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Omissions are not accidents.
Marianne Moore
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Poet
Accidents
Omission
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The art of drawing is the art of omission.
Max Liebermann
/
Art
Drawing
Omission
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Deception by an omission of the truth is as bad as a lie.
Jennifer Chiaverini
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Author
Deception
Lying
Omission
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A man does not sin by commission only, but often by omission.
Marcus Aurelius
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Roman Emperor
Religion
Men
Omission
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Not only our actions, but also our omissions, become our destiny.
Abraham Verghese
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Physician
Destiny
Omission
Our Actions
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The omission of good is no less reprehensible than the commission of evil.
Plutarch
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Biographer
Good
Evil
Omission
Wickedness
Less
Commission
Reprehensible
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Sins of commission are far more productive of happiness than the sins of omission.
Myrtle Reed
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Author
Omission
Productive
Sin
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It is the sin of omission, the second kind of sin, That lays eggs under your skin.
Ogden Nash
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Poet
Eggs
Omission
Skins
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The world turns on our every action, and our every omission, whether we know it or not.
Abraham Verghese
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Physician
Action
Omission
World
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I think if you don't say something it's lying by omission. I personally think it's immoral.
Viggo Mortensen
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Actor
Lying
Omission
Thinking
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I do believe in [Robert] Bresson's method of creation through omission, not through addition.
Abbas Kiarostami
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Film Director
Believe
Creation
Omission
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Most of the harm in the world is done by good people, and not by accident, lapse or omission.
Isabel Paterson
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Journalist
Lapses
Omission
People
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You have to make choices always. It's about the omission of something for the sake of another.
Edward Zwick
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Filmmaker
Choices
Omission
Sake
Always Something Make
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The particular sin of omission which gives ground to the evil spirits is the believer’s passivity.
Watchman Nee
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Author
Evil
Giving
Omission
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No artist knows everything... but since every artist knows more than he can tell, all art is lying by omission.
Glen Duncan
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Author
Art
Lying
Omission
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Shed, as you do your garments, your daily sins, whether of omission or commission, and you will wake a free man, with a new life.
William Osler
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Physician
Men
New Life
Omission
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Let none find fault with others; let none see the omissions and commissions of others. But let one see one's own acts, done and undone.
Gautama Buddha
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Founding Figure
Buddhist
Done
Omission
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Although I am deeply grateful to a great many people, I forgo the temptation of naming them for fear that I might slight any by omission.
Theodore Bikel
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Actor
Grateful
Omission
People
Temptation
Deeply
Forgo
Naming
Slight
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Look not to the faults of others, nor to their omissions and commissions. But rather look to your own acts, to what you have done and left undone.
Gautama Buddha
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Founding Figure
Done
Looks
Omission
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Omission is a sin only if, in the process of deceiving, you forget the truth. Lying is a sin only if, in the process, the lie becomes the only truth.
Julianna Baggott
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Novelist
Lying
Omission
Sin
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Omission to do what is necessary Seals a commission to a blank of danger; And danger, like an ague, subtly taints Even then when we sit idly in the sun.
William Shakespeare
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Poet
Danger
Omission
Sun
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The whole motley confusion of acts, omissions, regrets and hopes which is the life of each one of us finds in death, not meaning or explanation, but an end.
Octavio Paz
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Poet
Life And Death
Omission
Regret
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A concealed truth, that's all a lie is. Either by omission or commission we never do more than obscure. The truth stays in the undergrowth, waiting to be discovered.
Josephine Hart
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Film Writer
Lying
Omission
Waiting
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I do not like [in the new Federal Constitution] the omission of a Bill of Rights providing clearly and without the aid of sophisms for... protection against standing armies
Thomas Jefferson
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3Rd U.s. President
Army
Omission
Rights
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Would a writer know how to behave himself with relation td posterity? Let him consider in old books what he finds that he is glad to know, and what omissions he most laments.
Jonathan Swift
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Pamphleteer
Authorship
Book
Omission
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What believer sees a disturbing omission or infelicity? The text, whether of prophet or of poet, expands for whatever we can put into it, and even his bad grammar is sublime.
George Eliot
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Novelist
Omission
Poet
Sublime
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It is a sin against God not to pray for the Israel of God, especially for those of them that are under our charge. Good men are afraid of the guilt of omissions ( I Samuel 12).
Matthew Henry
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Author
Men
Israel
Omission
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You have to be down here in the States to realize just how tightly controlled the corporate media is and how much they practise Soviet-style censorship through creative omission.
Jello Biafra
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Singer
Censorship
Corporate
Creative
Media
Omission
Practise
States
Much
Through
Down
How Much
Realize
Tightly
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Some consider the puzzles that are created by their omissions as spicy challenges, without which their texts would be boring; others shun clarity lest their work is considered trivial.
Edsger Dijkstra
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Computer Scientist
Challenges
Omission
Would Be
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As a democratic society, Malawi has a moral obligation to ensure that each and every injustice, whether through acts of commission or omission, is met with deliberate and tangible action.
Joyce Banda
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President Of Malawi
Action
Deliberate
Democratic
Democratic Society
Injustice
Moral
Moral Obligation
Obligation
Omission
Tangible
Acts
Commission
Ensure
Met
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The imitator treads a beaten walk, and with all his diligence can only find a few flowers or branches untouched by his predecessor, the refuse of contempt, or the omissions of negligence.
