#ten commandments

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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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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If Moses had been paid newspaper rates for the Ten Commandments, he might have written the Two Thousand Commandments. ↗

— Isaac Bashevis Singer

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I started growing up in a hurry and taking a lot of the philosophy I'd heard from church as a kid a lot more seriously - especially the Ten Commandments - and wondering how 'Thou shalt not kill' could be so absolutely ignored. It took me until I was in my 40s to write what I was thinking as a young soldier. ↗

— Dave Brubeck

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The Ten Commandments have never been replaced as the moral basis upon which society rests. ↗

— Edwin Louis Cole

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Say what you will about the ten commandments, you must always come back to the pleasant fact that there are only ten of them. ↗

— H. L. Mencken

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Most of the Ten Commandments are negative. The purpose of law is not to mandate good behavior. That concept comes from the French Revolution. ↗

— Randall Terry

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What the ten commandments set forth is a strategy. This strategy is a strategy for dominion. ↗

— Gary North

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If God had been a liberal, we wouldn't have had the Ten Commandments - we'd have the Ten Suggestions. ↗

— Malcolm Bradbury

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