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I am still bowled over by this great young adult novel by David Levithan called 'Every Day,' which is about a character with no gender or body who wakes up every day in the body of a different person. It's a really impressive execution of a really great premise.

John Green

Character, Adults, Different

"John Green Interview: ‘Fault In Our Stars’ Author Talks Worst Book Ever, Where He Likes To Read". Huffington Post Interview, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 12, 2012.

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As the warden of San Quentin, I presided over four executions. After each one, someone on the staff would ask, 'Is the world safer because of what we did tonight?' We knew the answer: No.

Jeanne Woodford

Tonight, Answers, World

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I was just working in the shop and all of a sudden something just triggered in me, and I started shaking. And then I walked back into the house and my wife asked, 'What's the matter?' And I said, 'I don't feel good.' And tears, uncontrollable tears, was coming out of my eyes and she says, 'What's the matter?' And I told her. I said, 'I just thought about that execution that I did two days ago, and everybody else's that I was involved in.' And what it was, something triggered within, and it just, everybody - all of these executions all sprung forward.

Fred Allen

Eye, Two, Wife

"In America; Inside the Death House" by Bob Herbert, www.nytimes.com. October 9, 2000.

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They that are loudest in their threats are the weakest in the execution of them. It is probable that he who is killed by lightning hears no noise; but the thunder-clap which follows, and which most alarms the ignorant, is the surest proof of their safety.

Charles Caleb Colton

Safety, Ignorant, Alarms

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As I presided over Massie's execution, I thought about the abuse and neglect he endured as a child in the foster care system. We failed to keep him safe, and our failure contributed to who he was as an adult. Instead of spending hundreds of millions of dollars to kill him, what if we spent that money on other foster children so that we stop producing men like Massie in the first place?

Jeanne Woodford

Children, Men, What If

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The apothegm is the most portable form of Truth.... It is thus that the proverb answers where the sermon fails, as a well-charged pistol will do more execution than a whole barrel of gunpowder idly expended in the air.

William Gilmore Simms

Air, Gunpowder, Answers

William Gilmore Simms (1853). “Egeria: Or Voices of Thought and Counsel, for the Woods and Wayside”, p.15

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Three things are to be looked to in a building: that it stand on the right spot; that it is securely founded; that it be successfully executed.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Success, Three Things, Building

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1873). “Novels and Tales”, p.57

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To die in agony upon a cross Does not create a martyr; he must first Will his own execution.

Henrik Ibsen

Agony, Doe, Firsts

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Ideas are only as good as their execution

Tulsi Tanti

Ideas

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The human beings at the helm of the new nation [USA], whatever their limitations [slave owners, anti-democracy], were truly revolutionary. The theory of liberty born in that era, the seed of the idea, was perfect.More important, the idea itself carried within it the moral power to correct the contradictions in its execution that were obvious from the very birth of the new nation.

Naomi Wolf

Usa, Ideas, Slave Owners

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You need to learn what people have done, but you need to learn where they have failed... Usually when they fail it is in the execution.

Colin Powell

Failure, People, Needs

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Ideas are a dime a dozen. It's execution that counts.

Frank Herbert

Ideas, Dimes, Dozen

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But a good patriot, and a true politician, always considers how he shall make the most of the existing materials of his country. A disposition, to preserve, and an ability to improve, taken together, would be my standard of a statesman. Everything else is vulgar in the conception, perilous in the execution.

Edmund Burke

Country, Taken, Together

Edmund Burke (1852). “The Works and Correspondance of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke”, p.280

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Actually, the decision was not only expedient but necessary. The severity of this summary justice showed the world that we would continue to fight mercilessly, stopping at nothing. The execution of the Tsar's family was needed not only in order to frighten, horrify, and dishearten the enemy but also in order to shake up our own ranks, to show them that there was no turning back, that ahead lay either complete victory or complete ruin.

Leon Trotsky

Fighting, Order, Justice

Leon Trotsky (1958). “Diary in Exile, 1935”, Cambridge : Harvard University Press

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When a daring idea first crosses one's mind, if it is to be realized in the future it is often appealing. Then, as the time for its execution comes nearer, one begins to dread that which had once been anticipated.

Cynthia Voigt

Ideas, Mind, Firsts

Cynthia Voigt (2013). “The Callender Papers”, p.16, Simon and Schuster

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Building software implies various stages of planning, preparation and execution that vary in kind and degree depending on what's being built. [...]
Building a four-foot tower requires a steady hand, a level surface, and 10 undamaged beer cans. Building a tower 100 times that size doesn't merely require 100 times as many beer cans.

Steve McConnell

Beer, Hands, Feet

Steve McConnell (2004). “Code Complete”, p.16, Pearson Education

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Wear your best for your execution and stand dignified. Your last recourse against randomness is how you act - if you can't control outcomes, you can control the elegance of your behaviour. You will always have the last word.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Behaviour, Outcomes, Lasts

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I'm committed to increasing long-term value for shareholders and am confident we will continue to do so through the successful execution of our core strategic priorities: the creation of high quality, branded content and experiences, the use of technology, and creating growth in numerous and exciting international markets.

Bob Iger

Successful, Technology, Creating

"Walt Disney Extends Robert Iger's Contract Through June 2016" by Georg Szalai, www.hollywoodreporter.com. October 7, 2011.

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On Tuesday, the so-called Islamic State released a slickly produced video showing a Jordanian pilot being burned alive in a steel cage. On Wednesday, the United Nations issued a report detailing various 'mass executions of boys, as well as reports of beheadings, crucifixions of children, and burying children alive' at the hands of the Islamic State.

Jonah Goldberg

Children, Islamic, Boys

"Obama's Comparison of Christianity to Radical Islam Defies Logic" by Jonah Goldberg, www.realclearpolitics.com. February 6, 2015.

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Information without execution is poverty.

Tony Robbins

Inspirational, Information, Poverty

Tony Robbins (2014). “MONEY Master the Game: 7 Simple Steps to Financial Freedom”, p.41, Simon and Schuster

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Operation Fast and Furious was flawed in concept and flawed in execution. The tactics used in this operation violate Department of Justice policy and should never have been used.

Eric Holder

Justice, Tactics, Used

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Execution halts your breath, helter skelter spiral death.

Ozzy Osbourne

Spirals, Halt, Breaths

Song: Bloodbath In Paradise, 1988

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Execution will trump knowledge every day of the week.

Tony Robbins

Inspirational, Week, Trump

Tony Robbins (2014). “MONEY Master the Game: 7 Simple Steps to Financial Freedom”, p.65, Simon and Schuster

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If you put someone in a room with no script to direct, they're just going to sit there. Writing scripts is the execution for a show. Then the director takes that and hires people. It's like trying to build a house without any bricks.

John Patrick Shanley

Writing, People, House

"Screenwriter John Patrick Shanley on 'Ups and Downs,' Taking Moonstruck to Broadway and the Plays That Inspired Him". Interview with Jon Chattman, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 18, 2010.

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To be powerful in South America, you have to be transparent and you have to have a very clean reputation. Transparency for me today is a magic word in South America. Power comes from transparency and a track record of execution.

Eike Batista

Powerful, America, Track

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