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  1. #obligation : a duty or commitment

    - French: obligation

    - German: verpflichtung

    - Italian: obbligo

    - Portuguese: obrigação

    - Spanish: obligación

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  2. A quotation from Jane Fonda

    When a child enters the world through you, it alters everything on a psychic, psychological and purely practical level. You’re just not free anymore to do what you want to do. And it’s not the same again. Ever.

    Jane Fonda (b. 1937) American actress and activist
    Interview (1980-11-28) by Danae Brook, “At Home with Tom and Jane,” Los Angeles Weekly

    More about this quote: wist.info/fonda-jane/83855/

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #janefonda #change #children #commitment #dependence #freedom #obligation #parent #parenting

  3. theguardian.com/environment/20; theguardian.com/environment/20. "The #UN [General Assembly] has voted 141-8 to adopt a #resolution backing [an ICJ] opinion that #countries have a #legal #obligation to address #climatechange, with the #US - which is the world’s biggest historical emitter - among the small group opposing it... 28 countries abstained... The US joined #SaudiArabia, #Russia, #Israel, #Iran, #Yemen, #Liberia & #Belarus in opposing the resolution on Wednesday."

  4. theguardian.com/environment/20; theguardian.com/environment/20. "The #UN [General Assembly] has voted 141-8 to adopt a #resolution backing [an ICJ] opinion that #countries have a #legal #obligation to address #climatechange, with the #US - which is the world’s biggest historical emitter - among the small group opposing it... 28 countries abstained... The US joined #SaudiArabia, #Russia, #Israel, #Iran, #Yemen, #Liberia & #Belarus in opposing the resolution on Wednesday."

  5. 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/

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #talmud #mishnah #accomplishment #aspiration #completion #duty #endeavor #finish #ideal #keeptrying #labor #obligation #quest #success #task #work

  6. 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/

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #talmud #mishnah #accomplishment #aspiration #completion #duty #endeavor #finish #ideal #keeptrying #labor #obligation #quest #success #task #work

  7. 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…

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

  8. theguardian.com/world/2026/apr. "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.

  9. theguardian.com/world/2026/apr. "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.

  10. 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)

    More about this quote: wist.info/arendt-hannah/44349/

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

  11. 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)

    More about this quote: wist.info/arendt-hannah/44349/

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

  12. #obligation : the binding power of a promise, contract, oath, or vow, or of law

    - French: obligation

    - German: verpflichtung

    - Italian: obbligo

    - Portuguese: obrigação

    - Spanish: obligación

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    A daily challenge to chain words together @ wordwallgame.com

  13. #obligation : the binding power of a promise, contract, oath, or vow, or of law

    - French: obligation

    - German: verpflichtung

    - Italian: obbligo

    - Portuguese: obrigação

    - Spanish: obligación

    ------------

    A daily challenge to chain words together @ wordwallgame.com

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

    The tax-collector’s office, Pieter Brueghel the Younger (1565–1636)

    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 GidgetMuscle Beach Party, and Where the Boys Are.

    The “Glittering Metallic Lamé” suit worn by Rita Hayworth to publicize Gilda (source) #bathingSuit #bathingSuits #ColinGorrie #culture #debt #duty #etymology #history #JaneRussell #language #linguisitics #MarilynMonroe #obligation #RhondaFleming #RitaHayworth #RitaMarieReid #swimsuit #swimwear #Technology
  15. “Language is the road map of a culture. It tells you where its people come from and where they are going”*…

    The tax-collector’s office, Pieter Brueghel the Younger (1565–1636)

    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

    ###

    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 GidgetMuscle Beach Party, and Where the Boys Are.

    The “Glittering Metallic Lamé” suit worn by Rita Hayworth to publicize Gilda (source) #bathingSuit #bathingSuits #ColinGorrie #culture #debt #duty #etymology #history #innovation #JaneRussell #language #linguisitics #MarilynMonroe #obligation #RhondaFleming #RitaHayworth #RoseMarieReid #swimsuit #swimwear #Technology
  16. #obligation : the binding power of a promise, contract, oath, or vow, or of law

    - French: obligation

    - German: verpflichtung

    - Italian: obbligo

    - Portuguese: obrigação

    - Spanish: obligación

    ------------

    A daily challenge to chain words together @ wordwallgame.com

  17. 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

  18. 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

  19. A quotation from Bertrand Russell

    A sense of duty is useful in work but offensive in personal relations. People wish to be liked, not to be endured with patient resignation.

    Bertrand Russell (1872-1970) English mathematician and philosopher
    Conquest of Happiness, Part 2, ch. 10 “Is Happiness Still Possible?” (1930)

    More info about this quote: wist.info/russell-bertrand/799…

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #bertrandrussell #duty #friendship #obligation #patience #puttingupwith #relationships

  20. 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

  21. 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.)

