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• Boys will be boys... They commit mistakes.

  Mulayam Singh Yadav

  Mistake, Boys

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• I don't think you necessarily identify and believe in the motifs of the character, but you have to want to play it and want to commit to the lines.

  Clive Owen

  Believe, Character, Thinking

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• If you are serious about your religion, if you really wish to commit yourself to the spiritual quest, you must learn how to use psychochemicals. Drugs are the religion of the twenty-first
  century. Pursuing the religious life today without using psychedelic drugs is like studying astronomy with the naked eye because that's how they did it in the first century A.D., and besides
  telescopes are unnatural.

  Timothy Leary

  Spiritual, Religious, Eye

  Timothy Leary (1968). “The Politics of Ecstasy”

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• If people become accustomed to lying, they will unconsciously commit every possible wrong deed. Before they can act wickedly, they must lie and once they begin to lie they will act wickedly without concern.

  Gautama Buddha

  Lying, People, Deeds

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• If you attempt to beat a man down and to get his goods for less than a fair price, you are attempting to commit burglary, as much as though you broke into his shop to take the things without paying for them.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Honesty, Men, Down And

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• It is important to make sure that both persons wanting to marry have enough finances and are ready to commit

  Yoshiko Sakurai

  Important, Finance, Enough

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• Freedom's untidy, and free people are free to make mistakes and commit crimes and do bad things.

  Donald Rumsfeld

  Mistake, Stupid, Iraq

  Quoted in N.Y. Times, 12 Apr. 2003

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• If the Zionist commit the folly and attack Iran, they will receive a crushing response from the Islamic Republic's armed forces which will lead to their annihilation.

  Mohsen Rezaee

  Crush, Islamic, Israel

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• Thou shalt not answer questionnaires Or quizzes upon world affairs, Nor with compliance Take any test. Thou shalt not sit with statisticians nor commit A social science.

  W. H. Auden

  Math, Tests, Answers

  W.H. Auden (2016). “Canción de cuna y otros poemas”, p.219, DEBOLS!LLO

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• It is possible for a kid from east Texas, raised in south central LA and Carson, who believes in his dreams, commits himself to them with his heart, to touch them and to have them happen.

  Forest Whitaker

  Dream, Believe, Heart

  Oscar Acceptance Address for Best Actor in a Leading Role, delivered 25 February 2007, Hollywood, CA

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• Those experienced in work must take up the study of theory and must read seriously; only then will they be able to systematize and synthesize their experience and raise it to the level of theory, only then will they not mistake their partial experience for universal truth and not commit empiricist errors.

  Mao Zedong

  Mistake, Errors, Levels

  Mao Zedong (2017). “Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-tung (The Little Red Book) & Other Works”, p.156, Lulu.com

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• Governments always commit their entire populations when the demands grow heavy enough. By their passive acceptance, these populations become accessories to whatever is done in their name.

  Frank Herbert

  Acceptance, Government, Names

  "The Dosadi Experiment" by Frank Herbert, (p. 297), 1977.

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• I can say, and I am responsible for what I am saying, that [American troops] have started to commit suicide under the walls of Baghdad. We will encourage them to commit more suicides quickly.

  Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf

  Suicide, Wall, Troops

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• The only way to escape misrepresentation is never to commit oneself to any critical judgement that makes an impact - that is, never to say anything. I still, however think that the best way to promote profitable discussion is to be as clear as possible with oneself about what one sees and judges, to try and establish the essential discriminations in the given field of interest, and to state them as clearly as one can (for disagreement, if necessary).

  F. R. Leavis

  Thinking, Impact, Judging

  1948 The Great Tradition, ch.1. Leavis, Q(ueenie) D(orothy) 1906-81 British literary critic.

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• It's almost impossible to deal with a crazy man, except that he does have religious beliefs, and the world of Islam will be damaged if a fanatic like him should commit murder in the name of religion against 60 innocent people.

  Ruhollah Khomeini

  Religious, Crazy, Men

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• I hope this is the lesson we women really commit to memory - we learned that it doesn't work to try be someone other than who you really are.

  Elizabeth Lesser

  Memories, Trying, Lessons

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• A two-speed Europe will not be a strong Europe. The idea of making decisions and policies in a narrow circle, disregarding smaller EU members, will make it hard to engage them to commit to a common policy, which will weaken the union.

  Georgi Parvanov

  Strong, Europe, Circles

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• In the course of evolution nature has gone to endless trouble to see that every individual is unlike every other individual....Physically and mentally, each one of us is unique. Any culture which, in the interests of efficiency or in the name of some political or religious dogma, seeks to standardize the human individual, commits an outrage against man's biological nature.

  Aldous Huxley

  Religious, Men, Unique

  "Brave New World Revisited". Book by Aldous Huxley, Chapter 3 (p. 21), 1958.

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• Now, men think, with regard to their conduct, that, if they were to lift themselves up gigantically and commit some crashing sin, they should never be able to hold up their heads; but they will harbor in their souls little sins, which are piercing and eating them away to inevitable ruin.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Thinking, Men, Soul

  henry ward beecher (1858). “life thoughts,”, p.11

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• The US, for historical reasons, mistrusts the concept of a welfare state, and this mistrust shows itself nakedly under present US government, which commits uncounted billions of the national wealth to what it calls defence, and is close-fisted in giving money to plans which would ameliorate the grinding poverty of a great part of its people. Quite simply, in Canada you could not get away with that.

  Robertson Davies

  Giving Money, Government, People

  Robertson Davies (1997). “The Merry Heart: Reflections on Reading, Writing, and the World of Books”, Viking Press

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• In my lowest moments, the only reason I didn't commit suicide was that I knew I wouldn't be able to drink any more if I was dead.

  Eric Clapton

  Suicide, Drinking, Alcohol

  "Eric Clapton: The Autobiography". Book by Eric Clapton, October 9, 2007.

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• Since the Greeks the predominant attitude of thinkers towards intellectual activity was to glorify it insofar as (like aesthetic activity) it finds its satisfaction in itself, apart from any attention to the advantages it may procure. Most thinkers would have agreed with Renan's verdict that the man who loves science for its fruits commits the worst of blasphemies against that divinity. The modern clercs have violently torn up this charter. They proclaim the intellectual functions are only respectable to the extent that they are bound up with the pursuit of concrete advantage.

  Julien Benda

  Attitude, Men, Greek

  "Treason of the Intellectuals". Book by Julien Benda, pp. 151-152, 1927.

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• I shall add that only he who has decided to commit suicide can start a nuclear war in the hope of emerging a victor from it. No matter what the attacker might possess, no matter what method of unleashing nuclear war he chooses, he will not attain his aims. Retribution will inevitably ensue.

  Leonid Brezhnev

  Suicide, War, Add

  "Soviet Strategy and the New Military Thinking". Book by Derek Leebaert and Timothy Dickinson, p. 68, 1992.

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• No man commits evil for the sake of it; even the Devil himself has some farther design in sinning, than barely the wicked part of it.

  Daniel Defoe

  Men, Evil, Design

  Daniel Defoe (2016). “The Complete Adventures of Robinson Crusoe – 3 Books in One Volume (Illustrated): The Life and Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, The Farther Adventures of Robinson Crusoe & Serious Reflections of Robinson Crusoe”, p.568, e-artnow

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• I wish that I could say I was optimistic about the human race. I love us all, but we are so stupid and shortsighted that I wonder if we can lift our eyes to the world about us long enough not to commit suicide.

  Isaac Asimov

  Suicide, Stupid, Eye

  Isaac Asimov (1995). “Yours, Isaac Asimov: A Lifetime of Letters”, Doubleday Books

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