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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, Lift, Privilege, Much

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

God, World, Police

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, Science

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, Escape, Punishment, Military

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

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, Children, Age, Money

President Obama has offered a plan with 4 trillion dollars in debt reduction over a decade, with two and a half dollars of spending reductions for every one dollar of revenue increases, and tight controls on future spending. It's the kind of balanced approach proposed by the bipartisan Simpson-Bowles commission. William J. Clinton

Future, Plan, Debt, Kind, Over, Half

Internet safety begins at home and that is why my legislation would require the Federal Trade Commission to design and publish a unique website to serve as a clearinghouse and resource for parents, teachers and children for information on the dangers of surfing the Internet. Mike Fitzpatrick

Home, Children, Parents, Safety, Unique

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, Sell, Most, Charge

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

Hero, Car, Service, Customer, Person

On a number of occasions, I have made it clear that Sinn Fein policy was to argue for the establishment of an independent, international truth commission. Martin McGuinness

Truth, Independent, Policy, Clear, Made

I was in Italy in 1992 working on magazine articles when I got a call from the Italian travel commission. They asked, would I mind being an escort for an older woman? I told them I don't do that kind of work, but then they said it was Julia Child, and I said I'd be right there. Bob Spitz

Work, Travel, Woman, Child, Mind, Said

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, Tests

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, Side

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

Good, Evil, Than, Less, Omission

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

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, Table, Royal

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

Creative, Energy, Thought, Flood, Like

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

Family, Work, Children, Money, Moments

I will accept no commission that would tend to create a rivalry with Grant. I want him to hold what he has earned and got. I have all the rank I want. William Tecumseh Sherman

Create, Want, Accept, Will, Him, Rivalry

I have made the most profound apology in front of the Truth Commission and on other occasions about the injustices which were wrought by apartheid. F. W. de Klerk

Truth, Apology, Profound, Apartheid

I remember, my first job when I got my working papers at 13 was as a vendor at Yankee Stadium - the old Yankee Stadium, with very steep stairs in the upper decks. It was all commission-based. And I think a soft drink was 25 cents, and I think you got a 10 percent or 11 percent commission. Lloyd Blankfein

Job, Remember, Think, You, Stairs, Drink

The world has become one big grassy knoll, crawling with lone gunmen who think they're the Warren Commission. Ken MacLeod

World, Think, Big, Become, Who, Crawling

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. Hannah Arendt

Time, Power, Enough, Crime, Punishment

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, Crime, White, Through

In the aftermath of September 11, and as the 9/11 Commission report so aptly demonstrates, it is clear that our intelligence system is not working the way that it should. Hillary Clinton

Intelligence, Way, Working, Clear, Our

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