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• It would be great if firefighters across the country had the guarantee that they would be making enough money to support their family right from the get-go, but that's not the case.

  Denis Leary

  Country, Firefighter, Support

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• And there's no guarantee that if you get HIV and you take these triple therapies, or whatever comes along next, that they're going to be successful for you.

  Elton John

  Successful, Hiv, Next

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• If we get our self-esteem from superficial places, from our popularity, appearance, business success, financial situation, health, any of these, we will be disappointed, because no one can guarantee that we'll have them tomorrow.

  Kathy Ireland

  Self Esteem, Business Success, Tomorrow

  "Kathy Ireland: Designing Woman". Interview with Lisa Ryan, www.cbn.com.

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• Nothing guarantees that reasonable people will agree about everything, of course, but the unreasonable are certain to be divided by their dogmas. It is time we recognized that this spirit of mutual inquiry, which is the foundation of all real science, is the very antithesis of religious faith.

  Sam Harris

  Religious, Real, People

  "The Politics of Ignorance" by Sam Harris, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 2, 2005.

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• A person who can't pay gets another person who can't pay to guarantee that he can pay. Like a person with two wooden legs getting another person with two wooden legs to guarantee that he has got two natural legs. It don't make either of them able to do a walking-match.

  Charles Dickens

  Two, Literature, Legs

  Little Dorrit bk. 1, ch. 23 (1857)

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• Credit is a system whereby a person who can not pay gets another person who can not pay to guarantee that he can pay.

  Charles Dickens

  Inspirational, Money, Credit

  Little Dorrit bk. 1, ch. 23 (1857)

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• I'd marry again if I found a man who had fifteen million dollars, would sign over half to me, and guarantee that he'd be dead within a year.

  Bette Davis

  Inspirational, Funny, Marriage

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• My school reports always used to point out that my concentration levels were appalling. I never listened in class because I was always daydreaming about racing. I never thought for a moment about doing anything else. There was no guarantee that I'd make a career in it but I never had any plan B.

  Jenson Button

  School, Class, Careers

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• I plan on staying at Alabama for the rest of my career. I guarantee that I'll be here for you through it all, regardless of what happens.

  Bear Bryant

  Sports, Stay Strong, Careers

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• When it comes down to it, it's giving people a good night out in a basic way and I think my company guarantees that. There's always something new and something to excite us and surprise us, and that's why people come back, I hope.

  Matthew Bourne

  Goodnight, Good Night, Thinking

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• The wise men understood that this natural world is only an image and a copy of paradise. The existence of this world is simply a guarantee that there exists a world that is perfect. God created the world so that, through its visible objects, men could understand his spiritual teachings and the marvels of his wisdom.

  Paulo Coelho

  God, Wise, Spiritual

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• If you assume that there is no hope, you guarantee that there will be no hope. If you assume that there is an instinct for freedom, that there are opportunities to change things, then there is a possibility that you can contribute to making a better world.

  Noam Chomsky

  Courage, Freedom, Opportunity

  Noam Chomsky, Heinz Dieterich (1999). “Latin America: from colonization to globalization”, Ocean Pr

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• I want a one hundred percent guarantee that they’ll all be fine.” I tell Mrs. Garcia. She pats my knee. “Unfortunately, there are no guarantees in life.

  Simone Elkeles

  Guarantees In Life, Want, Knees

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• I can't. At least not for a while. I need time to get past this and I can't guarantee that I won't hurt him again. God knows, Nick has a true gift for saying the wrong thing in any given situation. (Acheron) You know he loves you, right? (Amanda) Yeah, but emotions don't have brains. (Acheron)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Hurt, Love You, Past

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• Optimism is a strategy for making a better future. Because unless you believe that the future can be better, it’s unlikely you will step up and take responsibility for making it so. If you assume that there’s no hope, you guarantee that there will be no hope. If you assume that there is an instinct for freedom, there are opportunities to change things, there’s a chance you may contribute to making a better world. The choice is yours.

  Noam Chomsky

  Leadership, Believe, Responsibility

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• Everybody needs inspiration Everbody needs a song. A beautiful melody, When the night's so long. Cause there is no guarantee, That this life is easy.

  Miley Cyrus

  Beautiful, Song, Inspiration

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• The only thing that guarantees an open-ended collaboration among human beings, the only thing that guarantees that this project is truly open-ended, is a willingness to have our beliefs and behaviors modified by the power of conversation.

  Sam Harris

  Atheist, Atheism, Collaboration

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• Confidence that one's impressions are God-given is no guarantee that this is really so, even when they persist and grow stronger through long seasons of prayer. Bible-based wisdom must judge them.

  J. I. Packer

  Prayer, Long, Judging

  Dr J I Packer (1987). “Hot Tub Religion”, Tyndale House Pub

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• A big book is like a serious relationship; it requires a commitment. Not only that, but there's no guarantee that you will enjoy it, or that it will have a happy ending. Kind of like going out with a girl, having to spend time every day with her - with absolutely no guarantee of nailing her in the end. No thanks.

  Mick Foley

  Girl, Book, Commitment

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• No matter how predictable, banal and listless the rest of my life might be, you can guarantee that there'll always be something interesting going on with my skin.

  David Nicholls

  Interesting, Skins, Might

  David Nicholls (2008). “Starter for Ten: A Novel”, p.136, Villard

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• Now any dogma, based primarily on faith and emotionalism, is a dangerous weapon to use on others, since it is almost impossible to guarantee that the weapon will never be turned on the user.

  Isaac Asimov

  Faith, Emotional, Foundation

  Isaac Asimov (1991). “Great Tales of the Golden Age of Science Fiction”, Bbs Publishing Corporation

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• If there is one single molecule in this universe running around loose, totally free of God’s sovereignty, then we have no guarantee that a single promise of God will ever be fulfilled.

  R. C. Sproul

  Running, Promise, Molecules

  R. C. Sproul (2010). “Classic Teachings on the Nature of God”, p.172, Hendrickson Publishers

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• Now, revealing that you're a keeper is no guarantee that this guy won't just walk away. Some men really are just sport fishing and have no intention of doing anything more than throwing back the women they bed. If this is the cae with this man, then let him walk-what do you care? He's not the guy you're looking for.

  Steve Harvey

  Sports, Men, Fishing

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• Since time itself is not movement, it must somehow have to do with movement.Time is initially encountered in those entities which are changeable, change is in time. How is time exhibited in this way of encountering it, namely, as that within which things change? Does it here give itself as itself in what it is? Can an axplacation of time starts here guarantee that time will thereby provide as it were the fundamental phenomena that determine it in its own being?

  Martin Heidegger

  Giving, Doe, Fundamentals

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• I'm not saying I'm gonna change the world, but I guarantee that I will spark the brain that will change the world.

  Tupac Shakur

  Life, Music, Science

  "Tupac: Resurrection". Documentary, January 22, 2003.

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