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• Nature, even when she is scant and thin outwardly, satisfies us still by the assurance of a certain generosity at the roots.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Roots, Generosity, Certain

  Henry David Thoreau (2012). “The Portable Thoreau”, p.124, Penguin

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• The antiquity and general acceptance of an opinion is not assurance of its truth.

  Pierre Bayle

  Acceptance, Opinion, Antiquity

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• Forbearance is the root of quietness and assurance forever.

  Ieyasu Tokugawa

  Roots, Forever, Forbearance

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• By liberty I mean the assurance that every man shall be protected in doing what he believes to be his duty against the influences of authority and majorities, custom and opinion.

  Lord Acton

  Believe, Mean, Men

  John Emerich Edward Dalberg, Lord Acton (2016). “The History of Freedom (and other Essays)”, p.30, Jazzybee Verlag

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• One unerring mark of the love of truth is not entertaining any proposition with greater assurance than the proofs it is built upon will warrant.

  John Locke

  Love, Truth, Science

  As paraphrased in "Peter's Quotations : Ideas for our Time" by Laurence J. Peter, (p. 500), 1979.

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• Traditionally, Medicare's assurance has been that for the elderly and persons with disabilities that they will not be alone when confronted with the full burden of their health care costs.

  Mike Fitzpatrick

  Elderly, Cost, Care

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• Thus much for thy assurance know; a hollow friend is but a hellish foe.

  Nicholas Breton

  Friends, Foe, Knows

  Nicholas Breton (1879). “The Works in Verse and Prose of Nicholas Breton: Verse”

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• I admire the serene assurance of those who have religious faith. It is wonderful to observe the calm confidence of a Christian with four aces.

  Mark Twain

  Funny, Christian, Religious

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• If you're not satisfied with the way the world is, or if you think the world can be better, you have to figure out a way to know yourself and better yourself. Then you have the assurance that something in the world has improved.

  Todd Rundgren

  Thinking, World, Know Yourself

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Life is full of physical infirmities that some might see as discriminations - total paralysis or serious mental impairment being two that are relevant to marriage. If we believe in God and believe in His mercy and His justice, it won't do to say that these are discriminations because God wouldn't discriminate. We are in no condition to judge what discrimination is. We rest on our faith in God and our utmost assurance of His mercy and His love for all of His children.

  Dallin H. Oaks

  Children, Believe, Two

  Source: www.mormonnewsroom.org

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• For people who have for been putting their hard-earned money into the system for years, the president's idea would replace their safety net with a risky gamble with no assurance of a stable return of investment.

  Grace Napolitano

  Years, Ideas, People

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• That in affairs of very considerable importance men should deal with one another with satisfaction of mind, and mutual confidence, they must receive competent assurances concerning the integrity, fidelity, and constancy each of other.

  Isaac Barrow

  Integrity, Men, Mind

  Isaac Barrow (1861). “The Works of Isaac Barrow”, p.144

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• I just think it's good to be confident. If I'm not on my team why should anybody else be?

  Robert Downey, Jr.

  Confidence, Self Esteem, Team

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• It is near thirty years since He made it sure; and since that time, though there has fallen out much sin, yet I was never out of an assurance of mine interest, nor long out of sight of His presence.

  Donald Cargill

  Sight, Years, Long

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• Americans have been given goals to achieve in Iraq, but not the standards by which to measure progress. And the only assurance Americans have been given that we can reach those goals is to trust the President and his Administration at their word.

  Patrick J. Kennedy

  Iraq, Goal, Progress

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• Most men, after a little freedom, have preferred authority with the consoling assurances and the economy of effort it brings.

  Walter Lippmann

  Freedom, Men, Effort

  Walter Lippmann (1960). “A Preface To Morals”, p.14, Transaction Publishers

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• There have not been any troughs as regards my work. There's never been a trough of my assurance.

  Ben Kingsley

  Trough, Regard

  "I can do anything" by Brian Logan, www.theguardian.com. January 02, 2001.

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• As social beings we live with our eyes upon our reflection, but have no assurance of the tranquillity of the waters in which we see it.

  Charles Horton Cooley

  Eye, Reflection, Water

  Charles Horton Cooley (2017). “Human Nature and the Social Order”, p.231, Routledge

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• The characteristic of the hour is that the commonplace mind, knowing itself to be commonplace, has the assurance to proclaim the rights of the commonplace and to impose them wherever it will.

  Jose Ortega y Gasset

  Rights, Knowing, Mind

  La Rebelion de las Masas ch. 1 (1930)

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• When a man has fulfilled all four of these requisites-to be wide awake, to have fear, respect, and absolute assurance-there are no mistakes for which he will have to account; under such conditions his actions lose the blundering quality of the acts of a fool. If such a man fails, or suffers a defeat, he will have lost only a battle, and there will be no pitiful regrets over that.

  Carlos Castaneda

  Respect, Courage, Regret

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• Past boldness is no assurance of future boldness. Boldness demands continual reliance on God's spirit.

  Andy Stanley

  God, Christian, Religious

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• Immoderate assurance is perfect licentiousness.

  William Shenstone

  Perfect

  William Shenstone (1804). “Essays on Men and Manners”, p.152

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• In the darkest of nights cling to the assurance that God loves you, that He always has advice for you, a path that you can tread and a solution to your problem.

  Basilea Schlink

  Love You, Night, Advice

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• What all of us long for in our hearts, at Christmastime and always, is to feel bound together in love with the sweet assurance that it can last forever.

  Henry B. Eyring

  Sweet, Heart, Long

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• Our assurance is anchored in the love and grace of God expressed in the glorious exchange: our sin for His righteousness.

  Tullian Tchividjian

  Grace, Sin, Righteousness

  Tullian Tchividjian, Nick Lannon (2015). “It Is Finished: 365 Days of Good News”, David C Cook

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