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The greatest job I ever had was working on my family farm. Each morning my father would come into my bedroom around 4:30 am and command me to get up and work the fields. I would spend the next two hours before school slopping pigs and cropping tobacco.

~Armstrong Williams

Topics: Am Around Bedroom Before Come Command Each Each Morning Ever Family Family Farm Farm Father Fields Get Greatest Had Hours Job Me Morning Next Pigs School Spend Tobacco Two Up Work Working Would

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We can't command our love, but we can our actions.

~Arthur Conan Doyle

Topics: Actions Command Love Our Our Love

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What is the thread of western civilization that distinguished its course in history? It has to do with the preoccupation of western man with his outward command and his sense of superiority.

~Arthur Erickson

Topics: Civilization Command Course Distinguished His History Man Outward Preoccupation Sense Superiority Thread Western Western Civilization

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If the elections are a mere fraud, why are terrorists being trained and infiltrated into India at the command of the Inter-Services Intelligence Agency of Pakistan to kill election candidates and to intimidate voters?

~Atal Bihari Vajpayee

Topics: Agency Being Candidates Command Election Elections Fraud India Intelligence Intimidate Mere Pakistan Terrorists Trained Voters Why

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That does not mean that we must forego just and fair criticism, or refrain from opposition to policies which are debatable or which do not command our approval.

~Bainbridge Colby

Topics: Approval Command Criticism Debatable Does Fair Just Mean Must Opposition Our Policies Refrain Which

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North Korea, under its thirtysomething Supreme Leader, Kim Jong-un, is no country for old men. The latest casualty in Kim's ongoing purge of the senior military command was the defense minister, Hyon Yong-chol, who reportedly committed the classic old man's offense of falling asleep in a meeting.

~Barbara Demick

Topics: Asleep Casualty Classic Command Committed Country Defense Falling Kim Korea Latest Leader Man Meeting Men Military Minister No Country North North Korea Offense Old Old Men Ongoing Purge Senior Supreme Who

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The AEC had at its command an army of highly skilled scientists.

~Barry Commoner

Topics: Army Command Had Highly Scientists Skilled

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Sometimes I get insecure about being a real director because I look at the great directors, and they have such command. But maybe that keeps me critical of myself. Maybe it keeps me moving forward.

~Ben Affleck

Topics: About Because Being Command Critical Director Directors Forward Get Great Insecure Keeps Look Maybe Me Moving Moving Forward Myself Real Sometimes

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Man is made to adore and to obey: but if you will not command him, if you give him nothing to worship, he will fashion his own divinities, and find a chieftain in his own passions.

~Benjamin Disraeli

Topics: Adore Command Fashion Find Give He Him His Made Man Nothing Obey Own Passions Will Worship You

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Let me announce, with all the strength at my command, that I am not a terrorist and I never was, expect perhaps in the beginning of my revolutionary career. And I am convinced that we cannot gain anything through those methods.

~Bhagat Singh

Topics: Am Announce Anything Beginning Cannot Career Command Convinced Expect Gain In The Beginning Me Methods Never Perhaps Revolutionary Strength Terrorist Those Through We Cannot I Am

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