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• Boredom, Timothy Duane assured me, is nothing more than anger without passion.

  Isabel Allende

  Passion, Boredom

  Isabel Allende (1993). “The Infinite Plan: A Novel”, Harpercollins

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• Some of the best indicators of a country developing along the right lines are healthy mothers giving birth to healthy children who are assured of good care and a sound education that will enable them to face the challenges of a changing world.

  Aung San Suu Kyi

  Country, Mother, Children

  Aung San Suu Kyi (1997). “Letters From Burma:”

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• The most reckless sinner against his own conscience has always in the background the consolation that he will go on in this course only this time, or only so long, but that at such a time he will amend. We may be assured that we do not stand clear with our own consciences so long as we determine or project, or even hold it possible, at some future time to alter our course of action.

  Johann Gottlieb Fichte

  Long, Goes On, May

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• We are never assured of justice without a fight.

  Angela Davis

  Fighting, Justice

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• The conservative feels safe and content only if he is assured that some higher wisdom watches and supervises change, only if he knows that some authority is charged with keeping the change "orderly.

  Friedrich August von Hayek

  Watches, Safe, Conservative

  "The Constitution of Liberty". Book by Friedrich Hayek, Postscript: Why I Am Not a Conservative, 1960.

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• public work brings a vicarious but assured sense of immortality. We may be poor, weak, timid, in debt to our landlady, bullied by our nieces, stiff in the joints, shortsighted and distressed; we shall perish, but the cause endures; the cause is great.

  Winifred Holtby

  Niece, Debt, May

  Winifred Holtby (1937). “Pavements at Anderby: tales of "South riding" and other regions by Winifred Holtby”

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• They that never peeped beyond the common belief in which their easy understandings were at first indoctrinated are strongly assured of the truth of their receptions.

  Joseph Glanvill

  Understanding, Prejudice, Firsts

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• Really living like Christ will not mean reward, social recognition, and an assured income, but difficulties, discrimination, solitude, anxiety. Here, too, the basic experience of the cross applies: the wider we open our hearts to others, the more audibly we intervene against the injustice that rules over us, the more difficult our lives in the rich unjust society will become.

  Dorothee Solle

  Heart, Mean, Unjust Society

  Dorothee Sölle (1990). “Thinking about God: an introduction to theology”, Trinity Pr Intl

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• if you go through life looking for insults, you may be comfortably assured of finding them.

  Ngaio Marsh

  Insults You, May, Findings

  Ngaio Marsh (2012). “Artists in Crime: Inspector Roderick Alleyn #6”, p.122, Felony & Mayhem Press

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• An army of experts assured us on a daily basis that this boom couldn't possibly crash like previous booms because this boom was still going on whereas all previous booms had ended.

  Mark Steel

  Army, Experts, Crash

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• The tyranny of the ignoramuses is insurmountable and assured for all time.

  Albert Einstein

  Tyranny, All Time, Insurmountable

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• The slave and those whose present life is miserable and who can find no consolation in the heavens are assured that at least the future belongs to them. The future is the only kind of property that the masters willingly concede to the slaves.

  Albert Camus

  Heaven, Kind, Life Is

  Albert Camus (1957). “the Rebel”

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• If the present civilisation does not acquire some stable moral fondations ("bases morales stables", Fr.), its existence will hardly be more assured than that of the civilisations that have preceeded it, and which have fallen (or collapse, or failed).

  African Spir

  Doe, Moral, Existence

  "Paroles d'un sage: Choix de pensées d'African Spir" ("Words of a Sage : Selected thoughts of African Spir") by Hélène Claparède-Spir, (p. 41), 1937.

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• Wherever I am, I see the yoke on women in some form or another. On some it sits easy for they are but beasts of burden. On others pride hushes them to silence; no complaint is made for they scorn pity or sympathy. On some it galls and chafes; they feel assured by every instinct of their nature that they were designed for a higher, nobler calling than to 'drag life's lengthening chain along.

  Abby May Alcott

  Pride, Silence, Yoke

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• I assured the prime minister, my administration will work hard to lay the foundation of peace in the Middle - to work with our nations in the Middle East, give peace a chance. Secondly, I told him that our nation will not try to force peace, that we'll facilitate peace and that we will work with those responsible for a peace.

  George W. Bush

  Hard Work, Humor, Giving

  Remarks of Israel in Photo Opportunity, The Oval Office, georgewbush-whitehouse.archives.gov. March 20, 2001.

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• Augustus was sensible that mankind is governed by names; nor was he deceived in his expectation, that the senate and people would submit to slavery, provided they were respectfully assured that they still enjoyed their ancient freedom.

  Edward Gibbon

  Names, People, History

  Edward Gibbon (1862). “The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire”, p.210

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• If centralism is ultimately to prevail; if our entire system of free Institutions as established by our common ancestors is to be subverted, and an Empire is to be established in their stead; if that is to be the last scene of the great tragic drama now being enacted: then, be assured, that we of the South will be acquitted, not only in our own consciences, but in the judgment of mankind, of all responsibility for so terrible a catastrophe, and from all guilt of so great a crime against humanity.

  Alexander H. Stephens

  Drama, Responsibility, Humanity

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• Do not enter into a learned discussion with your guests unless you are assured of their ability, so as not to put them to shame.

  Judah ben Samuel of Regensburg

  Guests, Shame, Ability

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• Freedom and the dignity of the individual have been more available and assured here than in any other place on earth. The price for this freedom at times has been high, but we have never been unwilling to pay the price.

  Ronald Reagan

  Pay The Price, Earth, Dignity

  First Inaugural Address, delivered 20 January 1981

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• When I was very young and the urge to be someplace was on me, I was assured by mature people that maturity would cure this itch.

  John Steinbeck

  Maturity, People, Mature

  John Steinbeck (1980). “Travels with Charley in Search of America”, p.8, Penguin

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• The basic cause of all our difficulties is immaturity. That's why I talk so much about peace within ourselves as a step toward peace in our world. If we were mature, war would not be possible and peace would be assured. In our immaturity we do not know the laws of the universe, and we think evil can be overcome by more evil. One symptom of our immaturity is greed, making it difficult for us to learn the simple lesson of sharing.

  Peace Pilgrim

  War, Simple, Thinking

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• If your Lord Supreme requests you to do something, rest assured he has already given you the capacity - even more than necessary - long before you actually need it.

  Sri Chinmoy

  Long, Needs, Lord

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• I guess if you go around with famous people you are assured of some reflected (or deflected) glory.

  Ambeth R. Ocampo

  People, Glory, Ifs

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• Anecdote: The extent of Michael Jackson's fame at its height, and his eagerness to exploit it is shown by an incident in 1984 when invited to a White House reception hosted by then President and First Lady Ronald and Nancy Reagan. Jackson had been assured that the only people there, besides the presidential couple, would be a few staff members' children. Aghast to find around 75 adults and no children, Jackson locked himself in an upstairs bathroom, refusing to emerge until assured that all non-essential adults had been replaced by a number of children.

  Michael Jackson

  Children, Couple, White

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• I have never had much confidence in my own work, and even now when I am assured (still much to my grateful surprise) that it has value for other people, I feel diffident, reluctant as it were to expose my world of imagination to possibly contemptuous eyes and ears.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Grateful, Eye, People

  J.R.R. Tolkien (2014). “The Letters of J.R.R. Tolkien”, p.366, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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