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• We do not do well except when we know where the best is and when we are assured that we have touched it and hold its power within us.

  Joseph Joubert

  Power, Excellence, Wells

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• If religious belief be indeed so necessary to mankind, as we are continually assured that it is, there is great reason to lament, that the intellectual grounds of it should require to be backed by moral bribery or subornation of the understanding.

  John Stuart Mill

  Religious, Understanding, Intellectual

  John Stuart Mill (1874). “Nature, the Utility of Religion, and Theism”, p.71

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• Success is not assured, but America is resolute: this is the best chance for peace we are likely to see for some years to come - and we are acting to help Israelis and Palestinians seize this chance.

  Condoleezza Rice

  Congratulations, Years, America

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• Organic life, we are told, has developed gradually from the protozoon to the philosopher, and this development, we are assured, is indubitably an advance. Unfortunately it is the philosopher, not the protozoon, who gives us this assurance.

  Bertrand Russell

  Wisdom, Science, Giving

  Bertrand Russell (2015). “Mysticism and Logic and Other Essays: Top Philosophy Collections”, p.66, 谷月社

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• Our security is assured by our perseverance and by our sure belief in the success of liberty.

  George W. Bush

  Success, Perseverance, Congratulations

  Announces Capture of Saddam Hussein, delivered on 14 December 2003 from the Cabinet Room

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• I recently assured Public Sector Banks they will have total autonomy in taking business decisions.

  Narendra Modi

  Decision, India, Autonomy

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• He may have gone to bed three hours ago, but he knows who he is playing. You can rest assured that he hasn't slept a wink.

  Walter Hagen

  Golf, Gone, May

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• The Scripture abounds in commands and cautions for our utmost diligence in our search and inquiry as to whether we are made partakers of Christ or not, or whether His Spirit dwells in us or not-which argue both the difficulty of attaining an assured confidence herein, as also the danger of our being mistaken, and yet the certainty of a good issue upon the diligent and regular use of means to that purpose.

  John Owen

  Religious, Mean, Issues

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• You can rest assured that if you devote your time and attention to the highest advantage of others, the Universe will support you, always and only in the nick of time.

  R. Buckminster Fuller

  Support You, Age, Attention

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• How very beautiful and consoling our faith is! For the little work we do here on earth it promises in return all the joys of assured happiness.

  Rose Philippine Duchesne

  Beautiful, Joy, Promise

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• It is to them [fossils] alone that we owe the commencement of even a Theory of the Earth ... By them we are enabled to ascertain, with the utmost certainty, that our earth has not always been covered over by the same external crust, because we are thoroughly assured that the organized bodies to which these fossil remains belong must have lived upon the surface before they came to be buried, as they now are, at a great depth.

  Georges Cuvier

  Science, Depth, Body

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• Five or six hundred heads cut off would have assured your repose, freedom and happiness.

  Jean-Paul Marat

  Cutting, Freedom And Happiness, Six

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• Be assured that it gives much more pain to the mind to be in debt, than to do without any article whatever which we may seem to want.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Pain, Giving, Mind

  Thomas Jefferson (2006). “The Quotable Jefferson”

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• Music is the sound of the universal laws promulgated. It is the only assured tone. There are in it such strains as far surpass anyman's faith in the loftiness of his destiny. Things are to be learned which it will be worth the while to learn.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Music, Knowledge, Destiny

  Henry David Thoreau (2016). “A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers”, p.124, Xist Publishing

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• Reproduction is so primitive and fundamental a function of vital organisms that the mechanism by which it is assured is highly complex and not yet clearly understood. It is not necessarily connected with sex, nor is sex necessarily connected with reproduction.

  Havelock Ellis

  Sex, Fundamentals, Function

  Havelock Ellis (2013). “Psychology of Sex: The Biology of Sex—The Sexual Impulse in Youth—Sexual Deviation—The Erotic Symbolisms—Homosexuality—Marriage—The Art of Love”, p.7, Butterworth-Heinemann

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• Only the fools are certain and assured.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Wisdom, Fool, Certain

  Michel de Montaigne (1958). “Complete Essays”, p.111, Stanford University Press

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• Young normal tigers do not eat people. If eaten by a tiger you may rest assured he was abnormal.

  Will Cuppy

  People, May, Normal

  Will Cuppy, P. G. Wodehouse (2005). “How to Tell Your Friends from the Apes”, p.107, David R. Godine Publisher

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• I'm more pompous and self-assured and determined that if - you know - if the truth can be told so as to be understood, it will be believed.

  Marcus Brigstocke

  Self, Determined, Pompous

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• If the Philippines secure their independence after heroic and stubborn conflicts, they can rest assured that neither England, nor Germany, nor France, and still less Holland, will dare to take up what Spain has been unable to hold.

  Jose Rizal

  Independence, Spain, Germany

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• Never assume that you have attained truth. Don't make any claim to knowledge. Form no conclusion or evaluation concerning truth. The minute you do, your downfall is assured. Whenever you imagine you know something, you cease being open to the living exploration. You have closed a door and cut off the oxygen to the breathing truth.

  Mooji

  Cutting, Doors, Oxygen

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• And finally, be assured that Zen asks nothing even as it promises nothing. One can be a Protestant Zen Buddhist, a Catholic Zen Buddhist or a Jewish Zen Buddhist. Zen is a quiet thing. It listens.

  Howard Fast

  Buddhist, Catholic, Promise

  Howard Fast (2011). “The Art of Zen Meditation”, p.10, Open Road Media

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• At the constitutional level, what we of course have assured is that women have the ability to make these reproductive decisions up to the point of viability.

  Barack Obama

  Decision, Levels, Ability

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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• Apollo 11 will probably go down in history as one of the major responses of two nations facing each other with threatening technologies - sometimes called mutually assured destruction. It was also the America's response to the apparent superiority of the Russians in putting objects into space before USA could.

  Buzz Aldrin

  Technology, Two Nations, Usa

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• We're all human so of course there are days when I'm feeling insecure. When that happens, I take time to reflect on how far I've come and how far I will continue to go - it helps me feel empowered and self-assured.

  Demi Lovato

  Insecure, Self, Feelings

  Source: www.buzzfeed.com

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• Most people think of poise as calm, self-assured dignity; but I call it “just being you”.

  John Wooden

  Thinking, Self, People

  John Wooden (2010). “Coach Wooden's Pyramid of Success (Large Print 16pt)”, p.75, ReadHowYouWant.com

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