Guarantees Quotes - Page 25

• A disturbing prospect looms before us as Americans consider the possibility of a second term for President Barack Obama. Millions of conservatives who revere the Constitution, with its guarantees of freedom and limited government, have watched with alarm as the campaign season has unfolded.

  James Dobson

  Government, President, Alarms

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• To exist (in mathematics), said Henri Poincaré, is to be free from contradiction. But mere existence does not guarantee survival. To survive in mathematics requires a kind of vitality that cannot be described in purely logical terms.

  Mark Kac

  Survival, Vitality, Doe

  Mark Kac, Stanislaw M. Ulam (1968). “Mathematics and Logic”, p.8, Courier Corporation

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• Filmmaking is challenging for men and women. In both cases, it is incredibly difficult. And gender is neither a guarantee of greater sensitivity, capacity for empathy or aperture.

  Claudia Llosa

  Men, Empathy, Challenges

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• Gun-free zones don't deter criminals-they help them by providing a guarantee that they will not face any armed resistance. But they do deter the law-abiding. A faculty member with a concealed-handgun permit who breaks the campus gun ban would be fired and likely find it impossible to get admitted to another school. Bringing a firearm into a gun-free zone can have serious adverse consequences for law-abiding people. But for someone like the Virginia Tech killer, the threat of expulsion is no deterrent at all.

  Glenn Beck

  School, Gun, Virginia

  Glenn Beck, Kevin Balfe, Hannah Beck (2013). “Control: Exposing the Truth About Guns”, p.103, Simon and Schuster

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• Let ourselves be seen, deeply seen, vulnerably seen, to love with our whole hearts, even though there's no guarantee... to practice gratitude and joy in those moments of terror, to be this vulnerable means that we’re alive.

  Brené Brown

  Gratitude, Grateful, Believe

  "How to Love like a Child" by Allison Berkowitz, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 30, 2013.

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• The point is that we have no control. The point is that there are no guarantees, that we never know what's going to happen in life, but we can't give up. The point is that, fallible as we all are, we have to keep trying, we have to keep reaching out to others.

  Joy Fielding

  Giving Up, Guarantees That, Trying

  Joy Fielding (2012). “Still Life: Caught in a nightmare between life and death ...”, p.167, Simon and Schuster

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• I love Tumi because of the lifetime guarantee. And their luggage is just so solid. Looks good. Versatile. My carry-on bag is Tumi. My hanging bag is Tumi. My big suitcase is Tumi. All black. Love it.

  Mark Teixeira

  Black, Bags, Looks

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• Violating the 4th Amendment guarantees against illegal searches and seizures is not the way to solve crime problems.

  Tim Wise

  Way, Problem, Crime

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• The Constitution guarantees protection to property, and we must make that promise good. But it does not give the right of suffrage to any corporation. It is necessary that laws should be passed to prohibit the use of corporate funds directly or indirectly for political purposes; it is still more necessary that such laws should be thoroughly enforced.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Law, Giving, Political

  Theodore Roosevelt (2004). “Letters and Speeches”

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• Having insurance doesn't guarantee good health outcomes, but it is a critical factor.

  Irwin Redlener

  Outcomes, Good Health, Critical

  "A Healthy Future for Immigrant Children Is a Healthy Future for the Nation" by Irwin Redlener, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 30, 2013.

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• Just living in Los Angeles guarantees the loss of a few I.Q. points each year.

  Rex Reed

  Travel, Home, Loss

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• Candidates who win while spending less than their opponents still usually have to spend quite a lot. While not a surefire guarantor of victory, a large war chest -even if not the largest-is usually a necessary condition. Money may not guarantee victory, but the lack of it usually guarantees defeat. Without large sums, there is rarely much of a campaign, as poorly funded 'minor' candidates have repeatedly discovered.

  Michael Parenti

  War, Winning, Political

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• It is the unspecified 'you' of modern love poems that I am mostly concerned with here. At least, the addressee is commonly a lover, and the very fact that the name is withheld is offered as a guarantee of the closeness and significance of the relationship.

  John Fuller

  Names, Poetry, Literature

  John Fuller (2011). “Who Is Ozymandias?: And other Puzzles in Poetry”, p.194, Random House

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• I can only be as good as [the audience members] at acknowledging and owning the information that's coming through ... and sometimes, nobody comes through.... One of the things that I've learned is that I am not an operator and I can't dial direct, ... and even if I do make the connection with the person they want to hear from, there's no guarantee that they're going to come through and tell them what they want to hear.

  John Edward

  Guarantees That, Scary, Connections

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• We know that the Constitution wisely separates church from state, but remember: the Constitution guarantees freedom of religion, not freedom from religion.

  Joe Lieberman

  Scary, Church, Constitution

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• The most natural way you would attempt to cope with something inside you that is affecting your moods and your energy levels is to intervene with chemicals to help and because medical science hasn't come up with pharmaceuticals that do particularly well you tend to reach for the chemicals that are outside the Pharma counter, i.e. narcotics and alcohol because they can guarantee your mood more or less.

  Stephen Fry

  Alcohol, Energy, Levels

  Big Think Interview, bigthink.com. December 8, 2009.

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• The human face is a weak guarantee; yet it deserves some consideration. And if I had to whip the wicked, I would do so more severely to those who belied and betrayed the promises that nature had implanted on their brows; I would punish malice more harshly when it was hidden under a kindly appearance.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Deception, Promise, Wicked

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• I do not want actors and actresses to understand my plays. That is not necessary. If they will only pronounce the correct sounds I can guarantee the results.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Play, Acting, Actresses

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• Natural selection is a theory of local adaptation to changing environments. It proposes no perfecting principles, no guarantee of general improvement

  Stephen Jay Gould

  Principles, Changing Environment, Improvement

  Stephen Jay Gould (1992). “Ever Since Darwin: Reflections in Natural History”, p.45, W. W. Norton & Company

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• The suggestion of denying any measure of their full political rights to such a great group of our population as the colored people is one which, however it might be received in some other quarters, could not possibly be permitted by one who feels a responsibility for living up to the traditions and maintaining the principles of the Republican Party. Our Constitution guarantees equal rights to all our citizens, without discrimination on account of race or color. I have taken my oath to support that Constitution.

  Calvin Coolidge

  Taken, Party, Responsibility

  Letter to Charles F. Gardner, August 9, 1924.

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• No government can guarantee security. It can only tax production, distribution and service and gradually crush the power to pay taxes. That settles nothing. It only uses up the gains of the past and postpones the developments of the future.

  Henry Ford

  Crush, Past, Government

  Henry Ford, Samuel Crowther (1936). “The Only Real Security: An Interview with Henry Ford”

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• To be a born American citizen seems a guarantee against pauperism; and this, perhaps, springs from the virtue of a vote.

  Herman Melville

  Spring, Citizens, Vote

  Herman Melville (2015). “Redburn's First Voyage: Works of Melville”, p.170, 谷月社

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• Beauty and virtue: the most kissable ass in the world is no guarantee of good intentions.

  Mason Cooley

  Beauty, World, Good Intentions

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• Realism: the wealth of detail guarantees the truth of the tale.

  Mason Cooley

  Reality, Details, Wealth

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• Sincerity guarantees nothing but itself.

  Mason Cooley

  Sincerity

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