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My main concern is meeting with public because my main commitment, main interest is promotion of human value, human affection, compassion and religious harmony.

The closer a man approaches tragedy the more intense is his concentration of emotion upon the fixed point of his commitment, which is to say the closer he approaches what in life we call fanaticism.

We must embrace a new agenda based on inclusiveness; a commitment to reconnecting the social and the economic; a relinking of the latter to a plausible redistributive system; and a determination to ensure that everyone has access to justice. All these things are within our reach.

I slept and dreamt that life was joy. I awoke and saw that life was service. I acted and behold, service was joy.

Commitment and creativity cannot be captured and handcuffed. Inspiration cannot be jailed. The heart cannot be contained.

An economy genuinely local and neighborly offers to localities a measure of security that they cannot derive from a national or a global economy controlled by people who, by principle, have no local commitment.

If you do not breathe through writing, if you do not cry out in writing, or sing in writing, then don't write, because our culture has no use for it.

Above all else, we need a reaffirmation of political commitment at the highest levels to reducing the dangers that arise both from existing nuclear weapons and from further proliferation.

I believe we should reframe our response to climate change as an imperative for growth rather than merely being a way of being green or meeting environmental commitments.

For every year past the age of 27, you need to take another step toward commitment somewhere in your life. Instead of freelancing, you get a staff job. Instead of renting, you buy. Fine, instead of couch-surfing, you rent.

Integrate purpose into your for-profit business model through a long term commitment to a cause that is aligned with your core values and those of your community.

Genius begins great works; labor alone finishes them.

As someone who has spent many years marveling at the brilliant and painstaking work of the doctors, scientists and researchers at St. Jude, I can attest firsthand to the bone-deep commitment these men and women have made in their fight against disease. They are at it around the clock - every hour of the day, every day of the year.

We can make a commitment to promote vegetables and fruits and whole grains on every part of every menu. We can make portion sizes smaller and emphasize quality over quantity. And we can help create a culture - imagine this - where our kids ask for healthy options instead of resisting them.

Tolerance implies no lack of commitment to one's own beliefs. Rather it condemns the oppression or persecution of others.

If I'm going to play, it's going to be 100-percent commitment.

At eight, I made a commitment to poetry. Until then, I thought I'd be a policeman. But I went a whole night without sleeping, and the next day the world had changed. It needed a different language.

The commitments, schedule and sponsor appearances don't change. It gets more busy, because you get more popular, and the more popular you are, it actually gets more busy. They're like, 'Yeah, let's use her, she's hot right now. Let's do a shoot!'

Commitments are one of the worst things to have in the music business. They're very annoying.

We promise according to our hopes and perform according to our fears.

We should strive for steadiness, and for a commitment to God that does not ebb and flow with the years or the crises of our lives.

Mere parsimony is not economy. Expense, and great expense, may be an essential part in true economy.

Commitments the voters don't know about can't hurt you.

Does anybody really think that they didn't get what they had because they didn't have the talent or the strength or the endurance or the commitment?

Take steps each day to be sure your life expresses commitment to Jesus.

One of the commitments that I personally have now is to a diverse approach to buying businesses, and the operation of those businesses.

Obama promised a return to competence and confidence and asked the nation to believe again that the government could do big things well. In the end, he got his big thing, a once-in-a-generation revision to the basic social compact, a commitment of health coverage to nearly all Americans. He has yet to prove he can do it well.

I look forward to beginning a relationship with Al Jazeera America, which has made a commitment to producing quality programming and pursuing underreported stories,

Terror will crash down on us if we fail to understand that a pluralistic society requires the personal and daily commitment of every citizen.

Successful organizations, including the Military, have learned that the higher the risk, the more necessary it is to engage everyone's commitment and intelligence.

Mature love is composed and sustaining; a celebration of commitment, companionship, and trust.

Men are allowed to have passion and commitment for their work... a woman is allowed that feeling for a man, but not her work.

I'm confident President Obama will continue his unambiguous commitment to the Jewish state in his second term.

I am not going to make any commitments to the teachers union to do anything until they do something that's other than in their own self- interest. And everything they have done so far is in their self-interests, and that's it.

I never take any commitment lightly, and I certainly don't take my wife lightly. I never did and I never will. That's permanent. That's true love.

The Israeli government has proved over the past year its commitment to peace, both in words and deeds. By contrast, the Palestinians are posing preconditions for renewing the diplomatic process in a way they have not done over the course of 16 years.

Every profession will have its rogues, of course, no matter what oaths are sworn, but many health care professionals have a real commitment to serving the best interests of their clients.

We've both been married before and our previous experiences made us fearful of commitment.

I think that Subway has shown their own personal commitment as a company and how they believe in healthy choices.

A commitment to human rights cannot be fostered simply through the transmission of knowledge. Action and experience play a crucial role in the learning process.

