding and sharing of the clandestine impulses of human nature. A simplicity that is merely the lack of this insight indicates a sort of defect." # Simplicity # Age and Aging # Tact and Tactfulness

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Charles Horton Cooley: " To get away from one's working environment is, in a sense, to get away from one's self; and this is often the chief advantage of travel and change." # Vacation # Change # Environment

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Charles Horton Cooley: " We are born to action and whatever is capable of suggesting and guiding action has power over us from the first." # Action

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Charles Horton Cooley: " So far as discipline is concerned, freedom means not its absence but the use of higher and more rational forms as contrasted with those that are lower or less rational." # Discipline # Freedom # Absence

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Charles Horton Cooley: " When one has come to accept a certain course as duty he has a pleasant sense of relief and of lifted responsibility, even if the course involves pain and renunciation. It is like obedience to some external authority; any clear way, though it lead to death, is mentally preferable to the tangle of uncertainty." # Duty # Death and Dying # Pain

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