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• You'd commit suicide trying to read my mind

  Kid Cudi

  Suicide, Mind, Trying

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• God is the solitude of men. There was only me: I alone decided to commit Evil; alone, I invented Good. I am the one who cheated, I am the one who performed miracles, I am the one accusing myself today, I alone can absolve myself; me, the man.

  Jean-Paul Sartre

  Men, Evil, Miracle

  "The Devil and the Good Lord". Book by Jean-Paul Sartre, Act 10, sc. 4, 1951.

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• But hey, if that’s too much to ask, tell them to just become Christians—you know, the people who get to go to heaven without having to commit to anything

  Francis Chan

  Christian, People, Heaven

  Francis Chan, Preston Sprinkle (2014). “The Francis Chan Collection: Crazy Love, Forgotten God, Erasing Hell, and Multiply”, p.61, David C Cook

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• The true American dream not only provides the freedom to use your gifts and talents to achieve your highest goal but also gives you the freedom to fulfill your purpose in life. You are meant to work in ways that suit you, drawing on your natural talents and gifts. This work, when you find it and commit to it - even if only as a hobby - is the key to happiness.

  Dennis Kimbro

  Happiness, Dream, Keys

  Dennis Kimbro (2011). “What Makes the Great Great: Strategies for Extraordinary Achievement”, p.182, Main Street Books

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• Suppose there arise a dispute relative to some important question among us, should we not have recourse to the most ancient Churches with which the apostles held constant intercourse, and learn from them what is certain and clear in regard to the present question? For how should it be if the apostles themselves had not left us writings? Would it not be necessary, in that case, to follow the course of the tradition which they handed down to those to whom they did commit the Churches?

  Irenaeus of Lyons

  Writing, Church, Important

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• Set goals that are BOLD enough to scare you, but inspiring and exciting enough for you to commit 100% to!

  Hal Elrod

  Motivational, Goal, Scare

  FaceBook post by Hal Elrod from Aug 10, 2010

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• Everyday when you wake up, create the intention and then commit to making it your best day ever. Seriously. Do it.

  Hal Elrod

  Motivational, Everyday, Wake Up

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• Still others commit all sorts of evil deeds, claiming karma doesn't exist. They erroneously maintain that since everything is empty, committing evil isn't wrong. Such persons fall into a hell of endless darkness with no hope of release. Those who are wise hold no such conception.

  Bodhidharma

  Karma, Wise, Wisdom

  Bodhidharma (2009). “The Zen Teaching of Bodhidharma”, p.19, Macmillan

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• There's an obsession, within our culture, with the genteel thief. Somebody who commits a crime, but does it in a classy way.

  Geoffrey Gray

  Thieves, Doe, Culture

  "Will Don Draper Become D.B. Cooper? A Skyjacking Expert Weighs In". Interview with Julia Turner, www.slate.com. April 16, 2014.

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• When I'm naked, I really like to do push-ups. No. I think I really tackle it like everything else. If you're going to commit yourself to playing something, you have to be able to understand it. If you can understand it, then you can do it and go balls out with it. But, I've never been in a position where I've been like, "This doesn't feel right." I wouldn't do it, if it was that. I like the shock value of it. I think that, if you use it correctly, it's pretty effective, as long as I'm lit really, really, really well.

  Charlize Theron

  Thinking, Long, Naked

  Source: collider.com

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• There was something about that form of comedy that's just difficult. It never really felt like you could just fully commit to all the colors that you carry with you.

  Donal Logue

  Color, Comedy, Like You

  "Donal Logue and Michael Raymond-James Interview Terriers". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. September 7, 2010.

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• Let's say that you commit a crime, you get caught, you might get sent to prison. It's going to be bad. But if you get caught spying, you're literally hanged the next morning.

  Jamie Bell

  Morning, Next, Might

  "Jamie Bell's History Lesson"". Interview with Emma Brown, www.interviewmagazine.com. April 9, 2014.

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• You crystal break, for fear of breaking it: Careless and careful hands like faults commit.

  Martial

  Hands, Crystals, Faults

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• The mother eagle teachers her little ones to fly by making their nest so uncomfortable that they are forced to leave it and commit themselves to the unknown world of air outside. An just so does our God to us.

  Hannah Whitall Smith

  Mother, Teacher, Unknown Worlds

  Hannah Whitall Smith (1888). “The Christian's Secret of a Happy Life”

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• Innocence alone dares commit certain acts of audacity. Virtue, when tutored, is as calculating as vice.

  Honore de Balzac

  Vices, Audacity, Innocence

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• Pablo Casals is a very great artist. What I admire is the firm stand he has taken not only against the oppressors of his countrymen, but also against those opportunists who are always ready to compromise with the Devil. He perceives clearly that the world is in greater peril from those who tolerate or encourage evil than from those who actually commit it.

  Albert Einstein

  Taken, Artist, Evil

  Einstein's tribute to Pablo Casals on March 30, 1953. "Conversations with Casals". Book by Josep Maria Corredor, p. 11, archive.org. 1957.

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• He who has it in his power to commit sin, is less inclined to do so. The very idea of being able, weakens the desire.

  Ovid

  Ideas, Desire, Able

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• If we plant a flower or a shrub and water it daily it will grow so tall that in time we shall need a spade and a hoe to uproot it. It is just so, I think, when we commit a fault, however small, each day, and do not cure ourselves of it.

  Teresa of Avila

  Flower, Thinking, Hoe

  St. Teresa of Avila (2002). “Complete Works St. Teresa Of Avila”, p.372, A&C Black

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• In my next life I will try to commit more errors.

  Jorge Luis Borges

  Errors, Trying, Next

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• Oh, Lord, it is not the sins I have committed that I regret, but those which I have had no opportunity to commit

  Mirza Asadullah Khan Ghalib

  Regret, Opportunity, Sin

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• I think of the people who commit these acts as children. They're in their 20s, but like certain children, they have been told only one story, over and over. Like most children, they believe in an easily identifiable good and evil, and like most children, they are capable of unthinkable cruelty.

  Michael Cunningham

  Children, Believe, Thinking

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• I love bossy women. Some people hate the word, and I understand how "bossy" can seem like a shitty way to describe a woman with a determined point of view, but for me, a bossy woman is someone to search out and celebrate. A bossy woman is someone who cares and commits and is a natural leader.

  Amy Poehler

  Hate, Views, People

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• Commit to finding the true nature of art. Go for that thing no one can teach you.

  Anna Deavere Smith

  Art, Commitment, Teach

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• If you are deaf, you need captions for spoken elements. If you are blind, you need voiced descriptions of Web contents and spoken renderings of e-mail. The range of physical disabilities is very large, and we need many different tools to overcome the consequential barriers to Internet use. Let us commit ourselves to truly assuring that the Internet really is for everyone.

  Vinton Cerf

  Web Content, Overcoming, Different

  "Analysis: Web sites are locking out the disabled" by Judy Heim, www.cnn.com. August 7, 2000.

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• He that commits a sin shall find the pressing guilt lie heavy on his mind.

  Thomas Creech

  Lying, Mind, Guilt

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