Guarantees Quotes - Page 26

• Yes, it's vulnerable and scary to keep your love on toward someone who has become a perceived threat-you cannot guarantee what he or she is going to do. But you can guarantee your own choice. And you can always choose connection.

  Danny Silk

  Choices, Scary, Connections

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• What will the greatest experiment discover? I have no idea!, maybe nothing!, If we won't check, we will never know. In science there is never a guarantee of success. If you understood this last sentence, then you understood the most important message of this lecture.

  Nathan Seiberg

  Science, Ideas, Important

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• John Marshall's warning that the power to tax is the power to destroy has taken on far greater meaning... more specifically, the power of the Internal Revenue Service is threatening to destroy the freedom of religion , guaranteed by the First Amendment. As part of that guarantee, Congress has granted tax exemptions for churches to avoid excessive interference in their religious activities.

  Chuck Grassley

  Christian, Religious, Taken

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• To be engaged in opposing wrong affords...but a slender guarantee for being right.

  William E. Gladstone

  Slender, Scepticism, Opposing

  "Homeric Synchronism : An Enquiry Into the Time and Place of Homer". Book by William E. Gladstone, 1876.

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• Today, unfortunately, the right to vote seems to have become a partisan issue. Democrats seek to guarantee and expand voting rights. Republicans try to undermine and suppress voting rights.

  Donna Brazile

  Party, Issues, Rights

  "Brazile: Why I am a Democrat and why your vote should count". www.cnn.com. February 27, 2014.

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• Successful socialism depends on the perfectibility of man. Unless all, or nearly all, men are high-minded and clear-sighted, it isbound to be a rotten failure in any but a physical sense. Even through it is altruism, socialism means materialism. You can guarantee the things of the body to every one, but you cannot guarantee the things of the spirit to every one; you can guarantee only that the opportunity to seek them shall not be denied to any one who chooses to seek them.

  Katharine Fullerton Gerould

  Mean, Successful, Men

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• ... if a person is to be unconventional, he must be amusing or he is intolerable: for, in the nature of the case, he guarantees you nothing but amusement. He does not guarantee you any of the little amenities by which society has assured itself that, if it must go to sleep, it will at least sleep in a comfortable chair.

  Katharine Fullerton Gerould

  Sleep, Littles, Doe

  Katharine Fullerton Gerould (1920). “Modes and Morals”

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• The promised land guarantees nothing. It is only an opportunity, not a deliverance.

  Shelby Steele

  Opportunity, Land, Deliverance

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• Positive thinking doesn't guarantee results, all it offers is something better than negative thinking.

  Seth Godin

  Positive Thinking, Negative, Results

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• I am not afraid of the priests in the long-run. Scientific method is the white ant which will slowly but surely destroy their fortifications. And the importance of scientific method in modern practical life--always growing and increasing--is the guarantee for the gradual emancipation of the ignorant upper and lower classes, the former of whom especially are the strength of the priests.

  Thomas Huxley

  Running, Class, White

  Thomas Henry Huxley, Henrietta A. Huxley (1908). “Aphorisms and reflections”

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• ... the attempt to control poetry, to subordinate it to extrapoetic ends, constitutes misuse.... it may be poetry's stubborn quality of rockbottom, intrinsic uselessness whichconstitutes the guarantee of its integrity, and hence of its ultimate value to us.

  Jan Clausen

  Integrity, Poetry, Feminism

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• Accumulating years in the act of living is no guarantee of maturity. In fact, it is possible to be born, grow old and die without ever maturing.

  Tian Dayton

  Maturity, Years, Facts

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• Something like the alleyway scene, where it's like a mini one-act play and you run the whole 18 pages of it, it's so much easier to get lost in it. That's why actors love doing theater so much, I guarantee you. It's refreshing to be able to do something where you don't have to be stopped every two seconds, and you can just play it out and it's done.

  Dylan O'Brien

  Running, Play, Two

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• You can make five massive hits in a row and still not get cast by the directors you want to work with, doing little movies. There are no guarantees. I'm trying to sign up and do movies that I'll be proud of, if it's my last one. That's how I think about it.

  Robert Pattinson

  Thinking, Trying, Directors

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• You can put a dog in a scene and everyone's going to be better, I guarantee it. And if they're not better, just shoot the dog.

  Robert Pattinson

  Dog, Scene, Ifs

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• Freedom does not guarantee masterpieces.

  E. M. Forster

  Doe, Masterpiece

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• We can not guarantee success, we can strive to deserve it.

  George Washington

  Strive, Can Not, Deserve

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• It is the delight of vulgar talent to dazzle and to bind the beholder. But true genius seeks to defend us from itself. True geniuswill not impoverish, but will liberate, and add new sense. If a wise man should appear in our village, he would create, in those who conversed with him, a new consciousness of wealth, by opening their eyes to unobserved advantages; he would establish a sense of immovable equality, calm us with assurances that we could not be cheated; as every one would discern the checks and guarantees of condition.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Wise, Wisdom, Eye

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.1544, Delphi Classics

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• Reference to the territory and total disregard for the nationality of the companies is of course the best guarantee that competition assessment remain just that and doesn't get affected by trade or other considerations.

  Mario Monti

  Assessment, Guarantees That, Competition

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• Forgiveness doesn't diminish justice; it just entrusts it to God. He guarantees the right retribution.

  Max Lucado

  Justice, Retribution, Diminish

  Max Lucado (2015). “You'll Get Through This (Miniature Edition): Hope and Help for Your Turbulent Times”, p.164, Running Press

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• All ideas having even the slightest redeeming social importance - unorthodox ideas, controversial ideas, even ideas hateful to the prevailing climate of opinion, have the full protection of the guarantees [of the First Amendment].

  William J. Brennan

  Ideas, Justice, Religion

  Roth v. United States (1957)

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• God has overlooked the times of such ignorance, yet now he is telling mankind that they should all everywhere repent. Because he has set a day in which he purposes to judge the inhabited earth in righteousness by a man whom he has appointed, and he has furnished a guarantee to all men in that he has resurrected him from the dead.

  Paul the Apostle

  Ignorance, Men, Judging

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• When God endowed human beings with brains, He did not intend to guarantee them.

  Baron de Montesquieu

  Brain, Humans, Human Beings

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• The First Amendment is important not only to guarantee the rights of alternative religions and of nonreligious persons in society; it is also important in setting the only possible legal and social condition for the creative health of serious religion itself.

  Langdon Brown Gilkey

  Rights, Creative, Religion

  Langdon Gilkey, Langdon Brown Gilkey (1985). “Creationism on Trial: Evolution and God at Little Rock”, p.11, University of Virginia Press

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• Had I not gone through the ordeal, in more than one country, of landing a job, I would he tempted to lose patience over the number of letters pouring in from fellows who want me or someone else to hand them a job on a silver platter with a guarantee that they will receive the wonderful promotion their talents warrant.... But a tragic number of young men and even older men have a notion that it is not up to them to prosecute the bettering process. They look to someone else to perform the trick for them.

  B. C. Forbes

  Country, Jobs, Men

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