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• If you make the wrong decision, you make the wrong decision. That's all there is to it. There are few guarantees in life. One of them is that you will make lots of mistakes The worst thing you can do is wimp out and spend your life in suspended animation refusing to make a choice because it may not be a perfect one.

  Nicholas Lore

  Mistake, Decisions You Make, Perfect One

  "The Pathfinder: How to Choose or Change Your Career for a Lifetime of Satisfaction and Success". Book by Nicholas Lore, January 5, 1998.

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• Parenthood abruptly catapults us into a permanent relationship with a stranger, and the more alien the stranger, the stronger the whiff of negativity. We depend on the guarantee in our children's faces that we will not die. Children whose defining quality annihilates that fantasy of immortality are a particular insult; we must love them for themselves, and not for the best of ourselves in them, and that is a great deal harder to do. Loving our own children is an exercise for the imagination.

  Andrew Solomon

  Children, Exercise, Imagination

  Andrew Solomon (2014). “Far From the Tree: Parents, Children and the Search for Identity”, p.1, Simon and Schuster

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• Constitutional rights are useful up to a point, but they do not serve to guarantee much more than what could be called the bourgeois conception of freedom. According to the bourgeois conception, a "free" man is essentially an element of a social machine and has only a certain set of prescribed and delimited freedoms; freedoms that are designed to serve the needs of the social machine more than those of the individual.

  Theodore Kaczynski

  Men, Rights, Needs

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• Higher education is not necessarily a guarantee of higher virtue.

  Aldous Huxley

  Statistics, Virtue, Higher Education

  Aldous Huxley, Robert S. Baker, James Sexton (2002). “Complete Essays: 1956-1963, and supplement, 1920-1948”, Ivan R. Dee Publisher

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• Kate Benson is an expert in applying NLP in the education sector. She is thoroughly organised, highly skilled and the love for what she teaches comes across in her presentations. I guarantee you will have a thoroughly enjoyable experience.

  Richard Bandler

  Experts, Teach, Enjoyable

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• There is no peace like the peace of those whose minds are possessed with full assurance that they have known God, and God has known them, and that this relationship guarantees God’s favor to them in life, through death and on for ever.

  J. I. Packer

  Mind, Favors, Assurance

  J. I. Packer, Carolyn Nystrom (2009). “Knowing God Devotional Journal: A One-Year Guide”, p.43, InterVarsity Press

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• Nothing guarantees more the erosion of character than getting something for nothing

  Dennis Prager

  Character, Erosion, Entitlement Mentality

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• If you focus on goals, you may hit goals - but that doesn't guarantee growth. If you focus on growth, you will grow and always hit goals.

  John C. Maxwell

  Goal, Focus, Growth

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• The Constitution and the Bill of Rights we designed to get the government off the backs of the people -- all the people. Those great documents guarantee to us all the rights to personal and spiritual self-fulfillment. But that guarantee is not self-executing. As nightfall does not come all at once, neither does oppression. In both instances, there is a twilight when everything remains seemingly unchanged. And it is in such a twilight that we all must be most aware of the change in the air -- however slight -- lest we become unwitting victims of the darkness.

  William O. Douglas

  Spiritual, Twilight, Rights

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• Without a free press there can be no free society. That is axiomatic. However, freedom of the press is not an end in itself but a means to the end of a free society. The scope and nature of the constitutional guarantee of the freedom of the press are to be viewed and applied in that light.

  Felix Frankfurter

  Mean, Light, Scope

  The New York Times, November 28, 1954.

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• Read an hour every day in your chosen field. This works out to about one book per week, fifty books per year, and will guarantee your success.

  Brian Tracy

  Book, Knowledge, Years

  FaceBook post by Brian Tracy from Mar 26, 2014

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• You have to have as many defences in place as you possibly can. But even then of course - and it's important to stress this - you cannot guarantee being able to prevent every attack or every kind of attack.

  William Hague

  Stress, Important, Able

  Interview with James Landale, news.bbc.co.uk. July 24, 2011.

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• You always want to have a winning car, but there is no guarantee that it will be.

  Kimi Raikkonen

  Winning, Guarantees That, Car

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• I knew that people were going to talk about it, I knew it was embarrassing, and I knew it was a big deal. But did I think that it was going to be this thing that followed me for, you know, the next years to come? I guarantee you, 25 years from now, I'll be known as the girl that lip synced on 'SNL.' But, you know, it was a weird thing. Not fun.

  Ashlee Simpson

  Girl, Fun, Thinking

  "CNN Larry King Live", www.cnn.com. October 22, 2005.

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• There was in the House only one dissenting vote, from Barbara J. Lee, a Democrat from California, who warned that military action could not guarantee the safety of the country and that 'as we act, let us not become the evil we deplore.

  Chris Hedges

  Country, Military, California

  Chris Hedges (2014). “War Is a Force that Gives Us Meaning”, p.5, PublicAffairs

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• The chance of failure is almost always better than the guarantee of never knowing.

  Aaron Levie

  Knowing, Chance

  Twitter post from Sep 12, 2013

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• . . . planning a brilliant menu and preparing it beautifully doesn't guarantee a recipe for success.

  Kathy Lette

  Recipes, Planning, Brilliant

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• We have to take away from humans in the long run their reproductive autonomy as the only way to guarantee the advancement of mankind.

  Francis Crick

  Running, Long, Way

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• The bottom line about the information possessed by non-Western peoples is that the information becomes valid only when offered by a white scholar recognized by the academic establishment; in effect, the color of the skin guarantees scientific objectivity.

  Vine Deloria Jr.

  Objectivity, Color, White

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• In the spiritual life it is not necessary to have a complete map of the path in order to begin traveling. On the contrary, having such complete knowledge may actually hinder rather than help the onward march. The deeper secrets of spiritual life are unraveled to those who take risks and who make bold experiments with it. They are not meant for the idler who seeks guarantees at every step. Those who speculate from the shore about the ocean shall know only its surface, but those who would know the depths of the ocean must be willing to plunge into it.

  Meher Baba

  Spiritual, Ocean, Order

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• To me, art is the capacity to experience one's innocence: craft is how you get to that point. Maturity in a musician would be the point at which one is innocent at will. At that point the relationship between music and the musician is direct and reliable.
  The relationship with music is always mysterious: when it works, you can never tell. You can never guarantee when it's going to work. You can only to put yourself in a place where it's more likely to happen.

  Robert Fripp

  Music, Art, Maturity

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• All law is situational law. The sovereign produces and guarantees the situation in its totality. He has the monopoly over this last decision.

  Carl Schmitt

  Law, Decision, Lasts

  Carl Schmitt (2010). “Political Theology: Four Chapters on the Concept of Sovereignty”, p.13, University of Chicago Press

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• I'm at the depot, and I'm not going anywhere. That's better to deal with than having to deal with the unknown. And the unknown is they don't want to fail. They don't want to pay the price unless there's a guarantee they're going to get there

  Mark Spitz

  Sports, Pay The Price, Want

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• But I do say that, if you will regularly devote 15 minutes a day, preferably before breakfast, for 60 days to the simple set of exercises that I devised for conditioning men in the navy, I guarantee that you will enjoy increased physical buoyancy and mental vigor.

  Gene Tunney

  Exercise, Simple, Men

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• There’s no better guarantee of failure than convincing yourself that success is impossible, and therefore never even trying.

  Max Tegmark

  Convincing Yourself, Trying, Impossible

  Max Tegmark (2014). “Our Mathematical Universe: My Quest for the Ultimate Nature of Reality”, p.29, Vintage

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