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  • Of one thing, however, I am certain. Just as an execution without adequate safeguards is unacceptable, so too is an execution when the condemned prisoner can prove that he is innocent. The execution of a person who can show that he is innocent comes perilously close to simple murder.

  • Whatever you can think, you can create; just have a very clear vision... Once you have your snapshot, work on filling in the blanks to get to that place.

  • The ideal may seem remote of execution, but the democratic ideal of education is a farcical yet tragic delusion except as the ideal more and more dominates our public system of education.

    John Dewey (2015). “Democracy and Education: Top American Authors”, p.75, 谷月社
  • If a woman were about to proceed to her execution, she would demand a little time to perfect her toilet.

  • But a good patriot, and a true politician, always considers how he shall make the most of the existing materials of his country. A disposition, to preserve, and an ability to improve, taken together, would be my standard of a statesman. Everything else is vulgar in the conception, perilous in the execution.

    Edmund Burke (1852). “The Works and Correspondance of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke”, p.280
  • So often the difference between success and failure is belief. Belief leads to action and execution.

  • Evaluate wins and losses objectively, focusing more on effort and execution than on the outcome of the game

    Morgan Wootten, Joe Wootten (2012). “Coaching Basketball Successfully-3rd Edition”, p.15, Human Kinetics
  • Ideas without execution are hallucinations.

  • If there is no God, then man and the universe are doomed. Like prisoners condemned to death, we await our unavoidable execution. There is no God, and there is no immortality. And what is the consequence of this? It means that life itself is absurd. It means that the life we have is without ultimate significance, value, or purpose.

    Atheist   Mean   Men  
    "Reasonable Faith: Christian Truth and Apologetics". Book by William Lane Craig, 1994.
  • The history of all Magazines shows plainly that those which have attained celebrity were indebted for it to articles similar in natureto Berenice--although, I grant you, far superior in style and execution. I say similar in nature. You ask me in what does this nature consist? In the ludicrous heightened into the grotesque: the fearful coloured into the horrible: the witty exaggerated into the burlesque: the singular wrought out into the strange and mystical.

    Witty   Style   Execution  
    Edgar Allan Poe (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Edgar Allan Poe (Illustrated)”, p.3363, Delphi Classics
  • My weakness has always been to prefer the large intention of an unskilful artist to the trivial intention of an accomplished one: in other words, I am more interested in the high ideas of a feeble executant than in the high execution of a feeble thinker.

    Writing   Artist   Ideas  
    Thomas Hardy (2007). “Thomas Hardy”, p.319, Wordsworth Editions
  • The development of an organism ... may be considered as the execution of a 'developmental program' present in the fertilized egg. ... A central task of developmental biology is to discover the underlying algorithm from the course of development.

    Science   Eggs   Tasks  
    Aristid Lindenmayer, Grzegorz Rozenberg (1976). “Automata, languages, development”, North-Holland
  • What the world needs is an Emergency Boss. An Emergency Czar. An Emergency Commander. A true Master Of Disaster. One person completely responsible for the anticipation, immediate reconnaissance, and urgent execution of rescue and relief efforts around the world.

    "We Need An Emergency Boss" by Steven Van Zandt, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 13, 2010.
  • Ideas are worthless. Execution is everything.

  • You are not going to be lost when you get to hell. If you are without Christ, you are lost right now. Your trial is already over. You've already been sentenced. You're just waiting for execution morning to roll around.

  • Art in its execution and direction is dependent on the time in which it lives, and artists are creatures of their epoch. The highest art will be that which in its conscious content presents the thousandfold problems of the day, the art which has been visibly shattered by the explosions of last week The best and most extraordinary artists will be those who every hour snatch the tatters of their bodies out of the frenzied cataract of life, who, with bleeding hands and hearts, hold fast to the intelligence of their time.

