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A quotation from The Talmud

It is not yours to finish the task, but neither are you free to set it aside.
 
לֹא עָלֶיךָ הַמְּלָאכָה לִגְמֹר, וְלֹא אַתָּה בֶן חוֹרִין לִבָּטֵל מִמֶּנָּה.

The Talmud (AD 200-500) Collection of Jewish rabbinical writings
Mishnah, Pirkei Avot [Ethics of the Fathers; פִּרְקֵי אָבוֹת] 2:16

More about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/talmud/35632/

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A quotation from Elizabeth Cady Stanton

I have no sympathy with the old idea that children owe such immense gratitude to their parents that they can never fulfill their obligations to them. I think the obligation is all on the other side.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton (1815-1902) American social activist, abolitionist, woman's suffragist
Journal (1880-11-12)

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A quotation from Elizabeth Cady Stanton

I have no sympathy with the old idea that children owe such immense gratitude to their parents that they can never fulfill their obligations to them. I think the obligation is all on the other side.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton (1815-1902) American social activist, abolitionist, woman's suffragist
Journal (1880-11-12)

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A quotation from Elizabeth Cady Stanton

I have no sympathy with the old idea that children owe such immense gratitude to their parents that they can never fulfill their obligations to them. I think the obligation is all on the other side.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton (1815-1902) American social activist, abolitionist, woman's suffragist
Journal (1880-11-12)

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#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #elizabethcadystanton #accountability #children #duty #filialduty #gratitude #obligation #offspring #parenting #parents

A quotation from Elizabeth Cady Stanton

I have no sympathy with the old idea that children owe such immense gratitude to their parents that they can never fulfill their obligations to them. I think the obligation is all on the other side.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton (1815-1902) American social activist, abolitionist, woman's suffragist
Journal (1880-11-12)

More about this quote: wist.info/stanton-elizabeth-ca…

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Spain’s property Imputed Income tax – Every non-resident property owner’s annual obligation

You have a second home in Spain and haven’t rented it out. It sat empty most of the…
#Spain #ES #Europe #Europa #EU #annual #every #imputed #income #nonresident #obligation #owners #property #spains #Tax
https://www.europesays.com/spain/17350/

https://www.europesays.com/uk/939685/ Spain’s property Imputed Income tax – Every non-resident property owner’s annual obligation #Annual #EU #Europe #every #imputed #income #nonresident #obligation #Owners #property #Spain #spains #Tax

https://www.europesays.com/ch-fr/111061/ Faut-il restreindre ou non l’accès au service civil? La population tranchera dans les urnes #Actualités #Conflit #ConflitArmé #ConseilFédéralSuisse #débat #Défense #ElectionsFédéralesSuisses #ForcesArmées #Gouvernement #Guerre #GuerreEtPaix #GuyParmelin #militaire #News #obligation #Parlement #Politique #population #protection #Référendum #ServiceMilitaire #Suisse

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/apr/28/israels-direction-poses-existential-threat-to-judaism-uks-leading-progressive-rabbis-warn. "The UK’s most senior #progressive #rabbis have warned that Israel’s current #political direction risks becoming 'incompatible with #Jewish #values', while insisting that #criticism of the country’s #Government is 'a Jewish #obligation' rather than an act of #disloyalty." Indeed! So much for criticism of #Israel being #antisemitism! That is a very convenient #myth for the likes of #Netanyahu & his #supporters.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/apr/28/israels-direction-poses-existential-threat-to-judaism-uks-leading-progressive-rabbis-warn. "The UK’s most senior #progressive #rabbis have warned that Israel’s current #political direction risks becoming 'incompatible with #Jewish #values', while insisting that #criticism of the country’s #Government is 'a Jewish #obligation' rather than an act of #disloyalty." Indeed! So much for criticism of #Israel being #antisemitism! That is a very convenient #myth for the likes of #Netanyahu & his #supporters.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/apr/28/israels-direction-poses-existential-threat-to-judaism-uks-leading-progressive-rabbis-warn. "The UK’s most senior #progressive #rabbis have warned that Israel’s current #political direction risks becoming 'incompatible with #Jewish #values', while insisting that #criticism of the country’s #Government is 'a Jewish #obligation' rather than an act of #disloyalty." Indeed! So much for criticism of #Israel being #antisemitism! That is a very convenient #myth for the likes of #Netanyahu & his #supporters.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/apr/28/israels-direction-poses-existential-threat-to-judaism-uks-leading-progressive-rabbis-warn. "The UK’s most senior #progressive #rabbis have warned that Israel’s current #political direction risks becoming 'incompatible with #Jewish #values', while insisting that #criticism of the country’s #Government is 'a Jewish #obligation' rather than an act of #disloyalty." Indeed! So much for criticism of #Israel being #antisemitism! That is a very convenient #myth for the likes of #Netanyahu & his #supporters.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/apr/28/israels-direction-poses-existential-threat-to-judaism-uks-leading-progressive-rabbis-warn. "The UK’s most senior #progressive #rabbis have warned that Israel’s current #political direction risks becoming 'incompatible with #Jewish #values', while insisting that #criticism of the country’s #Government is 'a Jewish #obligation' rather than an act of #disloyalty." Indeed! So much for criticism of #Israel being #antisemitism! That is a very convenient #myth for the likes of #Netanyahu & his #supporters.

