"Where there is an unknowable, there is a promise."
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"Don't let your fears overwhelm your desire. Let the barriers you face-and there will be barriers-be external, not internal. Fortune does favor the bold, and I promise that you will never know what you're capable of unless you try."
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"Hope is not defined by the absence of hardship. Rather, hope is found in God’s grace in the midst of hardship. Hope is found in his promise to give us a future."
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"By the delusions of seeming good the people are often misled to desire their own ruin; and they are frequently influenced by great hopes and brave promises."
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"For every promise, there is a price to pay... If the promise is clear, the price is easy."
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"We all have that possibility, that potential and that promise of seeing beyond the seeming."
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"Waiting is directed at nothing: any object that could gratify it would only efface it. Still, it is not confined to one place, it is not a resigned immobility; it has the endurance of a movement that will never end and would never promise itself the reward of rest; it does not wrap itself in interiority; all of it falls irremediably outside."
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"The three classic ways in which the Devil tempts us are with a threat, a promise or a seduction."
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"There are few things more difficult than to appraise the work of a man suddenly dead in his youth; to disentangle promise from achievement; to save him from that sentimentalizing which confuses the tragedy of the interruption with the merit of the work actually performed."
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"Each new day is another chapter in the unfolding promise of deliverance and life."
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"Our new Constitution is now established, and has an appearance that promises permanency; but in the world nothing can be said to be certain except death and taxes."
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"A dream is a vision, a goal is a promise. You can keep your promises to yourself by remaining flexible, focused, and committed."
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"A prayer, it seems to me, implies a promise as well as a request; at the highest level, prayer not only is a supplication for strength and guidance, but also becomes an affirmation of life and thus a reverent praise of God."
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"Managers that always promise to 'make the numbers' will at some point be tempted to make up the numbers."
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"Where a new invention promises to be useful, it ought to be tried."
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"Your drudgery is another person's delight. It's only a job if you treat it that way. The privilege to do our work, to be in control of the promises we make and the things we build, is something worth cherishing."
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"The best way to develop courage is to set a goal and achieve it, make a promise and keep it."
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"We grew up founding our dreams on the infinite promise of American advertising."
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"Governments keep their promises only when they are forced, or when it is to their advantage to do so."
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"Sound intelligence promises victory in every battle."
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