- Duty
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- Nov 07, 2020
Binding Quotes
What binds people, beliefs, and promises together.
This collection of binding quotes explores commitments that hold, from personal consistency to the quieter bonds formed between people through shared struggle. Related reading: our Business quotes.
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- Essential Part
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- Nov 07, 2020
But, strictly speaking, this mythology was no essential part of ancient religion, for it had no sacred sanction and no binding force on the worshippers.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
I shall always be consistent and never change my ways so long as I am in my senses; but for the sake of precedent the Senate should beware of binding itself to support the acts of any man, since he might through some mischance suffer a change.
- Politics
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- Nov 07, 2020
Politics in America is the binding secular religion.
- Clean
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- Nov 07, 2020
A binding treaty and mandatory human rights due diligence would clean up slavery in global supply chains. Workers demand it, and consumers demand it.
- Creator
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- Nov 07, 2020
The law established by the Creator, which has existed from the beginning, extends over the whole globe, is everywhere and at all times binding upon mankind.
- Important
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- Nov 07, 2020
Conservatism is, among many other things, a culture. The most important glue binding it together is a shared sense of cultural grievance - the conviction, uniting conservatives high and low, theocratic and plutocratic, neocon and paleocon, that someone, somewhere is looking down their noses at them with a condescending sneer.
- God
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- Nov 07, 2020
The Son of God took our nature, and in it took upon himself to teach us by both word and example even to the point of death, thus binding us to himself through love.
- Existence
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- Nov 07, 2020
All treaties between great states cease to be binding when they come in conflict with the struggle for existence.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
When a man says he is building a house for himself and his posterity, he does not mean to be understood as saying that he has any thought of binding them, nor is it to be inferred that he is so foolish as to imagine that he has any right or power to bind them, to live in it.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
With the notion of marriage - an exclusive, emotional, binding 'til death do you part' tie - becoming more and more an exception to the rule given a rise in cohabitation and high rates of divorce, why should the federal government be telling adults who love one another that they cannot get married simply because they happen to be gay?
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have no theories about the divorce rate or things like that, but it does occur to me that dealing with kids and their problems can be real binding glue. It keeps you out of the range of too much ego.
- First
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- Nov 07, 2020
What makes the Universal Declaration an epochal document is first of all its global impetus and secondly the breadth of its claims, a commitment to a new social contract, binding on all the Governments of the world.
- Denies
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- Nov 07, 2020
Altho that is so, Ireland has always denied and Ireland still denies that the Union was binding upon her either legally or morally. And here on this historic occasion we have assembled to renew our protest and to place it upon record.
- Most
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- Nov 07, 2020
A risk-insensitive leverage ratio can be a useful backstop to risk-based capital requirements. But such a ratio can have perverse incentives if it is the binding capital requirement because it treats relatively safe activities, such as central clearing, as equivalent to the most risky activities.
- Business
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- Nov 07, 2020
A marriage contract to me is as binding as any in business, and I have always believed in sticking to an agreement.
- Order
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- Nov 07, 2020