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• History will also give occasion to expatiate on the advantage of civil orders and constitutions; how men and their properties are protected by joining in societies and establishing government; their industry encouraged and rewarded, arts invented, and life made more comfortable; the advantages of liberty, mischiefs of licentiousness, benefits arising from good laws and a due execution of justice. Thus may the first principles of sound politics be fixed in the minds of youth.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Education, Art, Men

  Benjamin Franklin, Walter Isaacson (2003). “A Benjamin Franklin Reader”, p.144, Simon and Schuster

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• A solemn day. Barring a stay by Sup Ct, & with my final nod, Utah will use most extreme power & execute a killer. Mourn his victims. Justice.

  Mark Shurtleff

  Utah, Html, Justice

  Mark L. Shurtleff ‏ @MarkShurtleff, twitter.com. June 18, 2010.

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• Greatness is more than potential. It is the execution of that potential.

  Eric Burns

  Greatness, Raw Talent, Potential For Greatness

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• Conscience is a just but weak judge. Weakness leaves it powerless to execute its judgment.

  Khalil Gibran

  Judging, Weakness, Judgment

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• Great execution. That's what you have to do when you're playing great teams.

  Tracy McGrady

  Team, Great Team

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• I don't try to overintellectua lize my concepts of people. In fact, the ideas I have, if you talk about them, they seem extremely corny and it's only in their execution that people can enjoy them...It's something I've learned to trust: The stupider it is, the better it looks.

  Annie Leibovitz

  Ideas, People, Trying

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• Innovation comes from long-term thinking and iterative execution.

  Reid Hoffman

  Thinking, Long, Innovation

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• When an actor is completely absorbed by some profoundly moving objective so that he throws his whole being passionately into its execution, he reaches a state we call inspiration.

  Constantin Stanislavski

  Moving, Inspiration, Actors

  Constantin Stanislavski (2013). “An Actor Prepares”, p.268, A&C Black

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• So often the difference between success and failure is belief. Belief leads to action and execution.

  Jon Gordon

  Differences, Belief, Action

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• We have no longer an outside and an inside as two separate things. Now the outside may come inside and the inside may and does go outside. They are of each other. Form and function thus become one in design and execution if the nature of materials and method and purpose are all in unison.

  Frank Lloyd Wright

  Two, Design, Doe

  Frank Lloyd Wright (1995). “Frank Lloyd Wright Collected Writings: 1949-1959”, Rizzoli International Publications

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• To understand a new idea, break an old habit.

  Jean Toomer

  Inspirational, Ideas, Old Habits

  Jean Toomer (2003). “The Uncollected Works of American Author Jean Toomer, 1894-1967”, Edwin Mellen Press

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• Education without execution is extinction

  Bo Sanchez

  Extinction

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• Vision without execution is daydreaming.

  Bill Gates

  Vision, Daydreaming

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• Having ideas is not the same thing as being creative. Creation is execution, not inspiration.

  Kevin Ashton

  Inspiration, Ideas, Creative

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• Executions, far from being useful examples to the survivors, have, I am persuaded, a quite contrary effect, by hardening the heart they ought to terrify. Besides, the fear of an ignominious death, I believe, never deterred anyone from the commission of a crime, because in committing it the mind is roused to activity about present circumstances.

  Mary Wollstonecraft

  Believe, Heart, Mind

  Letters Written During a Short Residence in Sweden, Norway, and Denmark Letter 19 (1796)

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• Execute their airy purposes.

  John Milton

  Purpose, Airy

  1665 Paradise Lost (published1667), bk.1, l.423-31.

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• I thank God that you know the art of tearing yourself apart - I mean the way to humble yourself truly by recognizing and realizing your faults. You are right in believing yourself to be as you describe and to be most unsuitable for any kind of duty; it is on this foundation that Our Lord will base the execution of His plans for you.

  Vincent de Paul

  Art, Believe, Humble

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• The mortalist enemy unto knowledge, and that which hath done the greatest execution unto truth, has been a preemptory adhesion unto authority.

  Thomas Browne

  Fear, Enemy, Done

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• This solo piano exploration (Beyond The Sky) by Rob Schwimmer is full of passion and love...his execution and ideas flow with a beautiful sense of freedom that captures you from his first phrase to the last.

  Joe Lovano

  Beautiful, Passion, Sky

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• USA Today reports that the number of death row executions this year has hit a 35-year low. They attribute that to DNA evidence clearing more people and the fact that Rick Perry has been on the road campaigning.

  Jay Leno

  Dna, Years, Usa

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• God will not pity them, but “laugh at their calamity.” The blessed company in heaven shall rejoice in the execution of God's righteous judgment, and sing while the smoke riseth up for ever.

  Thomas Boston

  Laughing, Heaven, Judgment

  "Human Nature in Its Fourfold State: Of Primitive Integrity, Entire Depravity, Begun Recovery, and Consummate Happiness Or Misery".

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• Strategy equals execution. All the great ideas and visions in the world are worthless if they can't be implemented rapidly and efficiently. Good leaders delegate and empower others liberally, but they pay attention to details, every day.

  Colin Powell

  Ideas, Empowering, Leader

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• Avatar is the most high tech film in terms of its execution, dealing with essentially a very low tech subject; which is our relationship with nature...and in fact the irony is that the film is about our relationship with nature and how our technological civilization has taken us several removes away from a truly natural existence and the consequences of that to us.

  James Cameron

  Taken, Civilization, Facts

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• The real way to enjoy playing golf is to take pleasure not in the score, but in the execution of strokes.

  Bobby Jones

  Real, Golf, Way

  Bobby Jones (1966). “Bobby Jones on Golf”, Main Street Books

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• In psychiatry there is a certain condition known as delusion of reprieve. The condemned man, immediately before his execution, gets the illusion that he might be reprieved at the very last minute. No one could yet grasp the fact that everything would be taken away. all we possessed, literally, was our naked existence.

  Viktor E. Frankl

  Taken, Men, Naked

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