"God doesn't slack his promises because of our sins or hasten them because of our righteousness. He pays no attention to either."
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"Resistances do not derive from a few heterogeneous principles; but neither are they a lure or a promise that is of necessity betrayed. They are the odd term in relations of power; they are inscribed in the latter as an irreducible opposite."
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"Wine in excess keeps neither secrets nor promises."
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"Intuition attracts those who wish to be spiritual without any bother, because it promises a heaven where the intuitions of others can be ignored."
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"I can promise you none of these things. No sphere of usefulness; you are not needed there at all. No scope of your talents; only forgiveness for having perverted them. No atmosphere of inquiry, for I will bring you to the land not of questions but of answers, and you shall see the face of God. (pg 40)"
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"We long for more and God's promise is that there is more awaiting us. More to delight us than we will ever exhaust."
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"The promise, made when I am in love and because I am in love, to be true to the beloved as long as I live, commits me to being true even if I cease to be in love. A promise must be about things that I can do, about actions: no one can promise to go on feeling in a certain way. He might as well promise to never have a headache or always to feel hungry."
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"5 opens with the promise of a number of substantial direct private investments that can swiftly transform the economy and set all sectors on a pronounced upward curve."
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"Our government shouldn't make promises we cannot keep, but we must keep the promises we've already made."
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"Its important for people to know that I will make many promises to get their votes."
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"We will keep the promise of Social Security by taking the responsible steps to strengthen it - not by turning it over to Wall Street."
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"I don't want to make promises, not knowing what the situation's going to be three or four years out."
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"There will be no wardrobe malfunction with me. I can promise you that.... I have nothing I will be exposing or taking off."
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"President Obama is the kind of politician who puts promises on the record, and then calls that the record. But we are four years into this presidency. The issue is not the economy as Barack Obama inherited it, not the economy as he envisions it, but this economy as we are living it."
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"There are a lot of different ways of getting Mexico to contribute to doing this. And there are different ways of defining how exactly they pay for it. [Donald Trump] has a promise that he made to the American people which is to secure our border. A wall is a big part of that."
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"I've had a lot of disappointments. I think my biggest disappointment is the failure of elected officials to make good on their promises in regards to the environment or anything else, really. I have very little faith in politicians."
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"Wait. This was the first lesson I had learned about love. The day drags along, you make thousands of plans, you imagine every possible conversation, you promise to change your behavior in certain ways -- and you feel more and more anxious until your loved one arrives. But by then, you don't know what to say. The hours of waiting have been transformed into tension, the tension has become fear, and the fear makes you embarrassed about showing affection."
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"There is an unbroken chain of opposition to the introduction of economic freedom and to the capitalist autonomy of the economic sphere... In every case the opposition could only be overcome - peacefully or by force - because of the promise of capitalism to establish equality... That this promise was an illusion we all know."
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"In book subjects a student can only do a student's work. All that can be measured is how well he learns, rather than how well he performs. All he can show is promise."
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"So, I'm not impressed by BP's promises and I'm not ready to take the word of a company with a track record of pursuing profit over safety."
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