"Think not, is my eleventh commandment; and sleep……" — Herman Melville

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• Science knows only one commandment - contribute to science. — Bertolt Brecht
• And that's really what's happening in this country is a violation of the First Commandment. We have become a country… — Sharron Angle
• [Let] the poor the needy and oppressed of the Earth, and those who want Land, resort to the fertile lands… — George Washington
• I always tried to live up to Leo Szilard's commandment, "don't lie if you don't have to." I had to.… — Albert Szent-Gyorgyi
• I trust there are none here present, who profess to be followers of Christ who do not also practice prayer… — Charles Spurgeon
• It is the daily; it is the small; it is the cumulative injuries of little people that we are here… — Learned Hand
• If we are to keep our democracy, there must be one commandment: thou shalt not ration justice. — Learned Hand
• There is but one unconditional commandment ... to bring about the very largest total universe of good which we can… — William James
• 'Take offense at the drop of a hat' is the unwritten eleventh commandment. — Richard Dawkins
• The eleventh commandment, "Thou shalt not be found out" is despicable, but nevertheless, it is the one thing you can… — Emily Post
• The Tenth Commandment sends a message to socialists, to egalitarians, to people obsessed with fairness, to American presidential candidates in… — P.J. O'Rourke
• 'Thou shalt not kill' does not apply to murder of one's own kind only, but to all living beings and… — Leo Tolstoy

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