#command

Victor Young had been hired to write the score for the dances of The Ten Commandments but he became very ill. You were then hired to write the score. But at the same time you'd written The Man with the Golden Arm score. ↗

— Elmer Bernstein

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I am willing to serve my country, but do not wish to sacrifice the brave men under my command. ↗

— John Buford

#brave #brave men #command #country #i

If the regulars are to be put together, I believe they would prefer me to the other Cavalry Commanders. ↗

— John Buford

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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

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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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The boys are in such a mood that if someone introduced the Ten Commandments, they'd cut them down to seven. ↗

— Norris Cotton

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Be unselfish. That is the first and final commandment for those who would be useful and happy in their usefulness. If you think of yourself only, you cannot develop because you are choking the source of development, which is spiritual expansion through thought for others. ↗

— Charles William Eliot

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We must be both more conservative and more liberal than most students of Christian worship: conservative in holding exclusively to God's commands in Scripture as our rule of worship, and liberal in defending the liberty of those who apply those. ↗

— John Frame

#both #christian #commands #conservative #defending

Our three big emergencies are fire, loss of pressurization or contaminated atmosphere. Any of those things in a spaceship are very deadly and time critical. Everybody's trained, but I'm the commander of the ship, and it's up to me to decide. ↗

— Chris Hadfield

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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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