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“I'd say that I think the most revolutionary act that you can commit in our society today is to be happy.”

Thinking Today Happiness Commit Revolutionary Our Society Society Today

“Inflation, especially a slow steady rise in prices, encourages producers, because it means that they can commit themselves to costs of production on one price level and then, later, offer the finished product for sale at a somewhat higher price level. This situation encourages production because it gives confidence of an almost certain profit margin.”

Giving Mean Certain Levels Situation Products Higher Cost Offers Profit Productions Finished Commit Producers Steady Inflation Margins Profit Margin

Book:Tragedy and Hope: A History of the World in Our Time

Source: Tragedy and Hope: A History of the World in Our Time

“Amin is the shame of the whole world. The fact that he managed to rule so long and commit so many crimes was only possible thanks to the hypocrisy of the East and the West who were waging the Cold War for world domination.”

World Long War Whole Facts Crime Cold Shame West East Whole World Commit Thanks Hypocrisy Cold War Domination Waging War World Domination

Author:Ryszard Kapuscinski

“I think I would rather live on the verge of falling and let my security be in the all-sufficiency of the grace of God than to live in some pietistic illusion of moral excellence. Not that I don't want to be morally excellent but my faith isn't in the idea that I'm more moral than anybody else. My faith is in the idea that God and His love are greater than whatever sins any of us commit.”

Thinking Want Ideas Fall Sin Moral Greater Grace Security Illusion Excellence Commit Excellent His Love Grace Of God Verge Sufficiency Moral Excellence

Author:Rich Mullins

“To me you have to commit yourself to the sacrifice, because it's so important. Even if people don't agree, they appreciate commitment.”

People Ifs Important Sacrifice Commitment Appreciate Agree Commit

Author:Ed Fallon

“Discussing religion was like discussing which cave will be better to live. If you want to follow a religion, follow any religion. It does not matter. If you have decided to commit suicide, does it matter how you do it?”

Ifs Want Doe Matter Religion Decided Suicide Commit Caves Discussing Does It Matter Anti Religion

Author:Javed Akhtar

“My parents were always clear with my brothers and I when we were growing up that you have to have the courage of your convictions and that when you commit to something you must fully commit.”

Parent Growing Up Clear Growing Brother Conviction Commit My Brother

Author:David Pocock

“Commit to a career built on sacrifice, not compromise.”

Careers Sacrifice Built Commit Compromise Devon

Author:DeVon Franklin

“Bear in mind, my children, that only cowards and those who are weak commit sin and tell lies. The brave are always moral. Try to be moral, try to be brave, try to be sympathising.”

Trying Mind Children Motivational Lying Sin Moral Bears Weak Brave Commit My Children Coward Cowardice Be Brave

Book:Complete Works

Source: Complete Works

“Whoever commits a fraud is guilty not only of the particular injury to him who he deceives, but of the diminution of that confidence which constitutes not only the ease but the existence of society.”

Existence Particular Commit Guilty Ease Injury Deceit Fraud Deceiving

Book:The Rambler: In Four Volumes..

Source: The Rambler: In Four Volumes..

“Crime too is a form of solitude, even if one thousand get together to commit it. And it is right for me to die alone, after having lived and killed alone.”

Ifs Together Form Dies Crime Thousand Solitude Commit Get Together

Author:Albert Camus

“Industry entirely left to itself, would soon fall to ruin, and a nation letting everything alone would commit suicide.”

Fall Left Nations Industry Letting Go Suicide Commit Ruins

Book:Schriften, reden, briefe ...

Source: Schriften, reden, briefe ...

“Getting rich, or becoming outstanding at anything is all a matter of attitude. You must make up your mind once and for all - you commit yourself - and then just stay with it until you finally have what you set out to get.”

Mind Matter Attitude Rich Becoming Prosperity Commit Outstanding Get Rich Make Up Your Mind

Author:Earl Nightingale

“How extraordinary it is that one feels most guilt about the sins one is unable to commit.”

