"Not to decide is to decide not to, nowhere in the bible does it promise tomorrow."
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"You keep customers by delivering on your promises, fulfilling your commitments and continually investing in the quality of your relationships."
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"A threat is a promise followed by a consequence."
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"I’ll promise to think twice before I take any important step you seriously disapprove of."
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"The promises of Fidel Castro's so-called revolution of pluralism and democracy, were and continue to be a false promise and a betrayal of all basic human rights."
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"The E.U. initially decided to end the isolation of Turkish Cyprus, to balance the accession of Cyprus. But the E.U. has not carried through on its promise."
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"I will You, in all, Myself, with promise to never desert you, To which I sign my name."
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"All but a few of the organizations do not specifically promise to deliver superior investment performance although it is perhaps not unreasonable for the public to draw such an inference from their advertised emphasis on professional management."
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"Why didst thou promise such a beauteous day And make me travel forth without my cloak, To let base clouds o'ertake me in my way, Hiding they brav'ry in their rotten smoke?"
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"The worst mistake that a statesman can make is to promise victory and to see it dashed, the hopes dashed."
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"If the breaking news story had to do with hard news, politics specifically, I had a lot to do with it. If it had to do with music, Kurt Loder was more involved."
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"Forever used to feel like a curse. Now it feels like a promise."
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"I have never used Auto-Tune in a live television performance, and I have never used Auto-Tune in any of my concerts. That is a promise."
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"We see young men who owe us a new world, so readily and lavishly they promise, but they never acquit the debt; they die young anddodge the account: or if they live, they lose themselves in the crowd."
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"Every promise of the soul has innumerable fulfillments; each of its joys ripens into a new want."
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"In politics and in trade, bruisers and pirates are of better promise than talkers and clerks."
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"Without looking, then, to those extraordinary social influences which are now acting in precisely this direction, but only at whatis inevitably doing around us, I think we must regard the land as a commanding and increasing power on the citizen, the sanative and Americanizing influence, which promises to disclose new virtues for ages to come."
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"We are not free to use today, or to promise tomorrow, because we are already mortgaged to yesterday."
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"Painting as it is now promises to become more subtle - more like music and less like sculpture - and above all it promises color. If only it keeps this promise."
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"And our conception that the way we can mitigate the fact that people don't have retirement savings can be more work, or working longer, or just sort of staying in the game for longer is really a false hope. And it's a false promise."
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