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• Freedom is not the absence of commitments, but the ability to choose - and commit myself to - what is best for me.

  Paulo Coelho

  Inspirational, Freedom, Commitment

  Paulo Coelho (2009). “The Zahir: A Novel of Obsession”, p.21, Harper Collins

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• What clever man has ever needed to commit a crime? Crime is the last resort of political half-wits.

  Charles Maurice de Talleyrand

  Clever, Men, Political

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• All the passions make us commit faults; love makes us commit the most ridiculous ones.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Love, Dream, Passion

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• He was so depressed, he tried to commit suicide by inhaling next to an Armenian.

  Woody Allen

  Funny, Suicide, Humor

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• If you commit a big crime then you are crazy, and the more heinous the crime the crazier you must be. Therefore you are not responsible, and nothing is your fault.

  Peggy Noonan

  Crazy, Insanity, Faults

  Peggy Noonan (1990). “What I Saw at the Revolution: A Political Life in the Reagan Era”, Random House (NY)

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• The follies which a man regrets the most in his life are those which he didn't commit when he had the opportunity.

  Helen Rowland

  Regret, Women, Opportunity

  A Guide to Men "Improvisations" (1922)

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• I never felt settled or calm. You can't really commit to life when you feel that.

  Angelina Jolie

  Calm, Quiet, Feels

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• It's like an act of murder - you play with intent to commit something.

  Duke Ellington

  Music, Play, Jazz

  New York Herald Tribune, July 09, 1961.

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• Our nation and those of the developed world must offer our own resistance to despot leaders who seek to commit murder on the basis of religion or race.

  Tim Bishop

  Race, Tyrants, Leader

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• Commit yourself to quality from day one ... it's better to do nothing at all than to do something badly.

  Mark McCormack

  Inspirational, Quality

  Mark H. McCormack (1990). “What They Still Don't Teach You at Harvard Business School”, Bantam

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• The difference between humans and wild animals is that humans pray before they commit murder.

  Friedrich Durrenmatt

  Animal, Differences, Literature

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• I felt my father's presence with me, helping me to commit to paper the feelings I had. I really heard my father speaking to me from the other dimension

  Michael Landon

  Father, Feelings, Paper

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• You know that murder is wicked. If you saw your master kill a man, do you suppose this would be any excuse for you, if you should commit the same crime?

  Jupiter Hammon

  Men, Wicked, Saws

  Jupiter Hammon, Stanley Austin Ransom (1983). “America's first Negro poet: the complete works of Jupiter Hammon of Long Island”, Associated Faculty Pr Inc

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• The best men of the best epochs are simply those who make the fewest blunders and commit the fewest sins.

  Thomas Huxley

  Men, Sin, Blunders

  Thomas Henry Huxley (1997). “The Major Prose of Thomas Henry Huxley”, p.277, University of Georgia Press

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• It wasn't until '94 when I tried to commit suicide that I realized that it wasn't about the money.

  Vanilla Ice

  Suicide, I Realized

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• Head Start graduates are more likely to graduate from high school and less likely to need special education, repeat a grade, or commit crimes in adolescence.

  Joe Baca

  School, Special, Needs

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• We may not commit a lesser Sin under pretence to avoid a greater, but we may, nay we ought to endure the greatest Pain and Grief rather than commit the least Sin.

  Mary Astell

  Pain, Grief, May

  John Norris, Mary Astell (1695). “Letters Concerning the Love of God”, p.90

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• Secondly, the Government of Sudan should commit to the disarmament and control of the Janjaweed militia and ensure that the targeting of civilians ceases immediately.

  Jan Egeland

  Government, Should, Disarmament

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• Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it.

  W. H. Murray

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• There are no shortcuts to victory. We must commit ourselves to the slow, painstaking work of foreign policy day by day and year by year.

  Richard Lugar

  Years, Victory, Shortcuts

  "Bidding Adieu To Congressional Trailblazers" by Liz Halloran, www.npr.org. January 2, 2013.

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• Love means to commit yourself without guarantee.

  Anne Campbell

  Love, Mean, Romance

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• Having a child is surely the most beautifully irrational act that two people in love can commit.

  Bill Cosby

  Motivational, Baby, Children

  Twitter post from Nov 06, 2009

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• As long as people believe in absurdities they will continue to commit atrocities.

  Voltaire

  Truth, Believe, Evil People

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• People should be allowed to document evidence of criminal wrongdoing. Where is the expectation of privacy if someone is conspiring to commit crime?

  Linda Tripp

  People, Expectations, Criminals

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• The liberation of those who commit murder and terrorism is unacceptable.

  Alberto Fujimori

  Murder, Terrorism, Liberation

  "Fujimori breaks silence and urges release of hostages". www.cnn.com. December 22, 1996.

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