Guarantees Quotes - Page 31

• Men and kings must be judged in the testing moments of their lives. Courage is rightly esteemed the first of human qualities, because, as has been said, it is the quality which guarantees all others.

  Winston Churchill

  Kings, Men, Quality

  Winston Churchill (1959). “Great Contemporaries”

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• Leo Tolstoy, the greatest anti-patriot of our time, defines patriotism as the principle that will justify the training of wholesale murderers; a trade that requires better equipment in the exercise of man-killing than the making of such necessities as shoes, clothing, and houses; a trade that guarantees better returns and greater glory than that of the honest workingman.

  Emma Goldman

  Exercise, Men, Shoes

  Emma Goldman (2012). “Living My Life”, p.428, Courier Corporation

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• Poetry is a religion without hope, but its martyrs guarantee the eternal truth of its dogma.

  Jean Cocteau

  Dogma, Martyr, Without Hope

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• In its proper meaning equality before the law means the right to participate in the making of the laws by which one is governed, a constitution which guarantees democratic rights to all sections of the population, the right to approach the court for protection or relief in the case of the violation of rights guaranteed in the constitution, and the right to take part in the administration of justice as judges, magistrates, attorneys-general, law advisers and similar positions.

  Nelson Mandela

  Mean, Rights, Law

  Nelson Mandela (1973). “No Easy Walk to Freedom”, p.127, Heinemann

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• No decision-making system is going to guarantee corporate success. The strategic decisions that corporations have to make are of mind-numbing complexity. But we know that the more power you give a single individual in the face of complexity and uncertainty, the more likely it is that bad decisions will get made.

  James Surowiecki

  Giving, Decision, Mind

  James Surowiecki (2005). “The Wisdom of Crowds”, p.220, Anchor

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• Think of yourself as an athlete. I guarantee you it will change the way you walk, the way you work, and the decisions you make about leadership, teamwork, and success.

  Mariah Nelson

  Sports, Teamwork, Athlete

  Mariah Burton Nelson (2002). “We Are All Athletes”, Dare Press

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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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• Anger punishes the bearer's heart. Who remains angry suffers most. For many, the search for perfection virtually guarantees it will be found, and disregarded in order to continue the search. Some mornings it just doesn't seem worth it to gnaw through the leather straps.

  Emo Philips

  Morning, Heart, Order

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• Having Messi in the team guarantees everything. He doesn't just score, he gives assists, and he works and wins the ball. He is the best player in the world.

  Sergio Busquets

  Team, Winning, Player

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• There is no screenplay-writing recipe that guarantees your cake will rise.

  Robert McKee

  Writing, Cake, Recipes

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• Cooking for yourself is the only sure way to take back control of your diet from the food scientists and food processors, and to guarantee you're eating real food rather than edible foodlike substances, with their unhealthy oils, high-fructose corn syrup, and surfeit of salt.

  Michael Pollan

  Real, Corn Syrup, Oil

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• The best way to guarantee a steady stream of new ideas is to make sure that each person in your organization is as different as possible from the others. Under these conditions, and only these conditions, will people maintain varied perspectives and demonstrate their knowledge in different ways.

  Nicholas Negroponte

  Organization, Ideas, People

  "Where do new ideas come from?" by Nicholas Negroponte, www.wired.com. January 1, 1996.

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• The free society does not guarantee virtue, any more than it guarantees happiness. But it allows for the pursuit of both, a pursuit rendered all the more meaningful and profound because success is not guaranteed, it has to be won through personal striving.

  Dinesh D'Souza

  Meaningful, Profound, Doe

  Dinesh D'Souza (2012). “What's So Great About America”, p.190, Regnery Publishing

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• You can give the same recipe to ten cooks, and some make it come alive, and some make a flat souffle. A system doesn't guarantee anything.

  Chuck Close

  Giving, Alive, Recipes

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• Nothing guarantees more applause and more support than the call to abolish the IRS.

  Frank Luntz

  Support, Irs, Applause

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• Good intentions do not guarantee good results. Somehow Andrew Keates turns works of merit into evenings of entertainment. Don't call him a dramaturge, call him an alchemist.

  Paul Gambaccini

  Alchemist, Evening, Entertainment

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• Run as much miles as I did and you'll learn the secret of running, but I can't guarantee you'll win in Olympics.

  Lasse Viren

  Running, Winning, Secret

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• Different groups are differentially vulnerable to advertising; and their vulnerability varies not so much with the character or quantity of advertisements as with the informational resources they can claim by age, education, station in life, and government guarantees of consumer protection.

  Michael Schudson

  Character, Government, Age

  Michael Schudson (2013). “Advertising, The Uneasy Persuasion (RLE Advertising): Its Dubious Impact on American Society”, p.16, Routledge

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• Unemployment in the sense of distress is widely disappearing. . . . We in America today are nearer to the final triumph over poverty than ever before in the history of any land. The poor-house is vanishing from among us. We have not yet reached the goal, but given a change to go forward with the policies of the last eight years, and we shall soon with he help of God be in sight of the day when poverty will be banished from this nation. There is no guarantee against poverty equal to a job for every man. That is the primary purpose of the economic policies we advocate

  Herbert Hoover

  Jobs, Men, Eight

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• States kill when they apply the death penalty, when they send their people to war, or when they carry out extra-judicial or summary executions. They can also kill by omission, when they fail to guarantee to their people access to the bare essentials for life.

  Pope Francis

  War, Omission, People

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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, Guarantees That

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

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• The 'defense' budget is three quarters of a trillion dollars. Profits went up last year well over 25%. I guarantee you: when war becomes that profitable, we're going to see more of it.

  Chalmers Johnson

  War, Years, Dollars

  "Why We Fight", www.imdb.com. 2005.

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• Courage is the greatest virtue because it guarantees all the rest.

  Winston Churchill

  Virtue

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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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• The first phrase of the First Amendment spoke to the freedom uppermost in Jefferson's mind when it provided that, 'Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof.' Here a double guarantee could be found: first, that government would do nothing to give official endorsement to a religion or to set one faith above another; second, that government would do nothing to inhibit the freedom of religion.

  Edwin Gaustad

  Exercise, Government, Law

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