#comma

One of the great questions of philosophy is, do we innately have morality, or do we get it from celestial dictation? A study of the Ten Commandments is a very good way of getting into and resolving that issue. ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

#commandments #dictation #get #getting #good

The American President resembles the commander of a ship at sea. He must have a helm to grasp, a course to steer, a port to seek. ↗

— Henry Adams

#american president #commander #course #grasp #helm

Tears are the symbol of the inability of the soul to restrain its emotion and retain its self command. ↗

— Henri Frederic Amiel

#emotion #inability #restrain #retain #self

God wants man to fulfill his commands as a human being and with the quality peculiar to human beings. ↗

— Martin Buber

#beings #commands #fulfill #god #his

There is also a perfection of degrees, by which a person performs all the commands of God, with the full exertion of all his powers, without the least defect. This is what the law of God requires, but what the saints cannot attain to in this life. ↗

— Charles Buck

#attain #cannot #commands #defect #degrees

And that will increasingly dawn on people. The demand for controlling the commanding heights will grow. ↗

— Barbara Castle

#controlling #dawn #demand #grow #heights

The agreement to place the binational planning group at our new Northern Command was also signed in December. ↗

— Paul Cellucci

#also #command #december #group #new

Perhaps these Ten Commandments cases will be the turning point in the legal war against religion. ↗

— Cliff Stearns

#cases #commandments #legal #perhaps #point

Ten commandments yet seven deadly sins: conflict? ↗

— Doug Coupland

#conflict #deadly #seven #sins #ten

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

#command #first #haven #lesson #lose