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• You only need one good reason to commit to an idea, not four hundred. But if you have four hundred reasons to say yes and one reason to say no, the answer is probably no.

  Twyla Tharp

  Ideas, Needs, Answers

  Twyla Tharp, Mark Reiter (2003). “The Creative Habit: Learn It and Use It for Life”, Simon and Schuster

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• If you are unsure of a course of action, do not attempt it. Your doubts and hesitations will infect your execution. Timidity is dangerous: Better to enter with boldness. Any mistakes you commit through audacity are easily corrected with more audacity. Everyone admires the bold; no one honors the timid.

  Robert Greene

  Mistake, Honor, Doubt

  Robert Greene (2010). “The 48 Laws Of Power”, p.13, Profile Books

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• Never, in peace or war, commit your virtue or your happiness to the future. Happy work is best done by the man who takes his long-term plans somewhat lightly and works from moment to moment 'as to the Lord.' It is only our daily bread that we are encouraged to ask for. The present is the only time in which any duty can be done or any grace received.

  C. S. Lewis

  War, Men, Long

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• On my recent trip to Israel, I had the opportunity to visit Yad Vashem, Israel's national Holocaust memorial, and reaffirm our collective responsibility to confront anti-Semitism, prejudice, and intolerance across the world. On this Yom Hashoah, we must accept the full responsibility of remembrance, as nations and as individuals-not simply to pledge "never again," but to commit ourselves to the understanding, empathy and compassion that is the foundation of peace and human dignity.

  Barack Obama

  Responsibility, Opportunity, Compassion

  Statement from the President on Yom Hashoah, obamawhitehouse.archives.gov. April 08, 2013.

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• For one day, or for one day for a week, refrain from something you habitually do to run away, to escape. Pick something concrete, such as overeating or excessive sleeping or overworking or spending too much time texting or checking e-mails. Make a commitment to yourself to gently and compassionately work with refraining from this habit for this one day. Really commit to it. Do this with the intention that it will put you in touch with the underlying anxiety or uncertainty that you've been avoiding. Do it and see what you discover.

  Pema Chodron

  Running, Sleep, Commitment

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• You can test what we have talked about today. Just try two things. Listen for the whisperings of the Spirit and then commit to obey. . . . God will take advantage of that if you let Him

  Henry B. Eyring

  Two, Listening, Trying

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• If a young man at the age of twenty-three can write a symphony like that, in five years he will be ready to commit murder.

  Walter Damrosch

  Writing, Men, Years

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• A traitor commits his crime but once. The rest/is retribution.

  Marie Howe

  Crime, Retribution, Traitor

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• No matter what others say or do, even if the wicked succeed, do not be troubled: commit everything to God and put your trust in him.

  St. Vincent

  Wicked, Matter, Succeed

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• The worst disgrace that can befall a producer is an unkind notice from a New York reviewer. When this happens, the producer becomes a pariah in Hollywood. He is shunned by his friends, thrown into bankruptcy, and like a Japanese electing hara-kiri, he commits suttee.

  S. J. Perelman

  New York, Hollywood, Pariahs

  "Strictly from Hunger". "The Most of S. J. Perelman", p. 47, 1992.

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• People are just afraid of things too much … Sure, evil exists, extremism exists. Somebody could commit a hate crime and hurt me. But they could do the same just because I'm black. They could do the same just because I'm American.

  Frank Ocean

  Hurt, Hate, People

  "Frank Ocean: Coming out helped remove 'a boulder on my chest'" by Nosheen Iqbal, www.theguardian.com. July 20, 2012.

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• I confess that I cannot understand how we can plot, lie, cheat and commit murder abroad and remain humane, honorable, trustworthy and trusted at home.

  Archibald Cox

  Lying, Home, Plot

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• A young man who is unable to commit a folly is already an old man.

  Paul Gauguin

  Men, Young, Old Man

  Paul Gauguin (1978). “The writings of a savage”, Viking Adult

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• An artist must approach his work in the spirit of the criminal about to commit a crime.

  Edgar Degas

  Artist, Criminals, Spirit

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• Of course, there are dangers in religious freedom and freedom of opinion. But to deny these rights is worse than dangerous, it is absolutely fatal to liberty. The external threat to liberty should not drive us into suppressing liberty at home. Those who want the government to regulate matters of the mind and spirit are like men who are so afraid of being murdered that they commit suicide to avoid assassination.

  Harry S. Truman

  Suicide, Religious, Home

  Address at National Archives, Washington, D.C., 15 Dec. 1952

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• The greatest sin a coach can commit is to allow kids to slide by. This goes for the classroom as well as the court

  Hubie Brown

  Basketball, Kids, Nba

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• Every seventeen minutes in America, someone commits suicide. Mostly, I have been impressed by how little value our society puts on saving the lives of those who are in such despair as to want to end them. It is a societal illusion that suicide is rare. It is not.

  Kay Redfield Jamison

  Suicide, America, Bipolar

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• Any revolutionary agitation exacts enormous sacrifices, not so much in terms of prison sentences and years of incarceration - which have been raining down by the hundreds of years annually - as in terms of the manifold personal sacrifices sustained by those who commit themselves to revolutionary agitation.

  Peter Kropotkin

  Rain, Sacrifice, Years

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• The fact that you're having disagreements with each other isn't a problem -that just shows that there are some areas of your relationship that need to be worked on. And that's normal. People are different, so of course you're going to run into times where your differences come out and rub each other the wrong way. But what's important is that you both commit to work on those differences until both of you are satisfied. When you do that, you're walking the right road together and over the long-run you'll do just fine.

  Cindy Wright

  Running, Differences, Long

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• The moment you commit and quit holding back, all sorts of unforeseen incidents, meetings, and material assistance will rise up to help you. The simple act of commitment is a powerful magnet for help.

  Napoleon Hill

  Inspirational, Powerful, Commitment

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• TALK, v.t. To commit an indiscretion without temptation, from an impulse without purpose.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Temptation, Purpose, Impulse

  Ambrose Bierce (2016). “The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World”, p.217, 谷月社

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• ASPERSE, v.t. Maliciously to ascribe to another vicious actions which one has not had the temptation and opportunity to commit.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Opportunity, Temptation, Action

  Ambrose Bierce (2016). “The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World”, p.15, 谷月社

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• If we are going to commit American troops, we must be certain they have a clear mission, an achievable goal and an exit strategy.

  Karen Hughes

  Goal, Troops, Exit

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• Justice doesn't only mean that the people who commit crime are punished. It also means that we can never give up seeking the truth.

  Henning Mankell

  Giving Up, Mean, People

  Henning Mankell (2010). “Faceless Killers: Kurt Wallander”, p.290, Random House

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• Love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, and self-control. To these I commit my day. If I succeed, I will give thanks. If I fail, I will seek his grace. And then, when this day is done, I will place my head on my pillow and rest.

  Max Lucado

  Kindness, Self, Giving

  Max Lucado (2015). “Let the Journey Begin: Finding God's Best for Your Life”, p.73, Thomas Nelson Inc

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