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• Free institutions are not the property of any majority. They do not confer upon majorities unlimited powers. The rights of the majority are limited rights. They are limited not only by the constitutional guarantees but by the moral principle implied in those guarantees. That principle is that men may not use the facilities of liberty to impair them. No man may invoke a right in order to destroy it.

  Walter Lippmann

  Men, Rights, Order

  Walter Lippmann, Clinton Rossiter, James Lare (1982). “The Essential Lippmann: A Political Philosophy for Liberal Democracy”, p.57, Harvard University Press

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• Thinking doesn't guarantee that we won't make mistakes. But not thinking guarantees that we will.

  Leslie Lamport

  Mistake, Thinking, Making Mistakes

  "Why We Should Build Software Like We Build Houses". www.wired.com. January 25, 2013.

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• As was the case in Requiem for a Dream, Pollock, A Beautiful Mind, House of Sand and Fog, The Hulk and Dark Water, Connelly's mere presence in a film guarantees that things will turn out badly for the male lead, as Connelly is always cast as the Angel of Death. Fun to hang out with, great eyes, amazing eyebrows, but the Angel of Death.

  Joe Queenan

  Beautiful, Dream, Fun

  "A whiter shade of guile" by Joe Queenan, www.theguardian.com. January 5, 2007.

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• There were no guarantees that country music, whose roots were in the South, were ready for Charley Pride.

  Charley Pride

  Country, Pride, Roots

  Charley Pride, Jim Henderson (1994). “Pride: the Charley Pride story”, William Morrow & Co

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• I can always guarantee that the Irish Citizen Army will fight but I cannot guarantee that it will be on time

  James Connolly

  Fighting, Army, Citizens

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• It is irrational to charge high prices for socially valuable innovations as this guarantees that they will be underutilized. It is much better to sell them at cost and then to reward the innovator in some other way. This is not always possible, because in some cases the value of an innovation is in the eye of the beholder; it's very difficult to value how much a new Madonna song is worth, for example. But in the case of medicines, green technologies and seeds in agriculture, such an alternative reward mechanism is fairly straightforward.

  Thomas Pogge

  Song, Eye, Technology

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• My hope that the Church will emerge as a strong leader in society is just that a hope. What I described in The Catholic Moment is not a prophecy but the outline of a possibility. There are no guarantees that my hopes expressed in The Catholic Moment will ever be realised.

  Richard John Neuhaus

  Strong, Leader, Catholic

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• The cross guarantees that even in your darkest moment God will never turn in disgust and walk away. There is no rebellion, no weakness, no foolishness, no evil of heart that the cross can't defeat and grace can't transform.

  Paul David Tripp

  Heart, Evil, Grace

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• God guarantees that His Word will not return void. He doesn't guarantee that the return will be immediate. Keep sowing!

  Steven Furtick

  Sowing, Void, Return

  FaceBook post by Steven Furtick from Aug 31, 2011

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• Money is a guarantee that we can have what we want in the future

  Aristotle

  Guarantees, Want

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• To a freedom fighter hope is what a lifebelt is to a swimmer - a guarantee that one will keep afloat and free from danger.

  Nelson Mandela

  Fighter, Swimmer, Danger

  Nelson Mandela (2011). “Nelson Mandela By Himself: The Authorised Book of Quotations”, p.162, Pan Macmillan

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• The world cannot live at peace without the United Nations. For this reason: it creates a reasonable guarantee that all this change in the world, these tremendous political and economic developments, can be channelized, kept orderly. The United Nations is a mold that keeps the hot metal from spilling over.

  Dag Hammarskjold

  Peace, Political, Mold

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• I think that to a very great extent we are partners with the divine in this enterprise called history. That is an ongoing relationship, and there is absolutely no guarantee that things will automatically work out to our best advantage.

  Chaim Potok

  Relationship, Thinking, Work Out

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• We have to realize that our lives could be gone in a moment. There are no guarantees that we will be here at this time next year. Learn to live each day to the fullest. Don't complain. Don't focus on what's wrong. Be grateful for the opportunity to experience each day.

  Joel Osteen

  Grateful, Opportunity, Years

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• Every choice we make contains the energy of either faith or fear, and the outcome of every decision reflects to some extent that faith or fear. This dynamic of choice guarantees that we cannot run away from ourselves or our decisions.

  Caroline Myss

  Running, Choices, Decision

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• I guarantee, that if I am elected, I will take over the White House, hang out, shoot pool, scratch my ass, and not do a damn thing . . . Which is to say, if you want something done, don't come to me to do it for you; you got to get together and figure out how to do it yourselves. Is that a deal?

  Utah Phillips

  Want Something, White, House

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• Whatever the intellectual quality of the education given our children, it is vital that it include elements of love and compassion, for nothing guarantees that knowledge alone will be truly useful to human beings.

  Dalai Lama

  Children, Compassion, Intellectual

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• Being a movie star is a rare job. Nobody gives you any guarantees that you'll get to do it forever. It's a very lucky and privileged position to be in.

  Diane Keaton

  Jobs, Stars, Giving

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• The Court today completes the process of converting Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 from a guarantee that race or sex will not be the basis for often will.

  Antonin Scalia

  Sex, Hippie, Rights

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• But I do say that, if you will regularly devote 15 minutes a day, preferably before breakfast, for 60 days to the simple set of exercises that I devised for conditioning men in the navy, I guarantee that you will enjoy increased physical buoyancy and mental vigor.

  Gene Tunney

  Exercise, Simple, Men

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• Well into adulthood, writing has never gotten easier. It still only ever begins badly, and there are no guarantees that this is not the day when the jig is finally up.

  David Rakoff

  Writing, Easier, Wells

  FaceBook post by David Rakoff from Apr 22, 2013

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• It (land value taxation) guarantees that no one dispossess fellow citizens by obtaining a disproportionate share of what nature provides for humanity.

  William Vickrey

  Land, Humanity, Citizens

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• The pathology of setting a deadline to the earliest articulable date essentially guarantees that the schedule will be missed.

  Tom DeMarco

  Schedules, Pathology, Deadline

  Tom DeMarco, Tim Lister (2013). “Waltzing with Bears: Managing Risk on Software Projects”, p.57, Addison-Wesley

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• On the information sheet in a New York hotel, I recently read: 'Dear guest! To guarantee that you will fully enjoy your stay with us, this hotel is totally smoke-free. For any infringement of this regulation, you will be charged $200.' The beauty of this formulation, taken literally, is that you are to be punished for refusing to fully enjoy your stay.

  Slavoj Žižek

  New York, Taken, Guests

  Slavoj Žižek (2009). “First As Tragedy, Then As Farce”, p.58, Verso

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• I may be the most recognizable name in the cast, but I can guarantee that I am not the most talented.

  Huey Lewis

  Names, May, Casts

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