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• And if you don´t commit? I asked. Your choice. But you miss what´s on the other side. What´s on the other side? "Ah" he smiled. "A happiness you cannot find alone

  Mitch Albom

  Choices, Missing, Sides

  Mitch Albom (2009). “Have a Little Faith: A True Story”, Hyperion

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• Misperceiving that there is one correct choice is a common mistake. Coming to understand that there are usually a few good choices--and then there's the one you pick, commit to, and make great--is the best way to make flexible, optimal, good decisions in life.

  Katie Couric

  Mistake, Choices, Decision

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• I love you," Jake whispered. "Are you strong enough for this?" I made myself comfortable. Said over my shoulder, "Sure." "Would you tell me if you weren't?" I grinned. "Maybe. I can't think of a nicer way to commit suicide." "That's good. I can't think of a more pleasant way to commit murder.

  Josh Lanyon

  Suicide, Strong, Love You

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• The bottom line is that you have to choose who you are going to commit to-- that's the foundation of true love, not the lack of other options

  Stephenie Meyer

  Foundation, Lines, Bottom

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• I don't like futons. They can't commit. I'm a bed! I'm a couch! I'm a bed! I'm a couch!

  Jennifer Weiner

  Bed, Couches, Futons

  Jennifer Weiner (2008). “Little Earthquakes”, p.81, Simon and Schuster

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• I'm placing you under arrest for murder, conspiracy to commit murder and, I don't know, possibly littering.

  Derek Landy

  Littering, Murder, Conspiracy

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• If we commit ourselves to reading thus increasing our knowledge, only God limits how far we can go in this world.

  Benjamin Carson

  Reading, World, Limits

  "Think Big: Unleashing Your Potential for Excellence". Book by Ben Carson and Cecil Murphey, 1996.

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• Later, with time, I learned that although all men are capable of good and evil, the worst among them are those who, when they commit evil, do so by shielding themselves in the authority of others, in their subordination, or in the excuse of following orders. And even worse are those who believe they are justified by their God.

  Arturo Pérez-Reverte

  Believe, Men, Order

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• The vampire bible, bound in human skin, written in blood, and full of prophecies that were never wrong. Trouble was, if you read the thing too long, it drove you nuts. Not "I'm having a bad day and feel bitchy" nuts or PMS nuts. "I think I'll commit felony assault on my friends and rape my boyfriend" nuts.

  MaryJanice Davidson

  Bad Day, Thinking, Blood

  MaryJanice Davidson (2006). “Undead and Unreturnable: A Queen Betsy Novel”, p.30, Penguin

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• I would feel real trapped in this life if I didn't know I could commit suicide at any time.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Life, Suicide, Real

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• When a Satanist commits a wrong, he realizes that is it natural to make a mistake―and if he is truly sorry about what he has done, he will learn from it and take care not to do the same thing again. If he is not honestly sorry about what he has done, and knows he will do the same thing over and over, he has no business confessing and asking forgiveness in the first place.

  Anton Szandor LaVey

  Sorry, Mistake, Satanic

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• I would rather commit a sin of commission than a sin of omission, and the evangelical community is exactly the opposite. The evangelical community would rather not do something wrong and the price they're willing to pay for not doing something wrong is they're willing to fail to do something right; they're so afraid of making a mistake. Now the reason they're afraid of making a mistake is they're cowards and our community produces cowards.

  J.P. Moreland

  Mistake, Omission, Opposites

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• None of us alone can save the nation or the world. But each of us can make a positive difference if we commit ourselves to do so. (p. 109)

  Cornel West

  Differences, World, Nations

  FaceBook post by Dr. Cornel West from Feb 05, 2013

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• Wars raged everywhere as men found new, inventive ways to kill even more of their race. It was like a contest, the many tribes of mankind competing to see who could commit the worst atrocities.

