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• Never take a solemn oath. People think you mean it.

  Norman Douglas

  Mean, Thinking, Keeping Promises

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• I made an oath to myself: as long as I live as long as my soul remains in this body I won't deviate from the right way but later I looked to my left and then to my right and I saw our beloved everywhere how could I make a wrong turn?

  Rumi

  Long, Soul, Body

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• I love Texas too well to bring civil strife and bloodshed upon her.

  Sam Houston

  Texas, Strife, Bloodshed

  Sam Houston (1943). “The Writings of Sam Houston, 1813-1863: 1825-1863”

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• During the air war of 1944, a four-man combat crew on a B-17 bomber took a vow to never abandon one another no matter how desperate the situation. The aircraft was hit by flak during a mission and went into a terminal dive, and the pilot ordered everyone to bail out. The top turret gunner obeyed the order, but the ball turret gunner discovered that a piece of flak had jammed his turret and he could not get out. The other three men in his pact could have bailed out with the parachutes, but they stayed with him until the plan hit the ground and exploded. They all died.

  Sebastian Junger

  Death, War, Men

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• In the Olympic Oath, I ask for only one thing: sporting loyalty.

  Pierre de Coubertin

  Loyalty, Asks, One Thing

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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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• It comes to pass oft that a terrible oath, with a swaggering accent sharply twanged off, gives manhood more approbation than ever proof itself would have earned him.

  William Shakespeare

  Funny, Humorous, Giving

  1601 SirToby to SirAndrew.Twelfth Night, act 3, sc.4, l.176-8.

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• His jest will savour but of shallow wit, When thousands weep, more than did laugh at it.

  William Shakespeare

  Laughing, Shallow, Jest

  "King Henry V".

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• All presidents swear an oath to the Constitution to keep this country united, and when the country fell apart, Lincoln had to put it back together again, with a lot of help. But he bore total responsibility.

  Steven Spielberg

  Country, Responsibility, Together Again

  "Steven Spielberg and Joseph Gordon-Levitt talk ‘Lincoln’ following trailer premiere". uproxx.com. September 13, 2012.

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• Poetry is a fossil rock-print of a fin and a wing, with an illegible oath between.

  Carl Sandburg

  Rocks, Wings, Fossils

  Carl Sandburg (2003). “The Complete Poems of Carl Sandburg”, p.318, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• You know I took an oath to tell the truth when I took the witness stand

  Mother Jones

  Telling The Truth, Witness, Knows

  Jones (Mother), Philip Sheldon Foner (1983). “Mother Jones speaks: collected writings and speeches”, Pathfinder Pr

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• Those who take oaths to politically powerful secret societies cannot be depended on for loyalty to a democratic republic.

  John Quincy Adams

  Loyalty, Powerful, Secret

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• First of all, Jesus clearly tells us not to swear oaths.

  Tripp York

  Jesus, Swear

  Source: www.patheos.com

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• Now let's repeat the non-conformists' oath: I promise to be different! I promise to be unique! I promise not to repeat things other people say! Good!

  Steve Martin

  Unique, People, Laughing

  "A Wild and Crazy Guy". Comedy album by Steve Martin, 1978.

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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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• A liar is always lavish of oaths.
  [Fr., Un menteur est toujours prodigue de serments.]

  Pierre Corneille

  Liars, Lying

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• A liar is full of oaths.

  Pierre Corneille

  Liars, Lying

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• Sweet love! Sweet lines! Sweet life! Here is her hand, the agent of her heart; Here is her oath for love, her honour's pawn

  William Shakespeare

  Sweet, Love You, Heart

  BookCaps, William Shakespeare (2012). “The Two Gentlemen of Verona in Plain and Simple English (A Modern Translation)”, p.44, BookCaps Study Guides

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• Truth is the band of union and the basis of human happiness. Without this virtue there is no reliance upon language, no confidence in friendship, no security in promises and oaths.

  Jeremy Collier

  Truth, Promise, Band

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• What use of oaths, of promise, or of test, where men regard no God but interest?

  Edmund Waller

  Men, Promise, Tests

  Edmund Waller, John Denham (sir.) (1857). “The poetical works of Edmund Waller and sir John Denham, with mem. and critical dissertation by G. Gilfillan”, p.181

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• America never was America to me And yet I swear this oath - America will be!

  Langston Hughes

  America, Breaking Silence, Swear

  Langston Hughes (1970). “The poetry of the Negro, 1746-1970”

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• It is better to be charged with cowardice and weakness than to be guilty of denial of our oath and sin against God.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  God, Weakness, Denial

  Mahatma Gandhi, Rudrangshu Mukherjee (1993). “The Penguin Gandhi Reader”, p.153, Penguin Books India

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• Make this the golden rule, the equivalent of the Hippocratic oath: Everything we ask a child to do should be worth doing.

  Philip Pullman

  Children, Golden, Should

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• This is what we are made for: promises, pledges, and sworn oaths of obedience.

  Lauren Oliver

  Promise, Obedience, Made

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• The very word 'secrecy' is repugnant in a free and open society; and we are as a people inherently and historically opposed to secret societies, to secret oaths, and to secret proceedings.

  John F. Kennedy

  Nwo, People, Political

  Address to the American Newspaper Publishers, delivered 27 April 1961, Waldorf Astoria Hotel, New York

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