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• If we are looking for one single action which will enable the poor to overcome their poverty, I would go for credit. Money is power. I have been arguing that credit should be accepted as a human right. If we can come up with a system which allows everybody access to credit while ensuring excellent repayment - I can give you a guarantee that poverty will not last long.

  Muhammad Yunus

  Guarantees That, Long, Giving

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• The Free Exercise Clause at the very least was designed to guarantee freedom of conscience by prohibiting any degree of compulsion in matters of belief. It was offended by a burden on one's religion. The Establishment Clause can be understood as designed in part to ensure that the advancement of religion comes only from the voluntary efforts of its proponents and not from support by the state. Religious groups are to prosper or perish on the intrinsic merit and attraction of their beliefs and practices.

  Harry A. Blackmun

  Religious, Exercise, Practice

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• We are a religious nation because we do not have a state religion, because the government guarantees freedom of religion but has no role in religion, because not only do we tolerate our religious differences, we celebrate them.

  Geraldine Ferraro

  Religious, Government, Differences

  Geraldine Ferraro, Linda Bird Francke (1985). “Ferraro: My Story”, p.211, Northwestern University Press

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• Someone tells us that God loves us as a father loves his children. We are reassured. But then something awful happens. Some qualification is made.... We are reassured again. But then perhaps we ask: what is this assurance of God's (appropriately qualified) love worth, what is this apparent guarantee really a guarantee against? Just what would have to happen not merely (morally and wrongly) to tempt but also (logically and rightly) to entitle us to say "God does not love us" or even "God does not exist"?

  Antony Flew

  Children, Father, Atheism

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• I would not look with favor upon a President working to subvert the First Amendment's guarantees of religious liberty ... Neither do I look with favor upon those who would work to subvert Article VI of the Constitution by requiring a religious test - even by indirection.

  John F. Kennedy

  Religious, Atheism, President

  Address to the Greater Houston Ministerial Association, delivered 12 September 1960 at the Rice Hotel in Houston, TX

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• Book writing is not a get-rich-quick scheme. Anyone who decides to write a book must expect to invest a lot of time and effort without any guarantee of success. Books do not write themselves and they do not sell themselves. Authors write and promote their books.

  Dan Poynter

  Book, Writing, Effort

  Dan Poynter (2000). “Writing Nonfiction: Turning Thoughts Into Books”, Para Pub

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• All golfers fear the one-iron. It has no angle, no loft. The one-iron is a confidence-crusher, a fear trip, an almost guarantee of shame, failure, dumbness and humiliation if you ever use it in public.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Golf, Iron, Use

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• When you embrace the mystery and open yourself to it, a new life is created, resistant to the old problems. You will notice at times that the new life isn't what you asked for. But asking for specific items or for particular events to occur isn't how I define prayer. I cannot guarantee that the orders you place with God will always be filled. Prayer is not a test of God, but a call for help to find your inner strength and talent.

  Bernie Siegel

  Prayer, Order, Guarantees That

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• A well-developed sense of self is a necessary if not sufficient condition of your well-being. Its presence does not guarantee fulfillment, but its absence guarantees some measure of anxiety, frustration, or despair.

  Nathaniel Branden

  Frustration, Self, Anxiety

  Nathaniel Branden (1998). “Nathaniel Brandens Self-Esteem Every Day: Reflections on Self-Esteem and Spirituality”, p.55, Simon and Schuster

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• Money and fame are trashy and don't guarantee happiness, but we all refuse really to know it.

  Stephen Fry

  Fame, Refuse, Knows

  "Stephen Fry, British Polymath: A Twinterview". Interview with Johann Hari, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 15, 2010.

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• It's no coincidence that all the greatest rappers - whoever you put in your top five - I guarantee you they a great storyteller.

  J. Cole

  Rapper, Coincidence, Storyteller

  "VIBE Summer 2013 Cover: J. Cole And Nas". Interview with John Kennedy, www.vibe.com. August 13, 2013.

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• I found a 1992 New York Times article:Bill Clinton playing golf at a club that he played at all of his adult life as governor, that didn't allow black membership! I guarantee most Americans don't know that.

  Sean Hannity

  New York, Golf, Black

  "Is the Confederate flag controversy a Democratic problem?". "The Hannity Show", www.foxnews.com. June 25, 2015.

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• ...because knowledge rapidly deteriorates unless it is used constantly, maintaining within an organization an activity that is used only intermittently guarantees incompetence.

  Peter Drucker

  Organization, Maintaining, Incompetence

  Peter Drucker (2012). “Managing in the Next Society”, p.189, Routledge

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• 'Nature is conquered by obedience' - and her resistless energies are at our bidding, as soon as we, by knowledge, work with them and not against them. We can choose out of her boundless stores the forces that serve our purpose in momentum, in direction, and so on, and their very invariability becomes the guarantee of our success.

  Annie Besant

  Karma, Energy, Bidding

  Annie Besant (2012). “The Theosophical Writings of Annie Besant”, p.959, Jazzybee Verlag

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• There is no greatness apart from self control. Development that does not include self government will only guarantee our mediocrity.

  Graham Cooke

  Greatness, Self, Government

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• We should work to guarantee that there is a midwife or health worker by every woman's side during childbirth.

  Liya Kebede

  Guarantees That, Health Workers, Sides

  "Why Protests Aren’t What we Should Remember About The G8" by Liya Kebede, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 13, 2010.

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• Nicole Baart has written a novel that satisfies on every level. Sleeping In Eden is a compelling mystery, a tragic love story, a perceptive consideration of the callous whim of circumstance and, perhaps most important, a beautiful piece of prose. I guarantee this is a book that will haunt you long after you've turned the last page.

  William Kent Krueger

  Beautiful, Book, Sleep

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• health in all lands is among the indispensable guarantees of human progress.

  Helen Keller

  Health, Land, Progress

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• Sentiment never was and never can be a guarantee for justice.

  Susan B. Anthony

  Justice, Sentiments

  Lynn Sherr, Susan B. Anthony (1995). “Failure Is Impossible: Susan B. Anthony in Her Own Words”, Crown

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• Israel itself is the strongest guarantee against another Holocaust.

  Golda Meir

  Israel, Holocaust, Strongest

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• Possession of a secret is no guarantee of its truth.

  Rita Mae Brown

  Secret, Possession

  Rita Mae Brown (2014). “In Her Day”, p.122, Bantam

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• There is nothing to guarantee the superior judgment, knowledge, and integrity of an inspector or a bureaucrat-and the deadly consequences of entrusting him with arbitrary power are obvious.

  Alan Greenspan

  Integrity, Arbitrary, Judgment

  Ayn Rand, Nathaniel Branden, Alan Greenspan, Robert Hessen (1986). “Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal”, p.112, Penguin

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• God gives manhood but one clew to success,--utter and exact justice; that he guarantees shall be always expediency.

  Wendell Phillips

  Giving, Justice, Expediency

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• the public sphere is as consistently based on the law of equality as the private sphere is based on the law of universal difference and differentiation. Equality, in contrast to all that is involved in mere existence, is not given us, but is the result of human organization insofar as it is guided by the principle of justice. We are not born equal; we become equal as members of a group on the strength of our decision to guarantee ourselves mutually equal rights.

  Hannah Arendt

  Equality, Rights, Law

  Hannah Arendt (1973). “The Origins of Totalitarianism”, p.345, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Leaders who fail to prune their pride will meet demise. That's not a guess, it's a guarantee. With pride, it's not a matter of 'if' we will fall, but 'when.' There are no exceptions.

  John C. Maxwell

  Fall, Pride, Leader

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