Samuel Johnson
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Writer
Branches
Flower
Omission
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Self-conceit is a weighty quality, and will sometimes bring down the scale when there is nothing else in it. It magnifies a fault beyond proportion, and swells every omission into an outrage.
Jeremy Collier
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Quality
Omission
Self
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I am well aware that the path of the biographer is beset with pitfalls, and that, for him, suppressio veri is almost necessarily suggestio falsi - the least omission may distort the whole picture.
Stuart Dodgson Collingwood
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Author
Omission
Path
Pitfalls
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Three conditions are necessary for Penance: contrition, which is sorrow for sin, together with a purpose of amendment; confession of sins without any omission; and satisfaction by means of good works.
Thomas Aquinas
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Priest
Catholic
Conditions
Contrition
Mean
Omission
Penance
Purpose
Satisfaction
Sin
Sorrow
Three
Together
Amendment
Works
Good Works
Necessary
Sins
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I have spent weeks in the desert, forgetting to look at the moon, he says, as a married man may spend days never looking into the face of his wife. These are not sins of omission but signs of pre-occuopation.
Michael Ondaatje
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Novelist
Men
Moon
Omission
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I did write a number of reports on my political experiences, but there were many omissions, and I feel bad about that because it was work that was interesting and had I written more about it, it could have been useful.
Grace Paley
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Writer
Numbers
Omission
Writing
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As with the government failures that made 9/11 possible, neglecting to prevent the crash of '08 was a sin of omission - less the result of deregulation per se than of disbelief in financial regulation as a legitimate mechanism.
Jacob Weisberg
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Journalist
Crash
Deregulation
Disbelief
Omission
Regulation
Sin
Per
Neglecting
Prevent
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The Bible speaks of the sense of commission, which is doing what you should not do, instead of omission, which is not doing what you should do. It says in the book of James that if you know to do good and don't do it, it is sin.
Greg Laurie
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Pastor
Book
Omission
Speak
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Most of the harm in the world is done by good people, and not by accident, lapse, or omission. It is the result of their deliberate actions, long persevered in, which they hold to be motivated by high ideals toward virtuous ends.
Isabel Paterson
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Journalist
Long
Omission
School
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Nothing can be said: nothing sure, nothing probable, nothing honest. Better to err through omission than through commission: better to refrain from steering the fate of others, since it is already so difficult to navigate one's own.
Primo Levi
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Chemist
Fate
Honest
Omission
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Even Avataras, saints, and sages have to undergo the ordeal of suffering, for they take upon themselves the burden of sins of omission and commission of ordinary human beings and thereby sacrifice themselves for the good of humanity.
Sarada Devi
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Biographer
Humanity
Omission
Sacrifice
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I was so stressed in the closet. In an interview, I was scared they were going to ask me about a crush, or the type of girl I liked, or whatever it was. And I was going to have to lie by omission. It was always in the back of my mind.
Gus Kenworthy
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Omission
Stressed
Interview
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The argument has never been whether Kaepernick is one of the top five quarterbacks in the NFL. He's not in the top 10 either. But when you consider the alternatives teams are considering, Kaepernick's omission begins to look ridiculous.
Joy Taylor
/
Alternatives
Considering
Nfl
Omission
Quarterback
Begins
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Pardon, we beseech Thee, all our offences of omission and commission; and grant that in all our thoughts, words, and actions, we may conform to Thy known will manifested in our consciences, and in the revelations of Jesus Christ our Saviour.
Timothy Pickering
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Former United States Secretary Of State
Jesus
May
Omission
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Some voluntary castaways there will always be, whom no fostering kindness and no parental care can preserve from self-destruction; but if any are lost for want of care and culture, there is a sin of omission in the society to which they belong.
Robert Southey
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Poet
Kindness
Omission
Self
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The truth and regularity of a character is not, in justice, to be looked upon as broken, from any one single act or omission which may seem a contradiction to it:Mthe best of men appear sometimes to be strange compounds of contradictory qualities.
Laurence Sterne
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Novelist
Men
Character
Omission
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He, then, that would really, thoroughly, and acceptably mortify any disquieting lust, let him take care to be equally diligent in all parts of obedience, and know that every lust, every omission of duty, is burdensome to God, though but one is so to him.
John Owen
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Author
Care
Lust
Omission
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In a brave new world, a post-September 11 world, anyone is going to make certain mistakes. The mistakes that have been made on homeland security, on protecting our Nation from another terrorist attack, are mistakes of omission. We are simply not doing enough.
Chuck Schumer
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Brave
Brave New World
Homeland
Homeland Security
New World
Omission
Terrorist
Brave World New
Mistakes
Attack
Protecting
Terrorist Attack
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States kill when they apply the death penalty, when they send their people to war, or when they carry out extra-judicial or summary executions. They can also kill by omission, when they fail to guarantee to their people access to the bare essentials for life.
Pope Francis
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War
Omission
People
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Since those don’t hit financial reports, the opportunities you had but didn’t accept, most people don’t bother thinking about them very much. At least that is a mistake we don’t make. We rub our own noses in our mistakes in blowing opportunities, as we just did.
Charlie Munger
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Business Person
Mistake
Omission
People
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