    Art   Hands   Body  
  • ...Simplifications have had a much greater long-range scientific impact than individual feats of ingenuity. The opportunity for simplification is very encouraging, because in all examples that come to mind the simple and elegant systems tend to be easier and faster to design and get right, more efficient in execution, and much more reliable than the more contrived contraptions that have to be debugged into some degree of acceptability....Simplicity and elegance are unpopular because they require hard work and discipline to achieve and education to be appreciated.

  • The most wounding insult to an educated Russian was to be called nekulturny-uncultured-yet the same men who sat in the gilt boxes at the Moscow State Opera weeping at the end of a performance of Boris Gudunov could immediately turn around and order the execution or imprisonment of a hundred men without blinking. A strange people, made more strange by their political philosophy.

    Philosophy   Men   Order  
  • Great captains do never use long orations when it comes to the point of execution.

    Long   Use   Captains  
  • Thought, then, is the execution of this computer code.

  • For when a nation becomes civilized, if it does not drop human sacrifices altogether, it at least selects as victims only such wretches as would be put to death at any rate. Thus the killing of a god may sometimes come to be confounded with the execution of a criminal.

    "The Golden Bough: A Study in Comparative Religion". Book by James G. Frazer, 1890.
  • I go to the chair of government with feelings not unlike those of a culprit who is going to the place of his execution.

    George Washington, Dorothy Twohig, William Wright Abbot (1987). “The Papers of George Washington: April-June 1789”
  • How had I not seen that there was nothing more important than an execution, and that when you come right down to it, it was the only thing a man could truly be interested in?

    Albert Camus (2012). “The Stranger”, p.110, Vintage
  • Excellence matters, and technology advances so fast that the potential for improvement is tremendous. So, since becoming CEO again, I've pushed hard to increase our velocity, improve our execution, and focus on the big bets that will make a difference in the world.

    "More glass from Google: CEO Larry Page gets transparent" by Steven Levy, www.wired.com. April 5, 2012.
  • There is no good government but what is republican. That the only valuable part of the British constitution is so; for the true idea of a republic is "an empire of laws, and not of men." That, as a republic is the best of governments, so that particular arrangement of the powers of society, or in other words, that form of government which is best contrived to secure an impartial and exact execution of the law, is the best of republics.

    Men   Law   Ideas  
  • The war against Russia is an important chapter in the German nation's struggle for existence. [...] The objective of this battle must be the demolition of present-day Russia and must therefore be conducted with unprecedented severity. Every military action must be guided in planning and execution by an iron resolution to exterminate the enemy remorselessly and totally. In particular, no adherents of the contemporary Russian Bolshevik system are to be spared.

    Military   War   Struggle  
  • Humanity is fickle. They may dress for a morning coronation and never feel the need to change clothes for an execution in the afternoon. So Triumphal Sundays and Good Fridays always fit comfortably into the same April week.

    Friday   Morning   Sunday  
    Calvin Miller (2009). “The Singer: A Classic Retelling of Cosmic Conflict”, p.87, InterVarsity Press
  • The essential thing is action. Action has three stages: the decision born of thought, the order or preparation for execution, and the execution itself. All three stages are governed by the will. The will is rooted in character, and for the man of action character is of more critical importance than intellect. Intellect without will is worthless, will without intellect is dangerous.

    Hans von Seeckt (1930). “Thoughts of a Soldier”
  • It is hard to conceive that the old, whose thoughts have been all thought out, should ever love to live alone. Solitude is surely for the young, who have time before them for the execution of schemes, and who can, therefore, take delight in thinking

    Anthony Trollope (2016). “Anthony Trollope: The Chronicles of Barsetshire & The Palliser Novels (Unabridged): The Warden + The Barchester Towers + Doctor Thorne + Framley Parsonage + The Small House at Allington + The Last Chronicle of Barset + Can You Forgive Her? + The Prime Minister + Eustace Diamonds...”, p.2395, e-artnow (Open Publishing)
  • Mental fight means thinking against the current, not with it. It is our business to puncture gas bags and discover seeds of truth.

    Truth   Business   Mean  
    "Thoughts on Peace in an Air Raid".
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