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Letter "C" » commission
«We Americans have no commission from God to police the world.»
Author: Benjamin Harrison
(President)
| Keywords:
Americans, commission, commissioned, Commissions, Commission on, police, policed, policing
«When the commission finds that a pig has entered the parlor, the exercise of its regulatory power does not depend on proof that the pig is obscene.»
Author: John Paul Stevens
| About:
Justice
| Keywords:
commission, obscene, parlors, pig, regulatory, the commission
«The world has become one big grassy knoll, crawling with lone gunmen who think they're the Warren Commission»
Author: Ken MacLeod
(Writer, Zoologist)
| Keywords:
commission, crawling, crawling with, grassy, gunman, knoll, warren
«We believe that motive is more interesting than murder. We think that consequences are more important than commission. We consider that what people think and feel is often more significant than what they do.»
Author: Robert Shand
| Keywords:
commission
«The Security and Exchanges Commission is going to be investigating Vice President Dick Cheney. They'll begin that investigation as soon as Congress finishes investigating the Security and Exchanges Commission.»
Author: David Letterman
(Comedian, Host)
| Keywords:
Cheney, commission, commissioned, dick, Dick Cheney, exchanges, finishes, investigating, investigation, vice president
«We didn't actually overspend our budget. The health Commission allocation simply fell short of our expenditure.»
«Though Satan instills his poison, and fans the flames of our corrupt desires within us,we are yet not carried by any external force to the commission of sin, but our own flesh entices us, and we willingly yield to its allurements»
Author: John Calvin
(Statesman, Theologian)
| About:
Religion
| Keywords:
allurement, allurements, carried, commission, commissioned, Commissions, Commission on, corrupt, entices, enticing, external, fans, flames, flesh, instill, instilled, instilling, instills, poison, Satan, the commission, The Flames, willingly, yield
«Throughout the history of commercial life nobody has ever quite liked the commission man. His function is too vague, his presence always seems one too many, his profit looks too easy, and even when you admit that he has a necessary function, you feel that this function is, as it were, a personification of something that in an ethical society would not need to exist. If people could deal with one another honestly, they would not need agents.»
Author: Raymond Chandler
(Writer)
| Keywords:
agents, commission, ethical, personification, the commission
«Whenever a human being, through the commission of a crime, has become exiled from good, he needs to be reintegrated with it through suffering. The suffering should be inflicted with the aim of bringing the soul to recognize freely some day that its infliction was just.»
Author: Simone Weil
(Activist, Mystic, Philosopher)
| Keywords:
bringing, commission, commissioned, Commissions, Commission on, exiled, exiles, freely, inflicted, infliction, the commission, The Suffering
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