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Letter "C" » commands
«God wants man to fulfill his commands as a human being and with the quality peculiar to human beings.»
«For I say unto you in all sadness of conviction that to think great thoughts you must be heroes as well as idealists. Only when you have worked alone / when you have felt around you are a black gulf of solitude more isolating than that which surrounds the dying man, and in hope and despair have trusted to your own unshaken will / then only can you gain the secret isolated joy of the thinker, who knows that a hundred years after he is dead and forgotten men who have never heard of him will be moving to the measure of his thought / the subtle rapture of postponed power, which the world knows not because it has no external trappings, but which to his prophetic vision is more real than that which commands an army. And if this joy should not be yours, still it is only thus you can know that you have done what lay in you to do / can say that you have lived, and be ready for the end.»
Author: Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
(Judge, Jurist)
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«As men begin to grow civilized, they cease to be satisfied with mere tabus, and substitute divine commands and prohibitions»
«An obedient wife commands her husband»
Author: Benjamin Disraeli
(Novelist, Prime Minister)
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Wives
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«ABDOMEN, n. The temple of the god Stomach, in whose worship, with sacrificial rights, all true men engage. From women this ancient faith commands but a stammering assent. They sometimes minister at the altar in a half-hearted and ineffective way, but true reverence for the one deity that men really adore they know not. If woman had a free hand in the world's marketing the race would become graminivorous.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
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«Be not impatient in delay,But wait as one who understands;When spirit rises and commands,The gods are ready to obey.»
«He who controls the past commands the future. He who commands the future conquers the past.»
«Don't talk to me of your Archimedes' lever. He was an absentminded person with a mathematical imagination. Mathematics commands all my respect, but I have no use for engines. Give me the right word and the right accent and I will move the world.»
Author: Joseph Conrad
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«Authority intoxicates, And makes mere sots of magistrates; The fumes of it invade the brain, And make men giddy, proud and vain: By this the fool commands the wise, The noble-with the base complies, The sot assumes the rule of wit, And cowards make t»
«Every good servant does not all commands.»
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