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We Americans have no commission from God to police the world. Benjamin Harrison

God, Police, World

The business of biomedical research is mostly about failure. Few projects we commission will ultimately result in success. But every study we do contributes to the body of knowledge that brings science and society closer to a solution. Kenneth Frazier

Success, Failure, Business, Knowledge

The priesthood is not really so much a gift as it is a commission to serve, a privilege to lift, and an opportunity to bless the lives of others. Thomas S. Monson

Opportunity, Gift, Privilege, Lift, Much

The negro has suffered far more from the commission of this crime against the women of his race by white men than the white race has ever suffered through his crimes. Ida B. Wells

Women, Men, Race, White, More, Crime

The idea of a stag hunt evokes chivalry - knights in jerkins and hose, ladies on sidesaddles with wimples and billowing dresses, a white stag symbolizing something-or-other, and Robin Hood getting in the way. An actual stag hunt is more like a horseback meeting of a county planning commission. P. J. O'Rourke

Hood, Planning, Meeting, White, Way

We recognised Urdu as the second official language and made it a medium of examination in all Bihar Public Service Commission tests. Lalu Prasad Yadav

Service, Language, Public Service, Made

When we talk about kids earning commission for chores, we always have at least one parent who argues that children should do chores because they are part of the family. I agree, but if you don't involve money in a few chores, you lose the teachable moments in the work, spend, save, and give principles. Dave Ramsey

Work, Family, Money, Children, Parent

In October 1920 I went to Leeds as Reader in English Language, with a free commission to develop the linguistic side of a large and growing School of English Studies, in which no regular provision had as yet been made for the linguistic specialist. J. R. R. Tolkien

School, Language, Free, Growing, Made

Prayer is commission. Out of the quietness with God, power is generated that turns the spiritual machinery of the world. When you pray, you begin to feel the sense of being sent, that the divine compulsion is upon you. E. Stanley Jones

Power, God, Prayer, Spiritual, World

Congress seems drugged and inert most of the time... its idea of meeting a problem is to hold hearings or, in extreme cases, to appoint a commission. Shirley Chisholm

Time, Problem, Meeting, Congress, Hold

The omission of good is no less reprehensible than the commission of evil. Plutarch

Good, Evil, Than, Less, Omission

If I get a commission, it's like a flood of creative thought and energy. Justin Peck

Energy, Creative, Thought, Flood, Like

One of the most important secret societies of the 20th century is called the Round Table. It is based in Britain with branches across the world. It is the Round Table that ultimately orchestrates the network of the Bilderberg Group, Council on Foreign Relations, Trilateral Commission and the Royal Institute of International Affairs. David Icke

World, Important, Group, Royal, Table

Already renewable energy advocates are noting that the 42 miles of above-ground right-of-way between Yosemite and the city could be fitted with enough solar panels to generate at least 40 megawatts per year - a proposal the San Francisco Public Utilities Commission has never seriously considered because they currently aren't required to do so. Matt Gonzalez

City, Energy, Enough, Renewable Energy

For years, my colleagues and I - primarily Republicans but also some Democrats - have introduced legislation and written to the FCC asking the commission to cease attempts to regulate the Internet unless given the clear authority to do so by Congress. Mary Bono

Internet, Colleagues, Authority, Years

All persons harboring or secreting the conspirators or aiding their concealment or escape, will be treated as accomplices in the murder of the President and shall be subject to trial before a military commission, and the punishment of death. Edwin M. Stanton

Death, Punishment, Escape, Will, Before

My children were taught at an early age how money works and that it comes from hard work. They've been on a commission - not an allowance - since they were little. They learned that if they worked around the house, they got paid. If they didn't work, they didn't get paid. Dave Ramsey

Work, Hard Work, Age, Money, Children

To make the most of your money, I recommend sticking with mutual funds that don't charge a commission when you buy or sell. Suze Orman

Money, You, Buy, Charge, Mutual Funds

One of the most interesting reactions to come out of 1968 was in the first publication of the Trilateral Commission, which believed there was a 'crisis of democracy' from too much participation of the masses. Noam Chomsky

Democracy, Interesting, Too Much, Crisis

At a car dealership, the person who sells the car is the hero, and also gets the commission. But if the mechanics don't service that car well, the customer won't return. Roger Staubach

Car, Hero, Service, Customer, Person

The 9/11 Commission recently released their report, citing important changes which need to be made to improve our nation's homeland security. I voiced my disappointment with the House leadership when this report was left until after the August recess for action. Leonard Boswell

Leadership, Disappointment, Action, Need

Though there are some notable exceptions, by and large the persistent ranting of the Warren Commission critics, some of whom were screaming the word 'conspiracy' before the fatal bullet had even come to rest, came to remind me, as H. L. Mencken said in a different context, of dogs barking idiotically through endless nights. Vincent Bugliosi

Me, Rest, Said, Different, Dogs, Critics

I discovered that no revival comes if we don't preach the Word of God under the anointing of the Holy Spirit. If we only have the Great Commission and only the Holy Spirit, we have power without purpose, or purpose without power. It is a package deal, and that is what God honors. Reinhard Bonnke

Great, Power, God, Purpose, Spirit, Only

The 9/11 Commission strongly recommends that the National Intelligence Director be fully in control of the budget, from developing it to implementing it, to ensuring that the National Intelligence Director has the clout to make decisions. Leonard Boswell

Intelligence, Decisions, Control, Budget

As a democratic society, Malawi has a moral obligation to ensure that each and every injustice, whether through acts of commission or omission, is met with deliberate and tangible action. Joyce Banda

Society, Action, Moral, Injustice, Every

Lies can be verbal or nonverbal, kindhearted or self-serving, devious or bald-faced; they can be lies of omission or lies of commission; they can be lies that undermine national security or lies that make a child feel better. And each type might involve a unique neural pathway. Robin Marantz Henig

Child, Better, Feel, Unique, Security

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