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• If I can't get people to commit themselves on whether or not there is a square root of two, then I won't touch on God or anything here

  Tom Lehrer

  Commitment, Squares, Two

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• No matter how much a woman loved a man, it would still give her a glow to see him commit suicide for her.

  H. L. Mencken

  Love, Suicide, Dream

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• If you feel stuck, bring your whole self to Christ, not just the problem, but you. Ask God to change your heart. Commit yourself to pray to that end. It's God's heart to give good gifts to His children.

  Sheila Walsh

  Change, Encouraging, God

  Sheila Walsh (2001). “Gifts for Your Soul: A Book of Daily Devotions”, Zondervan Publishing Company

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• Thy husband is thy lord, thy life, thy keeper,
  Thy head, thy sovereign; one that cares for thee,
  And for thy maintenance commits his body
  To painful labour both by sea and land,
  To watch the night in storms, the day in cold,
  Whilst thou liest warm at home, secure and safe;
  And craves no other tribute at thy hands
  But love, fair looks and true obedience;
  Too little payment for so great a debt.

  William Shakespeare

  Marriage, Husband, Home

  'The Taming Of The Shrew' (1592) act 5, sc. 2, l. 147

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• The moment one definitely commits oneself, then Providence moves too. Whatever you think you can do, or believe you can do, begin it. Action has magic, power and grace.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Wisdom, Moving, Believe

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• Don't tell me to believe. Don't tell me to believe in the same God or laws that men believe in who commit these murders. Don't tell me to believe that God can bless this country and that men are judged by their peers. Who among his peers judged him? Was I there? Was the minister there? Was Harry Williams there? Was Farrell Jarreau? Was my aunt? Was Vivian? No, his peers did not judge him, and I will not believe.

  Ernest Gaines

  Country, Believe, Aunt

  Ernest J. Gaines (2004). “A Lesson Before Dying: A Novel”, p.255, Vintage

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• In order for us human beings to commit ourselves personally to the inhumanity of war, we find it necessary first to dehumanize our opponents, which is in itself a violation of the beliefs of all religions. Once we characterize our adversaries as beyond the scope of God's mercy and grace, their lives lose all value.

  Jimmy Carter

  Life, War, Order

  Jimmy Carter (2014). “The Jimmy Carter Library”, p.1030, Simon and Schuster

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• Commit yourself to the noble struggle for human rights. You will make a greater person of yourself, a greater nation of your country and a finer world to live in.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Country, Struggle, Rights

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• To my mind, to kill in war is not a whit better than to commit ordinary murder.

  Albert Einstein

  War, Mind, Ordinary

  Albert Einstein (2010). “Ideas And Opinions”, p.165, Broadway Books

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• Men love death. In everything they make, they hollow out a central place for death, let its rancid smell contaminate every dimension of whatever still survives. Men especially love murder. In art they celebrate it, and in life they commit it. They embrace murder as if life without it would be devoid of passion, meaning, and action, as if murder were solace, stilling their sobs as they mourn the emptiness and alienation of their lives.

  Andrea Dworkin

  Art, Passion, Men

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• Our firm view is that the president has no legal authority, none whatsoever, to commit American troops to war in the Persian Gulf or anywhere else without congressional authorization.

  George J. Mitchell

  War, Views, President

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• Ok, look. I'm honest. Girl I can't lie I miss you. You and the music were the only things that I'd commit to

  Drake

  I Miss You, Girl, Lying

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• From my point of view the killing of another, except in defense of human life, is archistic, authoritarian, and therefore, no Anarchist can commit such deeds. It is the very opposite of what Anarchism stands for.

  Jo Labadie

  Views, Opposites, Defense

  "Anarchism and Crime" by Joseph Labadie, 1932.

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• I'll buy metaphor, but simile's a cop-out used by scaredycats who won't commit to anything. Simile's for cowards.

  Alan Garner

  Coward, Cop, Metaphor

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• A man may commit sin and yet be ignorant of it, and fancy himself innocent when he is guilty... We shall do well to remember that when we make our own miserably imperfect knowledge and consciousness the measure of our sinfulness, we are on very dangerous ground.

  J. C. Ryle

  Men, Ignorant, May

  J.C. Ryle (2015). “Holiness: It's Nature, Hindrances, Difficulties, and Roots”, p.23, Letcetera Publishing

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• Success comes when you do what you love to do, and commit to being the best in your field.

  Brian Tracy

  Fields, Being The Best, What You Love

  FaceBook post by Brian Tracy from Apr 05, 2014

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• That's the greatest sin a director can commit; to make a film simply because he wants to make a film.

  Krzysztof Kieslowski

  Directors, Want, Sin

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• The highest treason a crab can commit is to make a leap for the rim of the bucket.

  Steven Pressfield

  Buckets, Crabs, Leap

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• There are always people willing to commit unspeakable human atrocity in exchange for a little power and privilege.

  Chris Hedges

  People, Atrocities, Littles

  Chris Hedges (2014). “War Is a Force that Gives Us Meaning”, p.88, PublicAffairs

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• I have learned a deep respect for one of Goethe's couplets: "Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it. Begin it now!"

  W. H. Murray

  Inspirational, Dream, Courage

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• I will commit not the terrible crime of aiming too low. I will do the work that a failure will not do. I will always let my reach exceed my grasp.

  Og Mandino

  Crime, Lows, Terrible

  Og Mandino (2011). “The Greatest Salesman in the World”, p.71, Bantam

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• There are, and always have been, destructive pseudo-scientific notions linked to race and religion; these are the most widespread and damaging. Hopefully, educated people can succeed in shedding light into these areas of prejudice and ignorance, for as Voltaire once said: "Men will commit atrocities as long as they believe absurdities."

  Martin Gardner

  Believe, Ignorance, Men

  "Exclusive Interview with Martin Gardner". Interview with Bernard Sussman, "Southwind" (Miami-Dade Junior College), Volume 3, No. 1, Fall 1968.

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• Every dollar I can't commit to my company that's paid in taxes is paying a government that I believe is too big and doing way too much that I don't want done.

  Curt Schilling

  Believe, Government, Dollars

  "MLB great Curt Schilling thriving in second career". "The Hannity Show", www.foxnews.com. March 16, 2012.

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• Everyone is entitled to commit murder in the imagination once in a while, not to mention lesser infractions.

  Thomas Nagel

  Imagination, Murder, Entitled

  Thomas Nagel (2004). “Concealment and Exposure: And Other Essays”, p.7, Oxford University Press

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• Even private persons in due season, with discretion and temper, may reprove others, whom they observe to commit sin, or follow bad courses, out of charitable design, and with hope to reclaim them.

  Isaac Barrow

  Design, May, Sin

  Isaac Barrow (1830). “The works of Dr. Isaac Barrow”, p.412

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