Fire Support Duties

Famous quotes containing the words fire, support and/or duties:

    The true preacher can be known by this, that he deals out to the people his life,—life passed through the fire of thought.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

    Science is intimately integrated with the whole social structure and cultural tradition. They mutually support one other—only in certain types of society can science flourish, and conversely without a continuous and healthy development and application of science such a society cannot function properly.
    Talcott Parsons (1902–1979)

    Of what use the friendliest dispositions even, if there are no hours given to Friendship, if it is forever postponed to unimportant duties and relations? Friendship is first, Friendship last.
    Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)