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• Painting dissolves the forms at its command, or tends to; it melts them into color. Drawing, on the other hand, goes about resolving forms, giving edge and essence to things. To see shapes clearly, one outlines them--whether on paper or in the mind. Therefore, Michelangelo, a profoundly cultivated man, called drawing the basis of all knowledge whatsoever.

  Alexander Eliot

  Men, Hands, Color

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• Unpaid work never commands respect.

  Harriot Eaton Stanton Blatch

  Respect, Work, Wages

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• The question remains, as it will always remain, one of ultimate authority.  Who are you going to follow in your life?  Who will command your allegiance?  Christ...or culture?  You really can't have it both ways.

  Stu Weber

  Culture, Way, Christ

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• If you ask anybody at Cyber Command or look at any of the job listings for openings for their positions, you'll see that the one thing they don't prioritize is computer network defense. It's all about computer network attack and computer network exploitation at Cyber Command.

  Edward Snowden

  Jobs, Defense, Looks

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Cyber Command is supposed to be defending our critical infrastructure at home, but they are spending so much time looking at how to attack networks, how to break systems, and how to turn things off. I don't think it adds up as representing a defensive team.

  Edward Snowden

  Team, Home, Thinking

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• The community of technical experts who really manage the internet, who built the internet and maintain it, are becoming increasingly concerned about the activities of agencies like the NSA or Cyber Command, because what we see is that defense is becoming less of a priority than offense.

  Edward Snowden

  Nsa, Agency, Community

  "Exclusive: Edward Snowden on Cyber Warfare". Interview with James Bamford and Tim De Chant, www.pbs.org. January 8, 2015.

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• Can anything be imagined so ridiculous that this miserable and wretched creature, who is not so much as master of himself, but subject to the injuries of all things, should call himself master and emperor of the world, of which he has not power to know the least part, much less to command the whole?

  Michel de Montaigne

  World, Ridiculous, Miserable

  Michel de Montaigne, William Hazlitt (1860). “The Works of Michael de Montaigne: Comprising His Essays, Letters, and Journey Through Germany and Italy”, p.231

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• In my head there is a whole army of people asking to be let out and waiting for the word of command.

  Anton Chekhov

  Army, People, Literature

  "Letters of Anton Chekhov to His Family and Friends: With Biographical Sketch". Book by Anton Chekhov, 1920.

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• To die at the command of another is to die twice.

  Publilius Syrus

  Death, Dies

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• A virtuous wife commands her husband by obeying him.

  Publilius Syrus

  Husband, Wife, Virtuous

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• People cry out, and deplore the unremunerative employment of woman. The true want is the other way. Women really trained, and capable of good work, can command any wages or salaries.

  Mary Abigail Dodge

  People, Salary, Employment

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• The mind sees, the will commands, the man acts. What is it then to act? To act is to produce something. If you have produced nothing--if no result has been the fruit of your will, you have done nothing.

  Jean-Baptiste Henri Lacordaire

  Men, Mind, Done

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• The man who could withstand, with his fellow-men in single line, a charge of cavalry may lose all command of himself on the occurrence of a fire in his own house, because of some homely reminiscence unknown to the observing bystander.

  Arthur Helps

  Men, Fire, Bystanders

  Sir Arthur Helps (1871). “Brevia: Short Essays and Aphorisms”, p.23

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• The sordid meal of the Cynics contributed neither to their tranquillity nor to their modesty. Pride went with Diogenes into his tub; and there he had the presumption to command Alexander the haughtiest of all men.

  Henry Home, Lord Kames

  Pride, Men, Meals

  Henry Home (lord Kames.) (1818). “Introduction to the art of thinking, to which is prefixed an original life of the author”, p.80

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• Shall Nature, erring from her first command, self-preservation, fall by her own hand?

  George Granville, 1st Baron Lansdowne

  Suicide, Fall, Self

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• A man in love ... is the master, so it seems, but only if his lady friend permits it! The need to interchange the roles of slave and master for the sake of the relationship is never more clearly demonstrated than in the course of an affair. Never is the complicity between victim and executioner more essential. Even chained, down on her knees, begging for mercy, it is the woman, finally, who is in command ... the all powerful slave, dragging herself along the ground at her master's heels, is now really the god. The man is only her priest, living in fear and trembling of her displeasure.

  Anne Desclos

  Powerful, Women, Love Is

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• Geometry, which should only obey Physics, when united with it sometimes commands it. If it happens that the question which we wish to examine is too complicated for all the elements to be able to enter into the analytical comparison we wish to make, we separate the more inconvenient [elements], we substitute others for them, less troublesome but also less real, and we are surprised to arrive, notwithstanding a painful labour, only at a result contradicted by nature; as if after having disguised it, cut it short or altered it, a purely mechanical combination could give it back to us.

  Jean le Rond d'Alembert

  Real, Cutting, Giving

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• To be rich be diligent; move on
  Like heav'ns great movers that enrich the earth;
  Whose moment's sloth would show the world undone;
  And make the spring straight bury all her birth.
  Rich are the diligent who can command
  Time--nature's stock.

  William Davenant

  Spring, Moving, Sloth

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• The gift of prayer is not always at our command.

  Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

  Prayer

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• To wheedle and coax is safer than to command.

  Anne Bronte

  Anne Bronte (2016). “The Tenant of Wildfell Hall (Diversion Illustrated Classics)”, p.257, Diversion Books

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• The fact that both Jews and Christians ignore some of God's or Jesus's commands, but scrupulously obey others, is absolute proof that people pick and choose their morality not on the basis of its divine source, but because it comports with some innate morality that they derived from other sources.

  Jerry A. Coyne

  Christian, Jesus, People

  "Biblical Morality Part 2: Killing Non-virgin Brides and Rebellious Kids". Personal blog, whyevolutionistrue.wordpress.com. June 26, 2012.

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• A semantic definition of a particular set of command types, then, is a rule for constructing, for any command of one of these types, a verification condition on the antecedents and consequents.

  Robert W. Floyd

  Definitions, Type, Particular

  "Assigning Meanings to Programs". Proceedings of Symposium on Applied Mathematics, Vol. 19, p. 21, 1967.

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• Psychoanalysis provides truth in an infantile, that is, a schoolboy fashion: we learn from it, roughly and hurriedly, things that scandalize us and thereby command our attention. It sometimes happens, and such is the case here, that a simplification touching upon the truth, but cheaply, is of no more value than a lie. Once again we are shown the demon and the angel, the beast and the god locked in Manichean embrace, and once again man has been pronounced, by himself, not culpable.

  Stanislaw Lem

  Fashion, Lying, Angel

  Stanislaw Lem (1984). “His Master's Voice”, p.12, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• It is the easiest thing in the world for us to obey God when He commands us to do what we like, and to trust Him when the path is all sunshine. The real victory of faith is to trust God in the dark, and through the dark. Let us be assured of this, that if the lesson and the rod are of His appointing, and that His all-wise love has engineered the deep tunnel of trial on the heavenward road, He will never desert us during the discipline. The vital thing for us is not to deny and desert Him.

  Theodore L. Cuyler

  Wise, Real, Sunshine

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, (p. 587), 1895.

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• It has always been a favorite idea of mine, that there is so much of the human in every man, that the life of any one individual, however obscure, if really and vividly perceived in all its aspirations, struggles, failures, and successes, would command the interest of all others.

  Harriet Beecher Stowe

  Struggle, Book, Men

  Harriet Beecher Stowe (1869). “Oldtown Folks”, p.1

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