American actors who voice animated movies are so brilliant at it, because by the nature of American speak, it's full of energy and full of commitment. And as a British actor, we have to kind of learn that.

The great thing that I appreciate - the fact that my godfather, William 'Sticky' Jackson, was a Tuskegee Airman because my father was first born in Ozark, Alabama. The sacrifices and the commitment of those men made it possible for myself and many others.

Asking in faith requires honesty, effort, commitment, and persistence.

Fear of commitment lies behind the fear of writing.

You can't get a good crew and a good sound system, and a good light system if you do a small tour. If you want the best, those guys want a commitment of about 4 to 6 months. And I'd want the best people and the best stuff.

You can be committed to Church but not committed to Christ, but you cannot be committed to Christ and not committed to church.

Some people break promises for the pleasure of breaking them.

All government, indeed every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue, and every prudent act, is founded on compromise and barter.

He who has done his best for his own time has lived for all times.

Back when I was dating, the dreaded C word was Commitment. As soon as most men found out I had a child, they ran. If I ever got close enough to say the words, 'I love you,' they ran faster.

We are still keeping, as much as we can to the one million commitment that we made, hoping that at a certain point in time, the headwinds represented by the strength of the yen will be a little bit less strong.

I do not have any political commitments anymore. I'm politically a total agnostic; I'm one of the few writers in Italy who refuses to be identified with a specific political party.

The hope of a secure and livable world lies with disciplined nonconformists who are dedicated to justice, peace and brotherhood.

Whether that's positive or not, people are talking about the Old Vic Theater again with passion and commitment and controversy and debate.

Today we affirm a new commitment to live out our nation's promise through civility, courage, compassion and character.

This is our commitment to users and the people who use our service, is that Facebook's a free service. It's free now. It will always be free. We make money through having advertisements and things like that.

I applaud the growing commitment of Evangelicals to the needs of the poor and oppressed in urban America.

I don't have children, and I am not sure if I have wanted them or never wanted them. It's weird not to be able to decide. I don't know if I could stand that kind of commitment, or if I am really honest, I don't think that I could handle being that vulnerable to someone else.

I teach at Eastern University, which is highly committed to doing work among the poor and the oppressed peoples of the world. We have a special commitment to the city.

Equity feminism is a moral doctrine about equal treatment that makes no commitments regarding open empirical issues in psychology or biology.

I'm sure that at no point in my life could I ever have shown the kind of focus and discipline and commitment necessary to work a station at elBulli or Le Bernardin. No. That ain't me.

Men move through a much different process before commitment than women do.

The design of the Mac wasn't what it looked like, although that was part of it. Primarily, it was how it worked. To design something really well, you have to get it. You have to really grok what it's all about. It takes a passionate commitment to really thoroughly understand something, chew it up, not just quickly swallow it.

I, for one, am quite willing to join the 'forgive, forget and move on' crowd, but it does make me wonder if Evangelicals are going to sound believable when they say that they tend to vote Republican because of their religious commitments to the family.

I've used the prestige and influence of having been a president of the United States as effectively as possible. And secondly, I've still been able to carry out my commitments to peace and human rights and environmental quality and freedom and democracy and so forth.

So I really would like to see both parties respond to the poor with greater commitment. But I've got to tell you, the Democrats, I feel, are doing a better job in that respect than Republicans are.

I go to Malawi twice a year. It's where two of my children were adopted from, and I have a lot of projects there that I go and check up on and children who I look after. It's sort of a commitment that I've made to this country and the hundreds of thousands of children there who have been orphaned by AIDS.

The perfection of our union, especially our commitment to equality of opportunity, has been a story of constant striving to live up to our Founding principles. This is what Abraham Lincoln meant when he said, 'In giving freedom to the slave, we assure freedom to the free - honorable alike in what we give, and what we preserve.'

Do business managers have a commitment to anything more than the success of their company and to making money? It would be hard to say that they do. Indeed, many business leaders deny that there is any conflict between self-interest and the interests of all.

A hundred years ago, if you had a child out of marriage, you'd be a social disgrace. Today women feel comfortable enough economically and culturally to bring up a child without a recognized commitment from a man.

Moral certainty, clear standards, and a commitment to spiritual ideals will set you apart in a world that searches for meaning.

The leader of an Earth organization who makes a commitment to history - of humans living on Earth, to begin permanent settlement/occupation of not the moon, but of another planet - this leader will have a legacy for history that will supersede Columbus, Genghis Khan or almost any recognized leader.

It was not until I had graduated from college that I made a professional commitment to it. Frankly, I didn't think it wise. I was my own interior parental force, and it's very difficult to justify a profession as a dancer.

The Democrats have pretty much given up on the white working class. That would require a commitment to economic issues and that's not their concern.

What one has, one ought to use: and whatever he does he should do with all his might.

Better a broken promise than none at all.

