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«Love means to commit oneself without guarantee, to give oneself completely in the hope that our love will produce love in the loved person. Love is an act of faith, and whoever is of little faith is also of little love.»
«I never felt settled or calm. You can't really commit to life when you feel that.»
Author: Angelina Jolie (Actress) | Keywords: calm, commit, felt, settled
«Having a child is surely the most beautifully irrational act that two people in love can commit.»
«It is not enough to understand, or to see clearly. The future will be shaped in the arena of human activity, by those willing to commit their minds and their bodies to the task.»
«It is here, my daughters, that love is to be found / not hidden away in corners but in the midst of occasions of sin. And believe me, although we may more often fail and commit small lapses, our gain will be incomparably the greater.»
«If a thousand men were not to pay their tax-bills this year, that would not be a violent and bloody measure, as it would be to pay them, and enable the State to commit violence and shed innocent blood. This is, in fact, the definition of a peaceable revolution, if any such is possible.»
«I don't like to commit myself about heaven and hell - you see, I have friends in both places»
«I represent to you all the sins you have never had the courage to commit.»
«Laws that forbid the carrying of arms...disarm only those who are neither inclined nor determined to commit crimes...Such laws make things worse for the assaulted and better for the assailants; they serve rather to encourage than to prevent homicides, for an unarmed man may be attacked with greater confidence than an armed man.»
«No man has a natural right to commit aggression on the equal rights of another, and this is all from which the laws ought to restrain him.»

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