"If kids clearly see the promise, they will gladly pay the price."
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"Since Don Quixote de la Mancha is a crazy fool and a madman, and since Sancho Panza, his squire, knows it, yet, for all that, serves and follows him, and hangs on these empty promises of his, there can be no doubt that he is more of a madman and a fool than his master."
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"The promise, made when 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."
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"Keep expectation alive. Keep stirring it up. Let much promise more, and great deeds herald greater."
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"God does not give us everything we want, but He does fulfill His promises."
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"The Constitution promises liberty to all within its reach, a liberty that includes certain specific rights that allow persons, within a lawful realm, to define and express their identity."
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"Start small, make a promise and keep it. Then, make larger promises and keep them. Eventually, your honor will become greater than your moods or your circumstances, which includes your medical condition and other people's stereotypic observations. Once you overcome this comparison based mentality, your confidence will soar."
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"Lightly given promises must meet with little trust."
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"it is not that religion is merely useless, it is mischievous. It is mischievous by its idle terrors; it is mischievous by its false morality; it is mischievous by its hypocrisy; by its fanaticism; by its dogmatism; by its threats; by its hopes; by its promises."
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"If you promise you will get better instead of dying, I promise I will, too."
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"As the weeks and months unfolded, we realized that we were the victims of a broken promise."
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"Drink moderately, for drunkeness neither keeps a secret, nor observes a promise."
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"Love is free; to promise for ever to love the same woman is not less absurd than to promise to believe the same creed; such a vow in both cases excludes us from all inquiry."
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"If virtue promises happiness, prosperity and peace, then progress in virtue is progress in each of these for to whatever point the perfection of anything brings us, progress is always an approach toward it."
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"If we make ourselves worthy of America's ideals, if we do not forget that our nation was founded on the premise that all men are creatures of God's making, the world will come to know that it is free men who carry forward the true promise of human progress and dignity."
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"The reason we avoid the word 'synergy' is because people generally claim more synergistic benefits than will come. Yes, it exists, but there are so many false promises.Berkshire is full of synergies - we don't avoid synergies, just claims of synergies."
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"There was a stool there, and some fella kept asking me if I wanted to sit down. When I saw the stool sitting there, it gave me the idea. I'll just put the stool out there and I'll talk to Mr Obama and ask him why he didn't keep all of the promises he made to everybody."
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"I do know when the blood burns, how prodigal the soul lends the tongue vows."
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"Every consession gives rise to further concessions, we cannot back down, because behind us there is only an abyss, we must keep our promises and demand that they be kept."
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"I prefer credulity to skepticism and cynicism for there is more promise in almost anything than in nothing at all."
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