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When you can do the common things of life in an uncommon way, you will command the attention of the world. - George Washington Carver
When you can do the common things of life in an uncommon way, you will command the attention of the world.George Washington Carver
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A new command I give you: Love one another. As I have loved you, so you must love one another.Jesus Christ
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Never pretend to a love which you do not actually feel, for love is not ours to command.Alan Watts
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A man has to learn that he cannot command things, but that he can command himself; that he cannot coerce the wills of others, but that he can mold and master his own will: and things serve him who serves Truth; people seek guidance of him who is master of himself.James Allen
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If we command our wealth, we shall be rich and free; if our wealth commands us, we are poor indeed.Edmund Burke
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I'm about as monolingual as you come, but nevertheless, I have a variety of different languages at my command, different styles, different ways of talking, which do involve different parameter settings.Noam Chomsky
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Heroism on command, senseless violence, and all the loathsome nonsense that goes by the name of patriotism - how passionately I hate them!Albert Einstein
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Your success, or lack of success, is your responsibility. Even when you have a chain of command that you don't like as well, its your responsibility to work with the up chain of command.Jocko Willink
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The power to command has never meant the power to remain mysterious.Ferdinand Foch
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Create like a god, command like a king, work like a slave.Constantin Brancusi
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Grant what thou commandest and then command what thou wilt.Saint Augustine
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We cannot command Nature except by obeying her.Francis Bacon
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Drawing on my fine command of the English language, I said nothing.Robert Benchley
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I sincerely desire to be appointed Commander in Chief of the air fleet to attack Pearl Harbor so that I may personally command that attack force.Isoroku Yamamoto
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All that is necessary to break the spell of inertia and frustration is this: Act as if it were impossible to fail. That is the talisman, the formula, the command of right about face which turns us from failure to success.Dorothea Brande
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It is often necessary to know how to obey a woman in order sometimes to have the right to command her.Victor Hugo
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Open-minded people tend to be interested in Buddhism because Buddha urged people to investigate things - he didn't just command them to believe.Dalai Lama
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A general is just as good or just as bad as the troops under his command make him.Douglas MacArthur
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I've been in that 'can't fail' position a lot. The first African American to be the vice chief of the Army; the first African American to command a division in combat; the first African American to command an entire theater of war.Lloyd Austin
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States are looking for low-cost solutions that will enable better communication, while avoiding the danger in which the chain of command breaks down in emergencies. We do not want everyone talking to everyone else all the time.John Shimkus
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It is easier for a tutor to command than to teach. - John Locke
It is easier for a tutor to command than to teach.John Locke
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Grown-ups and children are not readily encouraged to unearth the power of words. Adults are repeatedly assured a picture is worth a thousand of them, while the playground response to almost any verbal taunt is 'Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will never hurt me.' I don't beg so much as command to differ.Inga Muscio
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I have to command the offense. I have to command the team. I have to bring a spark and give us a chance to win.Baker Mayfield
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Do not wait; the time will never be 'just right.' Start where you stand, and work with whatever tools you may have at your command, and better tools will be found as you go along.George Herbert
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I can no longer obey; I have tasted command, and I cannot give it up.Napoleon Bonaparte
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Remain calm, serene, always in command of yourself. You will then find out how easy it is to get along.Paramahansa Yogananda
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Always do everything you ask of those you command. - George S. Patton
Always do everything you ask of those you command.George S. Patton
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If you command wisely, you'll be obeyed cheerfully.Thomas Fuller
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All the commandments: You shall not commit adultery, you shall not kill, you shall not steal, you shall not covet, and so on, are summed up in this single command: You must love your neighbor as yourself.Jesus Christ
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I think that is a better thing than thanksgiving: thanks-living. How is this to be done? By a general cheerfulness of manner, by an obedience to the command of Him by whose mercy we live, by a perpetual, constant delighting of ourselves in the Lord, and by a submission of our desires to His will.Charles Spurgeon
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Forgiveness is God's command. - Martin Luther
Forgiveness is God's command.Martin Luther
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You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your might. And these words that I command you today shall be on your heart. You shall teach them diligently to your children, and shall talk of them when you sit in your house, and when you walk by the way, and when you lie down, and when you rise.Moses
