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• Governments without separation of powers commit the worst crimes.

  James Cook

  Government, Separation, Crime

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• To arrive at a place called Mastery, you must commit to daily and rigorous practice. Enjoy practising your craft for its own sake without turning your attention to your ultimate destination. Understand, once and for all, that the journey is as important as the destination.

  Robin Sharma

  Journey, Practice, Important

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• The man who commits immorality does so because he thinks it will maximize pleasure if he can minimize the pain by keeping it secret.

  Erwin W. Lutzer

  Pain, Thinking, Men

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• It is not enough that top management commit themselves for life to quality and productivity. They must know what it is that they are committed to - that is, what they must do. These obligations cannot be delegated. Support is not enough; action is required.

  W. Edwards Deming

  Top Management, Support, Quality

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• Most companies don't die because they are wrong; they die because they don't commit themselves. They fritter away their momentum and their valuable resources while attempting to make a decision. The greatest danger is standing still.

  Andy Grove

  Decision, Momentum, Danger

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• People don't want to commit until they have clarity, but clarity comes with movement.

  Michael Hyatt

  People, Movement, Want

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• The more powerful government becomes, the more abuses it commits and the more lies it must tell.

  James Bovard

  Powerful, Lying, Government

  James Bovard (2015). “Attention Deficit Democracy”, p.97, Macmillan

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• Love will keep us safe when we commit to choosing the kind of qualities, characteristics, and relationships that we would recommend to someone we love.

  Bill Crawford

  Quality, Safe, Kind

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• The key is to commit crimes so confusing that police feel too stupid to even write a crime report about them.

  R. K. Milholland

  Stupid, Writing, Keys

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• Those who understood, in fact, say: 'I mustn't do this, I mustn't do that,' so as not to commit some stupidity or other! Splendid! But at a certain point we realize that all life is stupidity; so tell me yourself what it means never to have done anything foolish. At the very least it means you have never lived.

  Luigi Pirandello

  Mean, Stupidity, Done

  Luigi Pirandello (1987). “The late Mattia Pascal”, Eridanos Library

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• On Memorial Day we come together as Americans to let these families and veterans know that they are not alone. We give thanks for those who sacrificed everything so that we could be free. And we commit ourselves to upholding the ideals for which so many patriots have fought and died.

  Barack Obama

  Memorial Day, Giving, Together

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• This is a very central part of the psychedelic attitude toward the world, to entertain all possibilities but to never commit to belief. Belief always being seen as a kind of trap, because if you belief something you are forever precluded from believing its opposite.

  Terence McKenna

  Attitude, Believe, Opposites

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• The craziest, most selfish act is to commit suicide. When you kill yourself, you kill others.

  Jenny Joseph

  Suicide, Selfish, Killing Yourself

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• There are cases when I can make myself better off by restricting my future choices and commit myself to a specific course of action.

  Richard Thaler

  Choices, Action, Cases

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• If a parricide is more wicked than anyone who commits homicide-because he kills not merely a man but a near relative-without doubt worse still is he who kills himself, because there is none nearer to a man than himself.

  Saint Augustine

  Men, Doubt, Wicked

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• Commit yourself to a mighty purpose.

  H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

  Purpose

  H. Jackson Brown, Jr. (2000). “Life's Instructions for Wisdom, Success, and Happiness”, p.20, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• Reducing children to a test score is the worst form of identity theft we could commit in schools.

  Stephen Covey

  Children, School, Identity

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• It was not as easy to commit suicide as to contemplate it.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Suicide, Easy, Contemplating

  Mahatma Gandhi (2008). “My Experiments With Truth: An Autobiography”, p.42, Jaico Publishing House

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• Balloon: Thing to take meteroric observations and commit suicide with.

  Mark Twain

  Suicide, Balloons, Observation

  Mark Twain (1992). “Collected Tales, Sketches, Speeches & Essays: 1891-1910”, Library of America

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• Frankenstein took some flesh and bones and blood and made a man out of them; the man ran away and fell to raping and robbing and murdering everywhere, and Frankenstein was horrified and in despair, and said, I made him, without asking his consent, and it makes me responsible for every crime he commits. I am the criminal, he is innocent.

  Mark Twain

  Men, Blood, Despair

  Mark Twain, John Sutton Tuckey (1980). “The Devil's Race-track: Mark Twain's Great Dark Writings : the Best from Which was the Dream? and Fables of Man”, p.7, Univ of California Press

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• When the Communist Party comes to power, it acts a lot like the mafia: If you are a loyal member in good standing, everything is yours. You're protected, even if you commit a crime.

  Josef Skvorecky

  Party, Mafia, Loyal

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• When I do an accent I commit fully and take it very seriously.

  Lake Bell

  Accents

  "Actress Lake Bell, first female voice of Apple ads, is taking over Hollywood one project at a time". Interview with Jason Guerrasio, uk.businessinsider.com. November 30, 2015.

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• We know that ISIL and other terrorist groups are actively encouraging people, around the world and in our country, to commit terrible acts of violence, oftentimes as lone-wolf actors.

  Barack Obama

  Country, People, Terrorist Groups

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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• One of the things that I was interested in about Moriarty was - he's so manipulative that he doesn't need to commit violence himself or kill people - he can get everyone to do what he needs to do. And sometimes they don't even know that they are being manipulated by him.

  Jared Harris

  People, Needs, Violence

  Source: collider.com

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• It's difficult to plan this kind of career. You just need to wait and be picky and try not to commit to just one thing. I'll have to see what's next, see what happens, and see what the future brings.

  Elena Anaya

  Careers, Waiting, Trying

  "Elena Anaya Interview THE SKIN I LIVE IN". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. October 12, 2011.

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