"Never make a promise in haste."
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"To a people famishing and idle, the only acceptable form in which God can dare appear is work and promise of food as wages."
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"I'm in the camp that needs to discover and take risks, sometimes it's with the promise of something special and new, sometimes it's to stay awake, either way it's much more stressful with all the uncertainty but worth the pain in the end."
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"When you make a promise, keep it."
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"Never make a promise without a plan."
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"Far too many people make promises they can never keep. They may have the best intentions in the world to keep their promise-but if they have not made a plan to keep it, they will not be able to do it."
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"The reason I so rarely break promises to other people? It breaks trust. Without trust, there's no relationship."
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"If you're in business it's both a promise and a warning. It says that sometimes little things can cause some little guy to have an overnight success."
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"Prison is where you promise yourself the right to live."
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"See that you promise: what harm is there in promise? In promises anyone can be rich."
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"It has been said that beauty is a promise of happiness. Conversely, the possibility of pleasure can be a beginning of beauty."
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"That's the beauty of the cure. No one mentions those lost, hot days in the field, when Thomas kissed Rachel's tears away and invented worlds just so he could promise them to her, when she tore the skin off her own arm at the thought of living without him."
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"What glitters may not be gold; and even wolves may smile; and fools will be led by promises to their deaths."
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"This is what we are made for: promises, pledges, and sworn oaths of obedience."
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"Promises are not to be kept, if the keeping of them is to prove harmful to those to whom you have made them."
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"So many dreams, so many disappointments, so many promises. And in the end, they all just vanish."
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"We make promises to the extent that we hope-and keep them to the extent that we fear."
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"We'll see if [Donald Trump] really means it though; he will get a chance to deliver on that promise. And if he doesn't, we'll make sure the people know about it."
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"Don't ask me for promises until I know what I am promising."
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"The relationship between looking and desire is really about the promise of revelation - the hope that the subject of your gaze will reveal something to you - whether or not that revelation is prurient. And that's really what eroticism is - the anticipation of disclosure."
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