"The left promises abortion rights and cradle to the grave protection, so the trick is to make it to the cradle."
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"There is a creative solution to every problem. Every possibility holds the promise of abundance."
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"In every life, no matter how full or empty ones purse, there is tragedy. It is the one promise life always fulfills. Thus, happiness is a gift, and the trick is not to expect it, but to delight in it when it comes, and to add to other peoples store of it."
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"The most he would do was to promise that the gates of hell should not prevail against it. It is about all that, looking back on the history of the Church, one can feel that they have not done."
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"as the shadows assume shapes I fight the slow retreat now my once-promise dwindling dwindling now lighting new cigarettes pouring more drinks it has been a beautiful fight still is."
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"It is easy to make promises - it is hard work to keep them."
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"One must never place a loaded rifle on the stage if it isn't going to go off. It's wrong to make promises you don't mean to keep."
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"Come seeking to know Him, and I promise you will find Him and see Him in His true character as the risen, redeeming Savior of the world."
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"I never promise a woman anything nor let her know what I'm going to give her. That's the only way to manage them. Always keep them guessing. If you cant think of any other way to surprise them, give them a bust in the jaw."
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"What is the use of living, if it be not to strive for noble causes and to make this muddled world a better place for those who will live in it after we are gone? How else can we put ourselves in harmonious relation with the great verities and consolations of the infinite and the eternal? And I avow my faith that we are marching towards better days. Humanity will not be cast down. We are going on swinging bravely forward along the grand high road and already behind the distant mountains is the promise of the sun."
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"An oath is a promise-and a promise can be made regardless of feeling."
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"Time is so strange and life is twice as strange. You must promise me not to live to be too old, William. It if is at all convenient, die before you're fifty. It my take a bit of doing. But I advise this is simply because there is no telling when another Helen Loomis might be born. It would be dreadful, wouldn't it, if you lived on to be very very old and some afternoon in 1999 walked down Main street and saw me standing there, aged twenty-one, and the whole thing out of balance again?"
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"If you can't give me your word of honour, will you give me your promise?"
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"The possible redemption from the predicament of irreversibility──of being unable to undo what one has done──is the faculty of forgiving. The remedy for unpredictability, for the chaotic uncertainty of the future, is contained in the faculty to make and keep promises. Both faculties depend upon plurality, on the presence and acting of others, for no man can forgive himself and no one can be bound by a promise made only to himself."
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"In the end, like so many beautiful promises in our lives, that dinner date never came to be."
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"Lovely promise and quick ruin are seen nowhere better than in Gothic architecture."
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"I promise myself great pleasure from my visit to England. You know I am to stay with Dickens while in London; and beside his own very agreeable society, I shall enjoy that of the most noted literary men of the day, which will be a great gratification to me."
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"It looks like I'm going to be 40 and life begins at 40 - so they promise. And I believe it, too."
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"The promises of maniacs, like those of women, are not safely relied upon."
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"Perhaps the promise of phallus is always dissatisfying in some way."
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