"America knows it has got to deal with its deficit problems so that it, too, can promise it is making its proper and best contributions to the world economy."
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"Most religion-mongers have bated their paradises with a bit of toasted cheese. They have tempted the body with large promises of possessions in their transmortal El Dorado. Sancho Panza will not quit his chimney-corner, but under promise of imaginary islands to govern."
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"How wealthy the gods would be if we remembered the promises we made when we were in danger."
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"When I went to the analyst for a kind of preliminary meeting, he said, 'I'll be able to fix you so that you'll write much more music than you do now.' I said, 'Good heavens! I already write too much, it seems to me.' That promise of his put me off."
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"Poverty hath slain a thousand, but riches have slain ten thousand. They are very uncertain, they promise that which they cannot perform, neither can they afford a contented mind."
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"Flirting is a promise of sexual intercourse without a guarantee."
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"At fifteen, beauty and talent do not exist; there can only be promise of the coming woman."
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"If we're going to prevent people from being susceptible to the false promises of extremism, then the international community has to offer something better and the United States intends to do its part."
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"...the past gives you an identity and the future holds the promise of salvation, of fulfillment in whaterver form. Both are illusions."
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"We are a people trying not only to solve the problems of the present: unemployment, inflation... but we are attempting on a larger scale to fulfill the promise of America."
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"My faceless neighbor spoke up: “Don’t be deluded. Hitler has made it clear that he will annihilate all Jews before the clock strikes twelve.” I exploded: “What do you care what he said? Would you want us to consider him a prophet? His cold eyes stared at me. At last he said, wearily: “I have more faith in Hitler than in anyone else. He alone has kept his promises, all his promises, to the Jewish people."
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"And you treat me wonderfully and keep all your promises."
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"A man who has been in danger, When he comes out of it forgets his fears, And sometimes he forgets his promises."
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"Enemies' promises were made to be broken."
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"It is my happy privilege to be able to stand here and tell you that if you elect me you will have elected a governor who has made no promises of preferment to any man or group."
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"In view of our public pledges, we public officials can never again go before the public merely promising election reform. The time for promises is past."
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"Wonder and despair are two sides of a spinning coin. When you open yourself to one, you open yourself to the other. You discover a capacity for joy that wasn't in you before. Wonder is the promise of restoration: as deeply as you dive, so may you rise."
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"In your promises cleave to what is right, And you will be able to fulfill your word."
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"You always pay too much. Particularly for promises. There aint no such thing as a bargain promise."
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"No matter how the sun shone, the sea held forth no more promises."
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