#commands

The man of virtuous soul commands not, nor obeys. ↗

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

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The Bible is proved to be a revelation from God, by the reasonableness and holiness of its precepts; all its commands, exhortations, and promises having the most direct tendency to make men wise, holy, and happy in themselves, and useful to one another. ↗

— Adam Clarke

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The fundamental problem with vi is that it doesn't have a mouse and therefore you've got all these commands. ↗

— Bill Joy

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Human models are more vivid and more persuasive than explicit moral commands. ↗

— Daniel J. Boorstin

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Seduction is always more singular and sublime than sex and it commands the higher price. ↗

— Jean Baudrillard

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It is not the voice that commands the story: it is the ear. ↗

— Italo Calvino

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Music commands how we feel, dictates what we experience in our feelings. ↗

— Sheryl Crow

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Violence commands both literature and life, and violence is always crude and distorted. ↗

— Ellen Glasgow

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I know My God commands, whose power no power resists. ↗

— Robert Greene

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If a law commands me to sin I will break it; if it calls me to suffer, I will let it take its course unresistingly. ↗

— Angelina Grimke

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