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• In religious belief as elsewhere, we must take our chances, recognizing that we could be wrong, dreadfully wrong. There are no guarantees; the religious life is a venture; foolish and debilitating error is a permanent possibility. (If we can be wrong, however, we can also be right.)

  Alvin Plantinga

  Religious, Errors, Venture

  Alvin Plantinga (2000). “Warranted Christian Belief”, p.81, Oxford University Press

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• Is there any reason why the American people should be taxed to guarantee the debts of banks, any more than they should be taxed to guarantee the debts of other institutions, including merchants, the industries, and the mills of the country?

  Carter Glass

  Country, People, Political

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• Homosexuals now pervade and control American government at every level and branch. Thus, only those churches that support and promote the militant homosexual agenda enjoy religious freedom. Any church in America that dares to preach what the Bible says about soul-damning, nation-destroying moral filth of the vile homosexual beasts among us, loses all Constitutional guarantees of religious freedom and speech rights.

  Fred Phelps

  Religious, America, Rights

  Letter to Boris Yeltsin, 1997.

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• There is freedom of speech, but I cannot guarantee freedom after speech

  Idi Amin

  Uganda, Freedom Of Speech, Speech

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• Life is like therapy - real expensive and no guarantees.

  Garth Brooks

  Real, Life Is Like, Therapy

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• The Republic guarantees religious and civil liberty, equal rights and equal opportunities to all its citizens, and declares its resolve to pursue the happiness and prosperity of the whole nation and of all its parts, cherishing all the children of the nation equally.

  Patrick Pearse

  Religious, Children, Opportunity

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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, Guarantees That, Easier

  FaceBook post by David Rakoff from Apr 22, 2013

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• I want to find people who have had to work hard and who have learned from their failures. Perseverance is no guarantee you’ll succeed, but without it, it’s almost guaranteed you won’t.

  Steve Case

  Perseverance, Hard Work, People

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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

  Guarantees That, Land, Humanity

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• No one can be guaranteed success without failures along the way. But one thing that guarantees failure is never taking action.

  Clifton Anderson

  Way, Action, One Thing

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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

  Guarantees That, Schedules, Pathology

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

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• Legal systems, at both the national and international level, are therefore required to recognize, guarantee and protect religious freedom, which is a right intrinsically inherent in human nature, in man's dignity as a free being, and is also an indicator of a healthy democracy and cone of the main sources of the legitimacy of the State. Religious freedom ... favors the development of relationships of mutual respect between the different Confessions and their healthy collaboration with the State and political society, without confusion of roles and without antagonism.

  Pope Francis

  Religious, Men, Confusion

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• I sometimes tell students the only guarantee you've got is the music and no-one can take that away from you. Only you can take that away from you-by not practicing and not putting in enough elbow grease. The more you put into your music, the more your passion for it will grow.

  Mike Stern

  Music, Hard Work, Passion

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• Ability to type on a computer terminal is no guarantee of sanity, intelligence, or common sense.

  Gene Spafford

  Common Sense, Computer, Sanity

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• For crying out loud, stop comparing and start living! And you'll be happier with your life, I guarantee. This is crucial: the most difficult thing in the world is to be who you are not. Pretending and trying to be someone else is the official pastime of the human race. And the easiest thing in the world is to be yourself. Be happy. Live! There must be a reason why God made you tall or short or fat or thin or bumpy all over. Love who you are!

  Bo Sanchez

  Being Yourself, Race, Be Who You Are

  FaceBook post by Bo Sanchez from Aug 16, 2010

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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, Guarantees That

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

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• I always thought signing was an artist's honour and guarantee of authenticity.

  Robert Genn

  Artist, Authenticity, Signing

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• The legal system is designed to protect men from the superior power of the state but not to protect women or children from the superior power of men. It therefore provides strong guarantees for the rights of the accused but essentially no guarantees for the rights of the victim. If one set out by design to devise a system for provoking intrusive post-traumatic symptoms, one could not do better than a court of law.

  Judith Lewis Herman

  Strong, Children, Men

  Judith Lewis Herman (1992). “Trauma and recovery”, Basic Books

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• We cannot use a double standard for measuring our own and other people's policies. Our demands for democratic practices in other lands will be no more effective than the guarantees of those practiced in our own country.

  Hubert H. Humphrey

  Wisdom, Country, Land

  1948 Democratic National Convention Address, delivered 14 July 1948, Philadelphia, PA

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• Only the refusal to listen guarantees one against being ensnared by the truth.

  Robert Nozick

  Refusal

  Robert Nozick (1974). “Anarchy, state, and utopia”

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• The greatest words you hear in college basketball are Ohio State advances. (The Iowa upset) is amazing. But again, it's all the proof you need that there's no guarantee.

  Thad Matta

  Basketball, College, Ohio State

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• Death is an unsurpassable limit of human existence... We discover the relationship which is the basis for all feelings of reverence, fear, awe, wonder, sorrow, and deference in the face of something greater and more powerful... Only such a being-unto-death can guarantee the precondition that the Da-sein be able to free itself from its absorption in, its submission and surrender of itself to the things and relationships of everyday living and to return to itself.

  Medard Boss

  Powerful, Feelings, Everyday

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• Remember that there's no one way of doing things. ... If you just get a hammer and hit it really hard, whatever it is, I guarantee you it'll open.

  Fred Armisen

  Funny Graduation, Hammers, Way

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• We must take responsibility for educating ourselves. Being part of a 'smart mob' doesn't guarantee that you're a responsible participant or collaborator.

  Howard Rheingold

  Smart, Responsibility, Guarantees That

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• I believe that one of the great pleasures that we derive from voyaging is that of independence, and we have found that the best guarantee of that independence comes from simplicity.

  Annie Hill

  Peace, Believe, Simplicity

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