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«If a law commands me to sin I will break it; if it calls me to suffer, I will let it take its course unresistingly.»
«It is the difference in knowledge that commands respect. This is why the true test of every student lies in the humiliation of his master.»
«He who would be useful, strong, and happy must cease to be a passive receptacle for the negative, beggarly, and impure streams of thought; and as a wise householder commands his servants and invites his guests, so must he learn to command his desires and to say, with authority, what thoughts he shall admit into the mansion of his soul.»
Author: James Allen
(Statesman)
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«Objectives are not fate; they are direction. They are not commands; they are commitments. They do not determine the future; they are means to mobilize the resources and energies of the business for the making of the future.»
Author: Peter F. Drucker
(Educator, Writer)
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«Much that is dreadful and inhuman in history, much that one hardly likes to believe, is mitigated by the reflection that the one who commands and the one who carries out are different people. The former does not behold the sight and does not experience the strong impression on the imagination. The latter obeys a superior and therefore feels no responsibility for the acts.»
Author: Friedrich Nietzsche
(Critic, Philosopher, Scholar)
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«He who does not punish evil commands it to be done.»
Author: Leonardo da Vinci
(Architect, Engineer, Painter, Sculptor)
| About:
Evil,
Punishment
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commands, evil, punish
«If I were to become an emperor and raise a huge army, and sit on a throne, issuing commands and collecting taxes - O Nanak, all of this could pass away like a puff of wind. Seeing these, I might go astray and forget You, and Your Name would not enter into my mind.»
Author: Sri Guru Granth Sahib
| Keywords:
astray, collecting, commands, emperor, issuing, pass away, puff