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• After all, what is a kiss? A vow made at closer range, a more precise promise, a confession that contains its own proof, a seal placed on a pact that has already been signed; it's a secret told to the mouth rather than to the ear.

  Edmond Rostand

  Inspiring, Kissing, Secret

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• I keep telling my American friends, "If you think of Donald Trump as only something that is happening inside the United States, you're missing it." Because there are Trump-like events happening across the Western world, in Warsaw Pact countries, in France, Germany, Austria, the Netherlands. As we speak, the second-largest party in the Dutch legislature - who's more level-headed than the Dutch? - is Geert Wilders's party, which is a very Trump-like party, and they've got 33 out of 150 seats.

  David Frum

  Country, Party, Thinking

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• They make a secret pact with themelves never to think about the future.

  Paulo Coelho

  Future, Thinking, Secret

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• I made a pact with myself that I'd rather have less money than be embarrassed.

  Gwyneth Paltrow

  Embarrassment, Made, Embarrassed

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• On the day I became Soviet leader, in March 1985, I had a special meeting with the leaders of the Warsaw Pact countries and told them: 'You are independent, and we are independent. You are responsible for your policies, we are responsible for ours. We will not intervene in your affairs, I promise you.'

  Mikhail Gorbachev

  Country, Independent, Leader

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• We secured peace for our country for one and a half years, as well as an opportunity of preparing our forces for defense if fascist Germany risked attacking our country in defiance of the pact. This was a definite gain to our country and a loss for fascist Germany.

  Joseph Stalin

  Country, War, Loss

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• President Obama flew to China a few days ago and announced a joint environmental pact with the communist regime. The United States will reduce its carbon emissions substantially over the next 11 years. China will do absolutely nothing but hope that its emissions decline after 2030.

  Erick Erickson

  Years, Carbon Emissions, Environmental

  Erick Erickson (2016). “The Wrong Type of Values”, p.60, Creators Publishing

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• The Social Security program is a pact between workers and their employers that they will contribute to a common fund to ensure that those who are no longer part of the work force will have a basic income on which to live. It represents our commitment as a society to the belief that workers should not live in dread that a disability, death, or old age could leave them or their families destitute.

  Jimmy Carter

  Commitment, Age, Income

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• I borrowed 100 pounds and made the pact with God: Make me a millionaire - and you can have half of my money.

  Albert Gubay

  Half, Pounds, Made

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• No compromise with the main purpose; no peace till victory; no pact with unrepentant wrong.

  Winston Churchill

  Victory, Purpose, Compromise

  Winston Churchill's remarks at a joint Anglo-American rally in Westminster (July 4, 1918), as quoted in "War Aims & Peace Ideals: Selections in Prose & Verse, Illustrating the Aspirations of the Modern World" edited by Tucker Brooke and Henry Seidel Canby (p. 138), 1919.

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• Surrealism is not a school of poetry but a movement of liberation... A way of rediscovering the language of innocence, a renewal of the primordial pact, poetry is the basic text, the foundation of the human order. Surrealism is revolutionary because it is a return to the beginning of all beginnings.

  Octavio Paz

  School, Order, Way

  Octavio Paz (1973). “Alternating Current”, p.50, Arcade Publishing

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• We need women friends, women who challenge us... I have chosen not to have any more plastic surgery. Sally Field and I have kind of made a pact about that. It's really hard, especially if you're a public person. But I want to give a face to aging.

  Jane Fonda

  Giving, Challenges, Needs

  "Jane Fonda on Men, Power and Plastic Surgery". Interview with Marianne Schnall, www.glamour.com. January 31, 2007.

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• Marriage is primarily an economic arrangement, an insurance pact. It differs from the ordinary life insurance agreement only in that it is more binding, more exacting.

  Emma Goldman

  Agreement, Ordinary, Economic

  Emma Goldman (2015). “Anarchism and Other Essays”, p.151, Sheba Blake Publishing

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• Early in my life I had made a pact with myself. I would never eat anything that moved when I cooked it, excited the dog, or inflated upon impact with my teeth.

  Erma Bombeck

  Dog, Impact, Teeth

  Erma Bombeck (1996). “Four of a Kind: A Suburban Field Guide”, Bbs Publishing Corporation

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• There is no country on earth that can touch us in charitable efforts, in disaster relief efforts, in doing everything to help. We do not live under a suicide pact in the name of compassion, because you see what's incorporated in all this is that we're guilty of something. And we're not. We lead the world in goodness.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Suicide, Country, Compassion

  "America Leads the World in Goodness". "The Rush Limbaugh Show", www.rushlimbaugh.com. February 18, 2016.

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• Human cruelty took the form of a pact with the deity. A solemn oath was made to kill everything, in which people forbade themselves any display of reason or compassion. A city or a land was devoted to destruction and it was believed an insult to God if one did not observe the abominable oath.

  Ernest Renan

  Compassion, Land, Cities

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• The Kyoto Protocol is a death pact, however strange it may sound, because its main aim is to strangle economic growth and economic activity in countries that accept the protocol's requirements.

  Andrey Illarionov

  Country, Kyoto Protocol, Growth

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• I could really try new things. That was satanism, it works really well, I made a pact.

  Brad Pitt

  Trying, Satanism, Made

  "‘Moneyball’: Brad Pitt, Co-Stars At Toronto Film Festival Press Conference", www.huffingtonpost.com. September 9, 2011.

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• We've looked for the constitution to be a national pact, and the perception now is that it's not.

  George W. Casey, Jr.

  Perception, Constitution

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• What does a river like the Vistula carry away with it? Everything that goes to pieces: wood, glass, pencils, pacts ... chairs, bones, and sunsets too. What had long been forgotten rose to memory, floating on its back or stomach, with the help of the Vistula.

  Gunter Grass

  Memories, Sunset, Glasses

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• How nice. Now the Germans can sleep in peace, knowing that they will not be invaded by us.

  Victor Borge

  Nice, Sleep, Knowing

  "Obituary: Victor Borge". The Independent (London), December 26, 2000.

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• I made a pact with my three-year-old thumb-sucking daughter that if she stopped sucking her thumb, I would stop sucking my pipe.

  Walter Mischel

  Daughter, Years, Three

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• The Nazi-Soviet pact of 1939, a traumatic shock to me, ended any ambivalence I had about the Soviet Union, and all cooperation with Communists in united fronts.

  Roger Nash Baldwin

  Unions, United Front, Cooperation

  Woody Klein, Roger Nash Baldwin (2006). “Liberties Lost: The Endangered Legacy of the ACLU”, p.11, Greenwood Publishing Group

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• We did some cool wire work in 'The Pact' - they had me strapped to a harness underneath my shirt so they could fling me around the house and slam me into doors. I definitely got some bruises even with all the padding!

  Caity Lotz

  Doors, House, Wire

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• The adhesion of Coca-Cola is an affirmation of the expansion of the Global Pact and the importance it assumes worldwide, especially on the US market where more and more enterprises have decided to get involved.

  George Kell

  Expansion, Affirmation, Assuming

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