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• It is difficult for men in high office to avoid the malady of self-delusion. They are always surrounded by worshipers. They are constantly, and for the most part sincerely, assured of their greatness.

  Calvin Coolidge

  Greatness, Men, Self

  "The Autobiography Of Calvin Coolidge". Book by Calvin Coolidge, 1929.

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• The surest way to determine whether one possesses the love of God is to see whether he or she loves his or her neighbor. These two loves are never separated. Rest assured, the more you progress in love of neighbor the more your love of God will increase.

  Teresa of Avila

  God, Two, Progress

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• A seasoned woman is spicy. She has been marinated in life experiences. Like a complex wine, she can be alternately sweet, tart, sparkling, mellow. She is both maternal and playful. Assured, alluring, and resourceful.

  Gail Sheehy

  Sweet, Wine, Life Experience

  Gail Sheehy (2006). “Sex and the Seasoned Woman: Pursuing the Passionate Life”, Random House Incorporated

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• One thing you can be assured of is that God has already worked out all the details of what your obedience will accomplish - and its all good. we need not fear what our obedience will cause to happen in our life. we should only fear what our disobedience will cause us to miss. the sooner this truth resonates in your heart, the quicker you can make peace with a command from God that you dont fully understand.

  Lysa TerKeurst

  Heart, Missing, Causes

  Lysa TerKeurst, Hope Terkeurst (2013). “What Happens When Young Women Say Yes to God”, p.58, Harvest House Publishers

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• Rest assured that my support for any eventual reform package will be based firmly upon what is in the best interests of the people of Upstate New York, not any party or president.

  James T. Walsh

  New York, Party, People

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• I thought," Shad said slowly, "that she was offended if you referred to Blind Seer or Elation as her pets.""True," Derian assured him. "Absolutely the correct etiquette-to her face. However, well... When I first met Firekeeper, less than a year ago, her relationships with animals fell into pretty much two categories: those you ate and those you befriended. I remember that she thought we were pretty clever for bringing horses along so we wouldn't need to hunt our meat. It took me a while to show her they had other uses.

  Jane Lindskold

  Horse, Clever, Animal

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• Americanism not globalism will be our credo as long as we are led by politicians who will not put America first, then we can be assured that other nations will not treat America with respect, the respect that we deserve.

  Donald Trump

  America, Long, Firsts

  Source: www.abc.net.au

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• If you take a lie and allow your desire for the truth, you'll end up with some truth - not fact, but something that gets you closer to the truth. That's what we want. When we go to a play, we need to be assured that the experience we're having.

  Denis Johnson

  Lying, Play, Desire

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• Our common country is in great peril, demanding the loftiest views, and boldest action to bring it speedy relief. Once relieved, its form of government is saved to the world; its beloved history, and cherished memories, are vindicated; and its happy future fully assured, and rendered inconceivably grand.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Country, Memories, Government

  Abraham Lincoln (2008). “Speeches and Letters of Abraham Lincoln(1832-1865) (EasyRead Super Large 20pt Edition)”, p.404, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• If an organised body is not in the situation and circumstances best adapted to its sustenance and propagation, then, in conceiving an indefinite variety among the individuals of that species, we must be assured, that, on the one hand, those which depart most from the best adapted constitution, will be most liable to perish, while, on the other hand, those organised bodies, which most approach to the best constitution for the present circumstances, will be best adapted to continue, in preserving themselves and multiplying the individuals of their race.

  James Hutton

  Race, Hands, Body

  "An Investigation into the Principles of Knowledge". Book by James Hutton, 1794.

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• There's always SOMEONE in support as long as he can be assured or he himself feels confident of getting, in return, SOMETHING beneficial of any sort.

  Anuj

  Long, Support, Return

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• Those persons who are burning to display heroism may rest assured that the course of social evolution will offer them every opportunity.

  Havelock Ellis

  Opportunity, Society, Heroism

  Havelock Ellis (1912). “The Task of Social Hygiene”

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• Seldom, if ever, has a war ended leaving the victors with such a sense of uncertainty and fear, with such a realization that the future is obscure and that survival is not assured.

  Edward R. Murrow

  War, Leaving, Survival

  Edward R. Murrow (1967). “In Search of Light: The Broadcasts of Edward R. Murrow, 1938-1961”

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• Don't know if Boston was real or lucid dream. When they chanted Diesel, it sure as hell felt real for ME! You make decisions in life, sometimes never getting proof that it was the right decision. The crowd in Boston on Sunday night assured me that I MADE THE RIGHT DECISION.

  Kevin Nash

  Dream, Real, Sunday

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• The most fortunate of men, Be he a king or commoner, is he Whose welfare is assured in his own home.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Kings, Home, Men

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Charles E. Passage (1980). “Goethe's plays”, Frederick Ungar

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• The item of clothing that makes us feel powerful is the one that makes us feel confident and self-assured, that magically makes us look our best in all kinds of circumstances.

  Valerie Steele

  Powerful, Self, Looks

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• Man, proud man, Drest in a little brief authority, Most ignorant of what he's most assured.

  William Shakespeare

  Men, Ignorant, Proud

  'Measure for Measure' (1604) act 2, sc. 2, l. 117

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• Those who are well assured of their own standing are least apt to trespass on that of others, whereas nothing is so offensive as the aspirings of vulgarity which thinks to elevate itself by humiliating its neighbor.

  Washington Irving

  Reputation, Wells, Standing

  "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow and Other Stories From the Sketch Book".

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• To be loved is the birthright of every mewling babe, but, once grown, a man is not assured of such affection.

  Katherine Marsh

  Men, Affection, Babe

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• Make him laugh and he will think you a trivial fellow, but bore him in the right way and your reputation is assured.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Book, Reading, Thinking

  W. Somerset Maugham (1941). “the Gentleman in the Parlour”

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• If thou tellest the sorrows of thy heart, let it be to him in whose countenance thou mayst be assured of prompt consolation.

  Saadi

  Heart, Sorrow, Consolation

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• Embracing and rejecting tradition, bound and liberated by faith, torn between obscurantism and reason, self-assured and self-critical, they were a kaleidoscope of fragments, positions held and abandoned, images formed and shattered, God-fearing Jew, God-denying Jew, passionate and indifferent, hero and villain, yea-sayer, nay-sayer.

  Israel Shenker

  Hero, Self, Passionate

  Israel Shenker (1985). “Coat of Many Colors: Pages from Jewish Life”, Doubleday Books

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• Don Juan assured me that in order to accomplish the feat of making myself miserable I had to work in the most intense fashion, and that it was absurd. I had now realized I could work just the same in making myself complete and strong. "The trick is in what one emphasizes," he said. "We either make ourselves miserable, or we make ourselves strong. The amount of work is the same."

  Carlos Castaneda

  Fashion, Strong, Order

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• I think I am less self-assured when I write English than I would be if I were writing in my first language. I have to test each sentence over and over to be sure that it's right, that I haven't introduced some element that isn't English.

  Louis Begley

  Writing, Thinking, Self

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• As to giving credit to whom credit is due, rest assured the best way to do good to one's-self is to do justice to others. There is plenty for everybody in science, and more than can be consumed in our time. One may get a fair name by suppressing references, but the Jewish maxim is true, 'He who seeks a name loses fame.'

  Edward Forbes

  Science, Self, Names

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