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I don't like to commit myself about heaven and hell - you see, I have friends in both places.
Mark Twain

Friends, Hell, Both

Democracy... while it lasts is more bloody than either aristocracy or monarchy. Remember, democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There is never a democracy that did not commit suicide.
John Adams

Long, Democracy, Remember

Anyone who has the power to make you believe absurdities has the power to make you commit injustices.
Voltaire

Power, Anyone, Injustices

The most loving parents and relatives commit murder with smiles on their faces. They force us to destroy the person we really are: a subtle kind of murder.
Jim Morrison

Parents, Person, Relatives

Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities.
Voltaire

I just spent 11 and a half months in a maximum-security jail, got shot five times, and was wrongly convicted of a crime I didn't commit.
Tupac Shakur

Times, Half, Crime

Having a child is surely the most beautifully irrational act that two people in love can commit.
Bill Cosby

Love, Two, Child

As long as people believe in absurdities they will continue to commit atrocities.
Voltaire

Long, Continue, Atrocities

A mistake is to commit a misunderstanding.
Bob Dylan

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

Love, Yourself, Single

Remember, democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There never was a democracy yet that did not commit suicide.
John Adams

Long, Democracy, Remember

Understand this law and you will then know, beyond room for the slightest doubt, that you are constantly punishing yourself for every wrong you commit and rewarding yourself for every act of constructive conduct in which you indulge.
Napoleon Hill

Yourself, Doubt, Law

It is not enough to understand, or to see clearly. The future will be shaped in the arena of human activity, by those willing to commit their minds and their bodies to the task.
Robert Kennedy

Future, Human, Understand

Love means to commit yourself without guarantee.
Anne Campbell

Love, Yourself, Means

Every study on crime and or firearms proves time and time again, that 99.99999% of American gun owners do not commit crimes or use our firearms in any dangerous or improper way.
Ted Nugent

Time, Study, Again

It was one of those evenings when men feel that truth, goodness and beauty are one. In the morning, when they commit their discovery to paper, when others read it written there, it looks wholly ridiculous.
Aldous Huxley

Beauty, Men, Morning

I never felt settled or calm. You can't really commit to life when you feel that.
Angelina Jolie

Life, Calm, Felt

Every truth has two sides; it is as well to look at both, before we commit ourselves to either.
Aesop

Truth, Two, Before

I have a loyalty that runs in my bloodstream, when I lock into someone or something, you can't get me away from it because I commit that thoroughly. That's in friendship, that's a deal, that's a commitment. Don't give me paper - I can get the same lawyer who drew it up to break it. But if you shake my hand, that's for life.
Jerry Lewis

Life, Friendship, Loyalty

It is most pleasant to commit a just action which is disagreeable to someone whom one does not like.
Victor Hugo

Someone, Action, Pleasant

Those who want the Government to regulate matters of the mind and spirit are like men who are so afraid of being murdered that they commit suicide to avoid assassination.
Harry S. Truman

Men, Government, Mind

All the passions make us commit faults; love makes us commit the most ridiculous ones.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Love, Makes, Ridiculous

He was so depressed, he tried to commit suicide by inhaling next to an Armenian.
Woody Allen

Next, Tried, Depressed

Ugly. Is irrelevant. It is an immeasurable insult to a woman, and then supposedly the worst crime you can commit as a woman. But ugly, as beautiful, is an illusion.
Margaret Cho

Beautiful, Woman, Insult

Pearl Harbor caused our Nation to wholeheartedly commit to winning World War II, changing the course of our Nation's history and the world's future.
Joe Baca

History, War, Future

Sexuality is a big issue, but there are others - how much you commit to a relationship, to social obligation, to honesty and being honest with yourself.
Ang Lee

Yourself, Honesty, Others

Every time that I think of the crucifixion of Christ, I commit the sin of envy.
Simone Weil

Time, Envy, Christ

It is here, my daughters, that love is to be found - not hidden away in corners but in the midst of occasions of sin. And believe me, although we may more often fail and commit small lapses, our gain will be incomparably the greater.
Saint Teresa of Avila

Love, May, Small

The best men of the best epochs are simply those who make the fewest blunders and commit the fewest sins.
Thomas Huxley

Men, Best, Simply

In mid-life the man wants to see how irresistible he still is to younger women. How they turn their hearts to stone and more or less commit a murder of their marriage I just don't know, but they do.
Earl Warren

Marriage, Women, Less

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