CARA Must Pursue Hague Convention Compliance Before Issuing NOC For Inter-Country Adoptions: Delhi High Court

The Delhi High Court has held that the…
#Netherlands #Nederland #NL #Europe #Europa #EU #TheHague #2021 #2022 #adoption #Article17 #Article5 #Authority #canada #CARA #Child #Compliance #Convention #HAGUE #HAMA #HighCourt #India #Intercountry #Magistrate #NOC #Obligation #Procedure #Regulations #Relocation #SupportLetter #Verification #Welfare
https://www.europesays.com/netherlands/4745/

A quotation from Hannah Arendt

If, as I suggested before, the ability to tell right from wrong should turn out to have anything to do with the ability to think, then we must be able to “demand” its exercise from every sane person, no matter how erudite or ignorant, intelligent or stupid, he may happen to be.

Hannah Arendt (1906-1975) German-American philosopher, political theorist
Life of the Mind, Vol. 1 “Thinking,” Introduction (1977)

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#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #arendt #hannaharendt #accountability #agency #discernment #freewill #ignorance #intelligence #judgment #moralagency #morality #obligation #responsibility #thinking #thoughtfulness

https://www.europesays.com/africa/94599/ Grand Mufti of Libya: Liberating Palestine and Assisting the People of Gaza Is a Religious Obligation #à #Al #and #approaches #as #Assisting #called #forget #Gaza #Ghariani #grand #holy #is #Liberating #Libya #month #Mufti #muslims #not #Obligation #of #on #Palestine #People #Ramadan #religious #Sadiq #Sheikh #the #to #worldwide

DGT clarifies obligation to register electric scooters in Spain in 2026 https://www.byteseu.com/1662905/ #2026 #clarifies #dgt #for #obligation #registration #scooters #Spain

https://www.europesays.com/uk/655806/ DGT clarifies obligation to register electric scooters in Spain in 2026 #2026 #clarifies #dgt #EU #Europe #for #obligation #registration #Scooters #Spain

“Language is the road map of a culture. It tells you where its people come from and where they are going”*…

From Colin Gorrie, how our world also shapes our language– and in the example he uses, also our sense of duty…

Debt is old. It’s older than writing. The first writing system, Sumerian cuneiform, evolved out of marks used for accounting. From the beginning, writing was used to track who had what, and, crucially, who owed what to whom.

The influence of debt also extends to language more generally. In many languages, including English, the experiences of owing and being owed provided the blueprint for more abstract notions of duty, necessity, and obligation.

Words meaning ‘to owe’ developed into abstract expressions of obligation so often that it’s useful to have a name for the phenomenon. I call it the owe-to-ought pipeline, named after one of the clearest cases of this development. The word ought is, in fact, nothing but the old past tense form of owe.

This pipeline shows us something about how language changes and develops over time. First, it shows how easily words can slide from one meaning to another, although that’ll be no surprise to anyone who has watched the development of slang over a few decades.

The more important lesson owe-to-ought teaches us has to do with where grammar comes from. Wait, don’t run away! This isn’t a grammar lesson. What I want to show you is how languages create grammar — a collection of abstract meanings such as plurality and verb tense — out of the concrete realities of our shared human experience.

And what human experience is more common than debt?

This is the story of three families of words: owe, should, and the word debt itself. Understand these three families, and you’ll understand how the English language built its way of expressing duty, necessity, and obligation — not to mention guilt and sin — out of the raw materials of accounting…

A case study in how our vocabulary (and our sense of obligation) evolved: “How debt shaped the way we speak,” from @colingorrie.bsky.social.

* Rita Mae Brown

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As we acknowledge our antecedents, we might recall that it was on this date in 1950 that Rose Marie Reid was granted one of her several patents, US2535018A. A swimwear designer and manufacturer, Reid has already been the first swimsuit designer to use inner brassieres, tummy-tuck panels, stay-down legs, elastic banding, brief skirts, and foundation garments in swimwear, and the first designer to introduce dress sizes in swimwear, designing swimwear for multiple sizes and types of bodies, rather than just producing one standard size. This patent was, in its way, even more revolutionary– it was for a one-piece bathing suit made of elastic fabric “embodying a novel construction for causing it to snugly fit the body of a wearer in a flattering manner [that would] shape and support portions of the body of the wearer in areas of the bust and abdomen in a flattering manner without discomfort or impedance to free movements of the body.” The elastic fabric and elastic securing bands were designed to enable the garment to be put on without having buttoned openings which would “detract from the appearance of the garment.”

