Execution Quotes - Page 13

• Stupidity cannot be cured. Stupidity is the only universal capital crime; the sentence is death. There is no appeal, and execution is carried out automatically and without pity.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Stupid, Pity, Crime

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• Greatness is more than potential. It is the execution of that potential. Beyond the raw talent. You need the appropriate training. You need the discipline. You need the inspiration. You need the drive.

  Eric Burns

  Inspiration, Greatness, Discipline

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• The taking of life is too absolute, too irreversible, for one human being to inflict on another, even when backed by legal process. Where the death penalty persists, conditions for those awaiting execution are often horrifying, leading to aggravated suffering.

  Ban Ki-moon

  Suffering, Death Penalty, Life Is

  "Taking of Life Too Absolute, Irreversible, Says Secretary-General at High-Level Event on Death Penalty, Urging End to Capital Punishment". Ban Ki-moon’s remarks at a high-level event on the death penalty, in New York, www.un.org. July 3, 2012.

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• Nothing like an arcane literary debate with your tyrannical master while you pass the time leading to your execution.

  Elizabeth Wein

  Debate, Masters, Arcane

  Elizabeth Wein (2012). “Code Name Verity”, p.122, Egmont UK

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• I'm into, oh murders and executions mostly. It depends.

  Bret Easton Ellis

  Murder, Depends

  Bret Easton Ellis (2014). “American Psycho: Picador Classic”, p.168, Pan Macmillan

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• If Java had true garbage collection, most programs would delete themselves upon execution.

  Robert Sewell

  Java, Garbage, Computer

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• I felt that I had been happy and that I was happy again. For everything to be consummated, for me to feel less alone, I had only to wish that there be a large crowd of spectators the day of my execution and that they greet me with cries of hate.

  Albert Camus

  Hate, Wish, Crowds

  Albert Camus (2002). “The Stranger”, Spark Notes

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• It may merely be apocryphal that when the Wizard saw the glass bottle he gasped, and clutched his heart. The story is told in so many ways, depending on who is doing the telling, and what needs to be heard at the time. It is a matter of history, however, that shortly thereafter, the Wizard absconded from the Palace. He left in the way he had first arrived-- a hot-air balloon-- just a few hours before seditious ministers were to lead a Palace revolt and to hold an execution without trial.

  Gregory Maguire

  Heart, Air, Glasses

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• The worst crime committed by totalitarian mind-sets is that they force their citizens, including their victims, to become complicit in their crimes. Dancing with your jailer, participating in your own execution, that is an act of utmost brutality.

  Azar Nafisi

  Dancing, Mind, Brutality

  Azar Nafisi (2003). “Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books”, p.76, Random House

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• Some people deal with their problems by talking them to death. In fact, some enjoy the execution so much they resurrect their problems just so they can kill them again.-Nathan Hurst

  Richard Paul Evans

  Talking, People, Facts

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• The mind commands the body and is instantly obeyed. The mind commands itself and meets resistance. The mind commands the hand to move, and it so easy that one hardly distinguishes the order from its execution. Yet mind is mind and hand is body. The mind orders the mind to will. The recipient of the order is itself, yet it does not perform it.

  Saint Augustine

  Moving, Hands, Order

  Saint Augustine (1998). “The Confessions”, p.148, OUP Oxford

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• This new enemy seeks to destroy our freedom and impose its views. We value life; the terrorists ruthlessly destroy it. We value education; the terrorists do not believe women should be educated or should have health care, or should leave their homes. We value the right to speak our minds; for the terrorists, free expression can be grounds for execution. We respect people of all faiths and welcome the free practice of religion; our enemy wants to dictate how to think and how to worship even to their fellow Muslims.

  George W. Bush

  Inspiration, Believe, Home

  Speech in Atlanta, www.cnn.com. November 08, 2001.

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• The bow is so old, its horsehair is glue Sent to the factory, just like me and like you So how come they stayed your execution? The audience roars its standing ovation "Dust.

  Gayle Forman

  Dust, Ovation, Bows

  Gayle Forman (2009). “If I Stay”, p.132, Penguin

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• All decisions in the artistic execution of the work rest with pure intuition and cannot be translated into a self-analysis.

  Marcel Duchamp

  Self, Decision, Intuition

  Marcel Duchamp (2002). “Marcel Duchamp”, Hatje Cantz Pub

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• If the practices and processes inside a company don't drive the execution of values, then people don't get it. The question is, do you create a culture of behavior and action that really demonstrates those values and a reward system for those who adhere to them?

  Lou Gerstner

  Leadership, Practice, People

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• But fortunately for us and for all men, it has not been given unto us to judge, nor to execute, nor to measure out the days and the years of men. We may be most grateful that such matters belong to the Lord God our Father, who sees things past and things to come. And, we may be grateful for the assurance that there is plan and purpose in this world, and in our own lives.

  Richard L. Evans

  Life, Father, Grateful

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• Vision w/o execution is just hallucination. You need the right combination of visionary + team that can execute

  Walter Isaacson

  Team, Vision, Needs

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• The thing that keeps a business ahead of the competition is excellence in execution.

  Tom Peters

  Business, Competition, Excellence

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• The biblical lifestyle is always a witness of resistance to the status quo in politics, economics, and all society. It is a witness of resurrection from death. Paradoxically, those who embark on the biblical witness constantly risk death - through execution, exile, imprisonment, persecution, defamation, or harassment - at the behest of the rulers of this age. Yet those who do not resist the rulers of the present darkness are consigned to a moral death, the death of their humanness. That, of all the ways of dying, is the most ignominious.

  William Stringfellow

  Biblical, Darkness, Risk

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• The time to go into a new business is when it’s badly run by others.

  Richard Branson

  Running, Powerful, Innovation

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• Execution really shapes whether your company takes off or not.

  Pete Cashmore

  Marketing, Shapes, Helpful

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• No marvel if the worldling escape earthly afflictions. God corrects him not. He is base born and begot. God will not do him the favour to whip him. The world afflicts him not, because it loves him: for each man is indulgent to his own. God uses not the rod where He means to use the Word. The pillory or scourge is for those malefactors that shall escape execution.

  Joseph Hall

  Christian, Mean, Blessing

  Joseph Hall (1824). “Select Tracts from the writings of ... J. H. ... Edited by C. Bradley”, p.336

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• Failure is not about insecurity. It's about lack of execution.

  Jeffrey Gitomer

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Entrepreneur

  Twitter post from Feb 08, 2016

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• Medicine has made all its progress during the past fifty years. ... How many operations that are now in use were known fifty years ago?-they were not operations, they were executions.

  Mark Twain

  Science, Past, Years

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• Laughing on the way to your execution is not generally understood by less-advanced life forms, and they call you crazy.

  Richard Bach

  Crazy, Remember Where You Came, Mad

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