Feels Sin Guilt Extraordinary Commit

Author:V. S. Pritchett

“That's the thing with sci-fi and action roles. You have to play the danger as real. If you don't, you end up with egg on your face. You have to commit. You can't think about how stupid it might look without the special effects.”

Ifs Thinking Looks Real Ends Play Might Action Faces Roles Special Effects Stupid Danger Commit Eggs Your Face Sci Fi Special Effects

Author:Victoria Pratt

“It’s, it’s like I’m in the fourth dimension and somebody is asking me to describe it verbally and that’s what the fourth dimension is all about, is no words, no symbols, no images, all pure, real energy and vibrations. And, and if I thought about how cruel of a world this is, I would probably just commit suicide after a while, if that was what I spent my energy thinking about. I would definitely not have any strength left to create music.”

Ifs Thinking World Real Energy Left Pure Asking Suicide Commit Symbols Dimensions Fourth Vibrations

Author:John Frusciante

“Hitler gave us orders - and we believed in him. Then he commits suicide and leaves us to bear the guilt. He should have remained alive to bear his share.”

Should Order Alive Share Bears Should Have Suicide Guilt Commit

Author:Wilhelm Keitel

“To make a change, you must be: willing to commit, willing to change, willing to have an open mind, and willing to take action!”

Mind Action Willing Commit Making Changes Open Mind Willing To Change

Author:Tae Yun Kim

“I bear my humble witness to you that the great God of heaven will open doors and means in a way we never would have supposed, to help all those who truly want a years supply...All we have to do is to decide, commit to it, and then keep the commitment. Miracles will take place.”

Way Want Years Mean Helping Heaven Religious Doors Bears Commitment Miracle Humble Commit Witness Self Reliance Preparedness

Author:Vaughn J Featherstone

“Professionally, I decided to commit a lot of my time to California because there wasn't a whole lot happening for me in New York.”

Whole New York Happenings Decided Commit California My Time

Author:Alice Barrett

“Character assassination is at once easier and surer than physical assault; and it involves far less risk for the assassin. It leaves him free to commit the same deed over and over again, and may, indeed, win him the honors of a hero in the country of his victims.”

May Country Character Winning Risk Hero Honor Easier Victim Deeds Commit Propaganda Assault Assassination Assassins Character Assassination

Author:Alan Barth

“No man ought to commit his life into the hands of that Physician, who is ignorant of Astrologic: because he is a Physician of no value.”

Men Hands Values Ought Commit Ignorant Physicians

Author:Nicholas Culpeper

“It is Toussaint's supreme merit that while he saw European civilisation as a valuable and necessary thing, and strove to lay its foundations among his people, he never had the illusion that it conferred any moral superiority. He knew French, British, and Spanish imperialists for the insatiable gangsters that they were, that there is no oath too sacred for them to break, no crime, deception, treachery, cruelty, destruction of human life and property which they would not commit against those who could not defend themselves.”

“To be willing to live within the imagination is to commit oneself to the gathering together of the pieces that might begin to form a self. To avoid this territory is to avoid the encounters that might validate, inform, or enhance one's experience.”

Self Might Together Form Imagination Pieces Willing Oneself Commit Encounters Territory Gathering Gathering Together

Book:Writing for Your Life: Discovering the Story of Your Life's Jou

Source: Writing for Your Life: Discovering the Story of Your Life's Jou

“Every Christian will allow that sin is an evil, and that it is our duty not to commit sin.”

Christian Evil Sin Duty Commit

Author:John Nelson Darby

“Slander is a vice that strikes a double blow; wounding both him that commits, and him against whom it is committed.”

Blow Committed Vices Strikes Commit Slander

Author:Bernard-Joseph Saurin

“All sorts of things occur to help one that would never otherwise have occurred.”

