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A man does not sin by commission only, but often by omission.

– Marcus Aurelius, Meditations, Book nineRate it:

I’m not going to retire from the Great Commission to spread the gospel, i may be slower, and I may shake on the way, but I still have work to do.

– Bob TebowRate it:

Pardon one offense, and you encourage the commission of many.

– Publilius SyrusRate it:

Whoever comes for discussion on channels seems merely interested in telling that more testing to be done and on the need of mask, medicine, vaccines and ventilators. It reeks out as they are getting a commission for the promotion of these products.

– Ground ZeroRate it:

Advertising is 85% confusion and 15% commission.

– Fred AllenRate it:

Well, now, this is exactly my case. I am in love; and my sweetheart is LIBERTY. Be that heavenly nymph my companion, and these wilds and .Woods shall have charms beyond London and Paris in slavery. To have no proud monarch driving over me with his gilt coaches; nor his host of excise-men and tax-gatherers insulting and robbing me ; but to be my own master, my own prince and sovereign, gloriously preserving my national dignity, and 'pursuing my true happiness; planting my vineyards, and eating their lucious fruits; and sowing my fields, and reaping the golden grain: and seeing millions of ‘brothers all around me, equally free and happy as myself. “This, sir, is What I long for.” p. 155 ... On his return to Georgetown, he was asked by colonel Watson, why he looked so serious? I have cause, sir,” said he, “to look serious.” Watson What! has general Marion refused to treat?” No, sir.” “Well, then, has old Washington defeated sir Henery Clinton, and broke up our army ? No, sir, not that neither ; but worse.” “Ah! what can be worse?” Why, sir, I have seen an American general and his officers, without pay, and almost without clothes, living on roots and drinking water ; and all for LIBERTY! What chance have we against such men!” It is said colonel Watson was not much obliged to him for this speech. But the young ofiicer was so struck with Marion’s sentiments, that he never rested until he threw up his commission, and retired from the service. ' p 156

– Francis MarionRate it:

They don't worship at the altar of forced busing and mandatory quotas. They don't believe you can remedy past discrimination by mandating new discrimination. (Defending his nominees for Civil Rights Commission)

– Ronald ReaganRate it:

(Commission President Jean-Claude) Juncker's proposal has several positive points.

– Slovak Foreign Minister Miroslav LajcakRate it:

(European Commission) President (Jean-Claude) Juncker followed Prime Minister May's announcement this morning without personal joy, the President very much liked and appreciated working with Prime Minister May. He will equally respect and establish working relations with any new prime minister, whomever it may be. Our position on the withdrawal agreement — there is no change to that.

– Theresa MayRate it:

A fantastic world would be a world where you have zero commission as a seller...and your entire monetisation is made out of additional services you sell to the sellers.

– Jeremy HodaraRate it:

A man does not sin by commission only, but often by ommission.

– Marcus Aurelius Antoninus, "Meditations", book 9.Rate it:

A particularly dark role was played by Donald Tusk, who conducted negotiations with the British and in fact contributed to them getting nothing, hence, he is directly responsible for Brexit and should simply disappear from European politics. But this concerns the whole of European Commission in its present composition.

– Jaroslaw KaczynskiRate it:

A Salesman sees a commission.

– James R. CookRate it:

After months of investigation, Nancy Pelosi's foot soldiers produced a partisan report that continues the false narrative created by the Michigan Democratic Party, this matter has already been resolved and dismissed by the Federal Election Commission. We have fully cooperated in the investigation and eagerly await a timely resolution.

– Brian PatrickRate it:

Allowing her -- and indeed other terrorists -- back into the U.K. to pursue an appeal would create a national security risk that cannot be fully mitigated, even with the diversion of significant resources, he added. Begums bid to reclaim her citizenship initiallywasstruck down by an immigration court in February. The Special Immigration Appeals Commission, which hears national security cases, said she could instead turn to Bangladesh for citizenship. Yet her lawyer argued that Begum -- who is of British-Bangladeshi heritage was not considered a national of Bangladesh and was therefore rendered stateless by the deprivation decision.

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Although the Commission will probably reiterate that there is no magic number and that every case needs to be assessed on its own merits, this will undoubtedly chill consolidation efforts in the telecoms industry and in particular every planned so-called four-to-three case, convergence therefore seems to be the only way forward for consolidation.

– Adrien GiraudRate it:

Appalachian voters trusted President Trump to understand their needs and create good jobs – 95 percent of the counties covered by the Appalachian Regional Commission voted for him in 2016, cutting the ARC is an outright betrayal of Appalachian communities and would leave them without the funds to implement critical workforce, education and infrastructure projects.

– Sunny FrothinghamRate it:

Are there still problems? Oh yeah, i can show you units that haven't gotten the memo, but now there real investigations. Now there is an inspector general. Now the police commission has some tools. It has some power. And the LAPD has accepted civilian rule.

– Connie RiceRate it:

As a big European Union member state, The UK could essentially call the shots. If it agreed with a Commission policy, it would say so loudly at European Union. If it disagreed, it could say so even louder and build coalitions with other like-minded member states. That was obviously never going to work with Boris Johnsons Brexit. The UK would be sitting on the other side of the table with 27 member states opposite.

– Georgina WrightRate it:

As a major sponsor, we urge you to demand an independent FIFA Reform Commission to restore transparency and integrity to international football, and ensure that major sporting events uphold the highest possible human rights standards.

– Cathy FeingoldRate it:

As Commission President Juncker himself acknowledged, there is a need for a more fundamental reform of the EU's GMO authorisation process.

– Bart StaesRate it:

As Commissioner Vestager has said before, the Commission believes that it can move the case forward in a hopefully relatively short time-span.

– Ricardo CardosoRate it:

As for the European Commission, we will not slow down our work domestically or internationally to prepare for an ambitious COP26, when it takes place.

– Frans TimmermansRate it:

As per this afternoon, we have neither received any payments nor official communications from MTN, the Nigerian Communications Commission had set up a committee to sit down with it counterparts from the MTN to work out modalities on resolutions of this matter.

– Tony OjoboRate it:

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