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Wherever I look, I see signs of the commandment to honor one's parents and nowhere of a commandment that calls for the respect of a child.

~Alice Miller

Topics: Calls Child Commandment Honor Look Nowhere Parents Respect See Signs Wherever I See

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How did Abraham know that it was God that bid him offer his son, being a breach of the sixth commandment?

~Anne Hutchinson

Topics: Abraham Being Bid Breach Commandment Did God Him His How Know Offer Sixth Son

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With the first commandment, Mohammed tried to imprison common sense. And with the second commandment, the beautiful, romantic side of mankind was enslaved.

~Ayaan Hirsi Ali

Topics: Beautiful Commandment Common Common Sense Enslaved First Mankind Mohammed Romantic Second Sense Side Tried

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I believe honor thy mother and father is not just a good commandment to live by, it is good public policy to govern by. That is why I feel so strongly about Medicare.

~Barbara Mikulski

Topics: About Believe Commandment Father Feel Good Govern Honor Just Live Medicare Mother Mother And Father Policy Public Public Policy Strongly Thy To Live By Why I Feel I Believe

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Science knows only one commandment - contribute to science.

~Bertolt Brecht

Topics: Commandment Contribute Knows Only Science

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Be unselfish. That is the first and final commandment for those who would be useful and happy in their usefulness. If you think of yourself only, you cannot develop because you are choking the source of development, which is spiritual expansion through thought for others.

~Charles William Eliot

Topics: Because Cannot Choking Commandment Develop Development Expansion Final First Happy Only Others Source Spiritual Think Those Thought Through Unselfish Useful Usefulness Which Who Would You Yourself

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It is now an article of absolute faith among Republicans that 'the government' is an entity separate from 'the American people,' which they say the same way that the old Jesuits talked about 'the mystical Body of Christ.' It is now an ironclad commandment of conservative orthodoxy that 'the government' is something parasitic and alien.

~Charlie Pierce

Topics: About Absolute Alien American American People Among Article Body Christ Commandment Conservative Entity Faith Government Jesuits Mystical Now Old Orthodoxy Parasitic People Republicans Same Say Separate Something Talked They Say Way Which

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Jesus's first commandment was to love one another.

~Chris Gibson

Topics: Another Commandment First Jesus Love To Love

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The novel at its nineteenth-century pinnacle was a Judaized novel: George Eliot and Dickens and Tolstoy were all touched by the Jewish covenant: they wrote of conduct and of the consequences of conduct: they were concerned with a society of will and commandment.

~Cynthia Ozick

Topics: Commandment Concerned Conduct Consequences Covenant Dickens George Jewish Novel Pinnacle Society Tolstoy Touched Were Will Wrote

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Often as we teach and testify about the law of tithing, we emphasize the immediate, dramatic and readily recognizable temporal blessings that we receive. And surely such blessings do occur. Yet some of the diverse blessings we obtain as we are obedient to this commandment are significant but subtle.

~David A. Bednar

Topics: About Blessings Commandment Diverse Dramatic Emphasize Immediate Law Obedient Obtain Occur Often Readily Receive Recognizable Significant Some Subtle Surely Teach Temporal Testify

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