Reid assigned her patent to her company and enjoyed huge sales success, in part due to her impact in Hollywood and the motion picture industry. Famous screen actresses (e,g, Rita Hayworth, Marilyn Monroe, Jane Russell, and Rhonda Fleming) wore her swimsuits. And her suits also appeared in several California beach party films from the late 1950s and the early 1960s, including Gidget, Muscle Beach Party, and Where the Boys Are.

https://www.europesays.com/fr/581543/ L’UE inflige une amende de 120 millions à X et suscite l’ire de Washington #Actualités #Amende #attaque #contenu #diplomatie #ElonMusk #EU #europe #EuropeanUnion #FR #France #J.D.Vance #MarcoRubio #médias #Monde #News #obligation #politique #RelationsInternationales #RépubliqueFrançaise #RéseauxSociaux #UE #UnionEuropéenne #utilisateur #Washington

How things we can enjoy can turn into an obligation. https://crystaltouchton.com/obligation/
#blog #obligation #hobbies #interests #pause #avoid

The #ScottRossi s of the internet - yt supremacist librals of the #Fediverse - and their so called queer affinity group will demonize me for using her funds to keep her housed and fed even as it's not enough just to wash their hands of their human #obligation to coexist with other humans

I see it everyday the #Blue scapegoating the #Red because the Reps are #capitalism 's little golden child and everyone just keeping agreements with the #DeathMachine

Coporate simps crying about being human

A quotation from William James

Without any exception known to me, militarist authors take a highly mystical view of their subject, and regard war as a biological or sociological necessity, uncontrolled by ordinary psychological checks or motives. When the time of development is ripe the war must come, reason or no reason, for the justifications pleaded are invariably fictions. War is, in short, a permanent human obligation.

William James (1842-1910) American psychologist and philosopher
Essay (1910-02), “The Moral Equivalent of War,” Popular Science Monthly, Vol. 77 (1910-10)

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A quotation from William James

Without any exception known to me, militarist authors take a highly mystical view of their subject, and regard war as a biological or sociological necessity, uncontrolled by ordinary psychological checks or motives. When the time of development is ripe the war must come, reason or no reason, for the justifications pleaded are invariably fictions. War is, in short, a permanent human obligation.

William James (1842-1910) American psychologist and philosopher
Essay (1910-02), “The Moral Equivalent of War,” Popular Science Monthly, Vol. 77 (1910-10)

More info about this quote: wist.info/james-william/79447/

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #williamjames #inevitability #duty #obligation #aggression #holywar #humancondition #humannature #imperative #violence #war #warmongering

A quotation from William James

Without any exception known to me, militarist authors take a highly mystical view of their subject, and regard war as a biological or sociological necessity, uncontrolled by ordinary psychological checks or motives. When the time of development is ripe the war must come, reason or no reason, for the justifications pleaded are invariably fictions. War is, in short, a permanent human obligation.

William James (1842-1910) American psychologist and philosopher
Essay (1910-02), “The Moral Equivalent of War,” Popular Science Monthly, Vol. 77 (1910-10)

More info about this quote: wist.info/james-william/79447/

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #williamjames #inevitability #duty #obligation #aggression #holywar #humancondition #humannature #imperative #violence #war #warmongering

A quotation from William James

Without any exception known to me, militarist authors take a highly mystical view of their subject, and regard war as a biological or sociological necessity, uncontrolled by ordinary psychological checks or motives. When the time of development is ripe the war must come, reason or no reason, for the justifications pleaded are invariably fictions. War is, in short, a permanent human obligation.

William James (1842-1910) American psychologist and philosopher
Essay (1910-02), “The Moral Equivalent of War,” Popular Science Monthly, Vol. 77 (1910-10)

More info about this quote: wist.info/james-william/79447/

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #williamjames #inevitability #duty #obligation #aggression #holywar #humancondition #humannature #imperative #violence #war #warmongering

A quotation from Ben Franklin

Don’t overload Gratitude; if you do, she’ll kick.

Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790) American statesman, scientist, philosopher, aphorist
Poor Richard (1741 ed.)

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#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #benfranklin #benjaminfranklin #poorrichardsalmanac #gratitude #obligation #resentment

https://www.europesays.com/fr/350680/ Girondins : « Les joueurs ne sont pas responsables du contexte actuel de Bordeaux » #actuel #Agostino #Bordeaux #chroniqueur #club #contexte #dans #explique #football #FR #France #Girondins #Jonathan #joueurs #obligation #responsables #sont #Sports #Talk #WebGirondins

A quotation from Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

Whatever you think you have to do is simply what you want to do.
 
