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• An idea can be as flawless as can be, but its execution will always be full of mistakes.

  Brent Scowcroft

  Mistake, Ideas, Flawless

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• I am utterly struck how, 300 years after his execution, Christianity became the official religion of the Roman Empire.

  Peter Jennings

  Years, Empires, Good Christian

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• The Supreme Court of the United States has validated the Nazi method of execution in concentration camps, starving them to death.

  Jack Kevorkian

  United States, Nazi, Method

  "Years of Minutes: The Best of Rooney from 60 Minutes". Book by Andy Rooney, p. 329, 2004.

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• There must be a punitive expedition against the Jews in Russia, a punitive expedition which will expect: death sentence and execution. Then the world will see the end of the Jews is also the end of Bolshevism.

  Julius Streicher

  Travel, Russia, World

  "The Trial of the Germans" by Eugene Davidson, (p. 50), 1997.

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• I just want Texas to be number one in something other than executions, toll roads and property taxes.

  Kinky Friedman

  Texas, Numbers, Tolls

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• And as the hour approached for the execution, in his own mind, Collins became both the executioner and the victim. He would pace up and down, transformed in almost a kind of exorcism when he knew he was responsible for taking someone's life.

  Liam Neeson

  Mind, Pace, Exorcism

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• The essence of football was blocking, tackling, and execution based on timing, rhythm and deception.

  Knute Rockne

  Soccer, Sports, Football

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• We're first on executions. We're 49th in funding public education. We're in a race with Mississippi for the bottom, and we're winning.

  Kinky Friedman

  Winning, Race, Firsts

  "Kinky Friedman Talks with Bill O'Reilly About Why He Wants to be Governor of Texas". The O'Reilly Factor" with Bill O'Reilly, www.foxnews.com. March 14, 2005.

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• I am much obliged by the favorable sentiments you express towards me, and shall be happy if I can be of service in carrying into execution your plans.

  George Stephenson

  Plans, Sentiments, Obliged

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• The execution of any thing considerable implies in the first place previous persevering meditation.

  William Godwin

  Meditation, Firsts

  William Godwin (1831). “Thoughts on Man, His Nature, Productions, and Discoveries: Interspersed with Some Particulars Respecting the Author”, p.346

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• Went to 16 and hit a really bad 3 wood for my second shot and got stuck in the bunker about 70 yards from the pin. Poor execution, chunked it, hit a good chip up to about eight feet, missed it.

  Trent Dilfer

  Sports, Eight, Feet

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• Having a vision for what you want is not enough...Vision without execution is hallucination

  Thomas A. Edison

  Motivational, Entrepreneur, Vision

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• We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office.

  Aesop

  Witty, Government, Political Will

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

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• A good plan violently executed now is better than a perfect plan executed next week.

  George S. Patton

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• There is no basis in text, tradition, or even in contemporary practice (if that were enough), for finding in the Constitution a right to demand judicial consideration of newly discovered evidence of innocence brought forward after conviction. My concern is that in making life easier for ourselves we not appear to make it harder for the lower federal courts, imposing upon them the burden of regularly analyzing newly-discovered-evidence-of-innocence claims in capital cases (in which event such federal claims, it can confidently be predicted, will become routine and even repetitive).

  Antonin Scalia

  Practice, Justice, Demand

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• Art is beauty, the perpetual invention of detail, the choice of words, the exquisite care of execution.

  Theophile Gautier

  Art, Choices, Care

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• A feeble executive implies a feeble execution of the government. A feeble execution is but another phrase for a bad execution; and a government ill executed, whatever may be its theory, must be, in practice, a bad government.

  Alexander Hamilton

  Government, Practice, Phrases

  Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Jay (2007). “The Federalist Papers”, p.534, Filiquarian Publishing, LLC.

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• No enterprise is more likely to succeed than one concealed from the enemy until it is ripe for execution.

  Niccolo Machiavelli

  Business, War, Philosophical

  "The Art of War" by Niccolo Machiavelli, Book 7, as translated by Neal Wood (1965), 1520.

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• There are really three parts to the creative process. First there is inspiration, then there is the execution, and finally there is the release.

  Eddie Van Halen

  Inspiration, Creative, Three

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• As far as the execution is concerned ... the most frequent and most serious mistake is to follow the music instead of preceding it.

  Nadia Boulanger

  Music, Mistake, Serious

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• Our emphasis is on execution, not winning.

  Pat Summitt

  Winning, Coaching, Emphasis

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• Most of the time, it's not the concept, but the execution of craft that counts.

  James Frey

  Crafts, Concepts

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• Without execution, thinking is mere idleness.

  Winston Churchill

  Knowledge, Thinking, Mere

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• Scoring is a function of great execution, and winning is the result, but thinking about winning can pull your focus off of proper execution in a competition. Thinking about process is the answer.

  Lanny Bassham

  Winning, Thinking, Focus

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• Execution Excellence! (Show up on time! Leave last!)

  Tom Peters

  Entrepreneur, Excellence, Lasts

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