    More info about this quote: wist.info/franklin-benjamin/78…

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

  22. 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

  23. #obligation : the binding power of a promise, contract, oath, or vow, or of law

    - French: obligation

    - German: verpflichtung

    - Italian: obbligo

    - Portuguese: obrigação

    - Spanish: obligación

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    Fill in missing translations @ wordofthehour.org/r/translatio

  24. A quotation from Washington

    The basis of our political systems is the right of the people to make and to alter their Constitutions of Government. But the Constitution which at any time exists, ’till changed by an explicit and authentic act of the whole People, is sacredly obligatory upon all. The very idea of the power and the right of the People to establish Government presupposes the duty of every Individual to obey the established Government.

    George Washington (1732-1799) American military leader, Founding Father, US President (1789-1797)
    Essay (1796-09-17), “Farewell Address,” Claypoole’s American Daily Advertiser, Philadelphia (1796-09-19)

    Sourcing, notes: wist.info/washington-george/72…

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #washington #georgewashington #Constitution #democracy #government #obligation #duty #power #sacredness #selfdetermination #moralobligation

  25. #obligation : the binding power of a promise, contract, oath, or vow, or of law

    - French: obligation

    - German: verpflichtung

    - Italian: obbligo

    - Portuguese: obrigação

    - Spanish: obligación

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    Fill in missing translations @ wordofthehour.org/r/translatio

  26. I feel very sorry for all the young #American women who, instead of feeling #joy voting for #KamalaHarris , feel a combination of #shame and #obligation to “cancel-out (their) dad’s vote.” huffpost.com/entry/canceling-o

    #VoteBlueNoMatterWho to #SaveAmerica from the family-destroying #MAGA cult.

  27. I feel very sorry for all the young #American women who, instead of feeling #joy voting for #KamalaHarris , feel a combination of #shame and #obligation to “cancel-out (their) dad’s vote.” huffpost.com/entry/canceling-o

    #VoteBlueNoMatterWho to #SaveAmerica from the family-destroying #MAGA cult.

  28. Doctors ‘fight like hell’ against a second Trump admin:

    ‘Elections do matter for your health’❗️

    #Doctors are giving nearly twice as much to Democrats as Republicans this cycle,
    teaming with #Kamala #Harris’ campaign and broadcasting the 🆘 hazards they see in a second Trump administration on social media.

    Some of their colleagues worry all the politicking will further erode trust in public health -- but the Harris supporters say they see it as a #moral #obligation.

    politico.com/news/2024/09/21/d

  29. Doctors ‘fight like hell’ against a second Trump admin:

    ‘Elections do matter for your health’❗️

    #Doctors are giving nearly twice as much to Democrats as Republicans this cycle,
    teaming with #Kamala #Harris’ campaign and broadcasting the 🆘 hazards they see in a second Trump administration on social media.

    Some of their colleagues worry all the politicking will further erode trust in public health -- but the Harris supporters say they see it as a #moral #obligation.

    politico.com/news/2024/09/21/d

  30. The great carbon offset scam

    "The outcome of this is a system where hundreds of projects are being granted carbon credits for carbon sequestration that is largely neither real nor additional. It makes a sham of the safeguard mechanism because most covered facilities will meet their emission reduction obligations through carbon reductions that are not actually happening."

    "Australia’s largest carbon offset project type is failing, with experts suggesting the scheme should be referred to the National Anti-Corruption Commission."
    >>
    thesaturdaypaper.com.au/news/e
    #FossilFuels #offsets #climate #ParisAgreement #Australia #obligation #pollution #governance #integrity

  31. 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."
    >>
    theguardian.com/environment/20

    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."
    >>
    nature.com/articles/s43247-024
    #ClimateCrisis #FossilFuels #offsets #transparency #integrity #regeneration #Australia #ParisAgreement #InternationalMitigation #obligation #CarbonOffset #NativeForests #LandManagement #HumanInducedRegeneration #HIR #pollution

  32. 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."
    >>
    theguardian.com/environment/20

    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."
    >>
    nature.com/articles/s43247-024
    #ClimateCrisis #FossilFuels #offsets #transparency #integrity #regeneration #Australia #ParisAgreement #InternationalMitigation #obligation #CarbonOffset #NativeForests #LandManagement #HumanInducedRegeneration #HIR #pollution

  33. However, she added to Ohm, “They don’t have an #obligation to do your #investigation.”

    #Chutkan has signaled a similar approach in #Trump’s case. She has rejected #Trump’s request for years of pretrial prep — despite millions of pages of #evidence — in part because of #JackSmith’s “overinclusive” approach that included millions of duplicative pages or records he was not required to share.

  34. Inside the courtroom of #Trump’s #DC #judge

    Judge Tanya #Chutkan’s first #trial since TFG’s #indictment offers insight into how she’ll handle the case.

    She said that she views #prosecutors as having an #obligation to be “overinclusive” in the evidence they turn over — anything that could even conceivably be beneficial to the #defense. “In this court, this is how I view it,” she said.

    politico.com/news/2023/09/25/t