[Was Du zu müssen glaubst, ist das, was Du willst.]

Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach (1830-1916) Austrian writer
Aphorisms [Aphorismen], No. 60 (1880) [tr. Scrase/Mieder (1994)]

Sourcing, notes, other translation: wist.info/von-ebner-eschenbach…

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #aphorism #compulsion #desire #duty #justification #moralduty #must #obligation #preference #requirement #selfrighteousness #volition #will #wishing #excuse

#Etats-Unis #US : Donald #Trump révoque l’ #obligation d’ #avortement d’ #urgence des #hôpitaux , qui sert à stabiliser l’état de #santé des #femmes #enceintes en #situation #critique.

#US #anti - #women

https://www.lopinion.fr/international/etats-unis-donald-trump-revoque-lobligation-davortement-durgence-des-hopitaux

Fahmi: U Mobile’s Second 5G Network Rollout Pending Fulfillment Of DNB Agreement #5ginfrastructure #dnb #fahmifadzil #obligation #rollout #second5gnetwork #telco #umobile

https://www.lowyat.net/2025/342164/u-mobile-second-5g-network-pending-dnb/

« The most fruitful and elevating influence I have ever seemed to meet has been my impression of obligation to God. »

― Daniel Webster

🔗 · https://poligraf.tumblr.com/post/726669086168432640/the-most-fruitful-and-elevating-influence-i-have

#quotes #DanielWebster #elevation #influences #obligation #god

Australia’s carbon credits system a failure on global scale, study finds
"Researchers find carbon offsets approach, which is supposed to regenerate scrubby outback forests, was not reducing emissions as promised."
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https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/mar/27/australias-carbon-credits-system-a-failure-on-global-scale-study-finds

Australian human-induced native forest regeneration carbon offset projects have limited impact on changes in woody vegetation cover and carbon removals (study)
"Effective offset schemes require constant scrutiny and critical assessment, including from third parties. This cannot be provided without the public release of all information that is necessary for the proper evaluation of the performance and integrity of offset projects."
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https://www.nature.com/articles/s43247-024-01313-x
#ClimateCrisis #FossilFuels #offsets #transparency #integrity #regeneration #Australia #ParisAgreement #InternationalMitigation #obligation #CarbonOffset #NativeForests #LandManagement #HumanInducedRegeneration #HIR #pollution

> Considered through a colonial and geopolitical lens, the climate crisis looks even worse than when assessed on the science alone. “The picture is grim,” Ghosh agreed. However, “action shouldn’t be framed around hope and despair, but around duty,” he said. “It is our duty to do what we can for the future”.
#AmitavGhosh on #ClimateChange and #Duty not #HopeAndDespair but #Obligation #MuchObliged #MuyObligado

@PhilosophicalPsychology @philosophy Thanks for sharing. A nutritious ration, indeed. Spent 3 hours digesting it, but it was worth the while.

Don't know if I can afford moral affordances, but we'll see. 😉

#philosophy #ethics #affordance #fitting #apt #moral #action #right #reason #obligation

#UniversityofIowa must address #transphobic #Hatespeech on #campus.

They have an #ethical and #Moral #obligation to #provide an inclusive learning environment and to protect their #transgender #student's #humandignity.

Rising #tensions have called into question the #boundaries of #freespeech

#Women #Transgender #LGBTQIA #Iowa #HigherEducation #Hate #Bigotry #Discrimination #Homophobia #Transphobia #MoralPanic #HateSpeech
https://dailyiowan.com/2023/04/19/editorial-ui-must-address-transphobic-speech-on-campus/

#ClarenceThomas has for years claimed #income from a #defunct #realestate firm
The #misstatements [#lies]] which began when a #FamilyBusiness transferred its #holdings to another company, are part of a #pattern that has raised questions about how #SupremeCourt #judge views his #obligation to accurately report details about his #finances to the public.#IRSAudit #DOJ #AdministrativeOffice of the #USCourts #SenateJudiciary #StateTaxes #PayYourTaxes https://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/2023/04/16/clarence-thomas-ginger-financial-disclosure/ #Trumpian #corruption

Une vidéo de février 2022, sur la faillite des schémas d'assurances-vies adossés à des obligations d'État en euros.

https://watch.thekitty.zone/watch?v=OlqS8gorht8

Ces obligations ayant perdu environ 20% de leur valeur en 2022, combien resterait-il en caisse à nos chers assureurs, le jour où, en tant qu'assuré, nous voudrons récupérer nos avoirs ?...

Un pigeon potentiel averti vaut bien un aigle royal 😛.

#assurance #obligation #euro #placement