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"When you think of the long and gloomy history of man, you will find more hideous crimes have been committed in the name of obedience than have ever been committed in the name of rebellion." »C. P. Snow
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"Let the word go forth from this time and place, to friend and foe alike, that the torch has been passed to a new generation of Americans, born in this century, tempered by war, disciplined by a hard and bitter peace, proud of our ancient heritage, and unwilling to witness or permit the slow undoing of those human rights to which this nation has always been committed, and to which we are committed today, at home and around the world!" »John F. Kennedy, Inaugural Address, 1961
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"Let the word go forth from this time and place, to friend and foe alike, that the torch has been passed to a new generation of Americans, born in this century, tempered by war, disciplined by a hard and bitter peace, proud of our ancient heritage, and unwilling to witness or permit the slow undoing of those human rights to which this nation has always been committed, and to which we are committed today, at home and around the world" »John Fitzgerald Kennedy
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"You know, of course, that the Tasmanians, who never committed adultery, are now extinct." »William Somerset Maugham, The Bread-Winner
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"An education isn't how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know. It's being able to differentiate between what you know and what you don't." »Anatole France
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"Fate is nothing but the deeds committed in a prior state of existence." »Ralph Waldo Emerson
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"Nobody ever committed suicide while reading a good book, but many have while trying to write one." »Robert Byrne
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"It is only necessary to grow old in order to become more indulgent. I see no fault committed that I have not been myself inclined to." »Goethe
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"I personally think that he did violate the law, that he committed impeachable offenses. But I don't think that he thinks he did." »James Earl Jimmy Carter, Jr.
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"How many crimes are committed simply because their authors could not endure being wrong." »Albert Camus
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"Journalists cover words and delude themselves into thinking they have committed journalism." »Hedrick Smith
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"The Devil needs a very good lawyer to prove that it is not the Satan but the people themselves who have committed so many evils!" »Mehmet Murat ildan
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"So, throughout life, our worst weaknesses and meannesses are usually committed for the sake of the people whom we most despise." »Charles Dickens, Great Expectations
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"Slander is a vice that strikes a double blow; wounding both him that commits, and him against whom it is committed." »Bernard Joseph Saurin
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"An ostentatious man will rather relate a blunder or an absurdity he has committed, than be debarred from talking of his own dear person." »Joseph Addison
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"Unless man is committed to the belief that all mankind are his brothers, then he labors in vain and hypocritically in the vineyards of equality." »Adam Clayton Jr. Powell
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"Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has." »Margaret Mead
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"When you are younger you get blamed for crimes you never committed and when you're older you begin to get credit for virtues you never possessed. It evens itself out." »George Santayana
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"There's a difference between interest and commitment. When you're interested in doing something, you do it only when circumstance permit. When you're committed to something, you accept no excuses, only results." »Art Turock
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"Do not despair of life. Think of the fox, prowling in a winter night to satisfy his hunger. His race survives I do not believe any of them ever committed suicide." »Henry David Thoreau
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"This is obviously an act of war that has been committed on the United States. referring to the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon" »John McCain
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"Over-seriousness is a warning sign for mediocrity and bureaucratic thinking. People who are seriously committed to mastery and high performance are secure enough to lighten up." »Michael J. Gelb
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"Once a government is committed to the principle of silencing the voice of opposition, it has only one way to go, and that is down the path of increasingly repressive measures, until it becomes a source of terror to all its citizens and creates a country where everyone lives in fear." »Harry S Truman
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"Doubting God's existence is okay and perfectly acceptable within Christianity as long as the person doubting remains obedient and committed to the Christian path." »Real Live Preacher
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"Stay committed to your decisions, but stay flexible in your approach." »Anthony Robbins
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"Wickedness, by whomsoever committed, is odious, but most of all in men of learning; for learning is the weapon with which Satan is combated, and when a man is made captive with arms in his hand his shame is more excessive." »Sa?di
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"The creator is both detached and committed, free and yet ensnared, concerned but not too much so. If motivation is too strong the person is blinded if the objective situation is too tightly structured, the person sees none of its alternative possibilities." »Robert Macleod
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"These people have served a longer sentence than some people who have committed murder. (describing the jury in the OJ Simpson murder trial)" »Jeff Greenfield
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"O Liberty Liberty how many crimes are committed in thy name" »Jeanne-Marie Roland
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""What is it the Bible teaches us? - rapine, cruelty, and murder. What is it the Testament teaches us? - to believe that the Almighty committed debauchery with a woman engaged to be married, and the belief of this debauchery is called faith." »Thomas Paine, The Age of Reason
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