"A clear rejection is always better than a fake promise."
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"He does not exist here, with me, but flesh that does not exist will never die, and promises unmade are never broken."
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"You can't substitute promise after promise with known violators of prior promises at the expense of protecting ourselves or setting an example."
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"Merit is a work for the sake of which Christ gives rewards. But no such work is to be found, for Christ gives by promise. Just as if a prince should say to me, "Come to me in my castle, and I will give you a hundred florins." I do a work, certainly, in going to the castle, but the gift is not given me as the reward of my work in going, but because the prince promised it to me."
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"That time of day when the sun hasn’t come up yet, but you can already feel it coming. It’s an elusive warmth, like a subtle promise whispered in your ear and you can go on with your day knowing you’ve been given another chance to get it right."
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"Sin was conquered on the cross. Christ's death is the foundation of our hope, the promise of our triumph."
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"Love is a promise delivered already broken."
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"Standing alone, photographs promise an understanding they cannot deliver. In the company of words, they take on meaning, but they slough off one meaning and take on another with alarming ease."
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"Oaths are the fossils of piety."
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"Beware of the thief on the street that's after your purse. But also beware of the thief in your mind that's after your promise."
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"Life is love, enjoy it. Life is mystery, know it. Life is a promise, fulfill it."
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"Liberation is an evershifting horizon, a total ideology that can never fulfill its promises."
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"Tis not the many oaths that make the truth; But the plain single vow, that is vow'd true."
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"Performance should be made square with promise."
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"Promises to get beyond partisanship are the most perfunctory sort of campaign rhetoric, almost as empty as the partisanship itself."
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"Making promises and keeping them is a great way to build a brand."
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"Every man has a right over his own life and war destroys lives that were full of promise; it forces the individual into situations that shame his manhood, obliging him to murder fellow men, against his will."
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"Of course a politician's promise isn't worth the paper it's written on."
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"The point in history at which we stand is full of promise and danger. The world will either move forward toward unity and widely shared prosperity - or it will move apart."
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"Modern science has as its object as little pain as possible, as long a life as possible - hence a sort of eternal blessedness, but of a very limited kind in comparison with the promises of religion."
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