Command Quotes
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Command of English, spoken or written, ranks at the top in business. Our main product is words, so a knowledge of their meaning and spelling and pronunciation is imperative. If a man knows the language well, he can find out about all else.
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The goal of the corps of NCOs, whose duty is the day-to-day business of running the Army so that the officer corps has time to command it, is to continue to improve our Army at every turn. We want to leave it better than we found it. Regardless of the kind of unit you're in, it ought to be an "elite" outfit, because its NCOs can make it one.
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Law has the power to compel: indeed, the ability to enforce is a condition of the ability to command.
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On this point, the priest and the philosopher agree: We must die.
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What we call morals is simply blind obedience to words of command.
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Only one in command: that's the way in the home And the way in the state when it must find Measures best for mankind.
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These three brothers were not afforded the opportunity to defend themselves in a court of law. They were not given a fair and public trial. Paramilitaries, under the command of senior Ministry of Interior officials, denied them these rights and shot them in cold blood.
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Even if the last move did not succeed, the inner command says move again.
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I am for literally all of the underdogs that I can command and demand better of everyone, including myself.
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The time period lying between command of goods of a higher order and possession of the corresponding goods of lower order can never be eliminated.
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It is absolutely bedrock to the British Army's philosophy that a commanding officer is responsible for what goes on within his command.
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We can't command our love, but we can our actions.
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The physician must have at his command a certain ready wit, as dourness is repulsive both to the healthy and the sick.
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Command is a mountaintop. The air breathed there is different, and the perspectives seen there are different, from those of the valley of obedience. The passion for order and the genius for construction, which are part of man's natural endowment, get full play there. The man who has grown great sees from the top of his tower what he can make, if he so wills, of the swarming masses below him.
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If an individual is born with the obligation to obey, who is born with the right to command?
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It is one thing to persuade, another to command; one thing to press with arguments, another with penalties.
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Children from humble families must be taught how to command just as other children must be taught how to obey.
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Taking command of HMS Portland is definitely the highlight of my 16 years in the Navy. It is a challenge that I am fully trained for and ready to undertake.
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This boa, the American columns, are being besieged between Basra and other towns north, west, south and west of Basra… Now even the American command is under siege. We are hitting it from the north, east, south and west. We chase them here and they chase us there. But at the end we are the people who are laying siege to them. And it is not them who are besieging us.
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He who wishes to be obeyed must know how to command.
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A conductor should guide rather than command.
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I had not known before that love is obedience. You want to love, and you can't, and all the time love is not some marvelous thing that you feel but some hard thing that you do. And this in a way is easier because with God's help you can command your will when you can't command your feelings. With us, feelings seem to be important, but He doesn't appear to agree with us.
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I'm honored to be the first woman to have the opportunity to command the shuttle. I don't really think about that on a day-to-day basis because I really don't need to.
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You shall more command with years than with your weapons.
