"Anyone can be rich in promises."
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"How little is the promise of the child fulfilled in the man."
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"Never make a promise - you may have to keep it."
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"Perfection is a promise, and a reassurance that we are not wrong."
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"Under extremely difficult circumstances (Iraq) pursues the inherently complicated task of rebuilding the country. Yet Iraq continues, courageously, to reach for the promise of a democratic, federal and pluralistic state, where generations of oppressed Iraqis will regain their dignity, freedom and the right to join the civilized and progressive nations of the world."
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"In the past the need for a hierarchal form of society has been the doctrine specifically of the High. It had been preached by kings and aristocrats and the priests, lawyers and the like who were parasitical upon them, and it had generally been softened by promises of an imaginary world beyond the grave."
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"Some gave me soft words and some blunt, some made excuses, some promises, some only lied. In the end words are just wind."
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"[Let] the poor the needy and oppressed of the Earth, and those who want Land, resort to the fertile lands of our western country, the second land of Promise, and there dwell in peace, fulfilling the first and great commandment."
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"Races, better than we, have leaned on her wavering promise, Having naught else but Hope."
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"A scheme of which every part promises delight, can never be successful; and general disappointment is only warded off by the defence of some little peculiar vexation."
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"I'm sorry I can't give you the normal life you wanted, but I promise to adore you every day for the rest of your new one."
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"Legislators and revolutionaries who promise both equality and liberty are visionaries and charlatans."
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"Those are not at all to be tolerated who deny the being of God. Promises, covenants, and oaths, which are the bonds of human society, can have no hold upon an atheist. The taking away of God, though but even in thought, dissolves all."
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"The fact of our deriving constant pleasure from whatever is a type or semblance of divine attributes, and from nothing but that which is so, is the most glorious of all that can be demonstrated of human nature; it not only sets a great gulf of specific separation between us and the lower animals, but it seems a promise of a communion ultimately deep, close, and conscious, with the Being whose darkened manifestations we here feebly and unthinkingly delight in."
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"The best way to killing a rose is to force it open when it is still only the promise of a bud."
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"The future is plump with promise."
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"Barack didn't pledge riches, only a life that would be interesting. On that promise he delivered."
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"Real Democrats don't make promises they can't keep."
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"A moment of complete happiness never occurs in the creation of a work of art. The promise of it is felt in the act of creation but disappears towards the completion of the work. For it is then the painter realises that it is only a picture he is painting. Until then he had almost dared to hope the picture might spring to life."
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"Promises were a lot like impressions. The second one didn't count for much."
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