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• Remain calm, serene, always in command of yourself. You will then find out how easy it is to get along.

  Paramahansa Yogananda

  Fear, Yoga, Stay Calm

  Yogananda (Paramahansa) (1977). “Self-realization”

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• I have discovered that there are two types of command interfaces in the world of computing: good interfaces and user interfaces.

  Daniel J. Bernstein

  Two, World, User Interface

  "The qmail security guarantee" by Daniel J. Bernstein, cr.yp.to.

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• What we call 'morals' is simply blind obedience to words of command.

  Havelock Ellis

  Atheism, Politics, Moral

  1923 The Dance of Life.

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• No man has received from nature the right to command his fellow human beings.

  Denis Diderot

  Men, Humans, Human Beings

  "L'Encyclopédie". Book by Denis Diderot, 1751-1766.

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• It is simply the view, and a view I think shared by most members of the party, that it is very difficult to have a leader that does not command the support of the parliamentary party.

  Francis Maude

  Party, Thinking, Views

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• The poet is in command of his fantasy, while it is exactly the mark of the neurotic that he is possessed by his fantasy.

  Lionel Trilling

  Fantasy, Poet, Mark

  Lionel Trilling (2012). “The Liberal Imagination”, p.45, New York Review of Books

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• Yeah, I wasn't chosen to be first. I was just chosen to command that flight. Circumstance put me in that particular role. That wasn't planned by anyone.

  Neil Armstrong

  Roles, Firsts, Flight

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• When people have asked if I'd like to go in the Shuttle, I said you don't get to fly it, except for landing, which I'd love to do. I wouldn't go unless I could command it

  Wally Schirra

  People, Said, Landing

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• Those who can command themselves command others.

  William Hazlitt

  Leadership, Self Control

  William Hazlitt (1837). “Characteristics: in the manner of Rochefoucault's Maxims [by W. Hazlitt].”, p.144

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• It is a base thing for a man among the people not to obey those in command. Never in a state can the laws be well administered when fear does not stand firm.

  Sophocles

  Men, Law, People

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• With Connery, he does act. He is in complete command. He completely trusts the person first, then the instrument. I've worked with his son also, on a picture in Russia.

  F. Murray Abraham

  Son, Russia, Firsts

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The AEC had at its command an army of highly skilled scientists.

  Barry Commoner

  Army, Scientist

  Interview With Alan Hall, www.scientificamerican.com. June 23, 1997.

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• How shall I be able to rule over others, that have not full power and command of myself?

  Francois Rabelais

  Leadership, Discipline, Able

  Francois Rabelais (2014). “Gargantua and Pantagruel”, p.177, Lulu Press, Inc

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• Tears are the symbol of the inability of the soul to restrain its emotion and retain its self command.

  Henri Frederic Amiel

  Self, Soul, Tears

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• Even if the last move did not succeed, the inner command says move again.

  Seamus Heaney

  Moving, Lasts, Succeed

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• A creditor is worse than a slave-owner; for the master owns only your person, but a creditor owns your dignity, and can command it.

  Victor Hugo

  Slave Owners, Debtors, Dignity

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• Your position never gives you the right to command. It only imposes on you the duty of so living your life that others can receive your orders without being humiliated.

  Dag Hammarskjold

  Life, Leadership, Order

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• If you want to go anywhere in modern war, in the air, on the sea, on the land, you must have command of the air.

  William Halsey

  War, Air, Sea

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• The finest command of language is often shown by saying nothing.

  Roger Babson

  Saying Nothing, Language, Finest

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• We cannot command Nature except by obeying her.

  Francis Bacon

  Nature, Changing Environment, Conservation

  1620 Novum Organum, bk.1, aphorism129.

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• Drawing on my fine command of the English language, I said nothing.

  Robert Benchley

  Inspirational, Funny, Sarcastic

  "With Truth as Our Sword". Book by C. E. Sylvester, February 2005.

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• Forgiveness is God's command.

  Martin Luther

  Forgiveness, God, Healing

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• For those men who, sooner or later, are lucky enough to break away from the pack, the most intoxicating moment comes when they cease being bodies in other men's command and find that they control their own time, when they learn their own voice and authority.

  Theodore White

  Break Up, Time, Men

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• I can no longer obey; I have tasted command, and I cannot give it up.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Giving, Political, I Can

  "Memoirs of Count Miot de Melito (1788-1815)" translated by Frances Cashel Hoey and John Lillie, Vol. II, (p. 113), 1881.

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• Providence has its appointed hour for everything. We cannot command results, we can only strive.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Everything Happens For A Reason, Hours, Strive

  Mahatma Gandhi (1967). “The Mind of Mahatma Gandhi”, p.233, Rajpal & Sons

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