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The first lesson is that you can't lose a war if you have command of the air, and you can't win a war if you haven't.Jimmy Doolittle
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To conquer the command of the air means victory; to be beaten in the air means defeat and acceptance of whatever terms the enemy may be pleased to impose. - Giulio Douhet
To conquer the command of the air means victory; to be beaten in the air means defeat and acceptance of whatever terms the enemy may be pleased to impose.Giulio Douhet
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Now even the American command is under siege. We are hitting it from the north, east, south and west. We chase them here and they chase us there. But at the end we are the people who are laying siege to them. And it is not them who are besieging us.Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf
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To command is to serve, nothing more and nothing less.Andre Malraux
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You hear doom and gloom about the Internet ruining young people's command of English - that's nonsense.Margaret Atwood
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You've got Washington picking winners and losers. And so, all of a sudden, decisions are being made on what helps politicians, not what helps the economy. Some will call it socialism. Some will call it a command and control economy. Whatever it is, it's antithetical to the American experience.Jeb Hensarling
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Your position never gives you the right to command. It only imposes on you the duty of so living your life that others can receive your orders without being humiliated.Dag Hammarskjold
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What I like about Elvis is the same thing I like about James Brown, Michael Jackson, Prince. These guys, back in the day, there was no smoke and mirrors. It was just raw talent. They would step out onstage and command an audience. Talk about awesome.Bruno Mars
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Who then is free? The wise man who can command himself.Horace
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Coding, it's an endless process of trial and error, of trying to get the right command in the right place, with sometimes just a semicolon making the difference between success and failure. Code breaks and then it falls apart, and it often takes many, many tries until that magical moment when what you're trying to build comes to life.Reshma Saujani
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When designers replaced the command line interface with the graphical user interface, billions of people who are not programmers could make use of computer technology.Howard Rheingold
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The only thing I command is respect.Kyrie Irving
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We can be thankful to a friend for a few acres, or a little money; and yet for the freedom and command of the whole earth, and for the great benefits of our being, our life, health, and reason, we look upon ourselves as under no obligation.Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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He who wishes to be obeyed must know how to command.Niccolo Machiavelli
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Oh while I live, to be the ruler of life, not a slave, to meet life as a powerful conqueror, and nothing exterior to me will ever take command of me.Walt Whitman
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When placed in command, take charge.Norman Schwarzkopf
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We can't command our love, but we can our actions.Arthur Conan Doyle
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I'm not dumb. I just have a command of thoroughly useless information.Bill Watterson
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He who establishes his argument by noise and command shows that his reason is weak.Michel de Montaigne
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Man is made to adore and to obey: but if you will not command him, if you give him nothing to worship, he will fashion his own divinities, and find a chieftain in his own passions.Benjamin Disraeli
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A man has no more character than he can command in a time of crisis.Ralph W. Sockman
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That free will was demonstrated in the placing of temptation before man with the command not to eat of the fruit of the tree which would give him a knowledge of good and evil, with the disturbing moral conflict to which that awareness would give rise.Kenneth Scott Latourette
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Even if the last move did not succeed, the inner command says move again. - Seamus Heaney
Even if the last move did not succeed, the inner command says move again.Seamus Heaney
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Peace is not the product of a victory or a command. It has no finishing line, no final deadline, no fixed definition of achievement. Peace is a never-ending process, the work of many decisions.Oscar Hammerstein II
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I cannot command winds and weather. - Horatio Nelson
I cannot command winds and weather.Horatio Nelson
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Command those that govern your house before all you household that they keep careful watch that all your household, within and without, be faithful, painstaking, chaste, clean, honest and profitable.Robert Grosseteste
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For the last several years and culminating in six months in orbit next year, I've been training for my third space flight. This one is almost in a category completely different than the previous two, specifically to live in on the space station for six months, to command a space ship and to fly a new rocket ship.Chris Hadfield
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America needs a sensible, sustainable Iran policy that can meet U.S. security and economic interests, command international support and withstand the shifting Middle Eastern sands.Samantha Power
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