Commit Quotes - Page 25

• It was one of those evenings when men feel that truth, goodness and beauty are one. In the morning, when they commit their discovery to paper, when others read it written there, it looks wholly ridiculous.

  Aldous Huxley

  Good Morning, Truth, Men

  Aldous Huxley (1943). “The Collected Works of Aldous Huxley”

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• Science commits suicide when it adopts a creed.

  Thomas Huxley

  Suicide, Believe, Science

  Leonard Huxley, Thomas Henry Huxley (2011). “Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley”, p.422, Cambridge University Press

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• It is so fascinating that someone can commit their whole entire lifestyle to being such a fantastic woman when I'm such a bum about it.

  Kesha

  Lifestyle, Fantastic, Whole

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Everything, everything in war is barbaric... But the worst barbarity of war is that it forces men collectively to commit acts against which individually they would revolt with their whole being.

  Ellen Key

  Teamwork, Peace, Military

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• Racism oppresses its victims, but also binds the oppressors, who sear their consciences with more and more lies until they become prisoners of those lies. They cannot face the truth of human equality because it reveals the horror of the injustices they commit.

  Alveda King

  Lying, Racism, Faces

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• I would have to commit a crime and have cops chase me. That would be the only way to get me to jog five miles.

  Denis Leary

  Would Be, Way, Cop

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• For whoever conquers a free Town, and does not demolish it, commits a great Error, and may expect to be ruin 'd himself.

  Niccolo Machiavelli

  War, Errors, Uprising

  "History Of Florence And The Affairs Of Italy".

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• The question remains: which brands will commit to creating a private sector pillar of social change, and which will become casualties of their own outdated thinking?

  Simon Mainwaring

  Thinking, Creating, Pillars

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• The criminal justice system should have the authority to determine the immigration status of all criminals, regardless of race or ethnicity, and report illegal immigrants who commit crimes to federal authorities.

  Susana Martinez

  Race, Ethnicity, Should Have

  "Susana Martínez Tells Police to Check Immigration Status in New Mexico". The Associated Press, www.foxnews.com. February 01, 2011.

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• Marriage is an ongoing thing, man. You continue to work at it. But it's joyful. And joyous. I don't care if people are living without a marriage certificate. It's just about people, in some way, saying to each other, I commit to you. I will help you in this life.

  James McAvoy

  Men, People, Ongoing

  "Into the Blue". Interview with Mickey Rapkin, www.elle.com. April 29, 2013.

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• It is not patriotic to commit young Americans to war unless our national security clearly requires it.

  George McGovern

  War, Patriotic, Young

  "As A New War Is Raging, Opposing Voices From The Past Sound Out Again; Mcgovern: 'I Am Ready' To Run" by Fox Butterfield, www.nytimes.com. January 25, 1991.

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• It’s actually a smarter crime because imagine if you rob a bank, or you’re dealing drugs. If you get caught you’re going to spend a lot of time in custody. But with hacking, it’s much easier to commit the crime and the risk of punishment is slim to none.

  Kevin Mitnick

  Punishment, Drug, Risk

  "Kevin Mitnick, Former Fugitive Hacker, Laments How The Game Has Changed". Interview with Gerry Smith, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 16, 2011.

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• I did commit to myself that I would not jump back into being the workaholic that I can be before I gave myself an honest opportunity to create the marriage of my dreams and to create the beginning of the family of my dreams, and that took a hot second.

  Alanis Morissette

  Dream, Opportunity, Hot

  "Alanis Morissette on Her New Album, Changing Diapers, and Celebrity: 'Fame for Me Was Relatively Hollow'". Interview with Marc Spitz, www.vanityfair.com. August 28, 2012.

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• Every study on crime and or firearms proves time and time again, that 99.99999% of American gun owners do not commit crimes or use our firearms in any dangerous or improper way.

  Ted Nugent

  Gun, Use, Way

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• Passion is the mob of the man, that commits a riot upon his reason.

  William Penn

  Passion, Men, Reason

  William Penn (1782). “The Select Works of William Penn....”, p.146

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• Semantics is about the relation of words to thoughts, but it also about the relation of words to other human concerns. Semantics is about the relation of words to reality - the way that speakers commit themselves to a shared understanding of the truth, and the way their thoughts are anchored to things and situations in the world.

  Steven Pinker

  Reality, Understanding, World

  Steven Pinker (2007). “The Stuff of Thought: Language as a Window into Human Nature”, p.18, Penguin

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• If the individual, or heretic, gets hold of some essential truth, or sees some error in the system being practiced, he commits so many marginal errors himself that he is worn out before he can establish his point.

  Ezra Pound

  Errors, Essentials, Literature

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• The only reason I don't want to commit adultery is because I love my wife and I love my lord.

  Joseph Prince

  Wife, Want, Adultery

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• Even prior to marriage and motherhood, it's always been about prioritising and focusing on what you can commit to. That's been my approach to every aspect of my life, be it my relationships or my professional commitments.

  Aishwarya Rai Bachchan

  Commitment, Motherhood, Being A Mom

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• I've always been the kind of person that if I take on anything professionally it means commitment to me, so you take it on if you can commit to it and if you know you can accommodate and give your best to it and that's what you do, and I have always done that throughout my life - before marriage, after marriage, before motherhood, after motherhood.

  Aishwarya Rai Bachchan

  Mean, Commitment, Motherhood

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• As a nation we should commit ourselves not only to the fight against terrorism, but to economic justice, defeat of the AIDS epidemic and vestiges of discriminatory policies of all kinds.

  Charles Rangel

  Fighting, Aids Epidemic, Epidemics

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• I condemn everyone and anyone who commits acts of terrorism. And Hamas has committed acts of terrorism.

  Feisal Abdul Rauf

  Terrorism, Committed, Hamas

  "Why the Park51 debate remains unresolved" by Elizabeth Samson, www.theguardian.com. October 28, 2010.

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• Everybody should want to make sure that we have the cyber tools necessary to investigate cyber crimes, and to be prepared to defend against them and to bring people to justice who commit it.

  Janet Reno

  People, Justice, Tools

  "Exit Interview: Janet Reno". Interview with Jim Lehrer, www.pbs.org. January 18, 2001.

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• As nations we should also commit afresh to righting past wrongs. In Australia we began this recently with the first Australians - the oldest continuing culture in human history. On behalf of the Australian Parliament, this year I offered an apology to indigenous Australians for the wrongs they had suffered in the past.

  Kevin Rudd

  Apology, Past, Years

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Oh yeah, I think about kids all the time. I feel like the next person I commit to, that's going to be the guy who I'm going to have kids with. That's in my crazy female brain. So that's why I'm like, 'I can't commit.'

  Amanda Seyfried

  Crazy, Kids, Thinking

  "Get a Sneak Preview of Glamour's Interview with March Cover Star Amanda Seyfried!". www.glamour.com. January 31, 2012.

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