"In poor countries, officials receive explicit bribes; in D.C. they get the sophisticated, implicit, unspoken promise to work for large corporations"
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"Democratic capitalism: A cooperative enterprise to earn enough money to buy enough Congressional influence to gain control over the government's guns so as to get even more money for your special-interest group.Social democratic capitalism: A cooperative enterprise to promise sufficient government benefits to enough voters to gain control over the government's guns so as to keep any other special-interest group from getting as much power as yours."
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"The princes who have done great things are the ones who have taken little account of their promises."
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"In a promise, what you thought, and not what you said, is always to be considered."
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"Patriotism in America, as I understand it, is a matter of suffering, when the country fails to live up to its promises, or actively betrays them."
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"If we break promises to God, shouldn't we be allowed an occasional violation of our word to our friends and superiors?"
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"Seek instant gratification - or the elusive promise of it - and chances are you'll find a crowd there ahead of you."
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"In ourselves, we are sinners, and yet through faith we are righteous by the imputation of God. For we trust him who promises to deliver us, and in the meantime struggle so that sin may not overwhelm us, but that we may stand up to it until he finally take it away from us."
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"We are not given any promises that, because of our noble intentions, everything will be okay. We learn that what truly heals is gratitude and tenderness. We [need] to transform our minds and actions for the sake of other people and for the future of the world."
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"There is something so ludicrous in promises of good or threats of evil a great way off as to render the whole subject with which they are connected easily turned into ridicule."
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"If you will let your dominant intention be to revise and improve the content of the story you tell every day of your life, it is our absolute promise to you that your life will become that ever-improving story."
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"God's path always delivers what He promises."
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"Promise me one thing: don't take me home until I'm drunk - very drunk indeed."
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"To understand the living present, and the promise of the future, it is necessary to remember the past."
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"All promise outruns performance."
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"All great natures delight in stability; all great men find eternity affirmed in the very promise of their faculties."
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"Love perhaps includes the promise that when the mob comes for you I'll go against the mob."
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"Stem cell research holds out the promise of finding cures and treatments for a wide range of diseases."
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"Beauty is nothing but a promise of happiness."
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"I promise all Cuban mothers that I will never will make them weep."
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