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• Several Americans, unjustly detained by Iran, are finally coming home. In some cases, these Americans faced years of continued detention, and I've met with some of their families. I've seen their anguish, how they ache for their sons and husbands. I gave these families my word. I made a vow that we would do everything in our power to win the release of their loved ones, and we have been tireless.

  Barack Obama

  Husband, Home, Son

  "President Obama Gives Statement About U.S.-Iran Deals This Weekend". "Weekend Edition Sunday", www.npr.org. January 17, 2016.

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• Moira sacrificed all that she had and all the richness of life that still lay in front of her in order to save just one more person. Moira was killed when the south tower collapsed ... Today, we choose to remember and share the joy Moira brought to all of us, and we vow that she will always live in our hearts.

  James Smith

  Heart, Richness Of Life, Order

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• Some vows, or contracts, are for life; others are for limited periods of time.

  Myles Munroe

  Relationship, Marriage, Periods

  Myles Munroe (2005). “The Purpose and Power of Love & Marriage”, p.27, Destiny Image Publishers

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• If I get married again, I want a guy there with a drum to do rimshots during the vows.

  Sam Kinison

  Funny Marriage, Guy, Want

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• It is easy now to break the vows. It is even easier to part your ways if vows haven't been taken.

  Zygmunt Bauman

  Taken, Way, Easy

  Interview with Marcelo Dimentstein, Alberto Senderey, Andy Spokoiny and Shira Shnitzer, leatid.org. February 2009.

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• I think it's time to have a celebration of life and renew our vows. And this time we're going to write the vows because they're going to mean a lot more. We certainly put the 'in sickness and in health' vow to the test the last year and half.

  Bill Rancic

  Writing, Mean, Thinking

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• Just entering into the dharma and taking refuge and bodhisattva vows is a tremendous amount of merit, but we need more and more and more.

  Tenzin Palmo

  Needs, Entering, Merit

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• Ease would recant Vows made in pain, as violent and void.

  John Milton

  Pain, Ease, Void

  John Milton (1773). “The First Six Books of Milton's Paradise Lost: Rendered Into Grammatical Construction ... with Notes Grammatical, Geographical, Historical, Critical, and Explanatory. To which are Prefixed Remarks on Ellipsis and Transposition ...”, p.241

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• Until time and space exist... I vow to come back for the benefit of other beings.

  Tenzin Palmo

  Space, Benefits, Time And Space

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• Condoms will break, but I can assure you that vows of abstinence will break more easily than condoms.

  Joycelyn Elders

  Abstinence, Condom, Break

  "Dr. Joycelyn Elders Is So Fucking Cool" by Kate Harding, June 03, 2007.

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• The intention of being married is the vow, right? You want to put everything into it to make it a success.

  Gwen Stefani

  Want, Married, Intention

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• There are only two ways to deal with the media: either elect to take the Buddha's vow of eternal silence, or make one's voice known as responsibly as one humanly can, and take the consequences.

  Andrew Linzey

  Voice, Media, Two

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• When I get about five readers I can rub together in one genre, I leave that genre and go somewhere else. And this is due to a vow that I made myself when I started writing - that if I had any success at all, I would not be bound to one form of writing. That I would write what moves me. The only way I can see me surviving and doing more than one book is to present the readers with a Dan Simmons novel, with whatever tropes and protocols from whatever genre I want to borrow them. If that builds a Dan Simmons readership, well then, okay. Otherwise, forget about it. I'd rather drive a truck.

  Dan Simmons

  Moving, Book, Writing

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Such an act
  That blurs the grace and blush of modesty;
  Calls virtue hypocrite; takes off the rose
  From the fair forehead of an innocent love,
  And sets a blister there; makes marriage vows
  As false as dicers' oaths.

  William Shakespeare

  Hypocrite, Rose, Grace

  William Shakespeare (2016). “Hamlet: Revised Edition”, p.368, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• For whose sake, henceforth, all his vows be such, As what he loves may never like too much.

  Ben Jonson

  Love, May, Sake

  Ben Jonson, William Gifford (1857). “The Works of Ben Jonson”, p.788

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• Under the president's spying program, there are no checks and balances. There is no outside review of the legality of this brazen infringement on the civil rights and liberties of the American people. Undeterred by the public outcry, the president [George Bush] vows to continue spying on American citizens.

  Samuel Alito

  Rights, People, Balance

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• Mr. Obama said that he personally told Mr. Putin to knock it off and vows to retaliate. But the Obama presidency is coming to an end and his successor still won't accept that Russia is guilty of tampering with U.S. elections. But president-elect Donald Trump is accepting the thanks of those who voted for him.

  John S. Dickerson

  Thanks, Election, Guilty

  Source: www.cbsnews.com

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• Participation in the dance was entirely voluntary, a mental vow to worship the Mystery in this manner being expressed by a man ardently desiring the recovery of a sick relative; or surrounded by an enemy with escape apparently impossible; or, it might be, dying of hunger … since some inscrutable power had swept all game from forest and prairie. Others joined in the ceremony in the hope and firm belief that the Mystery …would grant them successes against the enemy and consequent eminence at home.

  Edward S. Curtis

  Home, Recovery, Men

  Edward S. Curtis (2015). “The Teton Sioux, The Yanktonai, The Assiniboin”, p.88, Native American Book Publishers, LLC

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• In an ideal world, social responsibility would be a prerequisite for design, and designers would vow to produce beautiful, useful, positive, responsible, functional, and economical things and concepts that are meaningful additions to—or sometimes subtractions from—the world we live in. Indeed, design deserves such thoughtful consideration.

  Paola Antonelli

  Beautiful, Meaningful, Responsibility

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• It is merely the egoism of the man, who wants to bury a woman like a treasure. All attempts at using vows, contracts, and holy ceremonies have failed to bring permanence into the most changeable aspect of changeable human existence, namely love.

  Leopold von Sacher-Masoch

  Men, Treasure, Want

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• The wedding vows are a license to be a complete jerk, with full knowledge that the person you married has agreed, no matter how large a horse's ass you are, to stay by your side until death. A fool could tell you this is a bad deal.

  Adriana Trigiani

  Horse, Your Side, Matter

  Adriana Trigiani (2003). “Lucia, Lucia: A Novel”, p.98, Random House

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• Oh! my friend, when you feel bursting on your lips the vow of eternal love, do not be afraid to yield, but do not confound wine with intoxication; do not think the cup divine because the draft is of celestial flavor; do not be astonished to find it broken and empty in the evening.

  Alfred de Musset

  Wine, Thinking, Yield

  Alfred de Musset (2012). “The Confession of a Child of the Century”, p.49, tredition

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• I vow to live fully in each moment.

  Nhat Hanh

  Good Morning, Good Day, Morning Inspirational

  Thich Nhat Hanh (2008). “Present Moment Wonderful Moment: Mindfulness Verses for Daily Living: Easyread Large Bold Edition”, p.4, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• I made a vow to God [in 2010], after so many letdowns and the relationship with my ex, I knew I really didn't want to continue making the same mistakes anymore. Women nowadays, we connect physically too soon without actually getting to know the person. If you don't actually give this person your body and then they let you down, there really isn't a great disappointment; not like it would be if you have already connected physically. I started going on that journey, and I thought to myself, you know what, the next man that I give my body to will be the man that God brought into my life.

  Jessica White

  Disappointment, Mistake, Journey

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• Every moment is a brand new baby, Baby.
  Every vow is a brave new voice.

  Buddy Wakefield

  Baby, Voice, Brave

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