#commit

To be deeply committed to negotiations, to be opposed to a particular war or military action, is not only considered unpatriotic, it also casts serious doubt on one's manhood. ↗

— Myriam Miedzian

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Today I'm committed to take care of your families like I've taken care of mine. I want to make Mexico the best country to live in. ↗

— Josefina Vazquez Mota

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Nobody ever built a statue to a committee. ↗

— Roger Stone

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But this is not to say that the society which inflicts capital punishment commits murder. ↗

— Benjamin Tucker

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That's the thing with sci-fi and action roles. You have to play the danger as real. If you don't, you end up with egg on your face. You have to commit. You can't think about how stupid it might look without the special effects. ↗

— Victoria Pratt

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Democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts and murders itself. There was never a democracy that did not commit suicide. ↗

— John Adams

#political-philosophy #commitment

Laws that forbid the carrying of arms . . . disarm only those who are neither inclined nor determined to commit crimes . . . Such laws make things worse for the assaulted and better for the assailants; they serve rather to encourage than to prevent homicides, for an unarmed man may be attacked with greater confidence than an armed man. ↗

— Thomas Jefferson

#second-amendment #thomas-jefferson #commitment

If the soul is left in darkness, sins will be committed. The guilty one is not he who commits the sin, but the one who causes the darkness. (Monseigneur Bienvenu in _Les Miserables_) ↗

— Victor Hugo

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And that's what innocence is. It's simple and trusting like a child, not judgmental and committed to one narrow point of view. If you are locked into a pattern of thinking and responding, your creativity gets blocked. You miss the freshness and magic of the moment. Learn to be innocent again, and that freshness never fades. ↗

— Michael Jackson

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The difference between those who adapted and those who didn't, Gorton said, was a willingness to totally commit. ↗

— Arnold Schwarzenegger

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