"If society abolishes poetry it commits spiritual suicide."
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"Penalties serve to deter those who are not inclined to commit any crimes."
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"One must commit acts of the highest treason only when dressed in the most resplendent finery."
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"It wasn't until '94 when I tried to commit suicide that I realized that it wasn't about the money."
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"When a man truly commits, the universe will conspire to assure his success."
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"I moreover affirm that our wisdom itself, and wisest consultations, for the most part commit themselves to the conduct of chance."
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"Arianna, your performance will actually improve if you can commit to not only working hard, but also unplugging, recharging and renewing yourself."
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"It is most pleasant to commit a just action which is disagreeable to someone whom one does not like."
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"When you commit a serious doping offence you are not eligible for lottery funding."
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"We think we want to do something and when it comes to it, we don't. We don't like to commit."
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"Not to commit faults counts for more than to do good."
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"We commit two wrongs when we fail to right a wrong."
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"Commit to becoming breathtakingly great in all you do. And that's what you'll become."
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"You cannot commit an act of violence against a non-sentient object, only against a living thing."
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"Why repeat the old errors, if there are so many new errors to commit?"
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"It was not as easy to commit suicide as to contemplate it."
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"Abuses of the freedom of speech ought to be repressed, but to whom are we to commit the power of doing it?"
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"I did not, however, commit suicide, because I wished to know more of mathematics."
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"Professionally, I decided to commit a lot of my time to California because there wasn't a whole lot happening for me in New York."
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"To be a saint is the exception; to be a just person is the rule. Err, stumble, commit sin, but be one of the just."
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