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• I pledge to support the American workforce by wearing only American designers: Calvin Klein between Memorial Day and Labor Day, Donna Karan the rest of the year. Unless I wake up and the day is screaming for me to put on a bikini for my fellow Americans. Country first.

  Paris Hilton

  Country, Memorial Day, Support

  Source: www.harpersbazaar.com

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• On this International Day, let us promise to make peace not just a priority, but a passion. Let us pledge to do more, wherever we are in whatever way we can, to make every day a day of peace.

  Ban Ki-moon

  Peace, Passion, Priorities

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• Patriotism at the expense of another nation is as wicked as racism at the expense of another race. . . Let us resolve to be patriots always, nationalists never. Let us love our country, but pledge allegiance to the earth and to the flora and fauna and human life that it supports - one planet indivisible, with clean air,... soil and water; with liberty, justice and peace for all.

  William Sloane Coffin

  Love, Life, Country

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• Variety is the pledge that matter makes to living things.

  Diane Ackerman

  Diversity, Matter, Living Things

  Diane Ackerman (2011). “A Natural History of the Senses”, p.278, Vintage

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• Few white citizens are acquainted with blacks other than those projected by the media and the so--called educational system, whichis nothing more than a system of rewards and punishments based upon one's ability to pledge loyalty oaths to Anglo culture. The media and the "educational system" are the prime sources of racism in the United States.

  Ishmael Reed

  Loyalty, Education, White

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• How do you pledge allegiance to a government? That's all America is: a government. There's no such thing as 'we're Americans.' That's just trivial bullshit to get you rooting for the home team. You're not an American. You're a guy, you're a person, you're an individual.

  Doug Stanhope

  Team, Home, Government

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• I pledge to set out to live a thousand lives between printed pages. I pledge to use books as doors to other minds, old and young, girl and boy, man and animal. I pledge to use books to open windows to a thousand different worlds and to the thousand different faces of my own world. I pledge to use books to make my universe spread much wider than the world I live in every day. I pledge to treat my books like friends, visiting them all from time to time and keeping them close.

  Cornelia Funke

  Girl, Book, Men

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• The Pledge of Allegiance reflects the truth that faith in God has played a significant role in America since the days of the founding of our country.

  Randy Neugebauer

  Country, America, Usa

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• Guilt is the reason they put the articles in Playboy.

  Dennis Miller

  Guilt, Reason, Playboy

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• I pledge to you I'm not a talker. I'm a doer.

  Michele Bachmann

  Doers, Talkers

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• With hurricanes, tornados, fires out of control, mud slides, flooding, severe thunderstorms tearing up the country from one end to another, and with the threat of bird flu and terrorist attacks, "Are we sure this is a good time to take God out of the Pledge of Allegiance?

  Jay Leno

  Country, Fire, Bird

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• A nation can assume that the addition of the words "under God" to its pledge of allegiance gives evidence that its citizens actually believe in God whereas all it really proves is that they believe in "believing" in God

  Huston Smith

  Believe, Giving, Citizens

  Huston Smith (1959). “The Religions of Man”

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• To those peoples in the huts and villages of half the globe struggling to break the bonds of mass misery, we pledge our best efforts to help them help themselves, for whatever period is required - not because the Communists may be doing it, not because we seek their votes, but because it is right. If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich.

  John F. Kennedy

  Peace, Struggle, Best Effort

  Inaugural Address, 20 Jan. 1961

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• Generation after generation of women have pledged to raise their daughters differently, only to find that their daughters grow up and fervently pledge the same thing.

  Elizabeth Debold

  Daughter, Mother, Growing Up

  Elizabeth Debold, Marie C. Wilson, Idelisse Malavé (1993). “Mother daughter revolution: from betrayal to power”, Da Capo Press

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• I paid a visit to Yasukuni Shrine to pray for the souls of those who had fought for the country and made ultimate sacrifices. I have made a pledge never to wage war again, that we must build a world that is free from the sufferings of the devastation of war.

  Shinzo Abe

  Country, War, Sacrifice

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• Confidence always pleases those who receive it. It is a tribute we pay to their merit, a deposit we commit to their trust, a pledge that gives them a claim upon us, a kind of dependence to which we voluntarily submit.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Confidence, Giving, Merit

  "Reflections on Various Subjects". Book by François de La Rochefoucauld, www.gutenberg.org. 1678.

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• Let us make a pledge that, if not all day or all night long, at least for a few moments every day, we will make an effort to experience love, love that is free from selfishness, free from desire, free from expectation, love that is complete freedom.

  Gurumayi Chidvilasananda

  Night, Long, Expectations

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• Today the great gift of God's Creation is exposed to serious dangers and lifestyles which can degrade it. Environmental pollution is making particularly unsustainable the lives of the poor of the world ... we must pledge ourselves to take care of creation and to share its resources in solidarity.

  Pope Benedict XVI

  Environmental, Care, Today

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• Together, let us make this a new beginning. Let us make a commitment to care for the needy, to teach our children the values and the virtues handed down to us by our families, to have the courage to defend those values and the willingess to sacrifice for them. Let us pledge to restore, in our time, the American spirit of voluntary service, of cooperation, of private and community initiative, a spirit that flows like a deep and mighty river through the history of our nation.

  Ronald Reagan

  Education, Children, New Beginnings

  1980 Republican National Convention Acceptance Address, delivered 17 July 1980, Detroit, MI

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• We do not want an expanding struggle with consequences, that no one can perceive, nor will we bluster or bully or flaunt our power, but we will not surrender and we will not retreat, for
  behind our American pledge lies the determination and resources, I believe, of all of the American nation.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Determination, Lying, Believe

  News Conference, www.presidency.ucsb.edu. July 28, 1965.

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• Freedom sees in religion the companion of its struggles and its triumphs, the cradle of its infancy, the divine source of its rights. It considers religion as the safeguard of mores; and mores as the guarantee of laws and the pledge of its duration.

  Alexis de Tocqueville

  Religious, Struggle, Rights

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• So on this Human Rights Day, let us rededicate ourselves to the advancement of human rights and freedoms for all, and pledge always to live by the ideals we promote to the world.

  Barack Obama

  Rights, Advancement, World

  "Beatings, Protests, Arrests Mark 60th Annual Human Rights Day". www.huffingtonpost.com. January 10, 2009.

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• We salute our veterans of Pearl Harbor and World War II, whose sacrifices saved democracy during a dark hour. In their memory, a new generation of our Armed Forces goes forward against new enemies in a new era. Once again, we pledge to defend freedom, secure our homeland, and advance peace around the world. Americans have been tested before, and our Nation will triumph again.

  George W. Bush

  Memories, War, Dark

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• I want to talk to you. I want to listen to you. I want to walk with you and, yes, I want you in m bed. That's what I want today. That's what I'll want in a hundred years. If you promise to be my wife forever, I will pledge myself to your happiness.

  Christina Dodd

  Years, Wife, Forever

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• There are wounds of the spirit which never close and are intended in God's mercy to bring us nearer to Him, and to prevent us leaving Him by their very perpetuity. Such wounds then may almost be taken as a pledge, or at least as a ground for a humble trust, that God will give us the great gift of perseverance to the end. This is how I comfort myself in my own great bereavements.

  John Henry Newman

  Perseverance, Taken, Humble

  John Henry Newman (1907). “Selections from the Prose and Poetry of John Henry Newman”, Boston, New York [etc.] Houghton, Mifflin [c1907]

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