Helping Genius Commitment Committed Commit Initiative Providence Misunderstood Boldness Incidents Favorites Things Unforeseen Commitment In Business Inspirational Commitment Boldness And Courage Misunderstood Genius Ineffectiveness

Author:W. H. Murray

“To attempt to commit the Church to social and political programs may be a short cut . . to escape from the more difficult and costly responsibility of submitting ourselves to those deeper changes of disposition and outlook which are in the end a much more powerful revolutionary force.”

May Ends Political Force Social Difficult Church Powerful Responsibility Cutting Program Deeper Commit Revolutionary Disposition Outlook Short Cuts

Author:J. H. Oldham

“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.”

Should Government Cease Commit Civilians Disarmament Militia Sudan

Author:Jan Egeland

“To reject revelational epistemology is to commit yourself to defending the truth of autonomous epistemology.”

Commit Rejects Epistemology Autonomous

Author:Greg L. Bahnsen

“When you commit yourself to living love, you feel at peace with yourself because you are at harmony with the flow of life. Viewing life from the highest perspective, you feel confident and secure. You realize that no matter how things may appear, you are loved and protected. You know you are one with God, and you bring your peace with you wherever you go. You're not looking for love, but for opportunities to love.”

Knows Love Feels May Matter Opportunity Realizing Love You Perspective Highest Flow Harmony Commit Secure Protected Looking For Love

Author:Susan L. Taylor

“My loving people, we have been persuaded by some that are careful of our safety, to take heed how we commit ourself to armed multitudes for fear of treachery; but I assure you, I do not desire to live to distrust my faithful and loving people. I know I have the body but of a weak and feeble woman, but I have the heart and stomach of a king, and of a King of England too, and think foul scorn that Parma or Spain, or any Prince of Europe should dare to invade the borders of my realm.”

“No one commits suicide because they want to die.”

Want Dies Suicide Commit Suicidal Wanting To Die Suicidal Thoughts Committing Suicide

Book:How to Kill a Rock Star

Source: How to Kill a Rock Star

“I came to know that in many ways it was a crime to be Filipino in California .... I feel like a criminal running away from a crime I did not commit. And this crime is that I am a Filipino in America.”

Knows Way Feels Running America Crime Criminals Commit California Running Away Filipino

Book:America is In the Heart: A Personal History

Source: America is In the Heart: A Personal History

“In the twentieth century, men -- all of us -- find themselves compelled to commit or condone evil for the sake of preventing an evil believed to be greater. And the tragedy is that we do not know whether the evil we condone will not in the end be greater than the evil we seek to avert-- or be identified with.”

Knows Men Ends Evil Greater Century Tragedy Sake Commit Compelled Twentieth Century Preventing Avert

Author:Emil Fackenheim

“Christianity can be condensed into four words: Admit, Submit, Commit and Transmit.”

Christianity Four Commit Submit Transmit

Author:Samuel Wilberforce

“[Marriage] a bond for life, and whether you're gay or straight, it makes no difference to being married. What marriage stands for is that you love that person... You want to commit yourself to that person forever.”

Want Persons Differences Forever Gay Married Commit Being Married Marriage Equality

Author:Cheryl Cole

“Oh, what a favored people we are to have this light, this knowledge, these opportunities for happiness on earth and throughout the eternities. May we commit to share a knowledge of this magnificent work, personally or through missionaries, with our friends and neighbors that they may join this kingdom of God on earth, and receive the consummate, eternal blessings available to them.”

People May Light Earth Opportunity Share Blessing Eternal Eternity Available Neighbor Commit Kingdoms Missionary Magnificent Kingdom Of God

Author:Richard G. Scott

“True penance consists in regretting without ceasing the faults of the past, and in firmly resolving to never again commit that which is so deplorable.”

