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«Advertising is 85% confusion and 15% commission»
Author: Fred Allen
(Comedian)
| About:
Advertising,
Funny
| Keywords:
commission, commissioned, Commissions, Commission on
«A new breed of broker making $300,000 a year in London hot traders [who] are likely to be thirtyish, a bit cheeky and more interested in piling up commissions than meeting club cronies for a late afternoon brandy at Boodle's or White's.»
«Actually, I think all addiction starts with soda. Every junkie did soda first. But no one counts that. Maybe they should. The soda connection is clear. Why isn't a presidential commission looking into this? Or at least some guys from the National Carbonation Council.»
Author: Chris Rock
| Keywords:
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«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.»
Author: Hannah Arendt
(Philosopher, Political scientist)
| Keywords:
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«Commissions suit me. They set limits. Jean Marais dared me to write play in which he would not speak in the first act, would weep for joy in the second and in the last would fall backward down a flight of stairs.»
Author: Jean Cocteau
(Actor, Film Director, Novelist, Painter, Poet)
| About:
Actors and acting,
Expectation,
Writers
| Keywords:
backward, Commissions, dared, down the stairs, first flight, flight, flight of stairs, jean, stairs, suit
«Most of us fall short much more by omission than by commission. While the world perishes we go our way: purposeless, passionless, day after day.»
Author: Peace Pilgrim
(Spiritual leader, Teacher)
| Keywords:
commission, commissioned, Commissions, Commission on, day after day, fall short, fall short of, omission, omissions, passionless, perishes, perishing, purposeless, short
«The omission of good is no less reprehensible than the commission of evil.»
Author: Plutarch
(Author, Biographer)
| Keywords:
commission, commissioned, Commissions, Commission on, evil, less, omission, omissions, reprehensible, the commission
«The consequences of our crimes long survive their commission, and, like the ghosts of the murdered, forever haunt the steps of the malefactor»
Author: Sir Walter Scott
(Biographer, Historian, Novelist, Poet)
| Keywords:
commission, commissioned, Commissions, Commission on, crimes, ghosts, haunt, malefactor, malefactors, murdered
«And they delivered the king's commissions unto the king's lieutenants, and to the governors on this side the river: and they furthered the people, and the house of God.»
Author: Bible
| Keywords:
Commissions, furthered, governors, lieutenant, lieutenants, The House of God
«I believe Moses was 80 when God first commissioned him for public service.»
Author: Ronald Reagan
(President)
| Keywords:
commissioned, Commissions, Commission on, Moses, public service
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