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• We at the Department of Education are going to provide technical assistance; I've committed $14 million to show states how they might meet this more sophisticated approach.

  Margaret Spellings

  Education, Might, Sophisticated

  "Secretary of Education Margaret Spellings". "PBS NewsHour" with Ray Suarez, www.pbs.org. April 7, 2005.

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• People who don't believe in God may have their own way of justifying some bad act they have committed.

  Lee Greenwood

  Believe, People, May

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• I think I am very mainstream - I'm committed to good works in my life.

  Peter Jennings

  Thinking, Good Work, Mainstream

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• One I've been passionately committed to, of course, is women's ministry; I believe solidly in it as a Gospel issue and we've found our way through that.

  George Carey

  Believe, Issues, Ministry

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• I'd say you have to be really committed to the field, show up for every audition and to be aware that very few make it in this field.

  Will Estes

  Fields, Auditions, Shows

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• I am not sure the others are as committed as Rob Hall and Scott Fischer. I think there is more business now, and I know it will be impossible to stop this Everest business.

  Anatoli Boukreev

  Thinking, Impossible, Fischer

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• Sir Rodin convinced my parents to have me committed; they are all in Paris to arrange it.

  Camille Claudel

  Paris, Parent, Rodin

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• I was very committed to the process of composing, working at poems, putting things together and taking them apart like some kind of experimental filmmaker.

  David Antin

  Together, Kind, Process

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• The attacks on the Paris Metro in the 1990s were committed by members of the local Muslim community, immigrants from the Maghreb region of North Africa.

  Otto Schily

  Paris, Community, Members

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• We are not supposed to go out and kill all those we suspect to have committed a crime.

  Bianca Jagger

  Crime, Suspects

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• You don't bargain with terrorists. You don't appease terrorists. And anybody who believes that this is about something we've done has to ask themselves why it is, on September 11, 2001, before we were in Afghanistan, before we were in Iraq, he committed a dastardly attack killing over 3,000 people. I mean, this is not a matter of negotiation; it's a matter of victory.

  Michael Chertoff

  Believe, Mean, Iraq

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• If there is a country that has committed unspeakable atrocities in the world, it is the United States of America.

  Nelson Mandela

  Country, Atrocities Committed, America

  Nelson Mandela (2012). “Notes to the Future: Words of Wisdom”, p.152, Simon and Schuster

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• We are often hindered from giving up our treasures to the Lord out of fear for their safety; this is especially true when those treasures are loved relatives and friends. But we need have no such fears. Our Lord came not to destroy but to save. Everything is safe which we commit to Him, and nothing is really safe which is not so committed.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Giving Up, Relatives And Friends, Safety

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• The Sparks have always been committed to success and making the right moves to build upon their rich tradition in the WNBA.

  Candace Parker

  Moving, Sparks, Tradition

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• You can be committed to somebody because of ego: 'I said I was going to be with this joker for the rest of my life, so I'm just going to do it.' Or you can be committed because you have a deeply rooted connection.

  Jada Pinkett Smith

  Ego, Connections, Said

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• We Aryans are those of European descent who are racially conscious and who have committed our lives to our people's survival and evolutionary advancement. We shall do our duty. We shall not surrender our freedom and our very existence to Jewish or any other power. We shall preserve our heritage and our hard-won rights and freedoms. We shall guide our people up the evolutionary stairway to the stars.

  David Duke

  Stars, Rights, Ku Klux Klan

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• I'm a Democrat voting for Bush, even though on economic issues, from taxes to government regulation, I'm not happy with the Republican positions. But we're at war, and electing a president who is committed to losing it seems to be the most foolish thing we could do. Personal honesty is also important to me, and Kerry is obviously not in the running on that point, given that he can't keep track of the facts in his own autobiography.

  Orson Scott Card

  Running, Honesty, War

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• Our Government is committed to supporting Canadian businesses as they grow, innovate and generate high-value jobs - in the West and across the country. The WINN Initiative assists western Canadian businesses in bringing innovative ideas from the test bench to the marketplace.

  Michelle Rempel

  Country, Jobs, Government

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• There is hardly a mistake which in the course of our lives we have committed, but some proverb, had we known and attended to its lesson, might have saved us from it.

  Richard Chenevix Trench

  Mistake, Lessons, Might

  Richard Chenevix Trench (1856). “On the lessons in Proverbs: being the substance of lectures delivered to young men's societies at Portsmouth and elsewhere; from the Second London edition, rev. and enlarged”, p.89

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• You know, the very strength of science is that it keeps us from the errors of mythos, from getting committed to a set of memes that we adopt because of congruence with what we think we know. Science demands skepticism.

  Tim Ward

  Thinking, Errors, Demand

  Tim Ward (2012). “Zombies on Kilimanjaro: A Father/Son Journey Above the Clouds”, p.112, John Hunt Publishing

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• All sins are committed in secrecy. The moment we realize that God witnesses even our thoughts, we shall be free.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Realizing, Sin, Moments

  Mahatma Gandhi, Jawaharlal Nehru, Rabindranath Tagore (1968). “Wit and Wisdom of Gandhi, Nehru, Tagore: Being a Treasury of Over Ten Thousand Invaluable and Inspiring Thoughts, Views, and Obervations on about Eight Hundred Subjects of Popular Interest, Collected from the Speeches and Writings of These Three Great Leaders of Modern India”

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• Unconditional war can no longer lead to unconditional victory. It can no longer serve to settle disputes. It can no longer concern the Great Powers alone. For a nuclear disaster, spread by wind and water and fear, could well engulf the great and the small, the rich and the poor, the committed and the uncommitted alike. Mankind must put an end to war--or war will put an end to mankind.

  John F. Kennedy

  War, Wind, Water

  Address to the United Nations General Assembly, delivered 25 September 1961

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• Isn't all mankind ultimately executed for a crime it never committed?

  Woody Allen

  Crime, Capital Punishment, Mankind

  "Love and Death". www.imdb.com. 1975.

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• The path of least resistance and least trouble is a mental rut already made. It requires troublesome work to undertake the alternation of old beliefs. Self-conceit often regards it as a sign of weakness to admit that a belief to which we have once committed ourselves is wrong. We get so identified with an idea that it is literally a pet notion and we rise to its defense and stop our eyes and ears to anything different.

  John Dewey

  Inspirational, Eye, Ideas

  John Dewey (1986). “The Later Works, 1925-1953: 1933”, p.136, SIU Press

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• Temperament, like liberty, is important despite how many crimes are committed in its name.

  Louis Kronenberger

  Names, Important, Liberty

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