The decision to go to the moon is now appreciated and associated with President Kennedy's speech, but somebody else had told him it was a good idea. It turned out to be a good commitment, but it was a unique situation.

If I am elected President, the Castro regime will have no reason to doubt our unwavering commitment to your cause. The regime will feel the full weight of American resolve.

Montrose High, at one time, was a good football town and I think it can be that way again. A big factor in my decision was the administration and the community's commitment to get this thing going in the right direction.

On Taiwan, I reiterated our strong commitment to a 'one China' policy, to the importance of direct dialogue and a peaceful resolution of the dispute,

Nobody could want this job more than I do, I don't think. I also don't think anybody could have more of a commitment to this county than I do.

Nicole is one of the best Wyoming kids to come out of the state in a while and we are thrilled that she is staying home. She has a very high level of commitment to the game of soccer and has gone out and gotten a lot of experience by playing on different club teams in Utah. She is very solid technically, has great speed and is very athletic.

When I looked at who would be the best choice to lead this district, I wanted to make sure that I endorsed a candidate who shared my commitment to the families, schools, and safety of this community. Janet Reilly understands the challenges facing Bay Area families. Janet is smart, committed, and policy oriented -- I trust her to make the thoughtful leadership decisions that will truly move California forward.

My family and I are excited to be staying in Chicago through the 2009 season. Thanks to the passion and commitment of my staff, players and the entire Rush organization over the past six years, we have been able to build a team we all can be proud of.

Major shifts in transportation priorities are essential to achieving energy independence and maintaining national security, ... A serious commitment to rail and transit has been a missing element in the U.S. strategy to reduce our dependence on Middle East oil.

Like all Chrysler branded products, a key component of the Chrysler 300's success is the fact that it is competitively priced and offers exceptional value in its segment, ... The Great American Package is further proof of our commitment to provide a vehicle with elegant design, inspired engineering and exceptional value.

Somebody is going to have to show a commitment to doing it.

Oldcastle Materials enjoys an enviable reputation in the industry for quality and excellence, as well its commitment to safety and the welfare of its employees. We chose to join Oldcastle because its values and corporate philosophy were right in line with our own when it comes to the value and regard it places on employees and its relationships with customers.

Obviously, what we seek is what has been sought in the Senate, and that is a specific commitment that this will be brought up by a certain time on the floor of the House in a way that there is time for a full debate, consideration of various alternatives and an ability on the part of the House to vote on this matter before we leave.

One of the things I love about working with my brother is that there's a commitment there - an unwavering commitment. From our basement in Illinois when I was three years old to Iceland on a frozen glacier with Matthew McConaughey and Matt Damon in spacesuits - there's a commitment to the pure spectacle, the pure cinema of it.

One of the things I tell my own daughter and also the children I work with is something I learned long ago from my grandmother. Your word is your honor. If you make a commitment it is your responsibility to live up to your word. If you don't then this is a reflection on your character and ultimately on your honor as a person of integrity.

No defense at all. There was no commitment at the defensive end of the floor. Whether it was rebounding the ball, containing the ball or defending the perimeter, we just stopped playing. We quit.

Only a consistent, ongoing, deep experience can make a lasting media brand: one that has a commitment from a core community and the respect of a larger reading public.

Only after the DPRK implements its commitment to abandon all nuclear weapons and existing nuclear programs in a verifiable manner, may we discuss the issue of a light-water reactor,

One of our greatest success stories of the last couple of years is our commitment to provide up-scale affordable senior housing. You will see the fourth complex begin construction in 2006.

One of our primary objectives is to bring HOMELAND SECURITY CORPORATION to a fully reporting status. Further, it is our intent to move forward with our sales and marketing plan for 2006 and develop strategic alliances in the government security sector. These actions underline the commitment to build shareholder equity and confidence.

Men are allowed to have passion and commitment for their work ... a woman is allowed that feeling for a man, but not her work.

Of course, none of this would be possible without the passion and dedication of our team of professionals. For this reason, we were extremely honored to be named one of FORTUNE magazine's '100 Best Companies to Work for in America' for the 7th time and are proud to be in the company of such forward-thinking employers, including more than 30 of our own clients. This honor marks a fitting start to 2006, which Bright Horizons has designated as 'The Year of the Teacher.' During the year, we will be focusing attention on early educators around the world and the important contributions they make through their commitment to children, and their families, during the most formative years of their lives. As an industry leader, we are committed to raising the bar for standards of high-quality child care and education through professional opportunities and lifetime learning for teachers.

My decision not to run for the U.S. Senate is based on my commitment to achieve a Democratic majority in the U.S. House of Representatives, and my desire to become the next chairman of the House Democratic Caucus.

My decision to look seriously at elected office is grounded in a deep commitment to public service and my experience - both my own and that of my family - in finding just, practical, and bipartisan solutions to difficult challenges.