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«Advertising is 85% confusion and 15% commission»
Author: Fred Allen
(Comedian)
| About:
Advertising,
Funny
| Keywords:
commission, commissioned, Commissions, Commission on
«I see no need for a Royal Commission [on trade unions] which will take minutes and waste years.»
Author: Harold Wilson
(Politician, Prime Minister)
| Keywords:
commission, Commission on, trade union, Trade unions, unions
«Actually, I think all addiction starts with soda. Every junkie did soda first. But no one counts that. Maybe they should. The soda connection is clear. Why isn't a presidential commission looking into this? Or at least some guys from the National Carbonation Council.»
Author: Chris Rock
| Keywords:
addiction, carbonation, commission, commissioned, Commissions, Commission on, connection, council, junkie, junkies, presidential, soda, The National
«No punishment has ever possessed enough power of deterrence to prevent the commission of crimes. On the contrary, whatever the punishment, once a specific crime has appeared for the first time, its reappearance is more likely than its initial emergence could ever have been.»
Author: Hannah Arendt
(Philosopher, Political scientist)
| Keywords:
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«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:
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«Most of us fall short much more by omission than by commission. While the world perishes we go our way: purposeless, passionless, day after day.»
Author: Peace Pilgrim
(Spiritual leader, Teacher)
| Keywords:
commission, commissioned, Commissions, Commission on, day after day, fall short, fall short of, omission, omissions, passionless, perishes, perishing, purposeless, short
«The omission of good is no less reprehensible than the commission of evil.»
Author: Plutarch
(Author, Biographer)
| Keywords:
commission, commissioned, Commissions, Commission on, evil, less, omission, omissions, reprehensible, the commission
«The consequences of our crimes long survive their commission, and, like the ghosts of the murdered, forever haunt the steps of the malefactor»
Author: Sir Walter Scott
(Biographer, Historian, Novelist, Poet)
| Keywords:
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«I believe Moses was 80 when God first commissioned him for public service.»
Author: Ronald Reagan
(President)
| Keywords:
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«The Government does not intend these things to happen, the Commission on whose report the Bill was founded did not intend these things to happen, but in legislation intention is nothing, and the letter of the law everything, and no government has the»
Author: William Butler Yeats
(Dramatist, Poet, Writer)
| About:
Government
| Keywords:
commission, Commission on, legislation, Letter of, The Letter
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