  Darren Shan

  War, Men, Race

  Darren Shan (2011). “Ocean of Blood (The Saga of Larten Crepsley, Book 2)”, p.21, HarperCollins UK

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• The failures are not due to any injustice, but to an inner defect. It is always caused by the person himself. Yes, I know, you think you are doing an act of justice. But they will only suck you dry, wear out your energy, nourish themselves on your ideas. After being the most compassionate man in the world, I say to you today: Let the weak ones die, let them commit suicide.

  Anais Nin

  Suicide, Men, Thinking

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• We laugh at sheep because sheep just follow the one in front. We humans have out-sheeped the sheep, because at least the sheep need a sheep dog to keep them in line. Humans keep each other in line. And they do it by ridiculing or condemning anyone who commits the crime, and that’s what it’s become, of being different.

  David Icke

  Dog, Sheep, Laughing

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• When we commit ourselves to the pursuit of holiness, we need to ensure that our commitment is actually to God, not simply to a holy lifestyle or a set of moral values ... offer yourselves to God, and in doing that commit yourselves to the pursuit of holiness in order to please Him.

  Jerry Bridges

  Commitment, Order, Needs

  Jerry Bridges (2014). “The Discipline of Grace: God's Role and Our Role in the Pursuit of Holiness”, p.88, Tyndale House

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• The essence of being human is that one does not seek perfection, that one is sometimes willing to commit sins for the sake of loyalty, that one does not push asceticism to the point where it makes friendly intercourse impossible, and that one is prepared in the end to be defeated and broken up by life, which is the inevitable price of fastening one's love upon other human individuals.

  George Orwell

  Love, Loyalty, Essence

  George Orwell, Keith Gessen (2009). “All Art Is Propaganda: Critical Essays”, p.357, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I can't deceive myself out of the bare stark realization that no matter how enthusiastic you are, no matter how sure that character is fate, nothing is real, past or future, when you are alone in your room with the clock ticking loudly into the false cheerful brilliance of the electric light. And if you have no past or future which, after all, is all that the present is made of, why then you may as well dispose of the empty shell of present and commit suicide.

  Sylvia Plath

  Suicide, Real, Character

  "The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath".

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• There is a time to study a map passionately, obsessively. To see where you've gone, where others have gone before you. To commit to memory every obstacle, every danger. Shakespeare had a term for this obsession: mappery. But there is a time, too, when you say, come dragons. I challenge you to find me.

  Justina Chen

  Memories, Dragons, Challenges

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• Constipation was one of the things she hated most in the world, on par with despicable men who commit domestic violence and narrow-minded religious fundamentalists.

  Haruki Murakami

  Religious, Men, Domestic Violence

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• When you're young and healthy you can plan on Monday to commit suicide, and by Wednesday you're laughing again.

  Marilyn Monroe

  Suicide, Monday, Suicidal

  Marilyn Monroe, Ben Hecht (2006). “My Story”, p.80, Rowman & Littlefield

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• To be a saint is the exception; to be a just person is the rule. Err, stumble, commit sin, but be one of the just.

  Victor Hugo

  Saint, Sin, Exception

  Victor Hugo (2014). “Les Mis??rables”, p.13, Modern Library

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• I see Nick's number. I debate whether to assign a name to his number. If I commit to that, then I will truly be heartbroken if he never calls me again; my heart will knot each and every time I use this phone and see his name in there. I would probably end up having to trash the phone entirely.

  David Levithan

  Heartbroken, Names, Numbers

  Rachel Cohn, David Levithan (2014). “Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist”, p.107, Egmont UK

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• The increasing tendency towards seeing people in terms of one dominant ‘identity’ (‘this is your duty as an American’, ‘you must commit these acts as a Muslim’, or ‘as a Chinese you should give priority to this national engagement’) is not only an imposition of an external and arbitrary priority, but also the denial of an important liberty of a person who can decide on their respective loyalties to different groups (to all of which he or she belongs).

  Amartya Sen

  Loyalty, Giving, People

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