#command

I believe if more American children read the Ten Commandments and are taught what they mean, they will predictably engage in less crime. ↗

— Gary Bauer

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I have always been a singer, a writer, and a musician, not as a prodigy or as in a trade handed to me by my parents, but because of an inner voice or maybe a command from beyond reality as it is usually defined. ↗

— Frank Black

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Power acquired by violence is only a usurpation, and lasts only as long as the force of him who commands prevails over that of those who obey. ↗

— Denis Diderot

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We can't command our love, but we can our actions. ↗

— Arthur Conan Doyle

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Of all those in the army close to the commander none is more intimate than the secret agent; of all rewards none more liberal than those given to secret agents; of all matters none is more confidential than those relating to secret operations. ↗

— Sun Tzu

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Law is vulnerable to the winds of intellectual or moral fashion, which it then validates as the commands of our most basic concept. ↗

— Robert Bork

#commands #concept #fashion #intellectual #law

The admiral, or commander in chief of a squadron, being frequently invested with a great charge, on which the fate of a kingdom may depend, ought certainly to be possessed of abilities equal to so important a station and so extensive a command. ↗

— William Falconer

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I sum up the prospects for 1967 in three short sentences. We are back on course. The ship is picking up speed. The economy is moving. Every seaman knows the command at such a moment: 'steady as she goes'. ↗

— James Callaghan

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Only as long as a company can produce a desired, worthwhile, and needed product or service, and can command the public, will it receive the public dollar and succeed. ↗

— Curtis Carlson

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I am convinced that this approach, a mainstream Democratic approach, commands the strong support of the American people, and presents a sharp and compassionate contrast to the Republican abortion position which offers no real hope or commitment to mother or child. ↗

— Robert Casey

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