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• Freedom is not the absence of commitments, but the ability to choose - and commit myself to - what is best for me.

  Paulo Coelho

  Inspirational, Freedom, Commitment

  Paulo Coelho (2009). “The Zahir: A Novel of Obsession”, p.21, Harper Collins

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• There aren't just bad people that commit genocide; we are all capable of it. It's our evolutionary history.

  James Lovelock

  People, Deep Thought, Genocide

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• We have committed the Golden Rule to memory; let us now commit it to life.

  Edwin Markham

  Inspirational, Life, Memories

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• All the passions make us commit faults; love makes us commit the most ridiculous ones.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Love, Dream, Passion

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• The only time I commit to conspiracy theories is when something way retarded happens. Like Lee Harvey Oswald acting alone.

  Joe Rogan

  Acting, Way, Retarded

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• The follies which a man regrets the most in his life are those which he didn't commit when he had the opportunity.

  Helen Rowland

  Regret, Women, Opportunity

  A Guide to Men "Improvisations" (1922)

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• I just spent 11 and a half months in a maximum-security jail, got shot five times, and was wrongly convicted of a crime I didn't commit.

  Tupac Shakur

  Jail Time, Half, Months

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

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• What clever man has ever needed to commit a crime? Crime is the last resort of political half-wits.

  Charles Maurice de Talleyrand

  Clever, Men, Political

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• It's like an act of murder - you play with intent to commit something.

  Duke Ellington

  Music, Play, Jazz

  New York Herald Tribune, July 09, 1961.

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• Commit yourself to quality from day one ... it's better to do nothing at all than to do something badly.

  Mark McCormack

  Inspirational, Quality

  Mark H. McCormack (1990). “What They Still Don't Teach You at Harvard Business School”, Bantam

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• You commit a felony, it does not matter who you are, you could be deported.

  Slick Rick

  Doe, Matter, Felony

  "From the Vaults: Slick Rick, circa 98-99". Interview with Adisa Banjoko, allhiphop.com. March 1, 2005.

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• Head Start graduates are more likely to graduate from high school and less likely to need special education, repeat a grade, or commit crimes in adolescence.

  Joe Baca

  School, Special, Needs

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• If you commit a big crime then you are crazy, and the more heinous the crime the crazier you must be. Therefore you are not responsible, and nothing is your fault.

  Peggy Noonan

  Crazy, Insanity, Faults

  Peggy Noonan (1990). “What I Saw at the Revolution: A Political Life in the Reagan Era”, Random House (NY)

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• Secondly, the Government of Sudan should commit to the disarmament and control of the Janjaweed militia and ensure that the targeting of civilians ceases immediately.

  Jan Egeland

  Government, Should, Disarmament

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• You know that murder is wicked. If you saw your master kill a man, do you suppose this would be any excuse for you, if you should commit the same crime?

  Jupiter Hammon

  Men, Wicked, Saws

  Jupiter Hammon, Stanley Austin Ransom (1983). “America's first Negro poet: the complete works of Jupiter Hammon of Long Island”, Associated Faculty Pr Inc

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• I felt my father's presence with me, helping me to commit to paper the feelings I had. I really heard my father speaking to me from the other dimension

  Michael Landon

  Father, Feelings, Paper

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• We may not commit a lesser Sin under pretence to avoid a greater, but we may, nay we ought to endure the greatest Pain and Grief rather than commit the least Sin.

  Mary Astell

  Pain, Grief, May

  John Norris, Mary Astell (1695). “Letters Concerning the Love of God”, p.90

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• Our nation and those of the developed world must offer our own resistance to despot leaders who seek to commit murder on the basis of religion or race.

  Tim Bishop

  Race, Tyrants, Leader

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• Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it.

  W. H. Murray

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• Love means to commit yourself without guarantee.

  Anne Campbell

  Love, Mean, Romance

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• There are no shortcuts to victory. We must commit ourselves to the slow, painstaking work of foreign policy day by day and year by year.

  Richard Lugar

  Years, Victory, Shortcuts

  "Bidding Adieu To Congressional Trailblazers" by Liz Halloran, www.npr.org. January 2, 2013.

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• Having a child is surely the most beautifully irrational act that two people in love can commit.

  Bill Cosby

  Motivational, Baby, Children

  Twitter post from Nov 06, 2009

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• As long as people believe in absurdities they will continue to commit atrocities.

  Voltaire

  Truth, Believe, Evil People

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• Nothing more rapidly inclines a person to go into a monastery than reading a book on etiquette. There are so many trivial ways in which it is possible to commit some social sin.

  Quentin Crisp

  Book, Reading, Way

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• If you want your writing to be taken seriously, don't marry and have kids, and above all, don't die. But if you have to die, commit suicide. They approve of that.

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  Suicide, Taken, Writing

  "Prospects for Women in Writing" (speech), Portland, Me., Sept. 1986

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