"Money is the reward for risks taken, value delivered and promises kept."
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"I promise you this: at the end of your days, you will discover that the things you now perceive to be the big things in your life will be seen as little things, and all those things that you now believe to be the little things, you will realize were really the big things."
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"The person who makes promises to everyone ultimately pleases no one."
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"If I listen to a campaign promises, I would expect that on the first day [Donald Trump] would cancel all of the DACA documents out there that President [Barack] Obama unconstitutionally issued."
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"If politics were a musical, it would be "Promises, Promises"."
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"Suffering will always be there. You'll always have the poor. You have to own your own progress. It is true that because of the economy and the fear factor the president [Barack Obama] is able to execute a lot of promises that it would be difficult to deliver it not for the fear factor. It's funny. He's delivering on what he promised and we call it fear."
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"One of the things I'm always proud of is 'Promises made, promises kept.' I've never ever not done what I've said I'm going to do."
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"If being recalled is the price for keeping one's promises, then so be it."
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"Quality is not an absolute measure. It doesn't mean 'deluxeness' or 'perfection'. It means keeping the promise the customer wants you to make."
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"I just think that you have to believe in yourself and you have to work very hard. You can't ever think that you're the best thing since sliced bread because I promise you, there are going to be Viola Davises and Jessica Chastains and Emma Stones who are the best thing since sliced bread. So take it seriously, but don't take it too seriously."
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"Dorothy said nothing. Oz had not kept the promise he made her, but he had done his best. So she forgave him. As he said, he was a good man, even if he was a bad Wizard."
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"It was a promise she knew I might not be able to keep. But I made it anyway because I was going to find a way to make it true."
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"Promise me you’ll look after yourself … stay out of trouble …’ ‘I always do, Mrs Weasley,’ said Harry. ‘I like a quiet life, you know me."
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"Better it is toward the right conduct of life to consider what will be the end of a thing, than what is the beginning of it: for what promises fair at first may prove ill, and what seems at first a disadvantage, may prove very advantageous."
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"Let us get together with other people of our sort and make over the world into a great world-civilization that will enable us to realize the promises and avoid the dangers of this new time."
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"You know for me when I promise something I want to deliver. If you don't, you have to disappear."
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"(and Catholics give out forgiveness at about the same rate as politicians give out promises and whores give out)"
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"If you want to get on in this world make many promises, but don't keep them."
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"My religion teaches me that a promise once made or a vow once taken for a worthy object may not be broken."
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"God's word is: 'He who strives never perishes.' I have implicit faith in that promise. Though, therefore, from my weakness I fail a thousand times, I shall not lose faith."
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