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• Could I be assured that America would remain virtuous, I would venture to defy the utmost Efforts of Enemies to subjugate her.

  Samuel Adams

  America, Effort, Enemy

  Samuel Adams (1968). “The Writings of Samuel Adams: 1773-1777: 1773-1777”

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• It is odd to watch with what feverish ardour Americans pursue prosperity, ever tormented by the shadowy suspicion that they might not have chosen the shortest route to get it. They cleave to the things of this world as if assured they will never die, and yet rush to snatch any that comes within their reach, as if they expected to stop living before relishing them. Death steps in, in the end, and stops them, before they have grown tired of this futile pursuit of that complete felicity which always escapes them.

  Alexis de Tocqueville

  Tired, Watches, World

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• Then we are assured by Sartre that owing to the final disappearance of God our liberty is absolute! At this the entire audience waves its hat or claps its hands. But this natural enthusiasm is turned abruptly into something much less buoyant when it is learnt that this liberty weighs us down immediately with tremendous responsibilities. We now have to take all God's worries on our shoulders -now that we are become men like gods. It is at this point that the Anxiety and Despondency begin, ending in utter despair.

  Wyndham Lewis

  God, Responsibility, Men

  Wyndham Lewis (1989). “The Essential Wyndham Lewis: An Introduction to His Work”, Andre Deutsch Limited

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• Conservative ideas are alive and dynamic, the result of a free and intellectually honest vision for the country. As long as conservatism is strong, the future of a strong America is assured.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Country, Strong, Honesty

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• Andy Brown is one of our most interesting and exciting younger poets. With its love of ideas and language, his work demonstrates that there need be no barriers in poetry; that the philosophical, the lyrical and the playful can be combined in work of assured and generous vision.

  John Burnside

  Philosophical, Ideas, Interesting

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• Whoever, in the pursuit of science, seeks after immediate practical utility, may generally rest assured that he will seek in vain.

  Hermann von Helmholtz

  Science, May, Vain

  Hermann von Helmholtz, David Cahan (1995). “Science and Culture: Popular and Philosophical Essays”, p.93, University of Chicago Press

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• A seasoned woman is spicy. She has been marinated in life experiences. Like a complex wine, she can be alternately sweet, tart, sparkling, mellow. She is both maternal and playful. Assured, alluring, and resourceful. She is less likely to have an agenda than a young woman-no biological clock tick-tocking beside her lover's bed, no campaign to lead him to the altar, no rescue fantasies. The seasoned woman knows who she is. She could be any one of us, as long a she is committed to living fully and passionately in the second half of her life, despite failures and false starts.

  Gail Sheehy

  Sweet, Women, Wine

  Gail Sheehy (2006). “Sex and the Seasoned Woman: Pursuing the Passionate Life”, Random House Incorporated

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• My recovery, though slower than hoped for, is nevertheless assured.

  Frederick William Borden

  Recovery, Afterlife, Nevertheless

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• The teacher not only shapes the expectations and ambitions of her pupils, but she also influences their attitudes toward their future and themselves. If she is unskilled, she leaves scars on the lives of youth, cuts deeply into their self-esteem, and distorts their image of themselves as human beings. But if she loves her students and has high expectations of them, their self-confidence will grow, their capabilities will develop, and their future will be assured.

  Thomas S. Monson

  Teacher, Attitude, Self Esteem

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• In the Java world, security is not viewed as an add-on a feature. It is a pervasive way of thinking. Those who forget to think in a secure mindset end up in trouble. But just because the facilities are there doesn't mean that security is assured automatically. A set of standard practices has evolved over the years. The Secure Coding Standard for Java is a compendium of these practices. These are not theoretical research papers or product marketing blurbs. This is all serious, mission-critical, battle-tested, enterprise-scale stuff.

  James Gosling

  Mean, Thinking, Years

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• I thought," Shad said slowly, "that she was offended if you referred to Blind Seer or Elation as her pets.""True," Derian assured him. "Absolutely the correct etiquette-to her face. However, well... When I first met Firekeeper, less than a year ago, her relationships with animals fell into pretty much two categories: those you ate and those you befriended. I remember that she thought we were pretty clever for bringing horses along so we wouldn't need to hunt our meat. It took me a while to show her they had other uses.

