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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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• In Canada, I've had success raising money. I think I was fortunate enough. But today, I would have to write a very, very bad script not to be financed for the next one. I'm assured at least of the next one, but you're always [only] as good as your last film. I think it's true for anyone.

  Philippe Falardeau

  Writing, Thinking, Canada

  Source: collider.com

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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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• If it were possible to hold onto this sort of database and really be assured that only good guys get access to it, we might have a different discussion. Unfortunately, we don't know how to build systems that work that way. We don't know how to do this without creating a big target and a big vulnerability.

  Matt Blaze

  Creating, Guy, Different

  Source: www.politico.com

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• Any man will go considerably out of his way to pick up a silver dollar; but here are golden words, which the wisest men of antiquity have uttered, and whose worth the wise of every succeeding age have assured us of; and yet we learn to read only as far as Easy Reading, the primers and classbooks, and when we leave school, the Little Reading, and story books, which are for boys and beginners; and our reading, our conversation and thinking, are all on a very low level, worthy only of pygmies and manikins.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Wise, Book, Reading

  Henry David Thoreau (1882). “Walden”, p.168

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• Ideally, government is the means by which all the individual wills are assured complete freedom of moral choice and at the same time prevented from ever clashing.

  W. H. Auden

  Mean, Government, Choices

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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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• The invention of photography has dealt a mortal blow to the old modes of expression, in painting as well as in poetry, where automatic writing, which appeared at the end of the nineteenth century, is a true photography of thought. Since a blind instrument now assured artists of achieving the aim they had set themselves up to that time, they now aspired, not without recklessness, to break with the imitation of appearances.

  Andre Breton

  Photography, Writing, Artist

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• Always take yourself seriously... it's not the same as being pompous, or overly self-assured, but it is important to understand that the small little ideas that creep up in your mind, often contain the germ of a much larger project. All great art wasn't born as great art. It first needed to be recognized by the artist him/herself. Through his or her belief in it, it became true.

  Wolfgang Tillmans

  Art, Self, Ideas

  "Wolfgang Tillmans – Turner Prize Chat Transcript". www.americansuburbx.com. December 1, 2000.

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• I believe we have these capabilities. It doesn't mean that we will use them. Our future is not assured here. It's not clear that we will survive our own folly, but we have a rare opportunity to do that if we listen and see the messages that nature is showing at us right now, that the finiteness of our own resources and our own planet are showing us right now.

  Edgar Mitchell

  Believe, Mean, Opportunity

  Source: www.edgemagazine.net

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• If you really put a small value upon yourself, rest assured that the world will not raise your price. Pay no attention to what the critics say. A statue has never been erected in honor of a critic.

  Jean Sibelius

  Confidence, Honor, Attention

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• Oral musical traditions are rooted in assured and scrupulous faith.

  Franz Liszt

  Musical, Tradition, Rooted

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• Make Him your friend and protector and your felicity is secured both here and hereafter. And with respect to particular duties to Him, it is your happiness that you are well assured that he best serves his Maker, who does most good to his country and to mankind.

  William Samuel Johnson

  Country, Doe, Makers

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• Moreover, Christians are born for combat, whereof the greater the vehemence, the more assured, God willing, the triumph: 'Have confidence; I have overcome the world'

  Pope Leo XIII

  Christian, Overcoming, Triumph

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• The way to improve productivity is not to bring in experts to talk about inputs - seed, equipment and materials, pesticides or water supply. The way to start is to provide an assured market, a fair price, and a system through which rural producers can market their produce which is reasonably efficient and can transfer to them the maximum share of the consumers' money. If such a structure is erected, the producers will then seek the inputs and materials they need to increase their production and productivity.

  Verghese Kurien

  Water, Experts, Needs

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• It is the Happiness of his Church that, when the Powers of Earth and Hell combine against it...that the Throne of Grace is of the easiest access-and its Appeal thither is graciously invited by the Father of Mercies, who has assured it, that when his Children ask Bread he will not give them a Stone.

  John Hancock

  Children, Father, Giving

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• Rest assured that our work is not over because our work has never been only hunting Nazi war criminals. The Simon Wiesenthal Center is an institution, a worldwide institution, engaged in combating anti-Semitism, bigotry, racism. And unfortunately, did we say goodbye to genocide after Hitler died in the bunker? No, we didn't. So in such a world, I'm afraid there will always be a need for organizations like the Simon Wiesenthal Center.

  Marvin Hier

  Goodbye, War, Hunting

  "The Last Of Nazi War Convictions Will Not End Fight Against Anti-Semitism". "Weekend Edition Saturday" with Linda Wertheimer, www.npr.org. February 13, 2016.

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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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• He may have gone to bed three hours ago, but he knows who he is playing. You can rest assured that he hasn't slept a wink.

  Walter Hagen

  Golf, Gone, May

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