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No one has a finer command of language than the person who keeps his mouth shut.
Sam Rayburn
Language
Mouth
Finer
No-One
Command
His
Than
Person
Who
Keeps
Shut
If you command wisely, you'll be obeyed cheerfully.
Thomas Fuller
Leadership
You
Obeyed
Wisely
Cheerfully
Command
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
Fashion
You
Man
Obey
Will
Made
Own
Nothing
Worship
Find
Give
Adore
He
Him
Command
Passions
His
The first lesson is that you can't lose a war if you have command of the air, and you can't win a war if you haven't.
Jimmy Doolittle
War
You
Win
First
Lose
Lesson
Air
Command
I wish it, I command it. Let my will take the place of a reason.
Juvenal
Brainy
Will
Wish
Take
Command
Place
Reason
We can be thankful to a friend for a few acres, or a little money; and yet for the freedom and command of the whole earth, and for the great benefits of our being, our life, health, and reason, we look upon ourselves as under no obligation.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Life
Thankful
Health
Great
Freedom
Obligation
Money
Benefits
Few
Our
Earth
Ourselves
Be Thankful
Look
Command
Friend
Being
Little
Acres
Little Money
Reason
Whole
In these troubled, uncertain times, we don't need more command and control; we need better means to engage everyone's intelligence in solving challenges and crises as they arise.
Margaret J. Wheatley
Challenges
Intelligence
Better
Control
Everyone
Crises
Solving
Uncertain
More
Troubled
Arise
Command
Times
Engage
Means
Need
If one cannot command attention by one's admirable qualities one can at least be a nuisance.
Margery Allingham
Admirable
Attention
Qualities
Least
Command
Cannot
Nuisance
I don't think we need to agree with anyone in order to love the person. The command for Christians to love the other person, to be benevolent and beneficent toward them, is independent of what the other believes.
Miroslav Volf
Love
Think
Other
Beneficent
Benevolent
Independent
Toward
Command
Person
Order
Anyone
To Love
Them
Agree
Believes
Christians
Need
It is the central bank governor, unlike other regulators or government secretaries, who has command over significant policy levers and has to occasionally disagree with the most powerful people in the country.
Raghuram Rajan
Government
People
Disagree
Country
Other
Unlike
Secretaries
Significant
Powerful
Over
Powerful People
Most
Most Powerful
Occasionally
Policy
Command
Governor
Bank
Central
Central Bank
Who
The finest command of language is often shown by saying nothing.
Roger Babson
Saying
Language
Nothing
Finest
Command
Often
Shown
Do not despise the fish because they are absolutely unable to speak or to reason, but fear lest you may be even more unreasonable than they by resisting the command of the Creator. Listen to the fish, who through their actions all but utter this word: 'We set out on this long journey for the perpetuation of our species.'
Saint Basil
Journey
You
Speak
Fear
Word
Long
Despise
Our
Unable
Out
More
Unreasonable
Long Journey
Through
Absolutely
Because
Fish
Command
Perpetuation
Than
Listen
May
Reason
Who
Actions
Lest
Even
Creator
Species
Utter
Resisting
Set
Learn to obey before you command.
Solon
You
Obey
Before
Learn
Command
A creditor is worse than a slave-owner; for the master owns only your person, but a creditor owns your dignity, and can command it.
Victor Hugo
Dignity
Master
Worse
Only
Command
Than
Person
Owns
Your
Creditor
Peace is not a matter of prizes or trophies. It is not the product of a victory or command. It has no finishing line, no final deadline, no fixed definition of achievement.
Óscar Arias
Achievement
Peace
Matter
Victory
Final
Definition
Finishing
Trophies
Deadline
Line
Command
Fixed
Prizes
Product
Well, there are other aspects, I still command very good support in the party.
Abdullah Ahmad Badawi
Good
Party
Other
Support
Well
Still
Command
Very
Aspects
According to Goering and the Luftwaffe High Command, they were supposed to be the fighter elite.
Adolf Galland
Fighter
High
Supposed
Were
Command
According
Elite
Doing something because God has said to do it does not make a person moral: it merely tells us that person is a prudential believer, akin to the person who obeys the command of an all-powerful secular king.
Alan Dershowitz
God
Secular
King
Moral
Tells
All-Powerful
Something
Merely
Make
Because
Does
Said
Doing
Command
Person
Us
Who
Believer
Mr. Trump and Mr. Osteen are mirrors of each other. Both enjoy enormous support among evangelicals, yet they lack a command of biblical scripture. Both are among the 1 percent.
Anthea Butler
Bible
Enjoy
Enormous
Other
Percent
Mirrors
Both
Support
Command
Trump
Lack
Scripture
Evangelicals
Each
Among
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
Work
Family
Morning
Me
School
Father
Job
Before
Farm
Spend
Would
Had
Come
Hours
Pigs
Around
Greatest
Am
Bedroom
Command
Up
Family Farm
Get
Fields
Tobacco
Next
Working
Each
Each Morning
Ever
Two
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
History
Man
Sense
Distinguished
Thread
Superiority
Civilization
Outward
Course
Command
His
Western
Western Civilization
Preoccupation
I have to command the offense. I have to command the team. I have to bring a spark and give us a chance to win.
Baker Mayfield
Win
Give
Command
Offense
Spark
Us
Team
Bring
Chance
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
Man
Old
Men
Leader
Country
Military
Defense
Meeting
Latest
Kim
Minister
No Country
Classic
Purge
Ongoing
Casualty
Supreme
Korea
Command
Falling
Offense
North
North Korea
Committed
Senior
Old Men
Asleep
Who
The AEC had at its command an army of highly skilled scientists.
Barry Commoner
Army
Had
Highly
Scientists
Command
Skilled
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
Strength
Me
Beginning
Those
We Cannot
Through
Never
Announce
Perhaps
Terrorist
Am
Command
Methods
Expect
Revolutionary
Anything
In The Beginning
Cannot
Gain
Convinced
Career
I bought a 1964 Bentley for $1,600 and re-built it over five years. When I drove it in Tokyo after that, it was the pride of the road. That car would command at least $150,000 today because 'Bikram' has restored it.
Bikram Choudhury
Today
Pride
Car
Would
Restored
Road
Bought
Drove
Over
Because
Least
Command
Years
Five
After
Tokyo
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