  Jane Lindskold

  Horse, Clever, Animal

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• Rest assured that my support for any eventual reform package will be based firmly upon what is in the best interests of the people of Upstate New York, not any party or president.

  James T. Walsh

  New York, Party, People

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• One thing you can be assured of is that God has already worked out all the details of what your obedience will accomplish - and its all good. we need not fear what our obedience will cause to happen in our life. we should only fear what our disobedience will cause us to miss. the sooner this truth resonates in your heart, the quicker you can make peace with a command from God that you dont fully understand.

  Lysa TerKeurst

  Heart, Missing, Causes

  Lysa TerKeurst, Hope Terkeurst (2013). “What Happens When Young Women Say Yes to God”, p.58, Harvest House Publishers

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• A seasoned woman is spicy. She has been marinated in life experiences. Like a complex wine, she can be alternately sweet, tart, sparkling, mellow. She is both maternal and playful. Assured, alluring, and resourceful.

  Gail Sheehy

  Sweet, Wine, Life Experience

  Gail Sheehy (2006). “Sex and the Seasoned Woman: Pursuing the Passionate Life”, Random House Incorporated

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• The surest way to determine whether one possesses the love of God is to see whether he or she loves his or her neighbor. These two loves are never separated. Rest assured, the more you progress in love of neighbor the more your love of God will increase.

  Teresa of Avila

  God, Two, Progress

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• It is difficult for men in high office to avoid the malady of self-delusion. They are always surrounded by worshipers. They are constantly, and for the most part sincerely, assured of their greatness.

  Calvin Coolidge

  Greatness, Men, Self

  "The Autobiography Of Calvin Coolidge". Book by Calvin Coolidge, 1929.

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• It has taken a great deal of energy, which has not been so difficult to summon as the necessary patience to wait, simply wait much of the time - until my instincts assured me that I had assembled my materials in proper order for a final welding into their natural form.

  Hart Crane

  Patience, Taken, Order

  Hart Crane (1965). “Letters, 1916-1932”

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• Our presence on this planet does not seem to be sustainable. Our technical civilization makes up particularly vulnerable. There is talk all over the scientific community about climate change. Many of them [scientists] agree, the end of human life on earth is assured.

  Werner Herzog

  Community, Environmental, Climate

  "Encounters at the End of the World". www.imdb.com. July 18, 2008.

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• You are present in your life on earth at this moment for the purposes of living, loving, learning, and growing. Be assured that life can reliably provide a wide variety of adventures, experiences, and situations that may require you to draw from the depths of your being. Your level of self-awareness and manner of expression can determine the quality of living you experience. Why? Because you get back what you give out.

  John Templeton

  Life, Adventure, Self

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• Any time the Western way of war can be unleashed on an enemy stupid enough to enter its arena, victory is assured.

  Victor Davis Hanson

  War, Stupid, Enemy

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• Running has made being depressed impossible. If I'm going through something emotional and just go outside for a run, you can rest assured I'll come back with clarity.

  Alanis Morissette

  Running, Emotional, Impossible

  "Alanis Morissette Gets High from Running – and the Occasional Joint" by Bob Meadows, people.com. December 15, 2009.

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• ...she needed to confirm its presence. Like the keeper of the lighthouse and the prisoner, she regarded it as a mooring, a checkpoint, some stable visual object that assured her that the world was still there; that this was like and not a dream. That she was alive somewhere, inside, which she acknowledged to be true only because a thing she knew intimately was out there, outside of herself.

  Toni Morrison

  Dream, Alive, World

  Toni Morrison (1987). “Sula”

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• I believe that the happiest of all Christians and the truest of Christians are those who never dare to doubt God, but take His Word simply as it stands, and believe it, and ask no questions, just feeling assured that if God has said it, it will be so.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Christian, Believe, Feelings

  Charles Spurgeon (2009). “Essential Works of Charles Spurgeon”, p.66, Barbour Publishing

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• If God, like a father, denies us what we want now it is in order to give us some far better thing later on. The will of God, we can rest assured, is invariably a better thing.

  Elisabeth Elliot

  Father, Order, Giving

  Elisabeth Elliot (2006). “God's Guidance: Finding His Will for Your Life”, p.46, Revell

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• Be assured that I did not become the Mayor of Chicago to preside over its decline.

  Jane Byrne

  Aggravation, Chicago, Decline

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