#mit

Commitment is an act, not a word. ↗

— Jean-Paul Sartre

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We must not allow other people's limited perceptions to define us. ↗

— Virginia Satir

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Humanism: an exaltation of freedom, but one limited by our need to exercise it as an integral part of nature and society. ↗

— John Ralston Saul

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I was trained in seismic prospecting. We'd drill a deep hole and put dynamite in the bottom and blow it up remotely, which would give you a cross-sectional picture of the subsurface, which tells you where to drill. ↗

— George Saunders

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The business, task or object of the scientific study of languages will if possible be 1) to trace the history of all known languages. Naturally this is possible only to a very limited extent and for very few languages. ↗

— Ferdinand de Saussure

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I will only observe, that that ethereal sense - sight, and touch, which is at the other extremity of the scale, have from time acquired a very remarkable additional power. ↗

— Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

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I have a contract but it's not a commitment in the ordinary sense. It's our ongoing conversation. ↗

— Diane Sawyer

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The only sin passion can commit is to be joyless. ↗

— Dorothy L. Sayers

#only #passion #sin

A relationship requires a lot of work and commitment. ↗

— Greta Scacchi

#commitment #lot #requires #work

There's a whole lot of songs that men just can't do. The words are from another time and represent too much of an emotional commitment, whereas women can say that because of who they are. ↗

— Boz Scaggs

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