Past Regret Faults Saint Commit Penance

Author:Bernard of Clairvaux

“Pride looks back upon its past deeds, and calculating with nicety what it has done, it commits itself to rest; whereas humility looks to that which is before, and discovering how much ground remains to be trodden, it is active and vigilant. Having gained one height, pride looks down with complacency on that which is beneath it; humility looks up to a higher and yet higher elevation. The one keeps us on this earth, which is congenial to its nature; the other directs our eye, and tends to lift us up to heaven.”

Looks Done Eye Earth Past Heaven Humility Pride Higher Remains Deeds Active Commit Lifts Height Look Up Discovering Complacency Vigilant Elevation Calculating Niceties

Author:James McCosh

“To really appreciate architecture, you may even need to commit a murder.”

Needs May Appreciate Murder Architecture Commit

Book:Bernard Tschumi/Zenith de Rouen: Source Books in Architecture

Source: Bernard Tschumi/Zenith de Rouen: Source Books in Architecture

“I'm only interested in working on records that legitimately reflect the band's own perception of their music and existence. If you commit yourselves to that as a tenet of the recording methodology, then I will bust my ass for you.”

Ifs Existence Records Band Perception Commit Ass Methodology

Author:Steve Albini

“How terrible to be alcoholic. You just want to quietly soothe and maybe poison yourself, but you end up poisoning those around you as well, like trying to commit suicide with a gas oven and unwittingly murdering your neighbors.”

Want Trying Wells Ends Terrible Suicide Neighbor Commit Poison Gas Alcoholics Poisoning Ovens

Book:Wake Up, Sir!

Source: Wake Up, Sir!

“Albert Camus, a great humanist and existentialist voice, pointed out that to commit to a just cause with no hope of success is absurd. But then, he also noted that not committing to a just cause is equally absurd. But only one choice offers the possibility for dignity. And dignity matters. Dignity matters.”

Matter Choices Causes Voice Possibility Offers Dignity Commit Absurd Humanist No Hope Existentialist Hope Of Success

Author:David Simon

“The clock is ticking and you're hearing the beat. You stop by a museum shop, sign your name on a scuba-diving sheet, and commit yourself to Saturday mornings in the deep end. You're either losing your mind - or gaining your soul. Life is meant to be an artist date. That's why we were created.”

“When we use a language, we should commit ourselves to knowing it, being able to read it, and writing it idiomatically.”

Should Writing Use Able Language Knowing Design Commit Software Software Design

Author:Ron Jeffries

“Whether or not you agree that trimming and cooking are likely to lead on to downright forgery, there is little to support the argument that trimming and cooking are less reprehensible and more forgivable. Whatever the rationalization is, in the last analysis one can no more than be a bit dishonest than one can be a little bit pregnant. Commit any of these three sins and your scientific career is in jeopardy and deserves to be.”

Littles Lasts Science Three Bits Sin Careers Support Little Bit Deserve Argument Agree Cooking Commit Analysis Pregnant Dishonesty Jeopardy Forgery Trimming

Author:Charles Thomas Jackson

“What liberates the imagination is the sense that work in its theory and practice holds aesthetic possibilities, that jobs can be elegantly conceived and gracefully done. This sense of beauty unlocks feelings of pleasure and love and breaks down the barrier between worker and work and commit to work not merely the "thinking" consciousness but the full resources of mind.”

“Never under estimate the Power of the Mind. Persist in creating new thoughts to prevent falling back into negative patterns. It is an ongoing struggle and you have to commit to winning if you are to succeed.”

“Within me is the potential to commit every evil act I see being committed by other men, and unless I feel this potential, I can at any moment be controlled by these same urges. I am free from these urges only if I recognize when I am feeling them, and while feeling them and acknowledging them to be me, choose not to follow them. Only in this way can I begin to regain the disowned parts of me. And only in this way can I know what it is I am criticizing in others.”

Ifs Knows Men Way Feels I Can Moments Feelings Evil Committed Commit Urges Criticize Controlled

Book:Notes to Myself

Source: Notes to Myself

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