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• Five or six hundred [aristocratic] heads lopped off would have assured you repose and happiness; a false humanity has restrained your arm and suspended your blows; it will cost the lives of millions of your brothers.

  Jean-Paul Marat

  Brother, Blow, Humanity

  L'Ami du peuple newspaper, Volume 2, p. 1121,

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• I also hear your president say that war is the means of last resort and I think he means that. I met him last autumn and he assured me that they wanted to come through and disarm Iraq by peaceful means, and that's what we are trying to do as hard as we can.

  Hans Blix

  War, Mean, Autumn

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• We are so impressed by scientific clank that we feel we ought not to say that the sunflower turns because it knows where the sun is. It is almost second nature to us to prefer explanations . . . with a large vocabulary. We are much more comfortable when we are assured that the sunflower turns because it is heliotropic. The trouble with that kind of talk is that it tempts us to think that we know what the sunflower is up to. But we don't. The sunflower is a mystery, just as every single thing in the universe is.

  Robert Farrar Capon

  Thinking, Vocabulary, Sunflower

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• Our first object is... the obtaining of sovereignty, assured by international law, over a portion of the globe sufficiently large to satisfy our just requirements.

  Theodor Herzl

  Law, Requirements, Firsts

  Theodor Herzl (1960). “Herzl Speaks His Mind on Issues, Events, and Men”

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• There's no man on this earth can even be assured he'll have a next day.

  Donal Ryan

  Men, Next Day, Earth

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• If God has laid your sins upon the Son of His love, you may rest assured that He will never lay them a second time upon you; since, if Christ has borne them and atoned for them to Divine justice, they never again can be found.

  Octavius Winslow

  Love You, Son, Divine Justice

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• Now therefore, that my mind is free from all cares, and that I have obtained for myself assured leisure in peaceful solitude, I shall apply myself seriously and freely to the general destruction of all my former opinions.

  Rene Descartes

  Peaceful, Solitude, Mind

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• Ever feel like God is a million miles away? The truth is, he's not. Whatever struggle you're going through, you can rest assured you're not alone. You have God in your corner.

  Rick Warren

  Christian, Struggle, Religion

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• Plenty of white space and generous line spacing,and don't make the type size too miserly. Then you will be assured of a product fit for a king.

  Giambattista Bodoni

  Kings, White, Space

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• As one grows older, the sense of separateness is slowly reduced. Old people do not live on an ego level. Their concerns are not about their individuality but about the river of life, the family, the community, the nation, people, animals, nature, life. They can die easily if they are assured that life will continue positively, for they feel part of the river again, and soon they will be part of the ocean. When they are very old, they no longer belong to our time and space, but to all time and all space.

  Alexander Lowen

  Ocean, Animal, Space

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• If there are people at once rich and content, be assured that they are content because they know how to be so, not because they are rich

  Charles Wagner

  People, Rich, Ifs

  Charles Wagner (1903). “The Simple Life”

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• Our common country is in great peril, demanding the loftiest views, and boldest action to bring it speedy relief. Once relieved, its form of government is saved to the world; its beloved history, and cherished memories, are vindicated; and its happy future fully assured, and rendered inconceivably grand.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Country, Memories, Government

  Abraham Lincoln (2008). “Speeches and Letters of Abraham Lincoln(1832-1865) (EasyRead Super Large 20pt Edition)”, p.404, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• If an organised body is not in the situation and circumstances best adapted to its sustenance and propagation, then, in conceiving an indefinite variety among the individuals of that species, we must be assured, that, on the one hand, those which depart most from the best adapted constitution, will be most liable to perish, while, on the other hand, those organised bodies, which most approach to the best constitution for the present circumstances, will be best adapted to continue, in preserving themselves and multiplying the individuals of their race.

  James Hutton

  Race, Hands, Body

  "An Investigation into the Principles of Knowledge". Book by James Hutton, 1794.

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• There's always SOMEONE in support as long as he can be assured or he himself feels confident of getting, in return, SOMETHING beneficial of any sort.

  Anuj

  Long, Support, Return

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• Those persons who are burning to display heroism may rest assured that the course of social evolution will offer them every opportunity.

  Havelock Ellis

  Opportunity, Society, Heroism

  Havelock Ellis (1912). “The Task of Social Hygiene”

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• A considerable breakdown in my health has scared me from the anxieties, responsibilities and excitement of my profession; whether temporarily or permanently cannot yet be determined but, whatever may be the issue, be assured that nothing was better calculated to soothe me than the kind interest manifested by the pupils of Guy's Hospital during the many trying years devoted to that institution.

  Thomas Addison

  Responsibility, Years, Issues

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• Heartfelt, inspired songwritingwith a delivery both biting and assured.

  Paul Zollo

  Heartfelt, Biting, Inspired

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• Christ is ever in the world of existence. He has never disappeared out of it.... Rest assured that Christ is present. The Spiritual beauty we see around us today is from the breathings of Christ.

  Abdu'l-Bahá

  Spiritual, Breathing, World

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• Memoir is trustworthy and its truth assured when it seeks the relation of self to time, the piecing of the shards of personal experience into the starscape of history's night. The materials of memoir are humble, fugitive, a cottage knitting industry seeking narrative truth across the crevasse of time as autobiography folds itself into the vast, fluid essay that is history. A single voice singing its aria in a corner of the crowded world.

  Patricia Hampl

  Humble, Night, Knitting

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• Duty performed gives clearness and firmness to faith, and faith thus strengthened through duty becomes the more assured and satisfying to the soul.

  Tryon Edwards

  Giving, Soul, Firmness

  Tryon Edwards (2015). “The New Dictionary of Thoughts”, p.349, Ravenio Books

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• If the scene bores you when you read it, rest assured it WILL bore the actors, and will then bore the audience, and we're all going to be back in the breadline.

  David Mamet

  Bores You, Actors, Scene

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• We cannot stand through the storms of life based on someone else's faith. We must be fully assured in our own hearts and minds.

  Joyce Meyer

  Inspirational, Life, Faith

  Joyce Meyer (2016). “Power Thoughts: 12 Strategies to Win the Battle of the Mind”, p.46, Hachette UK

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• Summers was simply a master explainer, able to deftly boil down the complexities of economic and financial, and to put them in terms the non-expert could understand. He was brilliant at cultivating a sense of control, even as events spun far beyond what could be managed with any certainty. He could will into being the confidence that eluded others, those less self-assured and, maybe sensibly, on humbler terms with the world.

  Ron Suskind

  Summer, Self, Events

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• The truth about myself? I'm obstinate, self-assured, ambitious and sloppy. I think I lead a quite normal life, certainly with five hours of trainig per day. Many people would probably be surprised if they met me.

  Franziska van Almsick

  Truth, Thinking, Self

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• I don't speak German well but several experts have assured me that I write it like an angel. Maybe so, maybe so- I don't know. I've not yet made any acquaintances among the angels. That comes later, whenever it please the Deity. I'm not in any hurry.

  Mark Twain

  Writing, Angel, Experts

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